Ian Gilmore

Ian Gilmore was an Royal Air Force officer.

Biography
During World War II, Ian flew missions over enemy territory, witnessing the bombing of Dresden by the Allies on one occasion. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)

He and his friend Tom Carver were the only members of their unit to survive the war. (AUDIO: Threshold)

In 1950, Squadron Leader Gilmore was assigned to Berlin, where he befriended a Czech medic named Nadia Červenka. They shared several drinks as well as rations. He and his troops rendered assistance to the Berliners in rebuilding their city in the aftermath of the Second World War. Due to the increasingly contentious Cold War, his troops were eventually airlifted out of Germany with Červenka's assistance. Červenka later defected from Soviet Union to the United Kingdom in 1958 and they were reunited at the Sen-Gen Facility shortly before her death in 1964. (AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence)

He tried to push that to the back of his mind. In 1961, he was chosen to head up the new Intrusion Countermeasures Group (ICMG). (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)

In November 1963, he was Group Captain for a company of infantrymen drafted from the RAF Regiment. As Group Captain and ICMG leader, he was the nominal commander during the Shoreditch Incident of the same year, but was out of his depth and ended up subordinate to the Seventh Doctor. He was assisted by Professor Rachel Jensen and Allison Williams. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

After Rachel worked with Counter-Measures once again as a consultant, she accepted the offer of Sir Toby Kinsella to join the organisation permanently on the condition that she was supplied with the facilities to continue her research into artificial intelligence on site and that she would replace Gilmore as its leader. However, she assured him that she would defer to his judgement in all matters of security. (AUDIO: Threshold) While Gilmore was initially bitter that Rachel had replaced him, he eventually came to respect her not only as a scientist but as his superior officer as well. (AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence)

Gilmore was not fond of Allison's psychologist boyfriend and eventual fiancé Julian St. Stephen on either a personal or a professional level. To that end, he was contemptuous of the science of psychology, claiming that it involved nothing more than getting people to talk about their feelings and their mothers at length. He told Julian that he had several elderly aunts that spent most of their time doing the same thing. Due in part to his anti-military views, Julian did not have a particularly high opinion of Gilmore either, remarking to Allison that the Group Captain was so buttoned up that he was surprised that he could fit his head through his collar. (AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence)

Following the disbanding of Counter-Measures in the late 1960s, Gilmore campaigned for a replacement group with greater facilities and a permanent rapid-reaction capability. His efforts proved unsuccessful. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)

Following the London Incident, he met with Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart and informed him of the Shoreditch Incident. (PROSE: Downtime) He later suggested the Colonel for the head of the British branch of UNIT. (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice)

Ranks

 * Squadron Leader (AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence)
 * Group Captain (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * Air Commodore (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)
 * Air Vice-Marshall (PROSE: Downtime)