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RAF Uxbridge
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Those known to have served at RAF Uxbridge during the Second World War 1939-1945. 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,
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Want to know more about RAF Uxbridge? There are:-1 items tagged RAF Uxbridge 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. |
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L. I. Hughes 38 Sqd My Uncle tells me he joined the RAF at Uxbridge then trained as a fitter's mate at Marham. In Nov 1940 he was put in a Navy ship, possibly Southampton, with a hundred or so other RAF personnel. They entered the Mediterranean. They were all told to go below while the ship engaged with the Italian fleet (at what came to be known as Spartivento), with an Italian ship that had bigger guns, (16"?). They could hear the shells overhead. His chums took a dim view of this it seems. Eventually, he tells me, he spent 4 yrs in Egypt as a mechanic and refuelling on different planes. He has endless stories and I'd like to give him some news of his old outfit.
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Doris Violet Miller My mother Doris Miller served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force as a clerk special duties plotter. She was stationed at Blackburn in Lancashire and then at fighter command at Uxbridge. I remember her telling us that the actor Rex Harrison was on her watch. She married Andrew Ross Robertson RN in May 1942.
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Pte. Gwenneth Pauline Lawrence My mum, Gwen Lawrence was 14 when the second world war broke it.
Her mother wanted her to be evacuated to Canada but she refused to go. My grandmother lived in a pub in Portsmouth and the city was badly bombed.
My mum was worried that the war would be over before she could enlist and do her bit. So as soon as she turned 16 yrs she and a friend tried to join the land army and the WAAF, but both wanted to see your birth certificate.
The ATS, however, was desperate for young women to join up and didn't request to see a birth certificate. So two weeks after my mum's 16th birthday she persuaded her mother to sign the necessary papers for her to join up. She and her friend went to Droitwich initially to the ATS Training Centre and then mum trained as a plotter.
She worked at RAF Uxbridge, relaying the plots from the RAF to the ack-ack guns and she was there during the invasion of Europe on 6th of June 1944.
Soon after this mum was sent to Naples, Italy a long journey by ship and it was while she was there that the end of the war was proclaimed. Obviously not everyone could be sent back to the UK at the same time. Mum was sent on a music course in Florence just to pass the time while waiting for demob. She was billeted in a hotel which is still there now. When she entered the hotel there was a man sitting in the reception area who was playing the piano. He made sure he sat next to my mum during the course and they soon became more than friends. This man was Maurice White, and after the war they returned to the UK and were married in February 1947.
They were together for 65 years before Dad died in 2012 and then Mum in 2013.
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