Yes Monsieur Ancien, I wish you could have had them. I’ve also advertised the various journals I still have on our local Ebay-style site for giving away free. Not a single offer. But even if one should scan them all for oneself (maybe take a life-time) there’s no guarantee that our descendants will be able to read the media.

Laurence

ATC camp at Kinloss, 1958. Jim Coleman on the right – ready for anything. Jim and I had got used to flying in Lincolns (see my post above), so the Shackleton was a bit different (but not much).

Laurence

I am very sad to hear about Jim. I knew him for many years. We were in the Peterborough ATC together and then lost touch for a long time before being reunited via the Key Forum. Jim had a difficult life, already in the 1950s when we met, and up to the end. One rewarding set of events concerned the RAF Liaison officer to our ATC squadron, Flt Lt John Stephens. He was a Lincoln pilot with 7 Squadron at Upwood (hence Jim’s Forum name) and through him Jim and I have a number of Lincoln flights in our logbooks. I know also that “Stevie” was a friend-in-need for Jim, who was going through a rough period in the 1950s. For years Jim and I tried to find out where Stevie was later in his career, always without success. Sadly a few years ago I traced him through his son: Stevie had died a few weeks earlier. Jim and I were heartbroken to have missed him by so little. If I can find those old posts I’ll get back to you, with a picture at ATC Summer Camp at Thornaby in 1954.

RIP, Jim

Laurence

As we still can’t edit posts (it seems) I add a reference to the photos above:

https://www.kings.peterborough.sch.uk/page/?title=World+War+Two+Recollections&pid=29

Laurence

Photo of a Ju88 exhibited at King’s School, Peterborough for War Weapons Week 1940.

Laurence