Tangmere Archivist
Tangmere West Sussex UK
Tangmere West Sussex UK
I am the archivist at Tangmere Military Aviation Museum and part of my job is dealing with requests for information on relatives that had an association with RAF Tangmere, RAF Westhampnett and RAF Merston, all Spitfire bases at one time.
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F/O Ingram had 5 operational Spitfire flights with 81 Sqn, being the flight Gib-Algiers and 3 local patrols. But ORBs were not maintained in ...
on: pilots, 2026-11-04 ... details Unfortunate
How unfortunate, survived two years of operational flying (not including prior training) and died in a motor accident in July 1945 just mon ...
on: pilots, 2026-11-03 ... details Idris Garrett ER603
OK, they have changed the link to the production list, so the ER603 link works correctly now ...
on: pilots, 2026-10-05 ... details Idris Garrett crash landing
Hello, could you take this link out now, the Production list for ER603 has been updated and is now showing the correct data (you can check)
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on: aircraft, 2026-10-01 ... details Thank you Robert!
Hi Robert,
Thank you so very much for the additional information. It is very helpful and is a fantastic lead for the family to follow up ...
on: pilots, 2026-08-16 ... details H F Astell
Also https://www.abingdon.org.uk/
uploads/school/flipping/
Role_of_Honour_1939-45/files/assets
/common/downloads/page0003.pdf ...
on: pilots, 2026-08-16 ... details H F Astell
A F/Sgt H F Astell trained in the US - https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/
abingdonian/
1942_Christmas_V008_N005.pdf - He was probably late ...
on: pilots, 2026-08-16 ... details ER557 Mustapha
Ray Bellamy flew ER557 pretty solidly through Feb/March 1943 - from 16th March onwards, at Victoria, it was almost his personal aircraft.
I ...
on: pilots, 2026-08-04 ... details Missing Spitfire flown after it went missing
This Spitfire went missing 19-8-41 about 4 weeks before my dad flew it 2-9-41!! ...
on: aircraft, 2026-07-24 ... details Ivan Edward Bull, 32 squadron RAF
Hi, is there any living relatives of Ivan Edward Bull, the pilot of 32. sq.?
Andrea
gojak.srdan58@gmail.com ...
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