RAF Southam is a former Royal Air Force relief landing ground (RLG) located 0.7 miles (1.1 km) east of Southam, Warwickshire, England and 7.3 miles (11...
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the town. However, few buildings in Southam date from before 1741, when a large fire devastated the town. RAF Southam, about 0.6 miles (1 km) east of the...
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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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RAF Hockley Heath is a former Royal Air Force station located 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Solihull, Warwickshire, England, 7.7 miles (12.4 km) north-east...
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1945 then permanently until the unit disbanded on 29 May 1945. RAF Warwick RAF Southam RAF Hockley Heath. The majority of the flying training took place...
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Gaydon is crossed by only two roads of any importance – the Kineton to Southam road, which runs in a north-easterly direction, and the Warwick and Banbury...
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Calgary Highlanders 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade - Brigadier William Southam Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal (Floating reserve) The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders...
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Luftwaffe made a maximum effort against the landing as the RAF had expected, and the RAF lost 106 aircraft (at least 32 to anti-aircraft fire or accidents)...
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Frank Whittle (section Entering the RAF)
– 8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with having invented the turbojet engine. A...
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Royal Air Force Wing or more simply RAF Wing is a former Royal Air Force station, situated just west of the village of Wing, in the Aylesbury Vale district...
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A45 near Coventry. It starts in Banbury town centre as Southam Road and goes through the Southam Road Industrial Estate, then just north of Banbury it...
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the age of 13, Egging was a member of 2028 (Southam) Squadron Air Training Corps. Egging attended Southam School, Warwickshire, where he gained A-levels...
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Railway 0-4-0DM Southam (works no. D604) was outside the Great Western Country Pub and Restaurant, Bishop's Itchington, near Southam, Warwickshire in...
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who was beheaded in 1521. Near Cheltenham is the 15th-century mansion of Southam de la Bere, of timber and stone. Memorials of the de la Bere family appear...
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Wellesbourne is now in the Parliamentary Constituency of Kenilworth and Southam. Two roads, Hammond Green and Ramsay Green built west of the old parish...
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15+3⁄4 mi (25.5 km) north-north-east of Banbury. Other nearby places include Southam, Coventry and the villages of Ashby St Ledgers, Badby, Barby, Braunston...
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England) - Inactive 1600 (St Philip’s Grammar School) - Disbanded 2028 (Southam) 2030 (Birmingham Airport) 2286 (Arden) 2504 (Fordbridge) - Amalgamated...
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village is in the Westminster parliamentary constituency of Kenilworth and Southam. The village is part of the Harbury ward of Stratford-on-Avon District...
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and around the World War II-era watch tower (control tower) at the former RAF Dumfries, located two miles north east of the centre of Dumfries, Scotland...
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Ambulance. "RAF – Commandant General Royal Auxiliary Air Force". www.raf.mod.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2017. Air Force Leadership: Whole Force Reality. RAF Leadership...
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Stow-on-the-Wold via Bledington B4451 B4100 at Gaydon, Warwickshire A425 at Southam, Warwickshire B4452 A425 at Ufton Cross Roads (east of Ufton) B4451 at...
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Alan Simpson later that year, his career declined. Hancock was born in Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, but, from the age of three, he was brought...
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railway to market itself as the home of the Hunslet. Until late 2011, ex Southam Cement Works Peckett 'Triassic' was stored on the Bala Lake Railway, was...
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siege collapsed when, on hearing of the approach of the Earl of Essex to Southam, Lord Northampton marched his force away towards Worcester. Major John...
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Darling 12 January 1924 Charles Darling Judicial Peer Baron Banbury of Southam 21 January 1924 Frederick Banbury, Bt. Former Member of Parliament for...
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a pilot. During the War Strutt served on Canada's east coast as part of RAF Coastal Command. Following the War, through the Veterans Charter, Strutt...
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Volunteer Reserve. F/O Driver and one of the air gunners are buried in Southam Road Cemetery in Banbury, which has a Commonwealth War Graves section....
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2001 winner Boris Mikhailov, shortlisted Roni Horn, Hellen van Meene, Jem Southam, Hannah Starkey 2002 winner Shirana Shahbazi, shortlisted Roger Ballen...
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operating companies. Partially within Kineton parish, from 1942 until 1977, RAF Gaydon operated as both a training unit and a front-line bomber base. In...
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"Work and Technology" Research Centre. Retrieved 2012-04-02. Hazlitt, Tom—Southam News Services (June 5, 1963). "The Evolution In Air Defense: NORAD Looks...
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