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No 10 SQUADRON ASSOCIATION
Membership of the 10 Squadron Association is open to those who are serving or have served on the Squadron in the past, as well as their relatives. Whilst the majority of the sections on the website require a Username and Password to view and hence may only be visited by paid-up Members, a limited number are nevertheless available to all. We hope that you enjoy your visit here.
Association joining details may be found in the Top Menu.
AIMS OF THE 10 SQUADRON ASSOCIATION
• To preserve the spirit of comradeship formed during service with 10 Squadron
• To sustain a close relationship between the Squadron and the Association
• To provide a focus for contact with other former Squadron colleagues or their relatives, by promoting attendance at Annual Reunions and Remembrance Day Services at the 10 Squadron Memorial
• To encourage the collection and preservation of documents, photographs, anecdotes and memorabilia with which the Squadron’s history may be enhanced
• To encourage Squadron and Association members to contribute to the Association website
• To encourage members of the Squadron to join the Association
MAKE A NOTE IN YOUR DIARY ........
This Year’s 10 Sqn Association Reunion Dinner will be held near Swindon on the evening of
Friday 17 May 2024
STOP PRESS........................... All is well again after the initial menu changes.
and so the Dinner Application Form, with its Revised Menu Choices, may now be submitted
and it is available to Members via the EVENTS menu.
March 2024
NEW in 2024 …….. A VETERANS’ ID CARD
HM Government have at last decided to allow Veterans to have an ID Card as shown below.
Whilst it’s full uses are yet to be realised, forthcoming British Armed Forces’ leavers will be issued with the card on their leaving the Service.
Those who have already left may apply for a card now.
Details as to how the Card may be obtained are given on this British Legion website link below:
RBL - Veterans ID Card (britishlegion.org.uk)
It will in turn, will lead viewers to the main Gov.uk website from where an application for the card’s issue may be made.
Before Application You Will Need:
- your service number for your last period of service
- your National Insurance number
- the years n which you started and ended your HM Armed Forces service
- a recent digital passport style photo showing your head and shoulders
Then Apply Here on the Government website:
Do you know about the DEFENCE DISCOUNT CARD which allows discounts in a variety of High Street shops, as well as even more by shopping on-line.?
Scroll down this page to read how to apply for yours. (It's just below the Chairman's Message)
14 February 2024
HOW ABOUT THIS BOOK ? ........
Joining the Association in 2022, Irvin Hanson hoped to learn more about his late father Ronald's war. He had served on 10 Squadron in the early 1940's as a wireless operator and air gunner on Whitley bombers, just as these two trades were allowed to hold 'sergeant aircrew' rank.
Before arriving on 10 Squadron he had already baled out of one aircraft and was later occasioned to ‘hit the silk’ again whilst on the Squadron, before later evacuating his aircraft for a third time. After this last event he was forced to spend nearly four years for the rest of WW2 as a PoW and then to embark on the Long March as the war came to an end.
Irvin has travelled the length of the UK many times researching his father’s exploits and we in the Association are proud to have been able to give him a few leads now and again, to assist his enquiries and Service Knowledge.
Irvin’s book, self-published in February 2024, is the result of much hard work for one never directly associated with the armed forces until now. The book reflects Irvin’s deep respect that he holds for his father’s past activities and is written primarily so that Ronald’s grandson Michael, will have a lasting record of such an important era in the Hanson Family’s history.
It's a very good read but there are still a few unanswered questions particularly those concerning Ron's clandestine activities which were conducted at some time during his RAF time served before becoming a PoW.………… A sequel perhaps one day?
Buy it from YorkBookshop.com :
https://yorkbookshop.com/biography/319-third-time-lucky.html
Cost is £12.99 + £4.95 p&p = £17.94
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Contacting Us
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CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE
A warm welcome to the 10 Squadron Association website. The Association was created in 1984 with the aims of preserving the spirit and comradeship formed during service on the unit and a close relationship is maintained with the present day Squadron. Membership is open to all who have served, or continue to serve, on 10 Squadron and also to relatives and friends of former Squadron members.
Our membership includes those from the Whitley and Halifax days, through the Dakota, Canberra, Victor and VC10 eras and now the Airbus A330 Voyager.
10 Squadron was formed at Farnborough on 1 January 1915 but later that week moved to Brooklands. Now based at RAF Brize Norton, as part of the AirTanker Hub, 10 Squadron operates the magnificent Voyager aircraft in the AT (Air Transport), AAR (Air-to-Air Refuelling) and VVIP roles and is co-located with the second unit to fly the type, No 101 Squadron. The two squadrons employ a joint manning strategy on flying tasks, without losing a strong sense of individual unit identity. This close relationship between the squadrons can be traced back to 1984 when 101 Squadron reformed at Brize Norton to fly VC10 tankers alongside 10 Squadron's VC10 transport aircraft. Between 2005 and 2011, whilst 10 Squadron was disbanded, 101 Squadron was still operating the VC10 and the Association was privileged to be hosted by the unit during our annual visits to the station. In its Centennial Year of 2015, HRH The Princess Royal presented the Squadron with a new Standard.
Please browse through our website. As a potential Association member, the committee hopes you enjoy reading the information on it. After joining the Association, access to the Members' Area, where many past records and other items of interest await and will then be made available to you.
The Association organizes two main events during the year. We hold a reunion at Brize Norton held each May, to promote a strong fellowship amongst our members. In November a Remembrance Day Service takes place at the 10 Squadron Memorial located near the entrance to the former RAF Melbourne in Yorkshire, where the Squadron was based in WW2. The ceremony preserves the memory of the personnel who sacrificed their lives when serving on the Squadron. All are welcome to attend.
Michael Westwood
Chairman, The 10 Squadron Association
Need to get in touch with us?
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We will endeavour to reply within 7 days to genuine requests or comments. However due to the increasing numbers of non-Association viewers seeking Family History Research Advice, we regret that the rules in the "Research Help" section will be strictly applied. We have no research facilities ourselves.
Logging-In to the website:
Some members occasionally advise us that they cannot login. This invariably means that they have lost or forgotten their usernames or passwords and may also point to the fact that they may have changed their email address without notifying us. To be able to log in you must be "registered ". New members are automatically sent a Registration email once their Application Forms and cheques have been received on joining the Association.
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Please be aware that we do not carry out any 'Where are they now?' research or tracing of old friends. However if you wish to make use of our limited 'Research Help' facility, send your enquiry to the above address. You must be prepared to have your email address posted in the open part of the website. Any such post will be kept on the page for about a year, due to the changing nature of email addresses.
Please limit any such enquiries, which must contain a reference to RAF 10 Squadron, to a maximum of 100 words. The Association will not enter into any correspondence as a result of such enquiries.
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WHAT'S NEW ?
To enable our viewers to see what the Latest Additions are to the website, without having to scroll through all the various menus, a list of the latest additions will be posted here for a few months. Be advised that content addition to our Archives section is a continuous process and latest additions are not listed here but are coloured blue in the archives themselves.
Articles that are added to the Crewroom may not be posted here since that menu is one of continual addition.
LOGBOOK
All aircrew are required to complete a personal log book which lists details of their flights.
These are the RAF Form 414 – Pilots Flying Log Book, and the RAF Form 1767 – Aircrew Flying Log Book for other aircrew categories.
It is unusual, particularly after WW2 on a large-crewed aircraft, to find the whole crew listed for a particular flight. Usually it is only the captain's name recorded in the "crew" column on the page.
Regrettably there is limited space available in the 'Spare' column on a log book’s page, and hence, often due to the modesty of the individual, it is rare to find specific reference to incidents that occurred during a particular flight.
For example, we learn from an RFC communiqué, that on 26 October 1915, in combat, an injured 10 Squadron Observer somehow managed to move from the front cockpit of his spinning BE2c into the back in order to take control from his incapacitated pilot. He landed the aircraft and they both survived! It would be interesting to find their log book entries for that particular flight!
This section portrays some of the 10 Sqn History annals which may not have been recorded in Squadron members’ personal log books. It also contains articles that just don't seem to fit in anywhere else.
