• Royal Air Force Longtown or more simply RAF Longtown is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Longtown, Cumbria and...
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    June. The squadron was posted to RAF Longtown for Exercise 'Dryshod'. The squadron should have flown up to Longtown on 2 August 1942, but the move was...
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    operational conversion units (OCUs) were training units of the Royal Air Force (RAF). With the introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling...
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    Training Unit RAF at RAF Annan and RAF Longtown with Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft No. 56 Operational Training Unit RAF at RAF Tealing and RAF Kinnell with...
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  • No. 1332 Heavy Transport Conversion Unit No. 1332 HTCU was formed at RAF Longtown on 5 September 1944 as No. 1332 (Transport) Heavy Conversion Unit and...
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  • Approach beacon system Units of the Royal Air Force. The first system to guide RAF aircraft safely down onto a runway was called the Standard Blind Approach...
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    large rural area with many villages and towns including Dalston, Brampton, Longtown, Wetheral, Bewcastle and Scotby. Cumberland Council, the local authority...
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  • Kineton (240) – Defence Munitions DM Longtown (120) – Defence Munitions Ministry of Defence, London (90) – Policy RAF Northolt (210) – British Forces Post...
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    Search and Rescue Association, and include: Brecon MRT Central Beacons MRT Longtown MRT South & Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team (SMWCRT) Western Beacons Mountain...
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    three Central Ammunition Depots (CADs) was submitted: one in the north (Longtown, Cumbria); one in the Midlands (Nesscliffe, Shropshire); and one in the...
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    Beacons Mountain Rescue Team BMRT – Brecon Mountain Rescue Team LMRT – Longtown Mountain Rescue Team based in the east WBMSART – Western Beacons Mountain...
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  • Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, in Liverpool Central Ammunition Depot Longtown, Royal Army Ordnance Corps 42nd (Northwest) Infantry Brigade, The Castle...
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    Archived from the original on 6 February 2005. Tele Rail (1994). The Longtown Military Railway. Carforth: Tele Rail. Semark, H.W. (1997). The Royal Naval...
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    but covered a far larger area which included the towns of Brampton and Longtown, as well as outlying villages including Dalston, Scotby and Wetheral. In...
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    Boxing Day earthquakes. These were in 1979 (measuring 4.7 ML  centred near Longtown) and 2006 (centred in the Dumfries locality measuring 3.6 ML ). There were...
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  • to a path Gretna Branch NBR Longtown to Gretna 9 August 1915 (to passengers) Remains partially open to serve MOD Longtown Guisborough to Brotton line...
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  • A Frost-Pennington of Ravenglass 2012: Juliet Deirdre Jean Westoll, of Longtown. 2013: Diana Ruth Matthews of Windermere. 2014: Martyn Peter Telford Hart...
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    the Waverley route as far as Longtown was retained until 31 August 1970, when the line was shortened to serve only RAF Brunthill, just north of the bridge...
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  • apprentice plasterer at his father's company. He served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during his national service. Maxwell, a stand-off, was an attacking runner...
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  • Stubbs, Acting Chief Inspector, War Department Constabulary, War Office (Longtown, Cumberland.) Henry Francis Symondson, Chief Paperkeeper, War Office (Hayes...
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