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Tuesday 5th January 2016 |
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Thanks to Gerry Shipley we have learnt the sad news of the death of Bob Findlay at the age of 97. He was a Met Oficer at Jever from Nov58 to May60 when he moved to Wahn. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Friday 1st January 2016 |
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Thanks to Eric Pigdon we have just been informed that a regular attendee at our annual meetings has died, she was Ann Roberts the wife of Ed (Robby) Roberts our Sqdn Ldr Airfield Constructor. Robby was at Jever Oct 54 to 57 except for a period away at St Kilda, his main works at Jever was the runway extension, new Naafi and the underground bunker and unit at Brockzetal. A keen rugby player and well liked and respected. Ann was 85 and was at Jever for almost all of the time Robby was on the station, she was the sister of Jan wife of Ken Williams who was ex Fassburg and on 98 Sqn. at Jever, leaving the RAF early to train and fly with BOAC in about 1955. The funeral Service is at Oakly Wood North Chapel, Warwick. GPS - CY33 9QP on 12 Jan 16 at 1430 hrs. Refreshments afterwards at The Glebe Hotel, Church Street, Barford. CV35 8BS. Ann was residing at Flat 2, Neville Court, 15 Clarendon Road, Kenilworth. CV8 1HZ Tel No 01926853761. Her daughters Lynn and Karen will be spending time at this address. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Saturday 21st November 2015 |
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Thanks to Eric Pigdon and Roy's daughter, Sue Geisler, we learnt the sad news of the death of Roy Garthwaite, 93 Sqn pilot 9Dec53 to 3Dec56, after a brave battle with cancer he passed peacefully away on the 13th November in St Stephens Hospital at Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Monday 9th November 2015 |
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Thanks to his son we learnt the sad news of the death of our President Air Commodore Pat King, yesterday Sunday 8th November 2015 in hospital after a short illness. He was aged 80. The service will take place at Peterborough Crematorium at 2.30pm this Tuesday 17th November. The address is Mowbray Road, Peterborough, PE6 7JE and Phone Number 01733 262 639. This will be followed by refreshments at the Haycock Inn, Wansford. PE8 6JA, Phone Number 01780 782 223. Instead of flowers, please feel free to make any donations to Patricks favourite charities - The British Heart Foundation and The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. Donations can be sent to RJ Scholes, 4 Horsegate, Deeping St. James, Peterborough. PE6 8EN. On behalf of our family, thank you all for your kind thoughts and messages at this time. Audrey and Family. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Sunday 25th October 2015 |
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Thanks to Mick Davis we learned of the death of Maurice Gavan of 101 Signals Unit and RAF Jever. Maurice died in Blackburn Royal Hospital on Tuesday, 20 October 2015. His funeral will take place in Clitheroe, Lancs on Tuesday, 27th October 2015 at 11.00am. (Brian Price & Son, 39 Downham Road, Chatburn, Clitheroe, Lancs - Chapel of Rest) followed by Woodland Burial at Clitheroe Cemetery. Afterwards at the Millstone Hotel, Mellor, Lancs. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Monday 12th October 2015 |
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Thanks to The Daily Telegraph we learnt the sad news of the death of Air -Marshal Sir John Severne, KCVO, OBE, AFC, DL, 98 Sqn Flt Cdr, who died peacefully aged 90 on Sunday 4th October 2015. Much loved husband of Katherine, father of Veronica, Amanda and Christine, grandfather and great-grandfather. Private family cremation. A service of Thanksgiving will take place at St. Mary's Church,Ditcheat on Saturday 31st October at 11.30 a.m. Donations for The Mid Somerset Branch of R.A.F.A. c/o W. J. Trotman Funeral Directors, Ashdene, Cranmore, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 4QQ. Tel: 017439-880271. [No Backlog all started)
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Thursday 24th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Clive Thornborough added a photo of the newly arrived Swift FR.5 on 2 Squadron at Geilenkirchen alongside a Meteor and a Sabre - May56. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Clive Thornborough added a photo of the newly arrived Swift FR.5 on 2 Squadron at Geilenkirchen - May56. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Glyn Davies added a copy of NATO Gunnery Competition at Caseaux - Base Pass - 16Aug58. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Glyn Davies added a copy of NATO Gunnery Competition at Caseaux - Meal Ticket - 18Aug58. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Glyn Davies added a copy of Station Airmens' Mess Christmas Menu - 25Dec57. Signed by Wg Cdr Harrington, OC Tech Wing. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Sunday 20th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Glyn Davies who has added his membership card for the Westerland Health Klinik which he obviously obtained when he was detached to RAF Sylt for the NATO Gunnery competition work up - 1Jul58. [No Backlog all started]
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Thanks to Maurice Parker added a photo showing that in this view, the Officers' Mess has not realy changed much over the years - 16Dec14. The memorial stone is for the first Commander of Jever Aerodrome Oberstleutnant Kuno von Rosen. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Ken Senar added a story about the Ford Koln bus use at Borgentreich.. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Friday 18th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Maurice Parker added a photo of the high trees and bushes that once surrounded the Officers Mess have also been cleared and the Mess now has its own Gate Gardian. 38+28 - GAF F-4F Phantom was the last aircraft to be serviced by the MU at Jever in the early part of 2012. This aircraft has now taken up a position near the entrance to the OM - 16Dec14. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Maurice Parker added a photo of 38+28 - GAF F-4F Phantom was the last aircraft to be serviced by the MU at Jever in the early part of 2012. This aircraft has now taken up a position near the entrance to the OM - 16Dec14. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Herbert Frost added, his last, a photo of RAF Sylt Refueller fire at installation. Driver was on top of his tanker to connect it to the installation when his refueller caught fire. It is presumed that the tank split open and he died when he jumped off and landed in the burning fuel - May/June 55. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Herbert Frost added a photo of Block 35 side balcony - Aug55. L to R: Ken Hanslip, Holmes, Eric Carter, Colin Pratt and Megill. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Herbert Frost added a photo of RAF Jever MT Section - Aug55. L to R: Eric Carter, Mick Pummel, Curtis (despatch rider), Herbert Frost, Unknown and Unknown. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Herbert Frost added a photo of RAF Jever Refueling Flight - 54. L to R: Dinger Bell, Geoff Prince, Ted Mault, Ron Stanley and GSO driver Harry Ihle. [No Backlog all started] (Click to see.) |
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Thursday 17th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Dick Basford added photo of suspect Putlos beach - Aug54. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Dick Basford added photo of Tug of War at Jever - date unknown. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Dick Basford added photo taken more on exercises at Putlos, near Oldenburg in Holstein, Schleswig-Holstein - Summer 54. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Dick Basford added photo taken on exercises at Putlos, near Oldenburg in Holstein, Schleswig-Holstein - Summer 54. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Amberley Publishing added Landing lamps, Signal discharger, DE-ICING EQUIPMENT and Windscreen de-icing from the Pilots' Notes as an excerpt from their excellent book "Spitfire Manual 1940". [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Amberley Publishing added Camera, Navigational, Signalling and Lighting Equipment, Wireless and Navigation and Identification Lamps from the Pilots' Notes as an excerpt from their excellent book "Spitfire Manual 1940". [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Wednesday 16th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Bill Kidd added a photo of Nobby Clark having a wee dram and a fag - Christmas 1955. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Bill Kidd added a photo of Tony Parry and Geordie Chapman relaxing in their room - Christmas 1955. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Tuesday 15th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Olive Jeffrey we learnt the sad news that our long serving secretary of the Jever Steam Laundry, Jeff Jeffrey, has succombed to prostrate cancer and sadly passed away. The funeral is at 1300 hrs on Tuesday 29th September at the Cambridge Crematorium (SATNAV: Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0JJ) off the A14 motorway. (For detailed directions go to https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/crematorium). [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Sunday 13th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Bill Kidd dded a photo of two of the Squadron lads (Tony Parry on the right) examining the damage to Sabre XB822 following its crash landing - Saturday 1Oct55. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Bill Kidd dded a photo of when 93 Squadron were tasked to carry out a before flight on a visiting Varsity at Station Flight one day at Jever in 1955. L to R: Standing: Cpl Tech Bob Whitecross, Unknown, Cpl Fred Harrop, Cpl Bill Kidd, Unknown and Unknown. Kneeling: Cpl Nobby Clark, Unknown and centre Cpl Pete Mitchell. [No Backlog all started) (Click to see.) |
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Saturday 12th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Ian Humphreys added a photo of Bob Platt and Derek - 60. [Backlog 23Jun15 81 days] (Click to see.) |
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Friday 11th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Clive Thornborough added a photo of the first Swift FR.5s to arrive on 2 Sqn at Geilenkirchen - May56. [Backlog 26Apr15 138 days] (Click to see.) |
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Thursday 10th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Jeff Myers added an appeal from Jeff for any information about his uncle Les Swart. Pleae reply direct to Jeff whose details are in the notes to Les Swart's entry. [Backlog 17Apr15 146 days] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Robert Rudd added a link to a You Tube clip - Jever June 2003 - A normal flying day for Jabog 38 "F". [Backlog 17Apr15 146 days] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Robert Rudd added a link to a You Tube clip - Jever 1986 - part 2 Vikings F-104G Starfighter. [Backlog 17Apr15 146 days] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Robert Rudd added a link to a You Tube clip - Jever 1986 - part 1 Tornados on taxi track Jabo-38. [Backlog 17Apr15 146 days] (Click to see.) |
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Wednesday 9th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Mike Fleet added a copy of the Thanksgiving Order of Service for Warrant Officer Lloyd Maloney. [Backlog 11Apr15 151 days] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Barry Dove added a photo of John Sutton when he was on 249 Squadron. [Backlog 31Mar15 162 days]
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Thanks to Helen Doe added her book about her father, Fighetr Pilot to the Books and Films section. [Backlog 31Mar15 162 days] (Click to see.) |
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Monday 7th September 2015 |
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Thanks to the John Herbert added an obituary for Sergeant William Studholme, MM, Royal Flying Corps 4 Sqn Observer in WW1 thanks to an obituary from the Wigton Advertiser Sat 15Sep17. [Backlog 14Mar15 177 days] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to the Daily Telegraph added an extract from Obiturary to Air Commodore Geoffrey Cooper telling of Tim McElhaw's Combat with Isreali Spitfires on 7th January 1949. [Backlog 14Mar15 177 days] (Click to see.) |
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Friday 4th September 2015 |
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Thanks to Hugh Butterworth added a photo of Brian Butterworth's 3 year-old son Hugh in the garden of their Jever married quarter in Edert Strasse - probably Summer 1960. [Backlog 10Feb15 206 days] (Click to see.) |
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Thanks to Glyn Davies added an Air Force News clipping reporting the results of the NATO Air Gunnery contest at Caseaux - 30Aug58. Note our man from Jever - Bill Maish of 4 Squadron - came third! Although Glyn Davies was seconded to the team from ASF & Engine Bay in RAF Jever Technical Wing, I have filed this with the 93 Sqn photos as they provided the most coverage for this event. [Backlog 10Feb15 206 days] (Click to see.) |
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Thursday 3rd September 2015 |
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Thanks to Maurice Parker added a photo showing that now that the trees and bushes have been cleared one has an almost un-obstructed view from the ex Malcolm Club of our day over to SHQ. On the right the recently added Tornado Gate Gardian on the site of the former Station Chapel - 24Aug14. The GAF Tornado IDS is in the colours of the Fighter/Bomber Wing 38 "Friesland" ( 1983 - 2003 ) This was the representative aircraft used for its 20th Anniversary in 2003. After disbandment of the Wing at Jever and after nearly 4000 flying hours, the aircraft became the Gate Gardian of the 4th. Luftwaffe Division H.Q. in Aurich. After disbandment of the 4th. in 2013 the aircraft was returned to Jever were it was refurbished by the MU before taking up its present position, together with the F-104 Starfighter, at the Main Gate in 2014. [Backlog 5Feb15 210 days] (Click to see.) |
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Wednesday 2nd September 2015 |
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Thanks to Wilf Crutchley added a photo of a 118 Squadron party to celebrate reaching 1,000 Squadron hours on the Hunter F.4. At a rate of about 3 to 400 hours a month I guess this would have been about August 1955. Anyone remember the date or add any names? [Backlog 4Feb15 210 days] (Click to see.) |
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Tuesday 1st September 2015 |
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Thanks to Herbert Frost added a photo of RAF Jever Refuelling Flight on detachment at RAF Ahlhorn whilst the runway at Jever was being re-surfaced - Mar54. [Backlog 4Feb15 209 days] (Click to see.) |
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My apologies for neglecting the update of the web site but I have become heavily involved in the battle to buy a local lake for the village and this has distracted me. However, I will try to put up at least one photo each from all those who have waited so patently. Thanks to Richard Basford added a photo of members from3 Armoured Car Squadron at a place unlnown in August 1954. [Backlog 4Feb15 209 days] (Click to see.) |
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Wednesday 29h July 2015 |
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Thanks to his daughter Gwen Anderson updated the contact details for Pete "Lulu" Leigh-Lancaster. [Backlog 4Feb15 175 days] (Click to see.) |
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Thursday 11th June 2015 |
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Thanks to Mick Ryand and Fred Daly added the calling notice for the 2016 AGM on Sat 21May16 at the RAF Club. This is an experiment to counter falling numbers by combining forces with 124 Wing Gutersloh. [Backlog 4Feb15 127 days]
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Tuesday 7th April2015 |
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Thanks to Eric Pigdon added the last 25 photos taken at the 2015 AGM on Sat 21Mar15 at the RAF Club [Backlog 4Feb15 62 days] (Click to see.) |
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Wednesday 25th March 2015 |
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Thanks to Chris Stone learnt the sad news of the passing of Sqn Ldr Leo "Larry" Hook, OC Station Flight and Wing IRE in 1958/59 on 17Sep12 aged 89. [Backlog 4Feb15 49 days] (Click to see.) |
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Monday 23rd March 2015 |
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Thanks to Eric Pigdon added a 8 photos taken at the 2015 AGM on Sat 21Mar15 at the RAF Club [Backlog 4Feb15 36 days] (Click to see.) |
