Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving RAFVR
" Syd - I left Grammar School 6th Form and was called up a few months later. The dreaded brown envelope dropped through my door and after a fairly cursory medical, I was told to report to RAF Padgate. It was a wet and cold day and Padgate was not the most attractive place in the world ! After ..."
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" SYD When I was demobbed I had to join the RAFVR. The local squadron was based at a huge old house on the main road leading out of Brighton. Vast grounds and staffed by some regulars who were seeing their time out and enjoying a very cushy posting. I went on two annual attachments, one to ..."
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" it could be that he was commissioned in the RAFVR ex raf 58/67 Stan "
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" After demob, I did three years with local RAFVR Squadron, so kept full set of kit. However, over the years have lost most of it but retain cap badge and a few buttons plus my ’stripes’. Funny thing.... I haven’t retained any of my business suits but those relics of my service days are very precious to me. Maybe I preferred the RAF to banking ! LOL Rocky "
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" I served from 1957 - 1980 and was discharged by choice in Germany. I did a six weeks resettlement course prior to discharge and at the same time obtained honorary membership of my old Mess. For the next 16 years I was employed on the German economy, ten years of which I was self-employed. Living ..."
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