Looking at some valedictory comments here:
http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Walker_G.htm
your example was only too typical of the man, Wader. Surely the sign of a true leader, he had a natural empathy with his subordinates and was ever mindful of their welfare. When one compares his like with the MOD apparatchiks that purport to have succeeded him, we are surely the poorer!