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Those known to have served at RAF St Eval 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,
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Want to know more about RAF St Eval? There are:53 items tagged RAF St Eval available in our Library
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Wilbert "Andy" Anderson RAF St Eval Does anyone remember my father, Wilbert Anderson (Andy), a young pilot from New Zealand who was stationed at St Eval Airfield in WWII?
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Flt.Sgt. Leslie Harris 76 Squadron (d.29th June 1943) Although already in a Reserved Occupation, my father volunteered for the Royal Air Force and was posted to South Africa to undergo training as an Observer. He gained his Observer Brevet in 1942, returning to England that same year.
With a 10 O.T.U. detachment flying Whitley Mark 5s out of St Eval, he helped to track and bomb U-Boats. Apparently, one took offence at this treatment, after being caught on the surface, and promptly fired a shell, blowing a hole in the starboard wing of their machine. Later, still with 10 OTU, returning from a sweep, their aircraft suffered an engine fire. The pilot instructed the crew to take to their parachutes, thus saving their lives. Bravely staying at the controls the pilot lost his life in the crash. Suffering a fractured ankle and gaining his Caterpillar Badge from the Irving Parachute Company, my father spent some time in hospital before being transferred to 1658 HCU at Riccall in Yorkshire, converting to the Halifax bomber.
From there he was posted to No. 76 Squadron then at Holme-upon-Spalding Moor. On the evening of the 28th June together with his crew, in Halifax Mark 5 MP-R DK137 took off for Cologne. The aircraft failed to return, having been shot down by a night fighter with the loss of the entire crew.
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Irene Cloke Staunton Mum, Irene Staunton joined up with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force at the start of the war, she became a cook, previously she was in service to a local Councillor who ran a paper shop. She always liked it when the papers were late and the paper boys had to go to school as she made an extra sixpence delivering the papers.
Anyway, she always said the war was the best thing that happened to her as it got her out of Mevagissey. She also told me that during those war years she lived life to the full. She was based at St Eval at one point and then she found out she was being stationed in Scotland and a Scottish girl wanted her to swap so she would be nearer home, but mum didn't want to stay in Cornwall. On VE Day she met my Dad and they married 3 months later, he was sailor.
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Albert Edward Jeffrey DFC. MiD. Ted Jeffrey joined the RAF in 1938 and was first stationed at RAF Locking in Somerset which I believe was the No 1 Radio School then. I was born while my dad was in Iceland.
He served in bomber command and Coastal command.
Some of the time at St. Eval in Cornwall and after the war at RAF Thornhill in what was then Southern Rhodesia.
After he left the RAF he had a radio and TV shop in Wadebridge and lived in Padstow, Cornwall with my mother until his death in 2010 at the age of 95.
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