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    Yatesbury is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cherhill, in Wiltshire, England. It is in the northeast of Cherhill parish, 1 mile...
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    RAF Yatesbury is a former Royal Air Force airfield near the village of Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Calne. It...
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    circuit. One correspondent said that a man named Dickie Lyle was at RAF Yatesbury in 1941, and he drew a version of the diagram as a face when the instructor...
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    based around three main roads – Farnborough Road, Tangmere Drive and Yatesbury Avenue – which were wide and straight, lending themselves to joyriders...
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    000 PoWs could escape from Le Marchant, who would proceed to seize RAF Yatesbury and gain access to equipment including aircraft and armoured vehicles...
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    ranks and was a corporal instructor on radar at No. 2 Radio School, RAF Yatesbury in Wiltshire. He was commissioned as a pilot officer (technical branch)...
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    confused with RAF Yatesbury that was constructed partly within the parish of Compton Bassett in 1916. During the Second World War, RAF Yatesbury and RAF Compton...
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  • Krautrocksampler: One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik – 1968 Onwards. Yatesbury: Head Heritage. p. 64. ISBN 0-9526719-1-3. Harden, Alexander C (31 December...
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    Duncan; David Hadrill The Professional Handbook of the Donkey, 4th edition. Yatesbury: Whittet Books. p.10. S Wood, D Smith and C Morris. "Seasonal variation...
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  • Elementary Flying Training School 3 September 1939 Filton 30 September 1947 Yatesbury No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School 3 September 1939 Hamble 31 March...
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    1944 RAF Cherhill England Wiltshire 1954 1958 Formerly and later RAF Yatesbury. RAF Chesil Bank England Dorset Second World War Bombing Ranges Unit with...
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    on the A4 road towards Marlborough. The parish includes the village of Yatesbury. Cherhill has a population of around 700 with a mixture of housing ranging...
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    his flying training on 16 November 1936 at the Bristol Flying School, Yatesbury, with No. 6 Flying Training Course and with civilian instructors. Owing...
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  • October 1951 - 30 September 1957 Yatesbury, Wunstorf 8 Wing RAF Regiment 12 November 1951- 16 November 1960 Yatesbury, Elhamra, Kasafareet, Abu Sueir,...
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    University Air Squadron Wolv UAS FLT Derby University Air Squadron Der UAS FLU Yatesbury University Air Squadron Yates UAS FLV Cambridge University Air Squadron...
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  • seen in the video. The video was filmed in part at the now defunct RAF Yatesbury, a Royal Air Force base in Wiltshire, and—according to The Timelords—cost...
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  • RAF Cosford and RAF Digby. 2 Radio School 18 January 1940 Yatesbury Tiger Moth Botha Yatesbury 31 October 1965 Disbanded 3 Radio School 27 December 1940...
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  • Krautrocksampler: One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik - 1968 Onwards. Yatesbury: Head Heritage. p. 1. ISBN 0-9526719-1-3. (orthographic quirks in the...
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    Everleigh No. 14 Overley Park Temporary Dispersals at: Mousehold 1940 Yatesbury 1940 Townsend between October 1940 and September 1941 Benson 1940 Aircraft...
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    Training was undertaken at several RAF stations including RAF Cosford, RAF Yatesbury, RAF Compton Bassett, RAF St Athan, RAF Hereford and RAF Locking. Training...
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  • Only two months after its disbandment, the wing was re-established at Yatesbury on 15 May 1919. The wing was subsequently disbanded and was not re-established...
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  • Lightwood received training at the Radar and Wireless training school at RAF Yatesbury and after initially serving in India as a ground and service engineer...
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    1940, on farmland between Compton Bassett and Calne. Like nearby RAF Yatesbury, it continued in the post-war years before closing in 1964. The housing...
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  • Woodborough Woodfalls Wootton Rivers Worton Wroughton Wylye Yarnbrook Yatesbury Yatton Keynell Zeals List of settlements in Wiltshire by population List...
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    Oxford = No. 5 Radio School RAF RAF St Athan = No. 12 Radio School RAF RAF Yatesbury = No. 9 Radio School RAF Room 230, Air Ministry, London = 29 August 1918...
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    RAF White Waltham = No. 13 Elementary Flying Training School RAF RAF Yatesbury = No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School RAF & No. 2 Air Observer &...
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  • 1919–1921) Memorials and cemeteries: Furthermore, two such graves are at Yatesbury, near Swindon, Wiltshire. Bukhara Chiroqchi Gʻuzor Jyzakh Katta Alekseyevskaya...
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    Havilland Dragon Rapide (R5929) was operating a training flight out of RAF Yatesbury. The aircraft stalled at low altitude and crashed near the village, killing...
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    commenced flight training at No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School at Yatesbury. Following this, he went to No. 10 Flying Training School at Ternhill...
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    Wales Air Squadron – MOD St Athan Wolverhampton University Air Squadron Yatesbury University Air Squadron Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron – RAF Linton-on-Ouse...
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