Jan 4 AFL

Finds him 90021 – E. Seymour “Wing Commander”. Directorate-General of Postings 23 Feb 1941

I wonder if he had an accident after June 1940 that precluded him for flying?

The last AFL I have access to (April 1945) him has him Sqn Ldr with Seniority 1941

According to the London Gazette he was still with the Auxiliary Air Force on 10/2/54 when he was reappointed to the acting rank of Wing Commander as a substantive Squadron Leader

So a very long RAF career if he stopped flying in 1940

A little background

Edward Seymour Williams was the sons of Sir John Lloyd Vaughan Seymour Williams who was knighted in 1925 and died in 1945

His background is therefore very typical of the pre-war Auxiliary Pilots and by profession he was a Solicitor

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on 30/08/2012
Varsity nose

The following is the text of an e-mail that I received today, if you recognise yourself or know of this person could you please ask him to contact me.
Derek, website owner.

“I have had a request to help trace this gentleman – not much to go on but if you know him please let me know and ask him to contact Wright’s Garage to let them know what he wants doing with the Varsity Nose..

Below is a copy of the email I received.

Subject: WL627

Further to my previous comments, Anthony Wright has been pruning – and then some. The Varsity nose is now in a bit of a state, but I have the full recent story which may be of interest.

Apparently, some guy who lived Finningley way dropped in to Wright’s garage and put a deposit on the Varsity nose. It seems his dad had been in the RAF and been with 6 FTS. He was intending to start some sort of enthusiast/preservation group over there. About three years ago, he popped in one Saturday and paid the balance and said he would be back with a truck on Monday. He never showed – and Anthony doesn’t now know his name. So he hasn’t liked to get rid of the nose because it isn’t his – but it’s just been left there! If any reader knows who this guy is, can you get him to contact Wrights garage.”

Your e-mail [email]derekfrost@yahoo.co.uk[/email]

Will update our webpage with full credits given.

I presume that this is the website

http://www.aircrewremembrancesociety.co.uk/styled-5/styled-7/styled-187/index.html

A very worthwhile piece of work

Does anyone know the pilots full name?

41905 Peter Leslie Dawbarn according to the London Gazette and not Dawburn

Here is a link to Peter’s first hand account of the incident

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/20/a4233520.shtml

Usworth – August 15th 1940

One from Wing Commander Brian Thyne who was stationed at Usworth during the Battle of Britain

If they won’t fly a VC-10 in I doubt that they will allow a TriStar to land there.

under normal circumstances a Tristar needs 5,698 feet, VC10 6,380 feet (although the one at Brooklands was landed in about 3,500 feet)

Cosford is 3,890 feet

It is a shame that there could not have been a Transport Command Collection at Brize Norton

Having thought about this again.

There is one

Hurricane Pilot: The Wartime Letters of W.O. Harry L. Gill, D.F.M., 1940-1943 (New Brunswick Military Heritage) [Paperback]
which was published in Canada.

Gill flew wth 607 Squadron from Manston on Hurribombers