RAF Ground Crew Forum 1955-1970

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Gary Cooper

RAF El Adem

This is one such posting I could have done without, but it was deemed necessary that I with 600 others should visit 'The End' for nearly two years. I was on 3 Shift TASS as an aircraft engine fitter, with F/Sgt Timber Woods being my i/c. I lived for 15 months...

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Last Post: Feb 25, 2007 9:39pm
by Paul Jesseau

Gary Cooper

Airframe mechanic/fitter

If you were this trade click button on POST MESSAGE>> at the bottom of this form

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Last Post: Feb 25, 2007 9:31pm
by Paul Jesseau

Phil Mason

RAF Akrotiri

I was thinking the other day of the MU I was on in Akrotiri in 1960, think it was 103 anyone know for sure?

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Last Post: Feb 25, 2007 9:28pm
by Paul Jesseau

Tony Lindon

RAF Locking Apprentices - 100th Entry

Radar and Wireless fitters - if you were an RAF Locking Apprentice between Jan 1962 and Dec 1964, and particularly in the 100th Entry, or you are looking for mates from that period, have a butchers at http://100th-entry-locking.uk.tt/

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Last Post: Oct 24, 2006 6:52pm
by Tony Lindon

Gary Cooper

Engine Mech/Fitter

Somebody has to try to get this off the ground! I was an engine bod from 1956-1969 Seletar 205/209 Squadron, Katunayake (Negombo) SASF 1958-60 (Also Gan), 201 Sqn St Mawgan 1960-63, TASS El Adem 1963-65, 1ANS Stradishall 1965-67, 29 Squadron Wattisham 1967-69...

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Last Post: Sep 2, 2006 11:18am
by Arthur Melton

Gary Cooper

RAF St Mawgan

An ace posting, I was here from May 1960 until October 1963 working as an Engine Fitter on 201 Squadron mainly on the line but also on the Primary/Minor teams in the 'shed' 401 Hangar. I am in touch with a few others from this period, many I would like to get in t...

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Last Post: Jun 20, 2006 2:43pm
by Bernard Morris

richard lee

did u know him

hi im looking for any body that was stationed in st mawgan in the 50 60 70 who new a harry wilson he was a senior aircrafts man married 2 boys age 4 and 2 also a william willson married to jean had 2 children 1 boy 1 girl think he was a sarg based at (ouse) in yoursh...

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Last Post: Apr 26, 2006 1:57pm
by richard lee

Dave Harris

Pals from the past 1954 to 1966

Cosford, Boscombe Down,47&53sqns Abingdon,TSF Nicosia,Wyton,Gaydon,RAAF Edinburgh Field Australia, 267sqdn Benson

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Last Post: Feb 20, 2006 1:10pm
by Phil Hosey

Michael Barson

RAF Lyneham

I was stationed there twice, 1959-60 & 1962-1963, servicing Britannias and Comets in the new category as Propulsion Fitter. Lived in one of those condemned huts with the old coke stoves the chimney of which was poked out of a broken window. Not very nice to wake up i...

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Last Post: Feb 20, 2006 1:06pm
by Phil Hosey

Gary Cooper

Raf Katunayake (Negombo)

Hi all you M IES, Gary Cooper here ex Kat December 12th 1958 to March 1st 1960, Engine Mechanic on Staging Aircraft Servicing Flight. I would like to see this develop into a forum for ex RAF Ground Crew the likes the web has not seen before. So come on pull up a...

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Last Post: Jul 25, 2005 7:51am
by John Cooper

Tim Cowens

209 Sqn Catalina 1941

I am particularly interested in the history of my great uncle Flt Lt E A Jewiss. He was in 209 Sq. when in August 1941 he was involved in the capture of U570, the first U boat captured in WW2. He was awarded the DFC but was killed flying out of Pembroke dock in De...

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Last Post: Jun 25, 2005 3:51pm
by Tim Cowens

Tony Liptrot

Any old gannets out there?

Hello, I’m Tony Liptrot and I would like to get in touch with anyone who was on Gan from June 1960 to June 1961. Especially class TP3 (Compton Bassett1960), old friends remembered include John Ferguson (originally from Kilmarnock), George Sangster (cockney),...

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Last Post: Jun 3, 2005 11:13am
by Tony Liptrot

Gary Cooper

RAF Gan

Hi I served on Gan for a brief time as an engine mechanic attached to SASF from RAF Katunayake in May/June 1959. Landed and took off on the old 'cross the island runway' as the main runway was not completed by this time. I went back to the UK on March 1st 1960 v...

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Last Post: Jun 2, 2005 10:02pm
by John Cooper

Gary Cooper

RAF Changi

In its heyday RAF Changi must have had more personnel stationed here than any other RAF station home or abroad. I was never stationed here but visited to play tennis or passing through to other places. If you are looking for someone or want someone to find you, th...

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Last Post: May 27, 2005 9:57pm
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Stan Miller

RAF Martlesham Heath 1958

I was at Martlesham Heath from March 1958 to January 1959 together with my pal Mike Kirby. We were both R/T D/F OP. II's and worked at the homer which was sited off the airfield,south of what is now the BT site. We were accommodated in barrack block A which is sti...

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Last Post: May 4, 2005 2:59pm
by John Cooper

Linda Sharpe

Derek Sharpe

Derek Sharpe Snr or Jnr, who served in the RAF. Derek Sharpe snr was born in 1933 in Manchester.His paternal family lived in the Newton Heathe area of Mancherter from the 1940's to the 1970's. Derek snr's father was Samual Sharpe who also served in the RAF approx 194...

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Last Post: Apr 17, 2005 10:06am
by Linda Sharpe

lisa gilmour

Does anyone know this name?????

I was wondering if anyone recognised the surname PYWELLIE?? I believe the person was in the raf and posted in malta in the 50s for a short time.......information is very limited sorry.If anyone was ever posted alongside someone with this name, or can recall just hear...

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Last Post: Apr 17, 2005 1:10am
by lisa gilmour

Dave Robinson

RAF Akrotiri

Hello, sorry to intrude (I'm ex Royal Marines), but I'm looking for anyone who might have known my father-in-law who served at RAF Akrotiri poss in the late '50s early '60s. His name is Robert John Opie, from Lemington, Newcastle-upon-tyne. He was based there with hi...

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Last Post: Apr 2, 2005 4:28pm
by Dave Robinson

Harry Dobkin

FEFBW

I've met many people who spent time at Seletar and/or Iwakuni. (I was a photographer there from 50 - 53.) Some were there pre 1950, many post 1953, but I've never yet met anybody who was posted there at the same time as me. Surely I'm not the only surviving bod fr...

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Last Post: Mar 26, 2005 7:41am
by John Cooper

Pat Bodger

Searching for a Serviceman in Woomera (RAF)

Hello, I am researching on behalf of a friend, for Brian Colley, was was in the RAF - Paris in the 1950's and Woomera in the 1960's. He married Dorothy Foster in the late 50's and they had a daughter Jane in the UK. My friend has very little details on Brian, he m...

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Last Post: Feb 28, 2005 2:58pm
by John Cooper

Gary Cooper

FEAF

If anyone fancies a chat (that is typing text) a few of us get together in the afternoons at this MSN FEAF Chatroom http://groups.msn.com/FarEastAirForce you might have to register first for approval. The time that we normally get together is between 1500hrs and 1...

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Last Post: Feb 21, 2005 6:39pm
by Gary Cooper

leon smith

RAF Bases and units

RAF Wahn 2nd TAF 87 sqd

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Last Post: Feb 16, 2005 8:07am
by David Carter

Gary Cooper

RAF Seletar

Hi, I served on 205/209 Squadron Short Sunderlands RAF Seletar from 4th February to 12th December 1958. This was my first posting in the RAF as an aircraft engine mechanic it also happened to be the last Flying Boat Squadron in the RAF. This was a 'different' RAF,...

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Last Post: Jan 20, 2005 3:00pm
by John Cooper

Glyn Ramsden

Philip (Percy) Hoyle

Anyone know the whereabouts of Percy. He was ex 78th Entry halton and was posted to Seletar?. He was on Gan at the time of TG613 but very shortly afterwards flew back to Seletar where he married a local girl. Although I met him and his wife on return to UK I cannot r...

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Last Post: Dec 18, 2004 4:19pm
by John Cooper

Vince Gavin

RAF Kabrit

My father was in the RAF 1941 - 1967, a navigator/master signaller. He finished his days "down the hole" at Patrington, East Yorkshire. He has asked me to try and trace an old oppo, - E.R 'Ted' Gordon, who was with the Canadian Air Force. They met, I believe, during...

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Last Post: Dec 14, 2004 3:29pm
by Vince Gavin

Gary Cooper

RAF Stradishall

I was stationed at STRAD from September 1965 to October 1967 as an Engine Fitter on 1ANS Primary/Minor servicing in the shed. I lived in Married Quarters at 65? Poplar Walk diagonally opposite the guardroom, I am in touch with no more than a handful of guys from this...

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Last Post: Dec 6, 2004 2:12am
by Dick (Ginger) Ba...

sharon Masterton

does anyone know my dad please?

My dad is 70 next week and all i know is that he was in the RAF 1956 and i was born 1958, dont think he went back...His name is Brian Thomas, I have know idea what squadron he was in, I have a feeling he went to Malta at some stage and then last at Henlow, Bedfordsh...

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Last Post: Nov 16, 2004 12:31am
by Brian Thomas

Yvonne Mould-Douglas

RAF Waterbeach

56 Squadron. I am looking for anyone who might have served with or known my father. Clive D. Mould from around 1954-1956. He spoke very fondly of his time in the RAF and I would dearly love to talk to others who knew him. Thank you so much Yvonne Mould-Douglas

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Last Post: Oct 18, 2004 9:50am
by Yvonne Mould-Dou...

Leon Smith

RAAF Edinburgh Field

RAAF Edinburgh Airfield Adelaide RAF units A Bomb Tests 55-65, any Bomb or weapon test vets out there?

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Last Post: Sep 13, 2004 8:59pm
by Leon Smith

Leon Smith

RAF Wahn/RAF Bruggen

Looking for any one from 87 Sqn 54-60 as I live in the land of OZZ I have lost contact.

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Last Post: Sep 13, 2004 8:57pm
by Leon Smith

Gary Cooper

RAF Wattisham

Based at Watto from October 1967 to my discharge in July 1969. I worked on the line on 29 (F) Squadron as an Aircraft Engine Fitter. Tacevals, QRA's and Operational Turnrounds were the order of the day here, busy place as the kites only stayed up for 50 minutes un...

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Last Post: Sep 11, 2004 8:35pm
by Gary Cooper