|
|
|
RAF Scone
If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
|
Those known to have served at RAF Scone during the Second World War 1939-1945. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed,
please
Add a Name to this List
|
|
|
The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
Announcements
- 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.
- The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 25 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web.
- 19th Nov 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than
264989 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible.
- Looking for help with Family History Research?
Please read our Family History FAQs
- The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
If you enjoy this site
please consider making a donation.
Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our
Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. |
|
Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted
photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them.
The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion
Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
|
|
Want to know more about RAF Scone? There are:-1 items tagged RAF Scone available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. |
|
F/Lt. Ian Laird Shaw 32 EFTS Bowden My dad, Ian Shaw (flight lieutenant J L Shaw), is Scottish aged 91, now has Alzheimers and unfortunately can't remember much except the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada, instructing in basic trainer Tigermoths, Spitfires, Harvards, Hurricanes. He joined the RAF in December 1941, aged 21 and was based at EFTS/SFTS bases in Canada. He was definitedly at Bowden in June 1943 in 32 EFTS (we have small a shot with names on the back: I Varrie, R Powell, J Purchase, R Uden, R Saunders, Douglas Woodburn, G Scott, M Tavernor). Douglas Woodburn was his best mate. He also probably was at Braden, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Regina, Trenton, St Catherines, Swift Current amongst others. He has 3700 flying hours, but can't find his log book or service records.
He eventually returned to Britain, based at Scone in Perthshire probably with RAF 51 group EFTS, where he met my mum, Cathie Torbet, and got engaged in 1946 just before being discharged in October 1946. He met his best man there (Jack Dalton) and Pooch Nugent was the Base Commander, (he has a road named after him at Scone airport). They married in 1948, in Perth. After the war he went into Air Traffic Control, based at Renfrew, Sighthill in Edinburgh and Oceanic House Prestwick, running oceanic traffic control and was in charge of training sitting for Scotland and on the Training Board at Bournemouth. Retired 1983.
If anyone can help fill in the memories from Canada or 1941-46, or recognise him, that would help a lot.
|
Flt.Lt. Michael Baldwin Campbell My father, Mike Campbell, was a flying instructor operating out of RAF Scone.
Even at the age of 98 he could still control the joy stick on his wheelchair with the same delicate touch with which he flew an aeroplane.
|
Recomended Reading.Available at discounted prices.
|
|
|
