Please may I pick your Brains for some addresses?
What I am after are those for Veterans associations and popular national news agencies, in order to appeal for any photo’s or stories from ex-aircrew who served at the former R.A.F. Gamston, in Nottinghamshire.
Living quite close to the former wartime base which is now a thriving business airport I used to work at, I know Gamston was used as for resettlement by 1800 R.A.A.F aircrew before returning home at the wars end and that the station was used by Operational Training Units (OTU’s), but only recently found out that many of those trained were Canadian aircrew.
I have seen a few photo’s but overall information about the base is thin on the ground, so if anyone can help me it will be appreciated,
Regards Rad.
By: Radpoe Meteor - 11th June 2010 at 19:16
Thank you JGS & Mark, much appreciated your quick replies- I can now knuckle down to contact them & see what I come up with:).
Cheers again to you all,
Rad:)
By: mark_pilkington - 10th June 2010 at 10:10
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The RSL is the peak returned serviceman organisation and an obvious point of contact, another smaller but specialist organisation also worth contacting is the RAAF Association which has branches in each state.
http://www.raafa.org.au/structure/index.html
Also worth contacting is the relevent independant Squadron associations that are affiliated with RAAFA, these normally have their own newsletters to directly access their members, ie former crews, however age is rapidly thinning out their ranks and I think the Lancaster Squadrons Association have already dis-banded, so are state based elements of the Catalina Squadron Association, along with Pacific war squadrons such as the Beaufighter 31 Squadron association, unfortunately you may have left such an endeavour a bit too late to really access their membership.
http://www.raafa.org.au/structure/independant-squadron-associations.pdf
Of those the Odds Bods association remains the most likely relevent one to approach?
You may find the RAAF Museum at Point Cook, or the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, might hold personal photo albums of crews in squadrons based at your site of interest? and I would suggest you contact them direct.
I would agree that the ABC might be the most appropriate news organisation to seek assistance in putting out a call for information.
regards
Mark Pilkington
By: JollyGreenSlugg - 10th June 2010 at 04:00
In Australia,
The Returned & Services League is the principal ex-service association;
The main news service is ABC. Being the national broadcaster, they’re not commercial and are more open to veteran stories;
I’ve given their websites so you can choose which branch to contact, as they are fairly complicated and I’m not sure which type of news or info you’d like to go through.
Cheers,
Matt
By: Radpoe Meteor - 9th June 2010 at 21:47
Thank you once again Peter, these are of great help.
Cheers again Rad.:)
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