#RafHistory

@historyisallaround.bsky.social

4 months ago

Second Lieutenant Gilbert Stuart Martin Insall, VC, Royal Flying Corps

🛩️Now available to read our latest For Valour blog by RAF Museum Volunteer Norman Brice tells the story of Gilbert Stuart Martin Insall VC, who earned the Victoria Cross for his daring air battle over France on 7 Nov 1915.

Read more ➡️ bit.ly/47M5si3

#RAFHistory #ForValour #WW1 #Remembrance

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History Rage Podcast

@historyrage.bsky.social

4 months ago

From mavericks with cameras to a global intelligence network. 🌍 Hear the story of the unarmed heroes of the skies, the RAF PRU, with For You The War Is Over.

🎧 pod.fo/e/342a15

#WWII #RAFHistory #Podcast

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History is All Around

6 months ago

New Flight Engineer Sews on Stripes and Brevet Passing tests and graduating is a moment many of us have felt before and the pride that comes with the accomplishment of finishing our studies.

#WW2 #WW2History #RAF #RAFHistory #History #BomberCommand

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8 months ago

What is this object? Please tell us by commenting below.

Call to action, asking the reader to sponsor a box as part of the Crate Escape Project.

Rough, worn & packed with purpose—it's 1 of 50,000+ objects heading to our new Collections Hub at RAF Museum Midlands.

But can you tell us what it is?

🤔 Hint: It was strapped to pilots on test flights
💬 Drop your guesses!
📦 Sponsor a box & support the move: bit.ly/3ZyboI5

#CrateEscape #RAFHistory

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VE Day Tour – RAF Museum Midlands Join us for the 80th anniversary of VE Day and explore the RAF’s role at the end of WWII. Book your VE Day tour at RAF Museum Midlands.

10 months ago

Join us on 8 May, the 80th anniversary of VE Day, for a powerful guided tour at the RAF Museum Midlands.

Discover the RAF’s role in the final push to victory in Europe through our aircraft collection and artefacts🎖️✈️

£10 | Carers free | Small groups

🎟️ Book now: bit.ly/3EMwYS2

#VE80 #RAFHistory

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10 months ago

✈️ Join us tomorrow, Tues 29 April, at 12 noon for 'From Biplanes to Fast Jets', a moving talk by Mark Aedy on his father Ken’s remarkable RAF life — from WWII Lancasters to Cold War jets, Berlin Airlift & more.

🎟️ Free: in-person @RAFMUSEUM or online via Crowdcast. 👉 bit.ly/3S3yy4M

#RAFHistory

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10 months ago

LDN: ✈️ Join us Tues 29 April, 12.00pm for From Biplanes to Fast Jets, a moving talk by Mark Aedy on his father Ken’s remarkable RAF life — from WWII Lancasters to Cold War jets, Berlin Airlift & more.

🎟️ Free: in-person @RAFMUSEUM or online via Crowdcast.

👉 bit.ly/3S3yy4M

#RAFHistory #Airpower

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10 months ago

Sir David Henderson, the true Father of the Royal Air Force?

🎥 Now on YouTube: Sir David Henderson – The Forgotten Father of the RAF ✈️

Historian Brandon Lewis argues Henderson’s vital role in shaping the RAF has been overlooked in favour of Trenchard.

Watch now for free 👉https://bit.ly/4io448A

💙 Donate: support.rafmuseum.org/Donate-Now

#RAFHistory

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C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

11 months ago

🛩️ Our latest 'For Valour' blog is out now! 🎖️

Discover the story of Major James Byford McCudden VC – awarded to the First World War Ace for a career of bravery, skill & devotion.

🌟 From boy soldier to decorated hero.

📚 Read more: bit.ly/4j9byxn

#ForValour #WWI #RAFHistory #JamesMcCudden

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An Erk's Progress: 8. Iceland... And Home Again The moment of parting came all too soon and I found myself billeted along with six other fellows in the dingy attic room of a boarding house near the North Pier in Blackpool. We were

1 year ago

In the last chapter of his memoirs published online, my grandfather Bill Hamilton spends a year in Iceland, where he's reunited with an old friend from 20 Squadron, before flying home to England, Thelma and demobilisation. #history #rafhistory #ww2history #icelandhistory

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Ritterton here and elsewhere!

@ritterton.bsky.social

1 year ago

Army now says
OMG!

From #StephenBaker's #TheFlyingSikh about #HarditSinghMalik

24 crashes per aerodrome per day with one death per day!!

Good lord...
#WWIaviation #RAFHistory

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C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

An Erk's Progress: 7. Blighty... And Romance So it was that in 1942 I travelled by rail to Bombay where together with eight other R.A.F. types I boarded the “Athlone Castle” which had been converted from a luxury liner to a troopship.

1 year ago

In chapter 7 of his memoirs (1942-1943), my grandfather Bill Hamilton says farewell to India, sails to New York via Cape Town, and enjoys the good life at Fort Slocum before returning to England and falling in love with a W.A.A.F called Thelma. #history #rafhistory #waafhistory #fortslocum

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C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

An Erk's Progress: 6. Bangalore We were surprised to discover that our new environment was a tented camp situated outside the perimeter wall of the Hindustan Aircraft Factory. Close by the tents was the cookhouse – a small building ...

1 year ago

Chapter 6 of Bill Hamilton's memoirs sees him back in Bangalore in 1942. He receives an uncoded message about the fall of Singapore, witnesses an Indian independence protest, and camps in the race course grandstand (frequented by Charles Agnew 75 years earlier.) #history #rafhistory #ww2

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Hazel Buchan Cameron

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1 year ago

"A parachute land mine which came down about two miles towards Kilmacolm, the blast had been tremendous and windows were broken for miles around. I later found that ‘Dicky’ my grandmother’s canary had been killed by the shock."
War horror includes the small things
#RAFStories #RAFHistory #WorldWar2

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C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

An Erk's Progress: 5. The North West Frontier Our day consisted of breakfast, then down to the hangers where we carried out our battery charging, testing of wireless gear and repairing where necessary. Each of us would be given a certain duty, wh...

1 year ago

Of all my grandfather's RAF stories, those from his time in the North West Frontier of British India were the most vivid. With the same content warning as before, chapter 5 of Bill Hamilton's memoirs features the outbreak of war, the Khyber Pass and trouble in Waziristan. #history #rafhistory

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C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

An Erk's Progress: 4. 20 Squadron Eventually we arrived at our destination, Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province where we were met by a shooting-brake driven by a huge ginger-haired L.A.C. He was the C.O.’s chauffeur normally,...

1 year ago

After a long train journey from Bombay in May 1938, Bill Hamilton reaches Peshawar in what was then the North West Frontier Province and joins 20 Squadron of the RAF. Be aware that this chapter includes examples of cultural naivety, colonial stereotyping, and casual racism. #history #rafhistory

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C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

An Erk's Progress: 3. A Passage To India I didn’t stay long enough at Meikle Ferry to ever sail with the target boats, for my detachment was cancelled and I was ordered back to Evanton at once. I was delighted, but my joy

1 year ago

It's May 1938 and in chapter three of his memoirs Bill Hamilton is boarding a troopship bound for Bombay via Marseilles and the Suez Canal. #history #rafhistory

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C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

An Erk's Progress: 2. I Join The R.A.F. An ageing Ramsay MacDonald talked of hard times and shrinking National Income and hoped for better things in the future. Conscription was being introduced in Germany and Hitler demanded “living space”...

1 year ago

In chapter two of his memoirs, it’s 1935 and Bill Hamilton is accepting the King’s Shilling to join the Royal Air Force.
#history #rafhistory

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