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On July 15, 2013 I visited the old
Pocklington Airfield where my father
served in the RAF during WWII.
It is now the home of a gliding club. I then moved on to the
Yorkshire Air Museum to see
the restored last Halifax, the type of aircraft he worked on. Chris Harper has put
together an
excellent website about 102 Squadron and people who served in it,
including a
page about Bill based on the photos below. |
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On December 30, 2016 I took Mum to the airfield which she had last
visited at the end of WWII..... |
....amd on September 27, 2017 returned with Mum and Dad's sister Daphne |
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On May 6/7, 2017 I attended the 102 (Ceylon) Squadron Association
Reunion dinner and Service (at St Catherine's Barmby Moor) followed by
wreath laying at the Squadron Memorial, There was a repaired Halifax
engine, which was fired up. |
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Click for video |
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| The remaining WWII hanger |
The bleakness of the airfield |
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| The memorial to 102
Squadron............... |
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| ,,, and its Base Commander
with photos below in the club house. |
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| The Gliding
Club |
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| The industrial estate
commemorates the aircraft using the airfield |
