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FLIGHT, 30 August 1957 373 SERVICE AVIATION Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News No. 99 Sqn. StandardO N September 27, at R.A.F. Lyneham,a Standard is to be presented to No. 99 Squadron by Air Chief Marshal Sir RonaldIvelaw-Chapman, V.C.A.S., who flew with the squadron in 1926-28. Forty years old this month, No. 99Squadron—now equipped with Hastings aircraft and commanded by S/L. T. M.Stafford—has had a varied existence since it was formed at Yatesbury in 1917 withD.H.9s and took part in operations on the Western Front from May 1918 onwards aspart of Trenchard's Independent Force. After the war, No. 99 had a short spellon air-mail duties in Europe and frontier patrols in India, then in 1924 resumed itsoriginal role as a bomber squadron. It was equipped successively with Aldershots,Hyderabads, Hinaidis and Heyfords and at the start of the last war was flying Welling-tons from Mildenhall in Suffolk—with them taking part in costly daylight opera-tions, switching to night bombing in 1940. In February 1942, No. 99 moved toIndia, becoming the first R.A.F. long-range bomber squadron to operate against theJapanese in Burma; in November 1944 it was re-equipped with Liberators, and laterthese were based on the Cocos Islands. No. 99 Sqn. was disbanded in 1945 butreformed two years later in Transport Command, its Yorks taking part in Opera-tion "Plainfare" for the relief of Berlin. When an anonymous donor presented agold cup to commemorate the achieve- ments of Transport Command in thatoperation, this was won in the first annual competition for it (in 1955) by No. 99 Sqn. Senior Appointments HTWO senior appointments announcedA recently by Air Ministry are those of A.V-M. W. H. Kyle, who is to be A.C.A.S.(Operational Requirements) with effect from September 1, and of A.V-M. H. J.Kirkpatrick as S.A.S.O. at 2nd T.A.F. A.V-M. Kyle, an Australian, has beenA.O.C. Malaya since February 1955 and before that was for two-and-a-half years aDirector of Operational Requirements at Air Ministry. He entered the R.A.F. From left to right, A.V-M. C. D. Candy, D.C.A.S. of the R.A.A.F., with A.V-M. E. C. Hudleston, who was visiting his native Australia before becoming V.C.A.S. (with the acting rank of air marshal) next month; andSgt.R.Yfillimczyk, first naturalized Aus- tralian to be trained as a pilot in the R.A.A.F. since the war, given his wings by Vice Admiral Sir Roy Dowling, Chief of the Australian Naval Staff. A Bristol Freighter of No. 41 Sqn., R.N.Z.A.F., leaves New Zealand for Malaya where the squadron carries out medium-transport and supply-dropping duties and is based at Changi on Singapore Island. College at Cranwell in 1928 and during thewar won the D.F.C. in 1941 (for leading the No. 139 Sqn. attack with Blenheimson the Ijmuiden steel works) and the D.S.O. in 1945. A.V-M. Kirkpatrick has been A.C.A.S.(Operational Requirements) at Air Ministry since February, 1957, and was for two yearsbefore that a Director of Operational Requirements. He joined the R.A.F. in1932 from Oxford University Air Squadron and during most of the war served inBomber Command, being awarded the D.F.C. in December 1941, when he wascommanding No. 218 Sqn. Battle of Britain ReunionT HIS year's Battle of Britain aircrewreunion will be held on Sunday, Sep- tember 15, at 7.30 p.m. at the R.A.F. Club,128 Piccadilly, London, W.I. All who are entitled to wear the Battle of Britain claspto the 1939-45 Star are eligible and wet- come to attend. Dress will be lounge suits,and tickets (31s including buffet and drinks) may be obtained from the Secretary,Battle of Britain Aircrew Reunion Com- mittee, Ops A.D.4, Air Ministry, WhitehallGardens, London, S.W.I. Prior to the reunion, at 6.30 p.m. at the R.A.F. Club,there will be a meeting to discuss the formation of a permanent Battle of BritainAircrew Association. IN BRIEF The R.A.F.A. Motor Club's thirdannual Battle of Britain Rally will be held in North and Central Wales next weekend. ***** Fleet Air Arm, written by John W. R.Taylor and profusely illustrated with photographs and silhouettes, is a new addi-tion to the ABC booklets published by Ian Allan, Ltd., Craven House, HamptonCourt, Surrey, at 2s 6d. ***** This year's Britannia Shield competi-tion—which commemorates, by a series of sporting contests, the spirit of the com-rades-in-arms of different nations who took part in the Battle of Britain—will beheld between September 30 and October 2.
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