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    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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    Southam (/ˈsaʊðəm/) is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. Southam is situated on the River Stowe...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    – 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Great Britain and Ireland, vol 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Southam M. 1996. Recurring problems in Oenanthe. BSBI News 71: 22 – 24. Rose F...
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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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  • She is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington. Roger Southam FRICS – British chartered surveyor and managing agent. Matthew Spacie –...
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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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    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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