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Offline scrimnet

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Re: RAF ?? uniform ... please ID for me !
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 10 April 12 16:58 BST (UK) »
Its probably more likely that he was on the reserve and "reactivated"

And of course...If you want  a good home for them where they will be used as educational tools for younger (and not so younger) generations..... ;D lol
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Re: RAF ?? uniform ... please ID for me !
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 10 April 12 17:04 BST (UK) »
Thanks .... but my grandson is taking them to school and then they will stay in the family !   Heirlooms, you know ! 

Thank you for your help.   Much appreciated.
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Re: RAF ?? uniform ... please ID for me !
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 11 April 12 09:10 BST (UK) »
Best place for them...BUT...ensure that they are kept in moth free suit covers and be very wary of them in a school....
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Re: RAF ?? uniform ... please ID for me !
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 23 June 12 20:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Lydart I have just seen your post on the WWII site . I don't have great deal of time to come on RC these day I'm very busy working. I do pop on now and then just to see how you all are.  Now about the post . I was intersted to see you Father in Laws uniform . It was not unusual to have met officer in uniform . Like Scrimnet said he was probably  voluntary reserve. That said he would have had a VS badge on his lapel.  My father was in the Air Force  he flew in the war, left the RAF then joined again in the late 50's  this time he went into Air Traffic Control.  The ATC worked very closely with the met office . My Father's first posting was to Mildenhall in Suffolk At the time an American Air Force Base . And then in the early 60's , guess what he went to Aden. Now the big question , did my father know your father in law. Sadly my father has passed on so we will probably never know . Wouldn't it be nice to think that they did. All the best BN.


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« Reply #13 on: Saturday 23 June 12 20:44 BST (UK) »
Quite possible BN !    But as you say, we'll never know !   F-in-L was there I think from 1962 or 3   until about 1967.   Living at Steamer Point in the quarded officers compound.
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Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
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