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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="044b85a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>R.A.F.WEST KIRBY ASSOCIATION</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="R.A.F.WEST KIRBY ASSOCIATION"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History">History</A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News">News</A>   |   <A HREF="news_2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News 2">News 2</A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Membership Application">Membership Application</A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Events">Events</A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Newsletter">Newsletter</A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bits Pieces">Bits & Pieces</A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shop">Shop</A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photos 1946 47">Photos 1946 - 47</A>   |   <A HREF="photos_1948___49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 1948 49"> 1948 - 49</A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="1950 51">1950 - 51</A>   |   <A HREF="photos_1952___53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 1952 53"> 1952 - 53</A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 1954 55">  1954 - 55</A>   |   <A HREF="photos_1956___57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" 1956 57"> 1956 - 57</A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="W.K. band">W.K. band</A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="W.K. 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Padgate 28/7/48</B></div> <div> <B> then on to R.A.F. West Kirby from 6/8/48 to 6/10/48 </B></div> <div> <B>from there to 3 Radio School R.A.F. ComptonBassett.</B></div> <div> <B>Then to H.Q.(U)T.C. R.A.F. Bushy Park my permanent</B></div> <div> <B>posting apart apart from two attachments, </B></div> <div> <B>one to R.A.F. Watnall and another to R.A.F. Manston</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Eddie Wybrow.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="772fa930.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="403" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">       <IMG SRC="77c4dfa0.jpg" border=0 width="333" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>West Kirby,                                         Eddie, Bournemouth, Dorset 2008.</B></div> <div> <B>Nov 26th  - Dec 24th. 1949.                    </B></div> <div> <B>His other postings were:-</B></div> <div> <B>Leighton Buzzard, Jan 1st - July 15th 1950,</B></div> <div> <B>RAF Halton,</B><B> worked on the butts at Bisley, in the above time scale.</B></div> <div> <B>then to RAF Mildenhall. July 15th 1950 - Oct 19th 1951</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Eric Todd.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="77dd8500.jpg" border=0 width="216" height="336" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">           <IMG SRC="825902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>West Kirby, Sept 1950.                                            Eric 2008.                  </B></div> <div> <B>His postings are so great </B></div> <div> <B>I will have to put </B></div> <div> <B>them on as he gave them </B></div> <div> <B>to me.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="78af4a00.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="672" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Cliff East.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="775fa530.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="339" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                      </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="777fa4a0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="330" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> <B>West Kirby June 1953.                                 Cliff and friends,</B></div> <div> <B>                                                                                      Barrow on Soar 2008.</B></div> <div> <B>                         </B></div> <div> <B>His other Postings were:-</B></div> <div> <B>Melksham July - Dec 1953, 30 Mu Stoke Heath Dec 1953 - April 1954.</B></div> <div> <B>RAF Practice Camp Brookwood ( Bisley ) April - Aug 1954.</B></div> <div> <B>30 Mu Stoke heath Aug 1954 March 1956.</B></div> <div> <B>Demobbed March 1956. E Reserve.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Tom Ellis</B></div> <div> <B>   <IMG SRC="884e85e0.jpg" border=0 width="232" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                  <IMG SRC="886f65e0.jpg" border=0 width="246" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>West Kirby, May - July 1954.                  Tom in Winnipeg 2008.</B></div> <div> <B>St Athens for trade test, </B></div> <div> <B>airframes mechanic,</B></div> <div> <B>My permanent posting was to Thorney Island,</B></div> <div> <B>with dettachments to Cambridge Summer 1955, </B></div> <div> <B>& to Kinloss for 2 weeks, in the Winter of 1956.</B></div> <div> <B>De-mobbed May 1956.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>John Ades.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="850f2280.jpg" border=0 width="242" height="296" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                      </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="851b5640.png" border=0 width="181" height="356" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> <B>West Kirby 1954.                                                   John  today.</B></div> <div> <B>                                </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="855db5e0.jpg" border=0 width="219" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I was trained as a cook.</B></div> <div> <B>I became, a Cpl in July of 1955 </B></div> <div> <B>Stationed at RAF Watton Norfolk</B></div> <div> <B>Demobbed 11</B><B>th</B><B> Jan 1957</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Wes Howard.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="88e0dc20.jpg" border=0 width="269" height="450" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="891902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>                                                                </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><B> Wes at RAF Cosford 2008.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Began at RAF Cardington April 25th for kitting out then to West Kirby May1st 1955, 3 Flight,Smuts squadron Hut 187.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> July 13th.posted to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford School of Photography.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> September 28th1955, then posted to RAF Driffield where I spent 6 months on 219 squadron which had just been reformed and fitted all the Venom NF2's with gyro gun sight cameras and G45B under wing cameras.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> February 2nd.1956 along with 33 squadron, posted to RAF Acklington for six weeks air firing exercise.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> March 6th.Returned early to Driffield to take education test.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> March 1956 left 219 to spend the rest of my service in the photo section as station photographer, covering air crew and officers and sergeants mess parties, AOC's visits,general ground photography, processing and editing air to air cine films.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Demobbed in April 1957 and returned to my old job as a press photographer with the BIrmingham Mail, and later with the Southend Standard.Coventry Standard and Coventry Evening Telegraph.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Finally took early retirement in 1990 and worked as a freelance photographer for a further three years, then decided retirement was a better option.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> SAC Wes Howard.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>And the next ones for my </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B><U>PAWK</U></B></FONT><B> </B><B>page please.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Copy and paste the following address:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>leslieleshaines@aol.com</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Les Haines, web Manager.</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>