This is the story of my Pop but it will be some time before I get it presented in the way I would like so I hope the reader will bear with me.
My Pop’s life story is divided into many chapters but essentially 3 parts:
Pre RAF: Chapters 01 - 16.
RAF: Chapters 17 - 32
Post RAF: Chapters 33 - 41
Chapter 1 - Fragments of Early Memories (67kb)
Chapter 2 - Thoughts on Early Childhood (36kb)
Chapter 3 - Life in Canterbury (Early days - Mostly School) (193kb)
Chapter 4 - Commentary on School Life (40kb)
Chapter 5 - Life in Canterbury (Later Days - Out of School) (390kb)
Chapter 6 - Life in Willesborough Lees - Grandfather Ward (119kb)
Chapter 7 - Personalities - Union Street (38kb)
Chapter 8 - Off to Egypt (81kb)
Chapter 9 - A Portrait of My Father (204kb)
Chapter 10 - Egypt and the First Year (86kb)
Chapter 11 - A Portrait of My Mother (190kb)
Chapter 12 - Egypt and the Second Year (206kb)
Chapter 13 - Egypt - General Memories (110kb)
Chapter 14 - Egypt and the Third Year 143kb)
Chapter 15 - Gibraltar and Home (445kb)
Chapter 16 - Odd Memories of Egypt and Gibraltar (74kb)
Chapter 17 - RAF Halton - 21st Entry (236kb)
Chapter 18 - RAF Northolt - 41(F) Squadron (161kb)
Chapter 19 - HMS Courageous (587kb)
Chapter 20 - Air Navigation School Andover (117kb)
Chapter 21 - Conversion Course - RAF Henlow (240kb)
Chapter 22 - 79(F) Squadron - Biggin Hill, France, Acklington, Pembrey, Fairwood Common. (375kb)
Chapter 23 - 125 Squadron - Fairwood Common & Colerne (179kb)
Chapter 24 - Betty Kathleen Ritchie (nee Turner) (103kb)
Chapter 25 - Sierra Leone (169kb)
Chapter 26 - The Gambia - Bathurst (125kb)
Chapter 27 - Journey in West Africa - 1943 (50kb)
Chapter 28 - The Gambia - Bathurst Again (51kb)
Chapter 29 - Home - September 1943 (83kb)
Chapter 30 - 16 Operational Training Unit (OTU) - Upper Heyford (61kb)
Chapter 31 - Husbands Bosworth (107kb)
Chapter 32 - Silverstone (78kb)
Chapter 33 - Life after the RAF (788kb)
Chapter 34 - The Miracle (122kb)
Chapter 35 - August 1963 - July 1979 (338kb)
Chapter 36 - Odd Memories of My Life after the RAF (58kb)
Chapter 37 - July 1979 - 1992 (204kb)
Chapter 38 - Days out and Holidays (76kb)
Chapter 39 - 1993 - 2000 (The Beginning of the End) (160kb)
Chapter 40 - A Lady of Courage - Our Final Year (150kb)
Chapter 41 - Miscellaneous Photographs