thank you Richard, that is so close to Blandford St Mary but I don’t think the estate would have stretched that far. But I will bear it in mind as the label may not be totally accurate if it wasn’t written at the time the item was unearthed, the details of the crash would be accurate.

many thanks, Dave

many thanks FB, thats a great help.

regards, dave

many thanks for that Mike, would that be for the fixed guns or also the turret weapons? regards, dave

thank you xf940, so much info in so few words! more for the bin rather than the collector I think!

Dave

I like these – nice old curio. Trouble is I’ve got about 30 of them in a box!

perhaps you’d better buy some more dinghies!

thank you very much Terry, and so quick. Thats something less for me to worry about! Dave

102 Squardon Pocklington

here are 2 more photos, K-King on B Flight dispersal (the crew hut was made out of a couple of large packing cases!) which gives a good indication of the size of a Halifax and Flt. Lt McPhail, the Australian driver of K-King.

Sadly, my father had to spend a short while in a home at the end of his life and the remainder of his fairly large collection of 102 Sqdn photos, which he always carried with him in latter years, were apparently thrown out with out of date newspapers.

Strangely, on leaving school, my first job was with the South West Gas Board and it turned out that my boss, Don Veal, had been a rear gunner with 102 but had been shot down and taken prisoner quite early on.

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