No 10 Air Observer School
Course 49

Course No 49, No 10 Air Observer School Source Lisanne Hidderley.

Back Row: Easthope, Baker, Mogg, Morton, Kellett, Simms, Berg, Gollogly, Matthews

Center Row: P/O Dickson, Vandervelden, Collins, Borrow, Richardson, Anchell, Benison, Smillie, Long, P/O Smyth

Front Row: Pringle, Crossman, Bearley, Heslop, Thomson, Earl, Lens, Orr, Ballamy

Students Arrived: 

Start Date: No specific date but between 2 March -11 May 1942

Grad Dinner: 26 August 1942

Graduation Parade: 29 August 1942

Graduation Date:

RCAF Station Chatham

Nominal Role

  • Easthope
  • Baker
  • Mogg
  • Morton
  • Kellett
  • Simms
  • Berg
  • Gollogly
  • Matthews
  • P/O Dickson
  • Vandervelden
  • Collins
  • Borrow
  • Richardson 
  • Anchell
  • Benison
  • Smillie
  • Long
  • P/O Smyth
  • Pringle
  • Crossman
  • Bearley
  • Heslop
  • Thomson
  • Earl
  • Lens
  • Orr
  • Ballamy

Course Strength

No of Personnel
Original Intake
Transferred from previous course
Transferred to subsequent course
Wastage
Killed in Flying accident
Total graduates

Commissions

No of Personnel
RAF8
Total8

Postings

No of Personnel
Wastage
Total

Notes

  • Original Intake of students on this course were posted from:
  • Wings were presented by
  • Wastage remustered to:

This Post Has One Comment

  1. Richard MacDougall

    Was “Matthews” in this class Lincoln V Matthews Jr 18 120 020 – US Army Air Corp? There was an American, Lincoln Matthews in Chatham in 1942 – friends with some of the Brits on Course 50 – got his wings 13 Aug. 1942.

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