Monthly Archives: November 2015
WW2 F/Lt Anthony Gobbie DFC – 42G pilot graduate – settled in the USA – eventually.

Anthony Francis Gobbie was born in London on November 24th 1919 the son of Francis J Gobbi and Evelyn Mary…

1933 school photograph identified Bomber Command Related

Another minor mystery solved thanks to to good people of Southall, (thanks especially toYvonne), who via their Knowhere message board…

RAF MRES investigates loss of 115 Squadron Lancaster LL648 January 1947

Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field. Geneva, 27th July…

Carefree times in RAF Bomber Command – USA 1942 -Arnold Scheme 42G – Part 2

Having previously posed the question – whereabouts in the south-east of the USA were they? Is it a lido or…

LCDRHQ WW2 Staff Newsletters – news of former colleagues – 1944 WWII

At London Civil Defence Regional HQ newsletters were compiled regularly throughout the war with news of how former colleagues were…

WW2 casualty Joan Fieldgate – commemorated on Southall County School memorial board, buried in Germany.

In researching the various people mentioned in these pages their personal stories are rarely as expected. One of the names…

Centenary of the outbreak of the Great War – A tale of two brothers

John Ives and his elder brother James began the War doing the same job at the same place. Alfred De…

RAF Bomber Command’s Dam Busters – ‘let all that water loose’

F/O Douglas Hackett DFC RCAF was b/a in F/Lt Warren Roberts’ 405 Squadron crew, lost on the 30th January 1944…

Not a sausage’ – WW2 technical term?

The RAF is renowned for spawning a multitude of its own slang sayings. The phrase ‘not a sausage’ – meaning…

‘D-Day’ + 4 – RAF 1679 ADLS Flight – ‘ the Mail Goes Through’.

From their same starting point at 9 ITW Stratford-on-Avon, Jim Ives and Ian Cunnison, pictured sitting next to each other…

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