Forum: Military - Royal Air Force

Hello all, I´m seeking any information about F/Sgt Hans Beck, DFM (RAFVR) who served as a Air Gunner with No 10 squadron. any idea will be warmly appreciated best regards Munro

I am hoping that someone will be able to assist with my enquiry. I am researching Albert Charles Thornhill born 1925 and died 23/10/1944. He flew with 76 Squadron and I am lead to believe that a book was written by flight engineer Sgt J Hampton which has photograghs of my relative. I am keen to...

Can anybody assist, I am trying to trace my cousins service number or DoB. All I know is his name is Leonard Messenger, he was in the RAF in WW2 possibly a Flt Lt he got badly burned. Leonard had a brother Walter also in the RAF. I have been to RAF archives National Achives but I need...

When someone was posted overseas their record would be appended with the start date, then any information regarding events during the posting, and finally their next posting. Post WW2 in non-european theatres would leave back to the UK be recorded on the record.

Hi all. I sent for my father's R.A.F. Record on the 15th July, stateing his rank number, full name and place of birth and the camp where he was last stationed,so far it as taken 8 weeks and 3 days and still waiting for his record to be posted to my home address. I just wonder if anyone can tell...

Dear Listers Can anyone suggest a source of information on Free French Aircrew who served and died flying with the R.A.F. during W.W. II please. Currently interested in the year 1944. Tks in advance Orielbenfro ORIEL a welsh window on a surname

As part of my on going private project to record and research family military headsstones in Pembrokeshire I have recently added Wing Commander George Wherry OBE DFC to my database he died in 2003 aged 85 yrs with the annotation "one of the last of the few". Whilst I have recorded large amounts of...

Please can anyone enlighten me. My grandfathers obituary says he spent most of his life in the RE Corps and RAF but i cant find anything even tho i have what is Supposed to be his number .Im not sure because it ends in TU/12 ? Does anyone have ANY idea what this stands for?|help|

Hi, It's not that easy when one only has a name. I am working on the oral histy of a 69 yo cousin who told me that His Uncle Herbert wore RAF blues and put his cap on his head. WW11 Not only that, he gave him a toy "spitfire". The RAF member I am looking for is Herbert Joseph Diacono. RAF ...

Hi, My Grandfather was in the RAF during WWII as an LAC. I have his service record book which lists RAF trade as Shoemaker. Would this of been what he did on a Sqn in Burma? This was incidentally his peace time profession. The reason I ask is that he always said he cleared Jungle to create...

Hello All, I could do with a bit of help if you do not mind. I have a possible family members marriage certificate dated May 1917 and on the certificate the groom Alfred Greening states his occupation as 1st Class Air mechanic R N A S, I can understand the basics behind the formation etc of...

Hi All I was wondering if I might ask a question on behalf of a good friend. His grandfather was in the RAF and was shot down during WWII but until recently he knew relatively little about where he was based. It now transpires he was at a base near St Neots (Gravely to be precise) in, I...

I wonder if any one saw a programme last week, on morning television (england) on which two ladies were talking about their time with the airborne ambulance brigade? in WW2, they were receiving some kind of award. My mother in law watched this programme and as she was a nurse with the airborne...

I am trying to obtain a copy of the book `Beam Benders`.It gives details of how the RAF foiled German planes in WW2 by sending out deflecting radar beams.It may have gone out of print but you never know!

My late mum was in catering when she was in the WAAF does anyone know if there are any records relating to her service record that survive. We did apply for her service medal after she had died in 1997 and have this. I have tried on the National Archives site but they appear to have moved the...

I am hoping to find the service record of a great-uncle who joined the RAF, possibly in 1937. His name was Stanley Burch. Recently I acquired a photo of him in his uniform. The photo was taken by a photo studio in Cannock, Staffordshire. On the back of the photo was written "Uncle Stanley - 37"....

Hi I have been trying to search my father's side of the family for about 2 months, having done most of my mother's side, However I have got my mother's marriage certificate and that of my birth certificate which states that my father was A.C. Regular, what does that mean? I also have his Rank...

The following names appear in my grandfather's autograph book. I am listing them here in case it may help someone in placing these men at a time or place during the war (all are WW2) I am not researching this side of the family so have not got copies of his service records, but I know he was...

I have the service number of an RAF officer who was killed on active service in 1943. It has 5 digits and begins with the the number 7. I know that it's possible to glean certain details from a service number ... if the person had been at Cranwell, if he was a Pole, and so on. Does a...