Monthly Archives: November 2015
RAF Remembrance Day – remembering crew of ND360 – 100 Squadron

  In June 2013 I had the great pleasure to meet Derek Fenton, the younger brother of Bob Fenton, the…

RAF Bomber Command – Happy memories of Frank Law – ‘The Count of Elsham Wolds’ and his crew-mates

Sincere apologies for having gone AWOL for a little while, but work has (thankfully) been dominating proceedings. I haven’t been…

WW2 RAF – Crossing paths, familiar names – Malcolm McKiggan, Fred Perry, Roy Gallop, Frank Wadge, et alia.

WW2 RAF – Crossing paths, familiar names – Malcolm McKiggan, Fred Perry, Roy Gallop, Frank Wadge, et alia. A little…

Bomber Command letter from F/Sgt Jones’ mother – 1944

The CWGC entry for F/Sgt Albert Patrick Jones records that he was the twenty-one year-old son of David and Margaret…

WW2 English Lancaster bomber in Motzener See

Following F/Sgt Bill Allan’s misdemeanour of 20th October 1943 the mid-upper position in Jim Ives’s crew was subsequently occupied by…

F/Sgt Roy Barton Fennell and crew -just doing their job? WW2 Bomber Command baptism of fire.

I haven’t had to look very far to find Bomber Command airmen who displayed acts of selflessness and bravery in…

Lancaster loses two engines on take-off – ww2 625 Squadron Bomber Command – original account

Just before 17.25hrs on the evening of 3rd November 1943 Lancaster W4833 of 625 Squadron  lined up for take-off on…

WW2 Bomber Command casualties W/O D.W.T. Johnson DFC and Sgt W.J. Allan RAAF :- Davey and Bill

Sincere thanks to those who have contacted me through the website over the past few months letting me know that…

Remembrance – art critic Jonathan Jones and classics scholar John Maxwell Edmonds – compare and contrast.

‘When you go home, tell them of us and say For their tomorrow, we gave our today’ – is one…

HM Royal Marines 350th Anniversary – J A Proctor, proud Royal Marine.

A departure from RAF matters for once. Today marks the 350th Anniversary of the formation of the Royal Marines. Our…

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