205502 LAC George Pawson Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from:Cheetham, Lancs. According to his group captain, as recorded on his Certificate of Service and Release:
This airman has been in charge of the telephone exchange at Hallaxton. He has always been polite and willing to work longer hours to make up for the deficiency in staff. He is conscientious, efficient and takes an interest in his work.
According to George, he worked on a highly isolated outpost in the country as a communications officer, radio operator, doing work of some classified nature, he received some kind of guerilla training. To the best of my knowledge they were radio operators, intercepting messages from the Germans and relaying their information. Mostly very boring but important and required personal dedication and action. It was part of bombing raids over Germany. He never talked much about it, as it was highly classified at the time, and once he immigrated to Canada in the fifties, it was so drummed into him not to talk, that he just couldn't. However, it seems he lost a lot of friends, and when finally attending a Remembrance Day Ceremony in Powell River B.C. in the 1990's, he was in tears the whole time. I am very curious, as to what exactly they were doing in the country there for 5 whole years, In his discharge book are also stamped Cardington which is supposed to have been a sort of ghost station for Tempsford.
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