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SmallTownGirl
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Help understanding RAF service info, please
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Sunday 16 March 25 12:09 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone help decipher the Unit details from this RAF service record, please?
If possible, I'm particularly interested in where each Unit was based.
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STG
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SmallTownGirl
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Re: Help understanding RAF service info, please
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Sunday 16 March 25 12:23 GMT (UK) »
I think it reads
8 S of TT = School of Technical Training
13 and 30 MU = Maintenance Unit
8 (O) AFU = Advance Flying Unit
7 FIS = Flying Instructor's School
102 PDC = Personnel Dispatch Centre
oh, and Greenock somewhere in the middle!
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rafcommands
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Monday 17 March 25 09:51 GMT (UK) »
Use Discovery at TNA limited to AIR records
eg
15 Recruits Centre
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7160744
8 School of Technical Training
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_ep=8%20school%20of%20technical%20training&_dss=range&_ro=any&_st=adv
13 Maintenance Unit
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4100682
Ross
Sea Losses of RAF Aircraft 1918 to date.
RAF Coastal Command 1939-45.
Between the Wars RAF Officers and Warrant Officers.
SmallTownGirl
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Re: Help understanding RAF service info, please
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Wednesday 19 March 25 22:17 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks for the links.
STG
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Re: Help understanding RAF service info, please
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Wednesday 19 March 25 22:35 GMT (UK) »
15 Recruits Centre
There was one in Canada as well! But of course must be Blackpool as posted by rafcommands
3rd from bottom is HFU - Home Ferry Unit (A's were more distinct)
Useful acronym links - scroll halfway down
https://www.rafaberporth.org.uk/page25.html
Canadian ones were the same - My father would have known many of these, having trained, then instructed before being sent overseas!
http://cmhs.ca/PDFs/CMHS_MilitaryAbbreviations.pdf
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Wednesday 19 March 25 23:07 GMT (UK) »
Oh, I remember this film... Please just read and don't share the contents.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130812054225/http://vanderkloot.com/sky2.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Ferry_Command
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rafcommands
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Re: Help understanding RAF service info, please
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Thursday 20 March 25 06:15 GMT (UK) »
Not HFU
No.8 (Observer) Advanced Flying Unit
Mona, Isle of Man
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7160828
Ross
Sea Losses of RAF Aircraft 1918 to date.
RAF Coastal Command 1939-45.
Between the Wars RAF Officers and Warrant Officers.
Crumblie
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Thursday 20 March 25 10:32 GMT (UK) »
Were there two Monas? I thought Mona was on Anglesey and is still in use today as a relief landing ground for RAF Valley.
rafcommands
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Thursday 20 March 25 10:48 GMT (UK) »
You have the correct Mona Crumblie - I was multi tasking and confused location with another F543 task.
Sorry for confusion.
Ross
Sea Losses of RAF Aircraft 1918 to date.
RAF Coastal Command 1939-45.
Between the Wars RAF Officers and Warrant Officers.
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