John Severne - Silvered Wings: The Memoirs of Air Vice-Marshal Sir John Severne KCVO OBE AFC DL
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His first posting was to No 264 Night Fighter Squadron flying the de Havilland Mosquito. On a flying instructors course at the Central Flying School, he flew a Lancaster, Spitfire and his first jet the Vampire.
Posted to Germany as a flight commander on a Venom squadron, he was awarded an Air Force Cross for landing an aircraft that had caught fire. As a Squadron Leader, he became Equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh. Then followed a period as chief instructor on Britains first supersonic fighter, the English Electric Lightning. Later he became Wing Commander Ops at the joint HQ of Middle East Command where he was involved in counter-terrorist operations in Aden. As Station Commander of RAF Kinloss, he was responsible for the introduction of the Nimrod in 1971 and at the height of the Cold War when these new anti-submarine aircraft were a vital part of Britains defense
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My grateful thanks go to Graham Pitchfork for pointing me in the right direction and also to Bobby Gainher for all the help and advice he gave me as copy editor. But many others have also greatly assisted by providing pictures or checking my draft chapters and making many helpful corrections and suggestions. They are: Reg Barlow, Martin Barraclough, John Blake, Alan Bramson, Sandra Brind, Iain Browning, Steve Burr, Ray Deacon, Neville Duke, Veronica Dunne, David Emmerson, David Exton, John Fricker, Michael Graydon, Rod Hall-Jones, Rachel Huxford, Michael Jones, Min Larkin, Bob Lightfoot, Ian Macfadyen, Chrissy and Gordon Morris, Rob Neil, Alan Pollock, Mo Short, Michael Turner, John Urmston, Michiel Vogelpoel, Ken Wallis, Nigel Walpole and Andrew Wight-Boycott.
The book is sold for the benefit of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
While every effort has been made to identify the copyright owners of all the photographs, in some cases this has not been possible. If the author has infringed anyones copyright he apologises and will, of course, pay any fees due.
The Principal appointments are listed in bold type:
| Sep 1940 Dec 1941 | Marlborough College Officers Training Corps | Private |
| Jan 1942 Aug 1943 | No. 529 (Marlborough Schools) Squadron ATC | Corporal |
| Sep 1942 Jul 1943 | Marlborough College Home Guard | Private |
| Oct 1943 Apr 1944 | Cambridge University Air Squadron | |
| Apr 1944 Jun 1944 | No. 6 Air Crew Reception Centre, Scarborough | Cadet |
| Jun 1944 Jul 1944 | No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School, Brough (Tiger Moth) | |
| Aug 1944 | Aircrew Dispatch Centre, Heaton Park | |
| Aug 1944 Sep 1944 | No. 8 School of Technical Training, Blackpool | |
| Sep 1944 Dec 1944 | HQ No. 75 Signals Wing, Broadstairs | |
| Dec 1944 Jan 1945 | Aircrew Dispatch Centre, Heaton Park | |
| Jan 1945 Feb 1945 | Air Crew Officers School, Hereford | |
| Feb 1945 May 1945 | No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School, Perth (Tiger Moth) | |
| May 1945 Oct 1945 | No. 19 Flying Training School, Cranwell (Harvard) | |
| Nov 1945 Dec 1945 | Air Crew Officers School, Hereford | Pilot Officer |
| Jan 1946 Mar 1946 | No. 17 Air Crew Holding Unit, Snaith | |
| Mar 1946 May 1946 | No. 54 Operational Training Unit, East Moor (Mosquito) | |
| May 1946 Jul 1946 | No. 264 Night Fighter Squadron, Church Fenton, (Mosquito) | |
| Jul 1946 April 1947 | No. 264 Squadron, Linton-on-Ouse (Mosquito) | Flying Officer |
| Apr 1947 Jan 1948 | No. 264 Squadron, Wittering (Mosquito) | |
| Jan 1948 | No. 264 Squadron, Coltishall (Mosquito) | |
| Jan 1948 July 1948 | Central Flying School, Little Rissington (Various Types) | |
| Jul 1948 Aug 1950 | RAF College, Cranwell (Prentice and Harvard) | Flight Lieutenant |
| Aug 1950 Oct 1953 | Central Flying School, Staff Instructor & P.A. to the Comdt | |
| Oct 1953 Dec 1953 | No. 229 (Fighter) Operational Conversion Unit, Chivenor (Vampire) | |
| Jan 1954 May 1955 | No. 98 (Day Fighter/Ground Attack) Squadron, Fassberg (Venom) (AFC) | Flight Cdr |
| Mar 1955 May 1955 | Day Fighter Leaders School, West Raynham (Hunter) | |
| May 1955 Jan 1956 | No. 98 (DF/GA) Squadron, Jever (Hunter) | |
| Jan 1956 Sep 1957 | No. 26 (DF/GA) Squadron, Oldenburg (Hunter) | Sqdn Leader |
| Oct 1957 Jul 1958 | Air Ministry, Air Secretarys Department | Sqdn Cdr |
| Nov 1957 | No. 231 Operational Conversion Unit, Bassingbourn (Canberra) | |
| Jul 1958 Dec 1961 | Equerry to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (LVO) | |
| Jan 1962 Dec 1962 | RAF Staff College, Bracknell | Wing Cdr |
| Jan 1963 Feb 1963 | School of Refresher Flying, Manby, (Meteor) | |
| Dec 1962 Apr 1964 | RAF Middleton St George (Javelin &Lightning) | OC Flying Wing |
| Apr 1964 Jun 1965 | No. 226 Operational Conversion Unit, Coltishall (Lightning) | Chief Instructor |
| Jun 1965 Dec 1965 | Joint Services Staff College, Latimer | |
| Jan 1966 Nov 1967 | HQ Middle East Command, Aden, Operations Staff (OBE) | |
| Feb 1968 Jun 1968 | Joint Services Staff College, Latimer, Directing Staff | |
| Jun 1968 Aug 1970 | HQ Strike Command, Bentley Priory, Group Captain Organisation | Group Captain |
| Aug 1970 Sep 1970 | School of Refresher Flying, Manby (Jet Provost) | |
| Oct 1970 Jan 1971 | No. 236 Operational Conversion Unit, St Mawgan (Nimrod) | |
| Jan 1971 Dec 1972 | RAF Kinloss (Nimrod) | Station Cdr |
| Jan 1973 Dec 1973 | Royal College of Defence Studies, Seaford House | |
| Dec 1973 Jan 1974 | No. 3 Flying Training School, Leeming (Jet Provost) | Air Commodore |
| Jan 1974 | No. 4 Flying Training School, Valley (Gnat) | |
| Feb 1974 Feb 1976 | Central Flying School, Little Rissington (Various Training Types) | Commandant |
| Feb 1976 Feb 1978 | HQ Training Command, Brampton, Air Commodore Flying Training | |
| Mar 1978 May 1980 | HQ Southern Maritime Air Region, Mount Batten | Air Vice-Marshal |
| Aug 1980 Jan 1982 | Retirement Mk 1, Somerset | Air Commander |
| Jan 1982 Jan 1989 | The Queens Flight, Benson (KCVO) | |
| Jan 1989 ? | Retirement Mk 2, Somerset (DL) | Captain |
As a small boy I spent most of my time building, flying and crashing model aeroplanes. Most of my school holidays were spent in the company of a near neighbour, John Urmston, who shared the same passion. We were at kindergarten together and have been good friends ever since; he will feature significantly as my story unfolds. He designed a 5 ft span Tiger Moth, powered by a 7.5 cc petrol engine which we built together it even had movable controls from the cockpit, but I have to admit that he built all the difficult bits. The caption in my photograph album reads it even flew after a fashion, but John added in his own hand it flew bloody well!
Each year I used to follow the reports of the Kings Cup Air Race, which at that time was a major national event well covered in the newspapers and I hoped, one day, that I might be able to take part in it. The only other ambition I had at that time was to own one of those magnificent Mercedes sports cars.
Our 5 ft span flying model Tiger Moth.
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