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1954
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15 January 1954 S3 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News Squadrons Exchange Duties AFTER having operated with the security forces in Malaya since August last, No. 83 Squadron (S/L. W. C. Sin clair, A.F.C.) is to be relieved by No. 7 Squadron (S/L. D. S. Saunders). On their way home, the first Lincolns of No. 83 Squadron left Tengah on January 7th, and those of No. 7 Squadron were due to start on the journey east on the same day. The staging posts to be used are Idris (Tripoli), Habbaniya (Iraq), Mauripur (Pakistan) and Negombo (Ceylon). A number of the squadron ground-crews will travel in the Lincolns; the remainder will be flown by Transport Command. Carriers in the Spring Cruise F OR the spring cruise, H.M.S. Eagle, wearing the flag of the Flag Officer Heavy Squadron (Rear-Admiral W. T. Couchman, C.V.O., D.S.O., O.B.E.), will leave Devonport with an escorting destroyer on January 25th to embark her air squad rons and carry out flying practices in die English Channel before proceeding to Portland. On her arrival there on January 29th other available ships of the Home Fleet will be assembled. Eagle, and ships under the command of the Flag Officer Flotillas (Rear-Admiral J. W. Cuthbert, C.B., C.B.E.), will sail from Portland on February 5 th for Gibraltar, carrying out exercises on pas sage, and on arrival at "The Rock" weapon training will take place for about a month. In March the Fleet will leave Gibraltar for combined exercises with ships of the Mediterranean Fleet in the Western Medi terranean and approaches to Gibraltar. The Home Fleet Training Squadron, con sisting of H.M.S. Implacable, wearing die flag of the Flag Officer Training Squadron (Rear-Admiral W. L. G. Adams, O.B.E.) and Indefatigable will be taking part in these combined exercises while on a short independent cruise to the Mediterranean. Following the exercises, ships of the Home and Mediterranean Fleets will assemble at Gibraltar, where staff discus sions and combined Fleet sporting acti vities will take place. Two R.A.F. Appointments TLTAVING completed two years as A.O.C. -*•* No. 42 Group, Maintenance Com mand, A. Cdre. J. Marson, C.B., C.B.E., is to become Vice-President of the Ord nance Board, M.o.S. The second appointment is diat of A. Cdre. A. Earle, C.B.E., who has been appointed Director of Personnel (A) at the Air Ministry. Since July 1952 he has been Commandant of the Royal Australian Air Force Staff College and previously to that he was Deputy C.A.S. of the R.A.A.F. New CO. for No. 3602 F.C.U. T HE appointment is also announced of W/C. W. T. Walker to command No. 3602 (City of Glasgow) Fighter Control R.N.Z.A.F. HONOURED: The Queen presents her Colour to the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The ceremony took place at Whenuapai on December 28th. F/O. M. F. McD. Palmer was the Colour bearer, and on the right is A.V-M. D. V. Carnegie, C.B., C.B.E., A.F.C., R.A.F., Chief of the Air Staff, R.N.Z.A.F. Unit, R.Aux.A.F. at R.A.F. station Bishop- briggs, Glasgow. W/C. Walker joined the special duties branch of the R.A.F.V.R. in 1941 and was controller in the operations room at R.A.F. Ouston, before becoming G.C.I. controller at No. 325 Wing, N.W. African Air Force, and then at No. 8001 Air Experimental Station, North African Air Force. He later served at Bomber Com mand Pool at Little Snoring. W/C. Walker joined the R.Aux.A.F. in 1949. Cranwell's New Magazine DESCRIBED by its editorial staff as "a magazine with (we hope) a difference . . . and something a little better than usual" The Poacher has been produced by the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, as a monthly publication covering College activities and containing articles of aviation and general interest. The contents and for mat of the first issue suggest that the claim is well founded. The Poacher is available at Is (annual subscription, 15s) to both Ser vice and civilian readers. The Navigation School Accident WITH deep regret we record the accident at Aldbury, Herts, on January 6th, in which 16 of 17 men in a Valetta from the Navigation School, Thorney Island, lost their lives. They were members of a rugby football team which had visited Halton. Bad weather had caused the aircraft to use Bovingdon, and the accident occurred shortly after take-off at 5.15 p.m. on the return journey. Snow was falling thickly, and the Valetta struck trees on high ground some five miles to the north of the airfield. The only survivor was P/O. P. D. C'iff, and those who lost their lives were: F/L. P. Clave, F/O. P. Conde, P/Os. J. K. Noyce, J. A. F. James, R. Nicholson, J. D. Pell, J. N. Clay, D. H. Barton, E. Casey, M. Shimwell, M. P. H. Pollard, A. W. V. Purcell, M/Sig. T. B. Lightfoot, F/Sgt. R. D. Marshall, Cpl. K. C. Tatlow, L.A/C. B. Davies. F/O Conde was the captain of the Thorney Island rugby team and P/O. Pollard, who was well known as a Rugby Union player, was a member of the R.A.F. XV last year. Half-yearly Promotions 'THE following names continue the list -*- of half-yearly promotions issued by the Air Ministry. The higher ranks appeared in our issue of January 8th, page 56. GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH. Wing Commander to Group Captain.—F. H. Tyson; G. N. Amison; R. E. Burns, D.F.C.; D. S. Wil-son-MacDonald, D.S.O., D.F.C.; S. Wroath, A.F.C.; C. F. C. Wright, D.S.O., D.F.C.; G. P. Sevmour-Price, D.F.C.; R. J. Abrahams, O.B.E.; R. J. P. Prichard, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C.; C. H. Simpson; F. A. Willan, D.F.C.; J. N. W. Farmer, D.F.C.; F. M. Milligan, O.B.E., A.F.C.; H. E. Bufton, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C.; G. F. Powell-Shedden, D.S.O., D.F.C.; R. M. B. D. Duke-Woolley, D.S.O., D.F.C.; A. V. R. Johnstone, D.F.C.; E. G. Jones, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.F.C.; H. I. Edwards, <?.€., D.S.O., O.B.E., D.F.C.; C. D, Tomalin, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C.; G. T. B. Clayton, D.F.C.; D. F. Spotswood, C.B.E., D.S.O.. D.F.C.; R. F. Aitken, O.B.E., A.F.C.; S. W. R. Hughes, O.B.E., A.F.C.; D. C. McKinley, D.F.C., A.F.C. Squadron Leader to Wing Commander.— P. D. W. Hackforth; D. E. Bennett; L. M. Gilchrist; R. I. Alexander, D.F.C.; D. R. Griffiths, D.F.C.; L. J. M. Bunce: A. B. Goldie; F. N. Brinsden: H. A. England, D.F.C.; H. L. Derwent, A.F.C.; L. J. Ward, D.F.C.: J. L. Nunn, D.F.C.; S. C. Ladyman; H. H. Eccles; J. R. Gard'ner; B. Deaves, D.F.C.; M. J. A. Shaw, D.S.O.; J. H. S. B-oaghton, D.F.C., A.F.C.; P. O. V. Green, A.F.C.; P. L. PaTett, D.F.C., A.F.C.; H. F. O'Neill, D.F.C.; P. D. B. Stevens; R. J. E. Bou'.ding; D. N. Fearon; P. J. S. Finlayson, A.F.C.; P. J. Simpson, D.S.O., D.F.C.; G. Kennedy, A.F.C., D.F.M.; F. H. Stubbs, AFC, D.F.M.: F. R. Flynn, A.F.C.; F. F. Aldington, D.F.C.: F. Squire, D.S.O., D.F.C.; W. McRobbie. A.F.C.: G. C. Unwin, D.S.O., D.F.M.; A. McC. Johnstone, O.B.E., A.F.C.; L. V. Bachellier, A.F.C.: J. M. Rowe, D.F.C.; R. I. Crump, A.F.C.; L.
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