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Updated: 2 Oct 08
1920
No 3 Flying Training School was formed at RAF Shotwick in April 1920. Its first commanding officer was Squadron Leader A T Harris, AFC, later to achieve fame as Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur T Harris, GCB OBE AFC LLD - or - more commonly - as ‘Bomber’ Harris. The school flew various types of fighter trainer aircraft and remained at Digby until April 1922, when, as part of the further contraction of the peacetime Air Force, it disbanded.
July 1920 saw the name of Scopwick changed to Digby. The reason makes fascinating reading. Late in 1919 the Workshops’ Officer at Scopwick ordered some machinery for servicing his aircraft. Seven months later, he was still without his machinery, in spite of hasteners and requests for action. Meanwhile at No 5 FTS Shotwick Aerodrome in Flintshire a baffled Workshops’ Officer was trying to work out why he had been sent a load of machinery which he had not demanded and for which he had no use anyway. Finally the problem was solved - but to prevent any more confusion, Scopwick was renamed Digby and Shotwick became Sealand - names by which both are still known today.
Digby Oral Histories:
- Geraldine Poulton, Ops Room WAAF
- Peggy Balfour, Ops Room WAAF
- Marjorie Turner, Ops & ATC WAAF
- Edith Kup, WAAF
- Richard James, 29 Sqn
- L Oliver, Ops Rm Radio Mech
- Les Armstrong, 73 Sqn
- Charles Durrett, airfield construction LO
- Jack Lucas, LAC fitter, 154 Sqn
- Fitter Atkins, 611 and RCAF Sqns
- LAC Charles Mayhew, Ops Room
- Laurie Seymour, 410 Sqn
- Sgt Charles Carmichael, RAF Regt
Digby
- A History
" A
history 1917 - 1978"
Foreword
Introduction
1917
1918
Inter-War Years
1919
1920
1922-23
1924
1925
1926
1927-1929
1930-1932
1933
1934-1936
1937
1938
World War II
1939
1939-1940
1941
Jan - Aug 1942
Sep 1942 - 1944
1945
Return to Training
1945 - Jan 1948
Feb - Mar 1948
Mar 1948 - 1953
A cadet remembers
The Signals Era
Jan 1955 - Dec 1961
Dec 1963 - 1978
Curent Day
1955 - the Signals Era
Digby
Ops Room Museum
A
brief history on Airops website
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