News & competitions

This month, one lucky club member will win a 1:72 scale Airfix model kit of the Avro Lancaster B.III (Special), worth £38.99.

All current members have been automatically entered into this month’s ballot.

Header Image: The crew of Short Stirling BK716 photographed here in front of a Stirling of 1657 Heavy Conversion Unit at Stradishall, Suffolk, prior to being posted to 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn in February 1943. Left to right: Sgt Ronald Kennedy RAF (flight engineer), Sgt Charles Bell RAF (bomb aimer), Fg Off John M Campbell RAF (wireless operator), Fg Off John Harris RAF (pilot), Fg Off Harry G Farrington RCAF (navigator), Sgt John F J McCaw RCAF (rear gunner), Sgt Leonard R J Shrubshall RAF (mid-upper gunner).

Header Image: Douglas C-47 Dakota in South East Asia Command (SEAC) markings. (Original photo: Jim Dooley)

In the Club’s September newsletter we offered members the opportunity to tell the brief stories of any relatives who served with the RAF during the Second World War, so that they are remembered. One of the first to respond was Club member David M Kelley, from Cambridgeshire, who himself served with the RAF Regiment from 1977 to 1981. He has provided the story of his maternal great uncle, Flight Sergeant Pilot Dennis Hodge Noise.