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| 033 Entry - January 1936 - December 1938 |
 The 33rd Entry shuffled into Air Force history in January 1936, when a motley collection of schoolboys, aged between 15 and 17, arrived at RAF Station Halton, over a period of some three weeks, for apprentice training at No.1 School of Technica l Training. It was an 'expansion entry'; the RAF was expanding desperately in an attempt to match the Luftwaffe, then seen to be a very serious threat in the light of the deteriorating relations with Nazi Germany. |
| Date Added: 21.08.06 |
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| 036 Entry - 1937-1939 |
 The 36th Entry arrived at Halton in August 1937 as the largest entry to date, with a strength of 1,246 at attestation. After Electrician, Instrument, & Wireless Apprentices left for Cranwell about 1,000 Fitters Engine/Airframe & 120 Fitters Armourer remained at Halton in Nos.1, 2, & 5 Wings. Later, a number of volunteers transferred to the Fleet Air Arm.
The 36th soon made their mark in all aspects of Halton life, quickly establishing a reputation as the all-time great Entry. But Halton was overcrowded, so in 1938 half the 36th Fitters E&A and Fitters Armourer of all Entries were sent to Cosford. The outbreak of WWII curtailed the normal three-year Apprenticeship by six months for the 36th, with Passing Out (Graduation) in December 1939. Thus, most of the Fitters E&A were posted to Maintenance Units for practical experience, but Fitters Armourer rather to operational units due to a general shortage in the trade.
In WWII over 50 members of the Entry gave their lives in distinguished service to their country, both on the ground and in the air. Those surviving are now in their mid-eighties.
Administered by: Vic Hand |
| Date Added: 21.08.06 |
Visits: 139 |
| 223 Entry - July 1971 - June 1973 |
 This website is dedicated to all fellow members of 223 entry. (but if you're not ex - 223 you are still very welcome).
We must have been one of if not 'the' smallest entry of Craft apprentices to graduate with 46 out of 97 completing the course (including one who passed out on 25 July) hence our motto 'small but deadly', well we were young at the time. We were so small that our Pass-out parade was in front of Schools! as we would have been lost on the parade square.
Administered by: Bob Rodham |
| Date Added: 21.08.06 |
Visits: 193 |
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