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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 1987.PDF
436 FLIGHT Royal Air Force Awards King has been graciously pleased to-•- approve the following appointments and awards for service in Malaya during theperiod December ist, 1950, to May, 1951: C.B.E.—G/C. R. C. Dawkins.M.B.E.—F/L. D. D. Barber, F/L. G. A. Foss, W/O. H. G. Aviss. Bar to the D.F.C.—S/L. A. C. Blythe,D.F.C. D.F.C.—F/L. K. Fry, Capt. R. P. F.Warner, R.A. D.F.M.—Sgt. A. E. Cover.B.E.M.—F/S. L. H. Hawkins, Sgt. A. F. Batchelor, Sgt. F. R. Williams, Cpl.G. Forrest. Mentioned in Despatches for dis-tinguished service: Act. W/C. M. H. C. France, R.A.F.Regt., S/Ls. W. T. Harrington, O.B.E., J. Harris, D.F.C., E. Johson, R.A.F. Regt.,F/Ls. A. B. Downing, M.A., D. F. Dunphy, A. D. Harvey, M.B.E., T. J. Partridge, J.Rothwell, J. F. M. Widmer. F/O. C. S. MacDonald. P/O. D. L. Green. W/Os.F. T. Donovan, H. W. R. Sutton. F/Ss. H. V. Easy, A. T. Summers, B.E.M., N.Tempest, J. W. White. Sgts. R. Benn, A. D. Lucas, C. Teagle. Act. Sgt. P. F.Richards. Cpls. Abdul Samad Bin Haron, R.A.F. Regt., S. P. Anderson, J. E.Gwilliam, J. M. Lynch, J. E. Mason, R. Nicholson, P. K. Noyce, R. P. Walden,A. Watkins. Flight" photograph dland Vampire pag SKYLIGHT: The sun bsams through threatening cloud over Fassberg airfield as* operating in Exercise Counter Thrust (some impressions of which appear on departs for a sortie against blueland positions. SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News R.A.F. Appointments THE Air Ministry announces thatA. Cdre. R. Coats is to be A.O.C. No. 62 (Southern) Group, Home Com- mand, vice A. V-M. C. A. Stevens, who has become S.A.S.O., Home Command. The new A.O.C. Record Office is G/C. W. E. V. Richards, who will assume the acting rank of air commodore. A. V-M. G. H. Mills wiH become A.O.C. Malaya from next December. From October, A. Cdre. J. G. Hawtrey is to be S.A.S.O., Far East Air Force; he will have the acting rank of air vice-marshal. No. 605 Celebrate AT a dinner held at Castle Bromwich onL Saturday last, No. 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron, R.Aux.A.F., cele- brated the 25th anniversary of its forma- tion. The function was organized by A. Cdre. J. A. C. Wright, A.F.C., who is now the unit's Honorary Air Commodore and was, in 1926, the first commanding officer. Some 200 past and present members of the squadron attended, including Lord Willoughby de Broke, M.C., A.F.C., the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, a former CO. A. Cdre. Finlay Crerar, Inspector of the R.Aux.A.F., was also present. During the course of the evening it was announced that S/L. J. A. Timmis, the present commanding officer, was handing the reins over to F/L. P. M. R. Walton, one of the flight commanders. S/L. Timmis is going to South Africa. No. 605 won the Esher Trophy no fewer than six times during the first nine years of the squadron's existence. In the war, after taking part in the Battle of Britain, it was sent to the Far East, where it was captured in its entirety. Subsequently it was reformed and became the first night intruder squadron. It now forms part of No. 12 Group, Fighter Command, and is equipped with Vampires. Britannia Shield CompetitionO VER ioo competitors for the Britannia shield were welcomed at Uxbridge last Saturday by the Secretary of State for Air, Mr. Arthur Henderson; they came from six countries. This is the sixth year of the competition. Last year America won with the R.A.F. as runners-up. France had three successive victories—in 1947,1948 and 1949. Czecho- slovakia were the winners in 1946. R.A.F. Models Championships THE keynote of the second annualchampionships of the Royal Air Force Model Aircraft Association, flown at Con- ingsby on September ist-2nd, was the co- operation of the weather which, after weeks of almost continuous strong winds, pro- vided conditions that were almost perfect from the aero modeller's point of view. On the first day the concours d'elegance was judged by the station commander, G/C. G. A. Walker, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.D.C., and the Association's chairman, G/C. C. F. Pearce, A.M.I.E.E. The control line, radio control and other classes were then flown, though the entry for the radio category was disappointing in AT 60S's BIRTHDAY PARTY: Left, Lord Willoughby de Broke and Hon. A. Cdre. J. A. C. Wright reminisce with Aid. R. C. Yates, Lord Mayor of Birmingham. Right, the new commanding officer, FjL. Walton (left) with A.V-M. R. L. R. Atcherley, A.O.C. No. 12 Croup, Fighter Command, ani S/L. Timmis, the retiring CO. > f.
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