Mickey Witherow was an influential post-war RAF Regiment officer who specialised in desert warfare, airfield defence and diplomacy. He began his career in Aden attached to the Protectorate Levies and this fired his great interest and enthusiasm for the desert. In a later appointment in Libya, he crossed the Sahara in a Land Rover, a journey of some 1,500 miles. He later specialised in the air defence of airfields and commanded a squadron and served on NATO staffs as a specialist. He commanded the RAF Regiment depot at Catterick and during a tour at MoD he went to Zambia to assess the air defence threat prior to a visit by the Queen for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference. Witherow epitomised the ethos and traditions of the RAF Regiment.

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