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Royal Air Force (Volunteer Reserve) (RAF(VR)) Officers
1939-1945

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Taylor,
Charles
C. Taylor (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Taylor)
23.01.1917
-
09.11.2007

Ldg.Acm.
? [1101445]

P/O (prob)
09.04.1943 [150295]

P/O
09.04.1944

(WS) F/O
09.04.1944

(WS) F/Lt.
09.04.1945 (reld 12.02.1947; retaining the rank of Sq.Ldr.)

(T) Sq.Ldr.
12.1945

F/O AuxAF
12.02.1947, seniority 21.12.1946 [91258]

F/Lt. AuxAF
01.04.1950, seniority 12.04.1948

F/Lt. RAF
01.10.1951 (retd 29.11.1961; retaining the rank of Sq.Ldr.)

F/O RAFVR
07.12.1965 (reld 07.12.1981; retaining the rank of Sq.Ldr.)

MID
09.12.1958
Malaya

Qualified as a pilot pre-war with the Civil Air Guard at Barton, Manchester.

1939
-
1942
training & service as an aircraft fitter

1942
-
1943
No. 1 British Flying Training School, Terrell, Texas (USA)

09.04.1943

first commission RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

No. 35 Flying Instructors' course, No. 2 Flying Instructors' School

Flying Instructor, RAF Hamilton

posted for a few months to drag drone targets

late 1943
-
1946
208 Squadron RAF (Palestine & Italy)

(1945?)

Officer Commanding "B" Flight

1946

Temp. Wing Commander P1 in Iraq

12.02.1947

appointed to the Auxiliary Air Force

?
-
1951
613 Squadron AuxAF

01.10.1951
-
27.03.1953
short service commission, RAF (General Duties Branch): Chief Flying Instructor to the Manchester University Air Squadron

27.03.1953
-
29.11.1961
permanent commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) (in 1955 posted to Kuala Lumpur, initially as a QFI, and subesequently as Flight Commander of the Prestwick Pioneer Flight of 267 Squadron RAF; from 1958 fighter controller, RAF Patrington)

07.12.1965
-
07.12.1981
served, RAFVR (Training Branch)

Resumed his pre-war employment with Manchester Collieries (where his father had been the Chief Financial Officer). Joined Marshalls 1961, becoming Chief Pilot (1964), retiring in 1981, when he relinquished his RAAF flying commission.

Tod,
Hamish Muir Turner
H.M.T. Tod (Photo courtesy of Mr Hamish L. Tod) 1905 ?
Glasgow
-

(A) P/O (prob)
06.09.1940 [85524]

P/O
06.09.1941

(WS) F/O
02.05.1942

F/Lt.
01.01.1944, seniority 01.07.1943 (emergency list 10.02.1954)

Education: Glasgow Academy (1914-1916)

06.09.1940

first commission RAFVR (Equipment Branch)

Home Service; Iceland; Norway

Tolmie,
Archibald Sinclair
A.S. Tolmie ?
-

Sgt.
? [1821404]

P/O (prob)
22.09.1944 [184925]

P/O
22.03.1945

(WS) F/O
22.03.1945

F/O
07.06.1952 (reld 21.02.1956)

(06.1944)

flight engineer, 10 Squadron RAF

22.09.1944

first commission, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

07.06.1952
-
21.02.1956
commissioned, RAFVR (Training Branch)

Turner,
Reginald Thomas Frederick
R.T.F. Turner
Son of ... Turner, and ... McNamard.
(09?).1911
Devonport district,
Devon
-
1995
London

Sgt.
? [1377546]

P/O (prob)
04.11.1941 [114982]

(WS) F/O (prob)
01.10.1942

(A) F/Lt.
?

(WS) F/Lt.
04.11.1943

(WS) Sq.Ldr.
26.05.1945

(A) W/Cdr.
?

MC
13.07.1945
distinguished services

DFC
01.10.1943
?

DFC(US)
14.06.1946
?

04.11.1941

first commission RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

(1943)

120 Squadron RAF

(09.1944)

299 Squadron RAF (supply droppings for Arnhem)

(1945)

190 Squadron RAF

02.1945
-
07.01.1946
Commanding Officer, 196 Squadron RAF

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