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1944
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OCTOBER 26TH, 1944 44 » Six more types flown by the Squadron during the 1914-18 war. (Top, left) The Morane Parasol, 160 h.p. Gnome engine. (Right) A Vickers F.B.19 fighter. (Centre, left) The Nieuport XXIII. (Right) A British Nieuport, the Nieuhawk, used for reconnaissance. (Bottom, left) The famous Sop- with Camel and (Right) the Sopwith Triplane. E T*? • ...**•••' •.•:••*«»?.'•• quantities of the etceteras necessary to an R.A.F. party were in evidence. A lot of painstaking work had been put in. It had been hoped by Wing Cdr. H. R. (Jasper) Coates, the present CO., that Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Long- more and some of the other previous "owners" of the Squadron would be able to attend the function. Unfor tunately, owing to a mixture of bad weather and war pre occupation, none of them could turn up, and Air Chief Marshal Sir W. Sholto Douglas, A.O.C.-in-C. Coastal Com mand, was, for the same reason, also prevented from coming. They all, ^_ however, sent their congratulations. Grp. Capt. G. A. Bolland, C.B.E., Station Commander, in a short speech after dinner, congratulated the Squad ron on its history and its present success, pointing out that, in this war alone, No. 201 had gained 1 D.S.O., 16 D.F.C.s and 10 D.F.M.s. The Squadron was, he said, building up tradition which would guide units of the future. There was then a general call of "Up." "Up," "Up" for Wing Cdr. An early wooden-hulled Supermarine Southampton of 1925. Maximum speed was just over 100 m.p.h. H. R. Coates, who not only commands the Squadron to-day, but is also one of its oldest inhabitants from pre vious service in the unit. Despite a game leg in plaster from a slight accident in a motor boat, he managed to make the table top and deliver a short homily. In a cryptic remark he pointed out that while No. 201 had scored 10 kite balloons in the last war, they had scored none in this war. It may be that this was just a playful jest at the expense of some commanders and representatives of other flying-boat squadrons who were present—an
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