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No. 222 (Natal) Squadron Royal Air Force 2nd June 1940 Big Wing 30th August 1940 Battle of Britain 2nd Sept 1940 Battle of Britain 3rd September 1940 Airfields bombed 4th September 1940 Battle of Britain 7th Sept 1940 Battle of Britain 8th September 1940  Battle of Britain 9th Sept 1940 London Blitz begins 11th September 1940 Battle of Britain 14th Sept 1940 Battle of Britain 20th September 1940 Battle of Britain October 1944 Reconnaissance 30th April 1945 Operations summary If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Logbooks Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession? If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you. View Logbook entries Those known to have served with No. 222 (Natal) Squadron Royal Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. Assheton DFC. William Radcliffe. F/Lt. Robinson. Thomas Kenneth . Pilot Officer (d.8th Dec 1941 ) The 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. 222 (Natal) Squadron Royal Air Force from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web. 18th April 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. 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There are:2011 items tagged No. 222 (Natal) Squadron Royal Air Force available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. F/Lt. William Radcliffe Assheton DFC. 222 Squadron William Assheton was born on 12th December 1917 in Kent and attended Sherborne School in Dorset. He went on to study Electrical Engineering at Jesus College, Cambridge but before completing his degree he joined the RAF on a short service commission in early 1939. He was posted to 222 Squadron at Duxford in early November. In August 1940 the squadron was at Hornchurch when the Battle of Britain began. On the 30th Assheton crash-landed at Bekesbourne Aerodrome in Spitfire R6720 after combat over Canterbury. On 11th September he made a forced-landing on Parsonage Farm, Fletching, in Spitfire R6638, after an action over the Maidstone area Assheton's third escape came on 20th September when he baled out with slight burns, after being shot down in a surprise attack by Me109's over the Thames Estuary. He landed at Latchington and was admitted to St. Peter's Hospital, Maldon. His Spitfire, K9993, crashed and burned out at Linkhouse Farm, West Hanningfield. In 1945 Assheton was awarded the DFC (gazetted 10th April 1945) for service with 540 Squadron, a Mosquito photographic-reconnaissance unit. He remained in the RAF after the war, graduated from the RAF Staff College and retired on 22nd November 1957 as a Squadron Leader. He then moved to Spain where he died in November 2009. Steve Gould Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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