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CALLED UP INTO ARMY
400 Company 50th Northants Regiment. 13/8/39 -31/5/40 Anti Aircraft (Searchlight) Battalion. Royal Engineers.
Officer Training Sandhurst Military College 31/5/40 -21/9/40
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Army Co-op/Tactical Recce pilot
TRANSFER TO RAF
No.2 I.T.W. CAMBRIDGE A flight
No.19 E.F.T.S. SEALAND Course No 6
No. 5 S.F.T.S. TERNHILL Course No 65
No. 41 OTU OLD SARUM Course No 44
No.16 Squadron
Staff Pilot 41 OTU Harwarden
Typhoon conversion No. 83 G.S.U
No.168 Squadron Eindhoven
No.2 Squadron Gilze-Reijen
Left RAF Nov 1945
Mainly flew Mustang, Typhoon, Spitfire on Tactical/photo recce over N France,, Holland and over Germany'
He flew many XIV Spitfires with No.2 Squadron but only recorded the Aircraft letter and not its number.
Awarded the D.F.C. for photo taken over Northern France.
