CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE
Welcome to the 10 Squadron Association website. The Association has been in existence for nearly 30 years and is open to any person who has been a member of 10 Sqn at any time. Our membership includes those from the Halifax era right through to the VC10 .
I am delighted to inform you that 10 Squadron re-formed on 1 July 2011 with the Airbus A330 Voyager tanker/transport aircraft. The Squadron Standard was reconsecrated at RAF Cranwell on 1 June 2011 and the first aircraft is now scheduled to arrive early in 2012.
During the period of the Squadron's disbandment the 10 Squadron Association has nevertheless remained very active. We have 2 main events each year. The first is the annual Remembrance Day Service which takes place each November at the 10 Squadron Memorial at the entrance to the former RAF Melbourne in Yorkshire. The second is the annual reunion at RAF Brize Norton over 2 days each May. During 10 Squadron's disbandment period we have been privileged to enjoy the hosting of 101 Squadron, currently flying the VC10 at RAF Brize Norton. We are grateful for their close association with us.
Please browse through our website which is administered by Dick King, a former VC10 captain on 10 Squadron. The Association Committee welcomes you to this site; please enjoy the information, and join us if you served on 10 Squadron itself, or were associated with the squadron.
Michael O’Donovan
Chairman
Chairman
Please help us to make the website as interesting as we can to all our members by contributing your own photos, videos, information, flying stories and humour. If deemed suitable we will endeavour to publish these for all to share and enjoy.
The website is primarily for the interest and enjoyment of paid-up Association members. The front page is available to all viewers but the second level will require registration and a log-in to enable access to the more detailed aspects of the site. Details of joining the Association to enable entry to this second-level feature may be found in the "How to Join" menu at the top of this page.
The website is still in an embryo state but, with input from members and the continually improving profiency of its volunteer administrators, it will expand its content and hopefully reward the service of past Squadron members.
Should you write to us, by email using the "Contact Us" section, you should achieve a reply within a day or so. Regrettably though, we have very limited research facilities for random family history personnel enquiries, from non-Association members. If you have content for the Newsletter, or photos and other contributions to the site, please click on the appropriate person in the "Who's Who" section. We welcome suggestions and criticism because above all we want this to be 'your site'.
We are particularly interested in hearing from past Squadron members who served during the Halifax, Dakota, Canberra and Victor eras as well as from all aircew and groundcrew categories on the VC10. No matter whether you were an Air Steward, a Flight or Ground Engineer, an ALM, Pilot, Admin Staff or even a Navigator we want to hear from you. Please get in touch by joining and later writing a few words about your recollections of your time on the Squadron, which may be published in the "Ten Tales" section. Better still, send us some photos. The LINKS menu provides a small service which lists brief details of links to other websites which members may find of interest.
In this age of identity theft and other nasties, we endeavour never to pass on personal and private information to anyone accessing either level of the site without the owner's specific permission being given by one of the site's listed administrators.
The information on this website has been compiled from various sources both privately and from the internet.
It is not our intention to deliberately omit acknowledging credit to those whose information we may have used.
We will be only to pleased to publish such credits if we are so requested by the original sources via
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Veterans Badge Application Form.pdf
Formed, as part of the Royal Flying Corps, in 1915 during World War I at Farnborough, 10 Squadron served on the Western Front in France in the spotting and bombing roles with a variety of aircraft types. Like many other squadrons, it was disbanded in 1919 following the end of WW1. The Squadron reformed as a bomber unit at RAF Upper Heyford in 1928, before moving to RAF Dishforth in 1937.
