Thread: Rfc- raf 1918-?
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Old 25 October 2009, 04:27 PM   #8 (permalink)
john_g
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Hi,
It's taken a while to find any information about him and what I have found is quite brief. I have found his RAF AIR76 record at the National Archives, unfortunately it is not a very good copy and difficult to read.

It gives an address at 2104 5th Avenue West, Vancouver. His father at same address. Date not readable but it notes SAF 7/9/18 Beamsville Recruits Depot. From HQ Canada to Home Establishment (That would be when he arrived in the UK?) 27/009/18 by the 27/10/18 he was with 48 TDS at RAF Waddington.
He was gazetted 2/Lt (A) on 01/10/18 with effect from 05/09/18, which was probably when he passed his CFS A certificate, and should have been promoted to Flying Officer on the same date.
By 15/07/19 he was awaiting repatriation at a camp, which unfortunately the name is not clear.

It gives his civil occupation 1912-13 as a clerk and 1914-17 a commercial traveller in Vancouver.

I am afraid that is all I could find.

From this we can say that he got his wings but did not finish advanced training and never served with a front line squadron.

That’s all we have.


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