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Grub Street

4 Rainham Close

London

SW11 6SS

Copyright 2008 Grub Street

Copyright text 2008 Norman Franks and

Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC AE

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 906502 26 3

eISBN 9781908117588

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.

Cover design by Lizzie B Design

Formatted by Pearl Graphics, Hemel Hempstead

Printed and bound by MPG Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall

Grub Street only uses FSC

(Forest Stewardship Council) paper for its books.

Starting out in life

Learning to fly, Anstey, May 1939. Back row (left to right): Ellison, Williams, Bridge, Cotterell, Lewis, Gosling, Parsons, Farmer. Middle: Lake, Petterson, Fenton, Barwis, Worrall, RWF, Kerry, Phillips. Front: Thorogood, Dennison, Hampton, Rees, Tripe, McLean, Wright, Siddons, Smith, Proven.

(Don Lake flew with 219 Squadron, but was killed in a flying accident with FIU in September, 1941. Laurence Thorogood flew with 87 Squadron in the Battle and at the end of the war had the DFC. Don Smith flew with 616 Squadron but was killed in action on 27 September 1940. Claude Parsons flew with 610 and 66 Squadrons in the Battle, but was lost on a sweep over France in 1941.)

All kitted out and somewhere to go. From the left, Williams, McLean, Thorogood, Kerry, RWF.

RAF Sergeant-Pilot. Ive made it.

Look at me, Mum! I get my commission.

My first CO, Squadron Leader Walter Churchill DSO DFC, 605 Squadron, July 1940.

Gerry Edge, right, flight commander with 605 when I joined, later to be CO of 253 Squadron before returning to 605 in late 1941.

We entertain some ladies at Drem in August 1940. From the left: Archie McKeller DFC, Bunny Currant, Cyril Passy and RWF. (Croydon Airport Assn)

One of Bunnys Hurricanes (V6786). Unfortunately the reason for the boat and the name Missen has passed beyond history. Bunny and his pipe far right. He shot down an Me109 over Dover in this aircraft, on 1 December 1940. (Andy Thomas)

Christopher Bunny Currant DFC.

Croydon 1940, left to right: Derek Ford, Ricky Wright, RWF and Peter Thompson. (Wright family)

Alec Ingle, with pipe, adjusts my mae west, while Ricky Wright, wearing gauntlets, looks on. (Chris Goss)

Archie McKeller DFC.

At readiness; war was always a waiting game.

Pilot Officer Witold Glowaki, from Poland. Crash-landing in France on 24 September, he looks dejected with his head bandaged. Taken to hospital he died that same night, presumably reacting to an anti-tetanus injection. Note the 605 Squadron insignia on the tail-fin (P3832 UP-P). (Andy Thomas)

Peter Parrott was already a combat veteran when he joined 605 Squadron in September 1940. This picture of him was taken and used for a recruitment poster early in the war. He later flew successfully in Italy 1943-44.

Peter McIntosh, killed in action 12 October 1940.

Flight Lieutenant Ian Jock Muirhead DFC, killed in action 15 October 1940.

Sergeant H N Howes DFM, killed in a crash after leaving 605 Squadron.

Sight-seeing outside Sydney. Left to right: John Lenagen, George Farries, Harold Leonard, RWF, Robin Norwood and Tony Brook.

Pilots of 54 Squadron at Richmond, November 1942. Front (left to right): PO G Wall, PO A McIntyre, FO R Beaton (EO), FL E Weatherhead (Adj), RFW, SL E M Gibbs, FL R Norwood, FL D G Jarman (MO), PO J Councer (IO), PO A K Brook, PO G C F Farries. Rear: Sgt Studley, Sgt W Eldred, FS B Mahoney, FS Miller, FS F L Varney(), FS J C Wellsman(), Sgt D Monger, Sgt G Horkin, Sgt P F McCarthy (). ( - killed with the Wing)

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