The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Hello Rose, welcome to the forum could you list all the airfields that you were based at please, all sounds very interesting. No-doubt you have some photographs of some of these places, also yourself ? I very recently took another ex-WAAF to a memorial dedication at former RAF Wescott, Bucks. (See the Buckinghamshire thread) During the war my Mother was a very young land girl, also named Rose.

Hello,
As you would gather I'm slightly over 21 now; and memory fair.
My Daughter posted my first post and I have to alter the date I was posted to Sturgate, I went there in December 1944 when it was still an operational Fido Unit.
My other stations were Lindholme Doncaster, Sturgate Gainsborough, Driffied Hull,
Leconsfield Beverly, Bourne Cambridge (war over now Transport Command) Waterbeach Cambridge, Netheravon Salisbury, Hesligton Hall York, Abingdon Oxford.
Blackpool demob, Wilmslow training.
Sturgate was the happiest camp I was on; we were all young; and what the hell.
My best friend was a land Army girl and my goodness they all should have had a medal.
Not good with the computer generally e-mails and word, just one evening was bored and so started the seach for my stations, and although no tec knowledge hopefully some may pick up threads from my conversations and carry it forward in another direction.

Welcome to the forum Rose.
We would love to hear the history of the war from the WAAF point of view.

Chris

Hello Rose. Welcome. So many station changes in you WAAF career you must have spent a lot of time travelling on slow trains!

Hi everyone,

I stumbled across this excellent website whilst doing some online research for our local history group. One of my interests is taking aerial photographs with the aid of model aircraft and a few weeks ago the history group contacted me for some aerial footage of our village (I live about 4 miles from the site of the old Warmwell airfield). They are doing a presentation on the use of the village as a camp site for allied troops prior to D-Day.

I look forward to sharing some of my aerial adventures soon..!

Kind regards,

Martin

PETERTHEEATER;144678 wrote:

Hello Rose. Welcome. So many station changes in you WAAF career you must have spent a lot of time travelling on slow trains!

Hello PETERTHEEATER,

Yes many long slow journeys, made slower in some cases by bombing. My longest journey on leave, going up to see my fiancee in Dundee Scotland, when it took 14 hours from London to Edinburgh.

After being posted from Hestlington Hall we were to fly down to Waterbeach, minds were changed when they realised trucks were going to go there anyway, and so 2 truck loads of WAAF and airmen started out and it took 2 days.

Welcome cookm.

What model UAV are you using and with what camera?

Hi Peter,

I have a DJI Phantom quadcopter. After over 40 years of involvement in model aircraft and photography, I reckon that the combination of the Phantom carrying a GoPro Hero3 camera attached to a motorised gimbal mount gives some of the best photos (and video!) I have ever taken!

Martin