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1938
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480 FLIGHT. NOVEMBER 24, 1938. SERVICE A V I ATI Provision for Blind Landing I T is stated that the Air Ministry has decided to equip forty R.A.F. stations with apparatus for landing in conditions of bad visibility. We understand that the Lorenz system has been chosen. R.N.V.R. (Air Branch; T HE Admiralty has issued Regulations concerning Coinmissions in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Air Branch). Both pilots and observers are wanted, and all candidates who are accepted will be required to spend an initial period of 18 months in full- time training. Pay will be given during this period, and on com pletion of it a gratuity of ^75 will be granted. A further gratuity °f ^75 will be granted if the officers pass the prescribed tests or examinations at the end of the course. Thereafter they will receive ^25 per annum. An outfit gratuity of £25 is also allowed. Air Observer School at Acldington T HE second Royal Air Force air observer school devoted to armament training opened its first course " last Monday, November 21. It is situated at Acklington on the Northumbrian coast and will be known as No. 2 Air Observers' School. Ackling ton was opened this year as No. 7 Armament Training Station. The creation of this school has been made necessary by the increase in the number of air observers called for under the recent expansion scheme. Acklington will be a " sister school " to No. I Air .Observers' Royal Air Force Qazette General Duties Branch The following Flying Officers are promoted to the rank of Flight Lieutenant on the dates stated: E. R. Bitmead (September 16); J. S. O'Brien (Acting Flight Lieutenant) (October 16); D. O. Finlay (October 30); S. G. Pritchard (November 3). Sqn. Ldr. J. Heber Percy ceases to be seconded for service as Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty's Ambassador in Cairo (October 12); Lt. N. Mel. Kemp, R.N., Flight Lieutenant R.A.F., ceases to be attached to the Royal Air Force on return to Naval duty (Octo ber 11); Fit. Lt. F. E. H. Cooper is transferred to the Reserve, class A (November 1). Chaplains Branch The Rev. T. M. Lawrence is granted a short-service commission with the relative rank of Squadron Leader (November 3). Memorandum The permission granted to W. H. Bland to retain the rank of Second Lieutenant is withdrawn (October 11). Royal Air Force Reserve RESERVE OF ALR FORCE OFFICERS General Duties Branch The following Squadron Leaders are granted commissions as Flight Lieutenants: Honorary Squadron Leaders in class CC with effect from May 7, and with seniority of the dates stated: R. S. Barbour (Honorary Squadron Leader, November 5, 1937) (December 16, 1935); 6. R. Hicks, D.F.C. (Honorary Squadron Leader, March 2) (July 10, 1936); F. Thomasson, D.F.C., M.M. (Honorary Squadron Leader, November 5, 1937) (December 7, 19^6); F. J. Taylor (March 1). The following are granted commissions in class CC in the ranks stated with effect from May 7 and with seniority of the dates stated:—Flight Lieutenants: E. A. Sullock, A.F.C. (October 1, 1935); R- E. Barrett (November 9, 1935); R. J. Read (February 3, 1936); A. J. Nightingale (February 14, 1936); L. H. Brooke (June 15, 1936); W. G. Nicholls (July 1, 1936); C. N. C. Dickson, A.F.C. (November 9, 1936); H. Bligh (January 4, 1937); E. S. Osborn (Jan uary 13, 1937); C. H. Glover (May 7, 1937); R. Macfarlan (May 10, 1937); E. M. Morris (August 15, 1937); N. T. Goodwin (September 20, 1937); R- E. Hall (October 6, 1937); G. V. T. Thomson (December 23, 1937); H. E. Sales (March 3); H. C. Todd (April 1). The following Flying Officers (Honorary Flight Lieutenants) relin quish their honorary rank and are granted commissions in class CC as Flying Officers with the acting rank of Flight Lieutenant with effect from May 7 and with seniority of the dates stated: W. H. E. Tew (December 20, 1935); N. W. Wale (January 1, icn6); K. W. Pell (March 9, 1936); C. J. Farrell (March 30, 1936); E. C. Durbin (April 1, 1936); J. W. C. Glen (September 2, 1936); C. B. Dove (December 10, 1936); M. J. Wyatt, M.C. (June 1, 1937); W. R. A. Matheson (September 13, 1937): A. L. Brain (November 10, 1937); H. J. Forster (December 10, 1937); L. G. Rumsey (April 1); T. R. Wheatley (April 11); C. H. Williams (May 2). F/O. (Honorary Flight Lieutenant) F. T. Eades, D.F.C., is granted the rank of Flight Lieutenant (August 5); Fit. Lt. R. S. Higgens is transferred from class A to class C (October 15). The following are transferred from class C to class CC (May 7): — Wing Commander: H. Dawes, M.B.E. Squadron Leaders: B. E. Harrison, A.F.C., J. B. Bowen, C.B.E. (Honorary Air Commodore). Flight Lieutenants: A. E. Dark, B. D. S. Tuke, J. E. Preston, A. M. Owing to the greatly increased length of these lists, as a result of R.A.F. N (CONTINUED) School at North Coates, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Both are capable of dealing with 60 air observers at a time and a six weeks' course of training in gunnery and bombing is set. Acklington's air firing and bombing ranges are situated on the shore of Druridge Bay. The air observers are drawn from among aircraftmen by selection and directly from civil life. Before being posted to Acklington or North Coates they complete a three months' navigational course at a civil flying school and two weeks' routine training at a Service depot. There are vacancies as air observers for men, of a good standard of education, between the ages of 18J and 25 years. Ack lington will receive air observers from the navigational schools at Desford, near Leicester, and Ansty, near Coventry. North Coates completes the training of air observers from the civil schools at Prestwick, Ayrshire, and Yatesbury, near Calne, Wiltshire. The Hendon Auxiliaries AIR VICE-MARSHAL GOSSAGE, A.O.C., No. n (Fighter) Group, inspected Nos. 600, 601 and 604 (Fighter) Squadrons at Hendon on November 20. He complimented them all on their behaviour in the recent crisis when the fighter squadrons of the A.A.F. were mobilised. He referred to the recent re-equipment of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron with Gauntlets, and said that he hoped all A.A.F. fighter squadrons would soon be supplied with still better and faster machines. This was the first inspection on which these squadrons appeared with their machines camouflaged. Webster, J. W. Griffith, B. C. Moody, M.B.E., F. T. McElwee, G. I. C. Peacocke, R. J. Copley, H. G. P. Ovenden, A. J. P. Groom, D. G. Fleming, E. Drudge, M.B.E., J. Everidge, M.C. (Honorary Squadron Leader), J. H. Truscott, J. S. Holloway, C. D. Pvne, J. W. Caddy, H. H. S. Scott, D.S.M., R. Jones, D. G. Singleton, A. V. Taylor, H. G. Spearpoint, A. Lees, R. S. Hellier, D.F.C., F. V. Gauntlett, W. L. Shaw, M.B.E. (Honorary Squadron Leader), A. F. Ingram, F. B. Young, A. H. Goldie, H. P. S. Clogstoun, .M.B.E., G. E. Pyne, W. E. Reason (Honorary Squadron Leader), S. C. Black, M.M., F. E. Bishop, M.B.E., N. H. Dimmock, A.F.C., E. J. iloule, H. E. F. Saunders, J. G. Argles, J. Kemper, M.B.E. (Honorary Squadron Leader), W. A. C. Heyman, T. F. G. Strubell (Honorary Squadron Leader), R. Stiven, W. R. Castings, M.B.E., H. R. Kavanagh, M.B.E., E. L. P. Morgan (Honorary Squadron Leader), A. L. Cockburn, J. H. Leach, G. M. F. O'Brien, D.S.C.. R. F. de R. Read, O. C. Cassels, D.F.C., C. J. Elliott, H. A. Boni face, S. H. Reynolds, M. G. Bircham, A. B. Smith, M.C., H. T. O. Windsor, M.C., W. B. Hellard, D. R. Sharman, M.C., K. D. Aber- cromby (Honorary Squadron Leader), J. F. Shooter, G. A. Wells, M.C., C. A. Gregory, J. P. Cafferkey, F. Pvle, J. Selwyn, J. H. Page, B. B. Dowling, J. E. M. Atherley, E. Gillespie, D.S.O., H. C. Tallboy, J. E. Parkin, M.B.E. (Honorary Wing Commander), J. C. Mitchell, W. W. Hart, M.B.E. (Honorary Squadron Leader), H. B. Maund, S. H. Woolf, R. F. C. Metcalfe, G. F. M. Wamer, R. W G. West, A. W. H. Nelson, L. J. Fox, L. S. Weedon, G. J. Watney, O.B.E. (Honorary Squadron Leader), G. E. Gordon-Duff, T. K. Burton, W. H. Day, L. H. Cooper, I. B. Beesley, H. A. Anson, A. H. Dalton, W. Coker, D.F C, C. M. Crowe, M.C., D.F.C. (Hono rary Squadron Leader), R. C. Savery, D.F.C., W. T. Clyde, B. Hodson, M.B.E., T. G. Hungerford, T. H. R. Riggs, D.C.M., M.M., H. J. Eastwood, M.C., A. R. Smeathers, C. M. Lister, M.C., H. A. C. Atkinson, E. W. Reynolds, A. G. D. Alderson, A. R. Hughes, M.B.E., L J. Westmoreland, S. A. D. Lane, H. I Wvices, H. C. Pvper, V. R. S. White, M.C., H. E. Greenberrv, W." L. Whit- lock, B. S. Brice, A.F.C., I. Cullen, M.B.E., A.F.C. (Honorary Squadron Leader), W. A. Lindsay-Watson, L. M S. Essell, R. P. Smillie, H. A. S. Byrne, S. L. Delahay, J. C. Brice, T. R. Wells, M.C.. E. A. Roberts, J. F. Clark. Flying Officers.—E W. Barry, L. R. Butters, E. A. Burton, D. M. B. Fitzgerald-Lombard, K. M. Lloyd-Jones, J. D. Loughnan, H. L. Rudd, J. Collier, D.F.C. (Hono rary Flight Lieutenant), E. H. Roberts, J. S. Curtis (Honorary Flight Lieutenant), A. T. C. Cooper, I. N. Macmillan, H. A. Sawyer, M.C., A. Rowan (Honorarv Squadron Leader), H. W. Guy (Hono rary Flight Lieutenant), N. McLeod, F. T. Eades, D.F.C. (Hono rary Flight Lieutenant), R. M. Waddington (Honorary Flight Lieu tenant), G. E. D. Low, C. L. Hudson, H. J. Crampton, C. N. McLoughlin, L. A. Jessop, D.F.C. S. J. Gilbert is granted a commission as Flight Lieutenant in Class C (April 9). Equipment Branch Fit. Lt. R. Bassett is granted a commission in Class CC in that rank with effect from May 7 and with seniority of March 5, 1936; Fit. Lt. A. J. Nightingale is transferred to the General Duties Branch, Class C (November 1). The following are transferred from Class C to Class CC (May 7): — Flight Lieutenants.—W. H. Anderson, L. N. Sargent, W. B. I. Humphrey. Auxiliary Service General Duties Branch No. Coi (COUNTY OF LONDON) (FIGHTER) SQUADRON.—F/O. P. R. Foley is promoted to the rank of Flight Lieutenant (August 25). expansion, ranks are confined to thoie of Flight Lieutenant and above.
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