While just looking through my grandad’s RAF pictures, I realised that while I’ve looked up the fates of all the Stirlings and Lancasters that show their serials in the piccies, there’s one of a Wellington which I’ve never looked up; the serial shown looks like X9817, and it will quite probably be either from 9 or 149 squadrons; can anyone with the right book look this up for me?
Thanks! 🙂
By: paulmcmillan - 15th April 2003 at 14:48
Nitam
I was interested in your post
What was the source of your info?
If it was a book, i would like to know which one!
Thanks
Paul
By: Bluebird Mike - 14th April 2003 at 22:54
‘Nitram’, you’re a star mate, thanks! That’s narrowed down the piccie of my grandad to a very short period of time, as that’s definitely taken during the aircraft’s 149 sqdn period. (‘His’ sqdn for the whole war.)
Re. the 9 sqdn Wimpey-I guess the first on your list, L7789, is our plane, as he was at 9 sqdn briefly around the dates you give, but was at 149 for the dates on the other two-nice work, Sherlock!
That’s fantastic, thanks!
Mike
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
By: Nitram - 14th April 2003 at 18:49
Wimpies
X9817 I have serving with 149 Sqn 20.08.41 to 06.12.41 when it went to 214 Sqn
9 Sqn Wellingtons
IA L7789 Y 14 Ops 22.04.40 to 03.07.40
III X3289 10 Ops 26.09.41 to 06.12.41
III X3389 Y 39 Ops 08.03.42 to 11.07.42
Nitram
By: Bluebird Mike - 13th April 2003 at 17:20
😀 😀 😀 😀
It worked! Ha! I’ve also got another of Grandad’s Wellington pictures-this time just a negative which I’ve yet to have developed-that shows ‘WS-Y’ of 9 Sqdn, though this time the serial is obscured by the tail plane-I’d guess that the last three numbers were either ‘389’, or ‘789’ though. I could be completely wrong there of course!!!
Cheers,
Mike
By: Bluebird Mike - 13th April 2003 at 17:17
Fingers crossed…
By: Bluebird Mike - 13th April 2003 at 17:11
Thanks both ever so much for your replies-I had just assumed that there HAD been a ‘Wellington File’ to be quite honest!
The picture I have is fairly early war, and quite possibly was taken when my grandad was being trained somewhere or other-I’ve yet to fully decipher his exact dates/moves on his service papers, as they were apparently written by an inky spider!!!
😮
By: kev35 - 13th April 2003 at 16:51
Can’t find a reference to X9817 in the OTU volume of Bomber Command Losses. Perhaps it was SOC as having reached the end of it’s airframe life.
Regards,
kev35
By: paulmcmillan - 13th April 2003 at 16:10
X9817 – Wellington IC
101/214/22 OTU/105 OTU SOC 9.8.44
Air Britain Serials W1000 – Z9999
I am happy to be be proved wrong but I believe their was no Wellington File
I have never found reference to it in any Air Britain books
By: kev35 - 13th April 2003 at 11:39
No, but….
Lancman,
have you an approximate time-frame? If so, I’ll check Bomber Command Losses for you.
Regards,
kev35
By: Bluebird Mike - 13th April 2003 at 09:51
Nobody got ‘The Wellington File’ then? 🙁
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