195 Squadron, Royal Air Force Reserve - Sydney Whitcombe, Flying Officer

Date: Nov 9, 2013

195 Squadron, Royal Air Force Reserve - Sydney Whitcombe, Flying Officer

AW · Air Commodore

Sally

I have the 195sqdn Operations Record Book, and would be happy to help out. Can you let me have your email address via my "whiteboard" in my profile, for when i've got information.

Regards....Alan

Have found 38 ops with 195sqdn, for this crew, but may be more with 115sqdn, as they may have been one of the crews that came from 115 to form 195.

-- Edited by AW on Sunday 10th of November 2013 05:29:36 AM

-- Edited by AW on Sunday 10th of November 2013 06:52:44 AM

PeteT · Wing Commander

Sorry, but this is a bit of a stock answer, based on my experience.

The first thing you should do (if possible) is to obtain a copy of his service record which will provide you with information on his training and his postings. Details on how you do this, along with the rules and regulations, can be found at: www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records. You will have to pay to obtain the record and you should be aware that it is taking between 9 and 12 months for them to be sent out.

Once you have this record, you can establish where he was posted and obtain the Operational Record Books for the squadron(s) he was involved with from the National Archives.; this should provide details of his sorties and crew.

In the meantime if you can provide any dates, or additional snippets, it may help other forum members find information in their own archives.

I hope this is useful; good luck with your research.

Regards

Pete

Date: Nov 10, 2013

Thanks Pete, that is very helpful. I will come back to the forum if I find anything that might be helpful or interesting. I do have a photo of the crew members I mentioned, would that be of any interest to anyone?

best wishes

Sally

Date: Nov 10, 2013

Hi Allan,

That's great but I am new to this blog and have no idea how to get to your profile and whiteboard, could you advise please. Do I need to sign up to the blog or something?

Sally

AW · Air Commodore

Sally,

You should be able to click on my "AW" to access my profile, if not, let me know, and i'll post my email address.

Alan.

AW · Air Commodore

Hi Sally,

i've got your email, thanks. I'll have a look in the 115sqdn Operations Book, to see if there is anything in there for this crew, before i send anything else on to you.

Alan.