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[2] [3] [45] When the TA was reorganised in 1961, the division became 50th (Northumbrian) Division/District and the regiment (as 50 (Northumbrian) Signal Rgt) absorbed elements of 60th (Mixed) Signals Rgt at York, also taking over responsibility for two brigade signal squadrons: [2] [46] 338 Sqn formed at Gateshead in 1959 from 149th Infantry ...
No. 658 Squadron was a Royal Air Force air observation post squadron associated with the 21st Army Group during the Second World War.No.s 651 to 663 Squadrons of the RAF were air observation post units working closely with British Army units in artillery spotting and liaison.
Typhoons representing the RAF Typhoon squadrons – 1 Sqn, 2 Sqn, 3 Sqn, 6 Sqn, 29 Sqn, 11 Sqn, 41 Sqn, 1435 Flight, and BOB75 in the centre to commemorate the Battle of Britain. Squadrons are the main form of flying unit of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Squadron Leader P F Fullard (12 January 1933) Squadron Leader J H Green (1 December 1933) Squadron Leader N L Despoer (20 July 1935) Squadron Leader W A Opie (21 April 1938) Squadron Leader A J W Geddes (29 April 1939) (Wing Commander from 1 March 1940) Wing CommanderP J A Riddell (24 December 1941) Wing Commander P W Stansfeld (8 February 1943)
Sqn Ldr R G A Barclay, DFC July 1942: August 1942: Sqn Ldr J D Bisdee, DFC August 1942: March 1943: Sqn Ldr A V Clowes, DFC, DFM: March 1943: March 1943: Sqn Ldr G H F Plinston, DFC March 1943: June 1943: Sqn Ldr J S Taylor, DFC June 1943: September 1943: Sqn Ldr Stanisław Skalski, VM, KW, DSO, DFC and two Bars September 1943: March 1944: Maj ...
No. 615 squadron was formed at RAF Kenley as part of the Auxiliary Air Force on 1 June 1937 and was initially equipped with the Hawker Audax in the army-cooperation role. By the end of the year it had received Hawker Hectors which it flew until November 1938, when it became a fighter squadron and received Gloster Gauntlets [Nb 1] .
12 Sqn F: No. 16 Squadron RAF: 16 Sqn F: No. 19 Flying Training School RAF: 19 FTS F: No. 240 Operational Conversion Unit RAF: 240 OCU F: No. 25 Squadron RAF: 25 Sqn F: No. 4 Flying Training School RAF: 4 FTS F: No. 6 Flying Training School RAF: 6 FTS F1 'P' Flight No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit RAF 'P' Flt 1 AACU F2: No. 635 Squadron ...
When the Royal Air Force was created four months later on 1 April 1918 by merging the RNAS with the Royal Flying Corps, this unit was re-numbered No. 217 Squadron RAF, operating out of Bergues, near Dunkerque. [2] [3] The new squadron conducted daylight raids using Airco DH.4s on enemy bases and airfields [2] in Belgium until the end of World ...