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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Tuesday 07 December 10 18:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Everybody.
Looking at one of the pictures, the WAAF standing to the right of Roisin ...is that Ann Headland, the one everyone called "Heidi"?
There was a strange co-incidence at Haydock, the number of airmen with the initials AM...Alan Manson, Alan Meikeljohn, Alan Milne, Alan Miller, Alan Marshall. Another two names just popped out are Fred Tordoff and Chalky White. Does anyone know what happened to Roisin, the one Sunshine Girl called the Infamous Roisin?
May you all have a wonderful Christmas...including certain persons residing in America!!

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Sunday 05 December 10 19:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Everyone.
I havent been on site much recently. Chatted with Sunshine Girl last time. The Irish airman was Tony Casey. I met up with him years later in Singapore when he was at the Changi Hotel on his way home ffrom Hong Kong. Nice to see some familiar faces that have appeared on this site.
Regards to everyone
Jumbo

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Thursday 14 October 10 04:32 BST (UK)  »
Hello Sunshine Girl.
How about WO OVENS [Appropriate or what?]  in the Mess? I plead a senior moment with your name, the other Jaqui was at RAF CHANGI later on.
Best Regards
Jumbo [aka Alan Marshall]

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Wednesday 13 October 10 20:15 BST (UK)  »
Hello All you ex Haydockers. Who said nostalgia is dead? Not here with all the names I have seen on this forum. The Cpl medic was Dennis Wells, his WRAF assistant was Kay Chance, an incredible blonde with big blue eyes. I think she was about six foot or thereabouts. The name Jaqui  may have been Jacqui Clay. The clarinet player was Joe Watkins, and of course the caff over the East Lancs road was Evelyns, one huge bacon butty and a pint mug of tea for a shilling. Other names I remember were Cpl Alan Manson and Diane Bowie, and of course everyone knew Spud Murphy. One other name has just hit the button was WO Sergison, and I think his wife was behind the bar in the Spiders Web. It may have been WO Sergison in charge of the mess but I am not too sure of this. It is nice to know that there are still people out there who remember that wonderful little camp
Regards
Jumbo

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Wednesday 13 October 10 08:28 BST (UK)  »
Jimbo.
Soory to bother you, I have only just found this website while also looking for into on RAF Haydock. It was my first posting from Boy Entrant. I was there in late 1963 when the TASS System was all the vogue. I can remember some of our Warrant officers and DSOs, WO Tommy Tomkinson, ChTech Phillips. As you said there were only three of four airmen/women on each shift. The slag heap used to catch fire regularly. In reply to another member who asked where the name of the NAAFI came from, the S.P.I.D.E.R. [Acronym for Superior Performance in Determined Error Reduction...what a  mouthful. A SPIDER award was given to each commcen with no errors in their message tapes. If memory serves correct I believe that some stations actually cheated before sending in their message tapes by 'editing' them. Naughty. You mentioned a young airman who later was shot in Aden, was his name Shantilal Pankania? He was the only airman whom I recall being shot. Terrible times.
Best Regards
Jumbo [No relation]

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