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    R A F 84 SQDN and Air Sea Rescue.

    My father, George Ernest Thompson joined the RAF in about 1936, he always maintained that he did so to see the world at the governments expense ! I know that he was trained on aero engines , Bristol Mercury and Rolls royce Kestrels at Henlow and ended up with a posting to Shaibah in Iraq...
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    Gas mask bag queery ?

    Hello everybody, First i love this site and reading your posts, i have learnt so much, thank you all. I have collected millitary and wartime memorbillia for some years now and i wonder if any of you old soldiers can tell me, what purpose did the cord that is stitched in to the seam...
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    WW1 soldiers remembered in Bartley green.

    Nine years ago, i was doing my best to help my daughter with her history project for school. I suggested that local history was a good place to start. I had not moved in to the area very long before so knew little myself, however a keen nose for history helped ! I realised very quickly that the...
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