The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over...
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Royal Observer Corps monitoring posts are underground structures all over the United Kingdom, constructed as a result of the Royal Observer Corps' nuclear...
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The Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps (CROC) was the Royal Air Force commander of the Royal Observer Corps. All the holders of the post were RAF...
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The Royal Observer Corps Medal was instituted in 1950 by King George VI for long service by members of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) in the United Kingdom...
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Royal Observer Corps (ROC) nuclear monitoring posts incorporated into the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO). List of Royal Observer...
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Lieutenant commander (section Royal Observer Corps)
its existence, the British Royal Observer Corps (ROC) maintained a rank of observer lieutenant commander. The ROC wore a Royal Air Force uniform and their...
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its existence, the British Royal Observer Corps (ROC) maintained a rank of observer lieutenant commander. The ROC wore a Royal Air Force uniform and their...
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Carlisle (section Royal Observer Corps, Carlisle Group)
World War the air raid warning organisation No 32 Group Carlisle Royal Observer Corps operated in the city centre controlled from RAF Kingstown. The association...
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RAF Bentley Priory (category Royal Air Force stations in London)
and was still at the helm when the Observer Corps was granted the title Royal to become the Royal Observer Corps and became a uniformed branch of the...
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Options for Change (section Royal Corps of Signals)
Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation, and its field force, the Royal Observer Corps (a part-time volunteer branch of the RAF), both disbanded between...
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The Royal Observer Corps Orlit Post is an observation post used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Cold War to recognise enemy aircraft. Many Orlit...
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Brandsby Royal Observer Corps monitoring post is a historic site in Crayke, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The structure was part of a network...
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Aircraft Identity Corps (Canada) Volunteer Air Observers Corps (Australia) Royal Observer Corps (United Kingdom) Aircraft Detection Corps Newfoundland "Russian...
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Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation operating in the United Kingdom between October 1925 and 31 December 1995, when the Corps'...
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Lavernock (section Royal Observer Corps)
yards away from the historic Marconi hut Penarth's only World War II Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Searchlight post stood on the cliff edge with its clear views...
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RAF Fighter Command (category Royal Air Force commands)
existence, retitled the Royal Observer Corps (ROC). The corps would continue as a civilian organisation but wearing a Royal Air Force uniform and administered...
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Royal Aircraft Establishment. Henry Charles Greest, Chief Observer, Royal Observer Corps. George Gregory, MM, Chief Observer, Royal Observer Corps. Ormond...
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RAF Carlisle (category Royal Air Force stations in Cumbria)
Training Corps, based near the redundant station, the Carlisle and District Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association and the Royal Observer Corps Association...
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even specially-printed playing cards. In the United Kingdom, The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was formed as a defence warning organisation with civilians...
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CCF (RAF) Sections wear the uniforms of the Royal Air Force. From 1941 until 1996, the Royal Observer Corps wore RAF uniforms, with a midnight blue beret...
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Borough Hill (section Royal Observer Corps Post)
Borough Hill is a hill to the east of the town of Daventry in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is over 200 metres (660 ft) above sea level and...
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Ivo Peters (category People of the Royal Observer Corps)
In World War II, and for many years afterwards, he served in the Royal Observer Corps, for which he was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1958. He worked...
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Royal Observer Corps (ROC) nuclear monitoring posts incorporated into the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO). List of Royal Observer...
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Royal Observer Corps (ROC) nuclear monitoring posts incorporated into the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO). List of Royal Observer...
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brought in to the Antiques Roadshow in 2012 by the daughter of an ex-Royal Observer Corps member. A few further examples have come to light since. During 1938...
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James Dalgleish Pollock (category People of the Royal Observer Corps)
Pollock volunteered for service the Royal Observer Corps during World War II. He is recorded as being an Observer Officer and full-time Duty Controller...
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Royal Observer Corps (ROC) nuclear monitoring posts incorporated into the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO). List of Royal Observer...
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members, and the Royal Canadian Navy ("navy blue"). It was also worn by the United Kingdom's Royal Observer Corps (ROC) with their Royal Air Force (RAF)...
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Stable belt (section Corps and regiments)
belt over the jersey. (The former Royal Observer Corps conformed to RAF dress regulations). Historically, the Royal Navy rarely wore stable belts unless...
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Four-minute warning (category Royal Observer Corps)
sirens would be operated by postmasters, rural police officers, or Royal Observer Corps personnel (even parish priests, publicans, magistrates, subpostmasters...
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