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Cpl Tom Ellis
Royal Air Force 540 Squadron
from:Bradford
Tom Ellis was stationed throughout the UK and Europe during his service as a Metrologist in the RAF. Bases included: Gibraltar, Marston Moor, Leeming, Benson and Coulomier with 540 Squadron. VE Day was spent in Paris with Wing Cdr Ball and others from the Squadron.
On leaving the RAF in 1946, he attended Leeds University where he achieved a BA (Hon) and went into teaching. Retiring as Headteacher of a large comprehensive school in Scunthorpe in 1985. Enjoying a quiet retirement, he is a keen aircraft historian and prodigious reader of aircraft history books.

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