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Title: AGS Basoda?? - Air Gunnery School
Post by: crimtaa on Saturday 08 June 24 23:38 BST (UK)
I was just going over my great grandad's RAF records where I saw he had been moved to "AOs? A.G.S Basoda?" on 23rd Oct 1942 - I found out that AGS stands for Air Gunnery School but I haven't found anything on a "Basoda" not even sure if that's what it says and I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about it
Thanks :)
Title: Re: AGS Basoda?? - Air Gunnery School
Post by: bbart on Sunday 09 June 24 03:19 BST (UK)
Could it possibly be Baroda instead of Basoda?

I don't know if Baroda had a gunnery school, but here's part of a 1942 article on the Baroda Fighter Squadron.
Title: Re: AGS Basoda?? - Air Gunnery School
Post by: tonepad on Sunday 09 June 24 06:10 BST (UK)
"No. 124 (Baroda) Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Squadron formed to be a light bomber unit in World War I and reformed as a fighter unit in World War II." from Wikipedia.

124 Squadron operated the Spitfire in WW2 and were based in the UK during 1942.


crimtaa, can an excerpt from the RAF Record be posted to check the wording about the AGS.


Tony

Title: Re: AGS Basoda?? - Air Gunnery School
Post by: ShaunJ on Sunday 09 June 24 08:48 BST (UK)
Possibly No.1 Air Gunnery School (India) at Bairagarh  ?
Title: Re: AGS Basoda?? - Air Gunnery School
Post by: crimtaa on Sunday 09 June 24 10:41 BST (UK)
here’s an excerpt, it is looking like it says “Baroda” more than “Basoda”
(https://i.postimg.cc/yWT8xKjB/E115-A2-E0-BC5-F-45-FB-BD86-90-B929-BDFD04.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/yWT8xKjB)
Title: Re: AGS Basoda?? - Air Gunnery School
Post by: ShaunJ on Sunday 09 June 24 11:10 BST (UK)
So he was definitely in India at that time.
Title: Re: AGS Basoda?? - Air Gunnery School
Post by: crimtaa on Sunday 09 June 24 11:19 BST (UK)
Quote from: ShaunJ on Sunday 09 June 24 11:10 BST (UK)
So he was definitely in India at that time.
Yes, he served in the Burma campaign and he was shot down + captured (he apparently escaped from the camp he was interned in and made it somehow to an Australian boat which recognised his accent, he also threw out his medals and such post war)