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No. 22 Squadron Royal Flying Corps
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Want to know more about No. 22 Squadron Royal Flying Corps? There are:46 items tagged No. 22 Squadron Royal Flying Corps available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.
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258086 AM2. Albert Spencer 22 Squadron (d.25th Jul 1916) Albert Spencer was the son of John and Panny Spencer of 2 Mitella St., Burnley. He was born in Crawshawbooth, Manchester.
He was a Wireless Operator known to be attached to 59th Siege Battery RGA near Montauban when he was killed in action. He is listed on the Battle of the Somme Roll of Honour to RFC. Photo found on car boot sale.
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252247 AM2. George Henry Shephard 22 Squadron George Shephard served with 22 Squadron.
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243175 Capt. Dennis Edward "Daddy" Waight MC. 12th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers My father, Colonel Dennis Waight, fought in both WW1 and WW2 and went to France with the 12th Northumberland Fusiliers. He served as a Platoon and Coy Comander in the trenches until early 1918. During which he won the Military Cross.
He then became a Bristol Fighter Observer with 22nd Squadron RFC. He became an observer ace having downed 12 German aircraft.
He became a regular officer during his time with the Btn. and after the war left the RAF.
He rejoined the Fusiliers serving in India, Persia, Iraq and at Fenham Barracks in Newcastle, first as adjutant of the Northumberland Fusiliers and DLI depot and later as training major of a TA Btn.
At the outbreak of WW2 he joined a regular battalion at Bordon, Hants went to Palestine with it and served with it in the first battles in the Western Desert, Sidi Barrani as a company commander. He was promoted and joined Cheshire Regiment in Malta and served during the seige. On relief, he was promoted and ran a officers school in Haifa and returned to England to command a wt school near Guildford and then a wosb at St Albans and later near Brussels.
After the war ended he ran a prison for hard core Nazis at Harsewinkel, near Gutersloh as an officer of CCG.
Many felt he deserved greater recognition for his and the Cheshires performance in Malta. His father was a soldier, so was I and my son.
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239744 2nd Lt. Harry Edward Jones 22nd Squadron (d.12th Oct 1917) Harry Jones was wounded on 11th September 1917 and died in a hospital in London, on 12th October 1917. He is buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery. He was the son of William and Lizzie Jones of Picton, Ontario, Canada.
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Recomended Reading.Available at discounted prices.
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"PI" in the sky: a history of No. 22 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps Harvey, William Frederick James
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