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No. 9 Squadron Royal Flying Corps    No. 9 Squadron was formed at St. Omer France on 8th of December 1914 from the HQ Wireless Unit RFC and was known as No. 9 (Wireless) Squadron. It flew with aircraft of other squadrons to provide communication with ground forces. The demand for wireless was such that flights from 9 Squadron were soon attached to the individual Wings. 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Want to know more about No. 9 Squadron Royal Flying Corps? There are:70 items tagged No. 9 Squadron Royal Flying Corps available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with No. 9 Squadron Royal Flying Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Brett Henry. Dowding Hugh Caswell Tremenheere. Group Capt. Fogarty Gerald Joseph. Lt. (d.26th Aug 1917) Freemantle Ronald Percy Cowen. Lt. (d.30th April 1917) Freemantle Ronald Percy Cowan. 2Lt. (d.30th April 1917) Turner MID.. Norman. Capt All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of No. 9 Squadron Royal Flying Corps from other sources. 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If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 256387 Capt Norman Turner MID. No 9 Squadron Norman Turner served with the Royal Engineers as a Sapper and was wounded at Gallipoli on 29th June 1915, while serving with Lowland Division Signals Company. He was Commissioned in France, with 9th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, and served with them December 1915 to November 1916. Probably flew reconnaissance during the Battle of the Somme. He flew with the 12th Wing, RFC, from November 1916 to December 1917. He was Mentioned in Dispatches, 11th December 1917, Gazette no. 30421, and again in 1919. He was hospitalized in London for Spanish Flu, in February 1919. Add to this record. 251548 2Lt. Ronald Percy Cowan Freemantle 9 Squadron (d.30th April 1917) Ronald Freemantle Royal served with 9 Squadron, Flying Corps I have Ronald's two medals and his Death Plaque. Also a photo of him in uniform. David R. Bennett Add to this record. 210008 Henry Brett 9th Squadron My father Harry Brett was first in the Royal Ambulance or Medical Corps at the beginning of WW1 and then in 1916 when he was 17 or 18 years old he joined the RFC 9th Squadron. I have a photograph of him dressed for flying duty as an observer under the command of Major Hugh Dowding. There is one other photograph of that time which shows him at an RFC stall at a fete with fellow RFC , presumably raising money for the war effort. I know no more of this period but will hope to have some feedback. My father rejoined the 9th Squadron RAF at the start of WW2 becoming a flight controller and was wounded rescuing aircrew from crash landings for which he was decorated. I have a cartoon of him holding a mic and talking down a young pilot in a wounded Lancaster with one engine, titled Piggy Control (his nickname) and signed on the reverse by the squadron. He then joined Headquarters Bomber Command working with New Zealander "Square" McKee. He survived, though not in the best of health and returned to my Mother,brother and I to live to 1957. He much enjoyed going to reunions with his grat friend "Batchy" Batchelor who was a great supporter of Bomber Command and a prime mover of getting the Harris statue opposite Dowdings outside St Clements Danes in spite of some venomous opposition. How they both would be cheered by the building of the Bomber Memorial after the shoddy treatment given to the Bombers after the war. Henry Brett Add to this record. 185828 Group Capt. Hugh Caswell Tremenheere "Stuffy" Dowding My Stepfather, Hugh Dowding, was educated at his father's preparatory school at Moffat and then Winchester, after which he entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1899. Failing to gain a commission in the Royal Engineers, he joined the Royal Garrison Artillery, being posted to Gibraltar, then to Ceylon and Hong Kong. In 1904 be was posted to No 7 Mountain Artillery Battery – NWF, in India. From January 1912 he attended Army Staff College. In 1913 he joined the Garrison Artillery on the Isle of Wight He learnt to fly at the Vickers Flying School, Brooklands, gaining his RAeC Certificate (No 711), on the day he passed out from Camberley, after 1 hour 40 minutes. At the Central Flying School his instructor was Capt. John Salmond. Having gained his 'Wings', he was added to the RFC Reserve List returning to his Garrison Artillery duties on the Isle of Wight. In 1929, following the escalation of trouble in the area, he was sent to Palestine to undertake an inquiry into the need and form of possible re-inforcements for the area. At the outbreak of war in August 1914 he was Commandant - Dover Assembly Point and later that month he was posted as a Pilot to No 7 Sqn RFC, transferring to No 6 Sqn on the 6th of October 1914. On the 18th of November he was transferred to GSO3, HQ RFC and on the 8th December 1914 he was appointed Flight Commander of No 9 Sqn RFC. On the 27th of January 1915 he became Flight Commander of No 6 Sqn RFC. On the 4th of March 1915 he was appointed Officer i/c Wireless Flight, No 4 Sqn RFC and from 17th March 1915 he became Officer Commanding No 9 Sqn/Wireless Experimental Establishment RFC. From July he was Officer Commanding No 16 Sqn and on the 1st of February the following year was posted to Farnborough to become Officer Commanding, 7th Wing RFC. On the 22nd June he became Officer Commanding, 9th (HQ) Wing RFC. On New Year's day 1917 he was promoted to Officer Commanding, Southern Group Command and on the 5th of August 1917, he became Brigadier-General Commanding, Southern Training Brigade. In 1918 he was Brigadier-General (Administration), HQ No 4 Area. and then Brigadier-General (Administration), HQ North-Eastern Area. In January 1919 he became Brigadier-General (Administration) York, HQ North-Western Area and in June, Brigadier-General (Administration), HQ Northern Area. On the 1st of August 1919 he became Group Capt (Administration), HQ Northern Area and was Re-Seconded to the RAF for further two years.On the 1st of September he became Temporary AOC, Northern Area and on the 18th of October 1919, Officer Commanding, No 16 Group. Between the wars he was Officer Commanding, No 1 Group then Chief Staff Officer, Inland Area. In August 1924 he became Chief Staff Officer, HQ Iraq Command. In May 1926 he became Director of Training ad in December 1929 AOC, Fighting Area, Air Defence of Great Britain. On 28 January 1936 he was one of three officers representing the Air Council at the funeral of HM King George V. On the 14 July 1936 he became AOC in C, Fighter Command. As Air Member for Research and Development in the 1930's he was in a position to oversee the development of the eight gun fighters, Hurricane and Spitfire, but even more importantly his previous experience in wireless experiments gave him an excellent insight into possibilities of it's use in the detection of aircraft. He was able to take these preparations to their logical conclusion when given command of the newly formed Fighter Command in July 1936. He immediately set about developing a system able to make best use of his limited resources and it was this system as much as anything that ensured success in 1940. He established the coastal chain of radar stations (then known as RDF), but the success of radar really lay in the reporting and control system he set up which allowed aircraft to be placed in the right place at the right height in time to meet the threat. During the Battle of Britain his most difficult problem was the conflict between AVM Leigh-Mallory and AVM Park over tactics in which he supported both Group Commanders and saw that both sets of tactics had their advantages but that they were not necessarily suitable in both situations. From 1938 Dowding was advised of five separate retirement dates, but each one was rescinded for various reasons, therefore, his replacement in November 1940 as AOC in C Fighter Command, when flush with success in the Battle of Britain was seen as a snub by many, although it had in fact been planned. A Whiting Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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