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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Nifty1 on Tuesday 02 April 24 09:11 BST (UK)
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Is anybody aware if such records exist?
I am particularly interested in finding about finding out about the unit that used to train at the ATC unit that used to meet at the Drill Hall on the Uxbridge Rod in Slough 1939 - 1942.
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The Air Training Corps as such did not exist until Feb 1941. Its predecessor organisation was the Air Defence Cadet Corps (ADCC). so you may have more luck searching on that. If records were retained, I would expect them to be at TNA. However a quick search doesn't reveal any records of units, just the higher level policy files. A further quick search of the Royal Berkshire Archives failed to turn up anything, but it might be worth giving them a call anyway.
I suspect that HQ RAF Air Cadets (https://www.raf.mod.uk/aircadets/) at RAF Cranwell will be unlikely to be much help, but possibly worth a try.
I assume you've already contacted the present day Air Cadets Squadron: 153 (Slough) Sqdn, The Cadet Centre, 307 Uxbridge Road, Slough, Berks, SL2 5NZ
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Thanks for that Andy.
I have been trying to look further into this for some time without a great deal of success.
I will try the approach suggested by you and let you know of any progress.
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A fantastic start showing the importance of using correct/ different search terms
https://www.155atc.org.uk/oc.html
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Excellent find, well done
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I can not understand why a search for Squadron Leader Joseph Alfred WEST brings up details
(65739), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve ..
but they are not on the link when it is opened
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39243/supplement/3069/data.pdf
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Please could somebody take a look the and see if there is anything related to op?
Air Training Nation-wide recruiting for the Air Training Corps, the new Air Corps for boys from 18 to 18, will begin on February Ist (to-morrow—Saturday). Bucks boys anxious to join the new Corps should make ...
Published: Friday 31 January 1941
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
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I can not understand why a search for Squadron Leader Joseph Alfred WEST brings up details
(65739), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve ..
but they are not on the link when it is opened
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39243/supplement/3069/data.pdf
He is there, about half way down the right hand column, opposite the entry for AVM Barnes
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Here you go
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Thanks Andy.
the same preliminary search found
deputycoroner, said the motor-car he was driving on Friday night was a 12h.p. one. He, company of apprentice named Joseph Alfred West, took the car along the Cireneester-road as far the railway bridge, and then returned to Tetbury. As approached towards ...
Published: Saturday 15 March 1913
I thought it a bit early to be the same J.A.W.
Halton may be?
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As an aside, small world.my mother’s father, or, one of his brothers probably had associations to Bowyer with regards to building.
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So why do you want info on my uncle Joe?
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I want to check out the possibility of any personal involvement that anyone in my family may have had.
My family have strong links with what could be the origial Drill Hall and when it was in the Uxbridge Road.
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Further checking My Joseph a flight sergeant not a 'squaddie'
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So was my father.
He frequented the drill hall in the postwar years,and I suspect, may have attended AATC sessions there before 1943.