RAF record of service

[mrs_orrell]

Hello,
I am hoping someone may be able to interpret an RAF service record for me. It's my grandad's service record and I am writing a short history of his WW2 experience to be used at an open day at the cemetery where he is buried.

It looks to me like he was accepted for training as an air gunner but was then withdrawn - I don't know if P.F.5 gives an indication as to why. I always thought he was ground crew and worked on the planes and that at some point, he was in Gloucestershire or Herefordshire as it's where he met my nana.

I've googled the units and think they are:
2RC - a recruiting centre? Cardington?
1ACRC - was this London? Lord's Cricket Ground / Regent's Park / St John's Wood
CRC Eastchurch - Isle of Sheppey, Kent
14 MU - Carlisle maintenance unit
Bishopbriggs - Scotland
No. 7? school of technical training - I cannot find a definitive answer as to where this was
3STT - Hereford?
7 (P) AFU - was this Cambridgeshire? (pilot) Advanced Flying Unit
102 PDC - personel dispersion centre - Cardington again?

Can any idea be gleaned from where he was or the qualifications listed about what he worked on? I thought it was spitfires - he certainly liked to go and look at them at Duxford!

Any help very gratefully received.

[tonepad]

No 7 School of Technical Training was at RAF Innsworth, Gloucester

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Innsworth


Tony

[MollyC]

RAF Bishopbriggs was east of the town, near Cadder.  It appears in the centre of this map, on Crosshill Road, but not named.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/188144469

It was the Glasgow District HQ of the barrage balloon service and included maintenance workshops for balloons, vehicles and winches, probably other functions besides.  (Also in Wikipedia)
(My father was there c. March 1940-May 1941, dealing with balloon operations across the district.)

[tonepad]

No 3 School of Technical Training was at Blackpool during WW2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/81/a7785381.shtml


Tony

[tonepad]

No. 7 (Pilots) Advancing Flying Unit was at RAF Peterborough

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Peterborough


Tony

[tonepad]

One of the aircraft at No. 7 (Pilots) Advancing Flying Unit could have been a Miles Master.
This could be why Master in 1944 is one of the Special Qualifications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Master


Tony

[SMJ]

LTTB = Local Trade Test Board (an examination or review to check the competency of the individual in their RAF trade)

see https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=657408.0

[mrs_orrell]

One of the aircraft at No. 7 (Pilots) Advancing Flying Unit could have been a Miles Master.
This could be why Master in 1944 is one of the Special Qualifications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Master


Tony

Thank you for all of the information you have given - lots of great links for me to read up on. My nana is still with us at nearly 98 and still totally independent, so I asked her this morning what she remembers about Grandad's time in the RAF. She said he was withdrawn from air crew training because he was colour blind. As for what he did she said: "I've got no idea, I was too busy working!" So, I'll be figuring that out myself!

[mrs_orrell]

RAF Bishopbriggs was east of the town, near Cadder.  It appears in the centre of this map, on Crosshill Road, but not named.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/188144469

It was the Glasgow District HQ of the barrage balloon service and included maintenance workshops for balloons, vehicles and winches, probably other functions besides.  (Also in Wikipedia)
(My father was there c. March 1940-May 1941, dealing with balloon operations across the district.)

Thank you MollyC. I am very much wishing I had asked Grandad about this while I had the chance. I did once ask him when I was at school why he did not go abroad during the war and he said "You didn't go if they didn't send you!" and I think that was the only time we ever talked about it.