246002 P/O. Harold Stone DFM.Royal Air Force 35 Squadron from:Bristol (d.24th July 1941) I was inspired to join the RAF as a RAF Locking apprentice in 1966 by a large wooden framed poster hanging on my gran and grandads wall. The poster was of five sergeant pilots looking up to the sky headed by Churchills "Never in the field of human conflict" speech. The NCO's from left to right were Dinty Moore, Peter Elliot, Rawles, Harold Stone (my uncle) and James Craig. Also somewhere in my loft is what appears to be the original photograph of the five sergeant pilots together for a recruitment poster encouraging NCO's to fly rather than just officers. I never knew my uncle Harold as he was killed coming back from bombing raid as a tail gunner in a Halifax. I don't know how that ties up with any squadron records but that is what I was told. The last item of the Squadron that I have is the cloth badge of the squadron that Harold Stone would have worn on his Mufti blazer no doubt visiting his favorite football team, Bristol Rovers,of which he was a board member. It was this badge, that my mother gave me recently, that led me to adding Harold Stone's name to this website.
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