Squadron compliments

Did the title of this thread get changed?

I’m sure it said complement, (which would have been correct when discussing unit personnel) when I first read it!

Compliments, as in paying of compliments, would mean saluting!

I’m sorry that pedantry in my only contribution to this thread……!

Thanks, dear friend – knew there was someone there!

It’s part of a project for a Grandchild.

= Tim

Glad I could help out, Tim 🙂

No bloody idea! I was in a hurry when I wrote this down, so I did the quickest translation I could make in my mind. It was only after I was done I saw that the listings were actually in English as well. 😀

What on earth did the “telephonists helpers” do, DCK?!!

Pick up the telephone and hold it to the real telephonists ear?! 😀

Spits: Varies between 11-14 but don’t quote me on that one

Certainly nowhere near my choosen subject, but those figures tally well with one of the BoB programmes that was on recently that said twelve Spitfires/Hurricanes to a fighter squadron – that would be ideally I would suppose.

Thanks, dear friend – knew there was someone there!

It’s part of a project for a Grandchild.

= Tim

I can give you a list of 331 squadron based at North Weald, july 1942.

This is approx;

CO’s: 3
Pilots: 24
Admin: 1
Technical: 1
Doctor: 1
Chief mechanics: 2
Mechanics Fitters airframe: 16
Fitters engine: 19
Flight mechs airframe: 23
Helpers: 5
Flight mechanics engine: 23
Helpers engine: 2
Fitter/armourer: 1
Armour general: 39
Electricians: 8
Radio: 10
Wire op: 1
Helpers electricity: 3
Instrument repair: 7
Helpers: 1
Clerks: 5
Accounting: 1
Tailors: 1
Equipment: 1
Parachutes: 1
Coppersmith: 1
Carpenter: 1
Drivers: 8
Car mechs: 2
Nurses: 3
Telephonists: 2
Helpers telephonists: 2
Photographers: 2
General duties: 7

Spits: Varies between 11-14 but don’t quote me on that one

Just cannot believe that there’s no answer to this with so many experts in the field??

= Tim