RAF CRANBORNE BAND - MEIKLES HOTEL CHRISTMAS 1942
Photograph kindly made available by Bill Sykes - thanks Bill. Comments are always welcome - send them to Eddy Norris at orafs11@gmail.com Ref. Rhodesian Air Force, ORAFs
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Tommy Haddon (LRDG) WW2 Rogues Gallery SARGE READING IS GOING WALTZING WITH MATLIDA Alan \"Sarge\" Readings is spending 5 weeks in Perth and is very keen to have a few beers with as many of his old...
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Unknown RAR Member Rogues Gallery CARGOMAN PHOTOGRAPH Mike Daly Writes:- Response as a result of the photograph being circulated to ORAFs. Anyone know where Richard Hayes is now He was at PE with me...
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Campbell I.M. (4RR) Rogues Gallery AIRCRAFT INCIDENT FOR DOCTOR DAVE Ken Edwards (RhAF) Writes:- I retired from the Rhodesian Air Force in 1979 as an Air Commodore. I think the event was when a...
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John Kevan (LRDG) WW2 Rogues Gallery IMPALA ELECTRONICS Phil Tither Writes:- I got in contact with one of the ex Impala guys and it turns out that he was Shot at while up a radio mast ! See...
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By Pete McCabe (RhAF) As John Britton travelled from the south to the north, I am currently travelling from the north to the south, from Las Palmas to Rio De Jinerio, Brazil SEE PHOTOGRPH Photo of...
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PASSING OF DR. JIM REDMOND From Tania Cochrane I'm writing to let you know that my dad, Dr. Jim Redmond, passed away on Wednesday 12th February, 2014 at Leopardstown Hospital, Dublin. I would be most...
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Vic Fenton (RhAF) Writes:- I must inform you of the passing of another member of RhAF – Orlando Magro (16/03/34 – 19/02/2014) in Coventry, UK. He served as a F/Sgt at the Thornhill Airbase as a Radar...
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Rick Van Malsen BCR (RhArmy) Rogues Gallery RHODESIAN - GUATEMALAN CONNECTION My name is Tulio Soto; I live in Texas, and I am a co-founder of a website on Latin American Aviation History...
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Dykstra Rfn (DRR) Rogues Gallery DOUBLE DECKER BUSES Ian Jack (RhAF) Writes Reference Mike McGeorge and the quarry past Epworth. Would that be the same disused quarry we used as a swimming hole in the...
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This notice is to advise that my eldest brother passed on today after a short illness. I know that he was not involved with ORAFs but I know that he had a lot of friends in the air force. May he rest...
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Alf Cuttler (RhSigs) (RSM at Brady) Rogues Gallery DOUBLE DECKER BUSES Mike McGeorge Writes:- Dear Eddie, Ref Ian Jack's memories of swimming in the old quarry past Epworth. Yes that was my brother...
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Stokes 'Stuka ' MLM MC MM LRDG WW2 Rogues Gallery DOUBLE DECKER BUSES Skippy Mitchell (RhArmy) Writes:- As an ex skydiver of Mashonaland Skydiving Club at Delport Farm, I did many a dive from the...
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Message forward to ORAFs by Roland Charles - Thanks Roland From Peter Hughes This afternoon (20/3/2014) in Stanford in the Cape my stepfather Group Captain Arthur Donald Brenchley formally of the Royal...
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Farmer JW (RhSigs) Rogues Gallery MESS TIN UMFURUDZ1 Rob Burrett Writes:- I wonder if you could assist trying to locate someone who was in the forces whose damaged mess tin I located while doing a job...
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From Alastair Honeybun It is with great sadness to report that Dave Young passed away on Monday 17 March 2014. in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. Dave was with Station Sick Quarters in New Sarum. End...
View ArticleEMBLEM OF THE SOUTHERN RHODESIA ARMOURED CAR REGIMENT
By Lewis Walter ( Intaf). I first became acquainted with the well-known Sable badge in 1942, when my father Charles Walter enlisted in the Southern Rhodesia Reconnaissance Regiment. This later became...
View ArticleFlight of the Tiger Moth from Salisbury to Marandellas
Bill Teague recounts what must have been an incredible flight- This is Derek and Linda Kay's tobacco farm called “Chiparawa”, at Marandellas. It must have been taken many moons ago. I spent a night...
View ArticleIAN MEIKLES WAR TIME DIARIES
Forward by John Meikle, nephew of Ian Meikle - Ian Meikle was born in Umtali in 1916, the youngest son of John and Bertha Meikle. John Meikle emigrated a child with his parents and elder brothers Tom...
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