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                   F.L.Church  (Frank) Royal Air Force Service 1942-1947

                   Frank is Tony's mothers second husband

The information below this page has been collated from information supplied by RAF Records, RAF Innsworth.

 

       

6th October 1942 - Reported to Oxford  Recruiting Office

6th October 1942 - 6th November - Reserve

6th November 1942 - 12th November 1942 - No 3 Recruit School

12th November 1942 - 18th March1943 - No 10 (Signals) Recruits Centre

18th March 1943 - 14th July 1943 - No 4 Radio School, RAF Madley, Herefordshire - training as a Ground Wireless Operator

5th July 1943 - Qualified as Wireless Operator

14th July 1943 - 24th February 1944 - No 7 Radio School, Museum Complex, South Kensington, London

6th August 1943 - Acting Corporal (unpaid)   

30th September 1943 - revert to AC2

16th February 1944 - Qualified as Wireless Operator/ Morse Slip Reader

24th February 1944 - 19th June 1944 - RAF Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire - Communications Centre

19th June 1944 - RAF Chigwell - RAF Leighton Buzzard - RAF Chigwell

19th June 1944 - 6th July 1945 - RAF Chigwell, Essex

31st October 1944 - AC2 Wireless Operator - on strength for training only

6th February 1945 - Assigned to 55100 Mobile Signals Unit (MSU) as part of Tiger Force Build up

6th September 1945 - Air Command South East Asia

4th September 1945 - 19th March 1946 - 55100 Mobile Signals Unit

29th March 1946 - 4th February 1947 - Signal Centre, Singapore

4th February 1947 - 101 Personnel Dispatch Centre, RAF Wharton, Lancashire

20th April 1947 - Released from service