RFC help at TNA please…..

Sadly nothing for Wyton either.

However it might be worth trying to get a basic timeline together and then do the usual newspaper searches for local incidents etc (newspapers were reasonably free to report in WW1) and also use resources such as ‘Airmen Died in the Great War’ to at least put dates to casualties. Also try the IWM and RAF Museum, who may well hold airfield maps or photos and logbooks. NMRA in Swindon also carries aerial photos.

County records office might also have contemporary files (airfield construction etc) and then there are other more obscure sources such as records of USAS squadrons (if there were any) which trained there, or maybe even a search on the very useful Australian War Museum site, which has a lot of RFC content, via Australians who either trained with or served in the RFC.

It can be a laborious process, but it’s often where the enjoyment is.

Nothing at TNA for 5 TS and in fact only three ORB’s for any of the RFC Training Squadrons.

Duncan

Very doubtful on both counts but I’ll have a look. In my experience, it’s mainly the front-line units which have surviving records.

Duncan

According to a book on the (as it then was) P.R.O., all references are under AIR 1, but you also need an Air Historical Branch reference to go with anything you discover. There is an index, under that heading, but, as far as I can tell, it needs a personal visit to look through it.