Melton Mowbray or more simply RAF Melton Mowbray is a former Royal Air Force station located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south of the centre of Melton Mowbray...
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Melton Mowbray (/ˈmɛltən ˈmoʊbri/) is a market town in the Melton district in Leicestershire, England, 19 miles (31 km) north-east of Leicester and 20...
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PGM-17 Thor (section Books referencing RAF use)
(Strategic Missile) Squadron – RAF Harrington, Northamptonshire No. 254 (Strategic Missile) Squadron – RAF Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire Family: Thor IRBM...
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with three Thor Intermediate range ballistic missiles. and based at RAF Melton Mowbray. In October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the squadron was...
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Headquartered at RAF Melton Mowbray each with three missiles, being equipped with the weapon. During April 1962 the group also controlled: RAF Mildenhall No...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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Crew Pool Unit RAF Ferry Training and Despatch Unit RAF Ferry Training Unit RAF Overseas Ferry Unit RAF Service Ferry Pilots Pool RAF Lake 1999, p. 68...
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Polebrook Folkingham Harrington Melton Mowbray The raising of the twenty squadrons involved the training of 1,254 RAF personnel in the United States,...
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Most units of the Royal Air Force (RAF) are identified by a two character alphabetical or alpha- numeric combination squadron code. Usually, that code...
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occupied the Melton Mowbray site in 1946, and it became known as the Defence Animal Centre, a title which remained current until 2018. RAF Police dogs...
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independent aircraft flights of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) which were given alphabetical designations. List of Royal Air Force aircraft...
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Hurn, Kemble, Llandow, Lyneham, Melton Mowbray, Pershore, Portreath, Prestwick, St Mawgan and Talbenny No. 45 Group RAF - HQ at Dorval in Canada, (the...
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Alfred Johnson and Beatrice May Johnson. He lived and was brought up in Melton Mowbray, where his father was a policeman. Alfred Johnson was an inspector by...
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amalgamated with the RAVC to form the Defence Animal Centre (DAC) at Melton Mowbray.[citation needed] The station badge featured the Polish Eagle holding...
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landing ground for No. 38 (Home Defence) Squadron RFC, who were based at Melton Mowbray. It was then designated RFC Peckleton. After the war the site reverted...
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Leadenham Aerodrome (redirect from RAF Leadenham)
detachments from Melton Mowbray Aerodrome with Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 and Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2s. No. 90 Squadron RAF (1918–1919) detachment...
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west of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire and 9.3 miles (15 km) north-east of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. The base was active during the First World...
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two Distinguished Flying Crosses. After leaving the RAF in 1955, he ran a café in Melton Mowbray before moving to Brighton to run the Rex Hotel. In 1961...
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two parishes from Oakham RSD in Leicestershire becoming part of the Melton Mowbray Rural District, the nine parishes of Uppingham RSD in Leicestershire...
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the squadron was re-equipped with F.E.2b aircraft and the HQ moved to Melton Mowbray. Operations were undertaken from Stamford, Buckminster and Leadenham...
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for the East Midlands are taken by East Midlands Councils, based in Melton Mowbray. East Midlands Councils is an unelected body made up of representatives...
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Redmile, and the Melton district of Leicestershire, England. It is about 9 miles (14 km) north of the market town of Melton Mowbray and 7 miles (11 km)...
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mirrors, made for Melton Constable Hall in Norfolk. The ballroom, in the west of the house, was left with bare masonry by Lord Mowbray and Stourton, but...
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Freeby (category Borough of Melton)
village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Melton Mowbray. As well as the village of Freeby...
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A607 road (category Borough of Melton)
Road it passes the small Melton Mowbray Hospital on the right, near the B676 junction, and passes the JET Brobot Melton Mowbray garage and a Tesco on the...
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(3 km) south-west from Grantham and 12 miles (19 km) north-east from Melton Mowbray. Aerial photography has revealed that Harlaxton was the site of a unique...
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Bottesford, Leicestershire (category Borough of Melton)
about 15 miles (24 km) east of Nottingham and 13 miles (21 km) north of Melton Mowbray and 7 miles (11 km) west of Grantham. The village is the largest in...
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human-powered aircraft designed and built by Peter Wright, an engineer from Melton Mowbray, England. Wright had previously designed and built the Wright MPA Mk...
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schools and community festivals Bandstand concerts in Nottingham, Newark, Melton Mowbray, Loughborough, Long Eaton, Grantham, Stamford, Ilkeston and Bourne....
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Nigger was buried. Five photographs of Labrador dogs from a site at Melton Mowbray were sent to the film studios, and a mine-tracking dog was chosen, looked...
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