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306th Entry

The THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTH Entry was attested on 5 May 1966. Training in the trades of Clerk Secretarial and Supplier was undertaken at RAF Hereford and Nursing Attendant at RAF Halton: The Entry passed out on 28 April 1967.

595219 – BOWEN S J STEPHEN

595220 – DRAYTON C CHRISTOPHER

595221 – HATTON W R WALTER

595222 – HORSBURGH M W MICHAEL

595223 – KELLY A J ALAN

595224 – MACLEOD A J ALEXANDER

595225 – MILLER J I JEFFREY

595226 – MOORE T I TREVOR

595227 – MURPHY D F DENIS

595228 – PEGLEY J B B JULIAN

595229 – RIPPON D DAVID

595230 – STEWART A B ALAN

595231 – TITMAN E F EDWARD

595232 – PENALVER A E ALEXANDER

595233 – AVIS C J CHRISTOPHER

595234 – AXON N M NICHOLAS

595235 – BEDDOW B R BARRINGTON

595236 – BODELL J D JOHN

595237 – BOOTH D M C DAVID

595238 – BOOTHROYD P J PETER

595239 – BULLIMORE R C RICHARD

595240 – BULPETT C A CHRISTOPHER

595241 – CHADWICK P J PHILIP

595242 – CLARK V I VINCENT

595243 – CLIFTON A B ANDREW

595244 – COTTON G GRAHAM

595245 – DALTON C R CHRISTOPHER

595246 – ENTICKNAP J C JOHN

595247 – EVERETT A C ANTHONY

595248 – EDGAR M P MANFRED

595249 – FERGUSON W C WILLIAM

595250 – GAYLER D J DAVID

595251 – GOSWELL B BRIAN

595252 – GRAHAM J W JOHN

595253 – HARDY D J DAVID

595254 – HAZELWOOD D DONALD

595255 – HENKUN R N RODDY

595256 – HUBBARD R A RICHARD

595257 – JAMES I W IAN

595258 – JOHNSTON N C NORMAN

595259 – JOYCE J T JOHN

595260 – MANLEY J V JOHN

595261 – MARTIN A J ANTHONY

595262 – MASON M H MARK

595263 – MAYELL T H TERENCE

595264 – McNICHOLAS J P JAMES

595265 – MERRICK-REED A D ANDREW

595266 – MONTHERO C P CARLYLE

595267 – MORRISS W D WILLIAM

595268 – MURRELL R D W RONALD

595269 – OCALLAGHAN J P JOHN

595270 – OSWALD P J PATRICK

595271 – PORTER T TREVOR

595272 – PAGE W E M WILLIAM

595273 – RANDALL T J TERENCE

595274 – ROBERTS I J IAN

595275 – SIMPSON E P EDWARD

595276 – SCRANCHER P J PHILIP

595277 – SHORROCK L R LESLIE

595278 – SIMMS G W GRAHAM

595279 – SMITH G W GRAHAM

595280 – SPEARING I R B IAN

595281 – SUTHERILL T K TREVOR

595282 – VAUX S D STEVEN

595283 – VINE W F WILLIAM

595284 – WAREHAM F FRANCIS

595285 – ROBERTS A J ADRIAN

595286 – WARREN P PHILIP

595287 – WEBB B E BRYAN

595288 – WILKINS A E ALAN

595289 – WILLIAMS G J GRAHAM

595290 – WINSTANLEY W A WILLIAM

595327 – PHILCOX M R MICHAEL

595291 – AITKEN P R PETER

595292 – AIDONS D E DAVID

595293 – BADHAM M MICHAEL

595294 – LLOYD (ex BARKER) C P CLIVE

595295 – BIRCH E N EDWARD

595296 – BISHOP T TERENCE

595297 – BUNCE D DEREK

595298 – CREDLAND A C ARTHUR

595299 – FAGAN J S JAMES

595300 – FINNIE R ROBERT

595301 – FOREMAN K D KENNETH

595302 – FORREST D J DAVID

595303 – GARSIDE A C ADRIAN

595304 – GILMORE I W P IAN

595305 – GLOVER T H TREVOR

595306 – HASTINGS A ALAN

595307 – HITCHCOCJ M A MICHAEL

595308 – HURREN T S V THOMAS

595309 – JONES (ex ISAAC) P PAUL

595310 – MACLEAN R J C ROBIN

595311 – McCRAN J B JAMES

595312 – McDERMOTT R RONALD

595313 – NICOL R P PAUL

595314 – PATTON J E JAMES

595315 – RYAN B M BERNARD

595316 – SCOTT A ALEXANDER

595317 – SHEPHERD T TREVOR

595318 – SKIRROW M J MICHAEL

595319 – SMYTH P A M PATRICK

595320 – SPENCER J R JOHN

595321 – THOMSON A D ALEXANDER

595322 – WALSOM M C MICHAEL

595323 – WEBB J JOHN

595324 – WILKIN K J KENNETH

595325 – WILLIAMS D J DAVID

595326 – KNOWLES J W JOHN


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306 C Flit
C Flight 2 Squadron Shield
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306C2_0002
306C2_0003
306C2_0004
306m-01

 
 
 
5th March 2018
My thanks to Rod Henkum for providing the following album of images:
 
306th Entry C Flt 3 Sqn Shield
 
 

 

 

12th June 2023

Greetings,

Not quite sure who I am writing to. My name is Derek Bunce – H0595297
I still remember my service number. I am 73 years old now, born in 1950, 16 years old when I joined the RAF, one of the youngest recruits. Don’t know why I started searching the web this evening for 306 Entry at RAF Hereford, but here I am.
Interesting to read Alan Hastings notes. I thought we went to RAF Cosford to see Johnny Webb boxing. I remember it being an enjoyable outing.  Don’t remember being over enthusiastic during the fight. I remember Alan Hastings well. Always thought he was lucky when he had his own room and a bath. Interesting looking at all the 306 entry names, I fondly remember most of them.  Would be nice to know where they are now.
 
After passing out I was posted to RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, 114 Squadron(Argosy aircraft) as their clerk, it was a Flight Sergeant and myself in the office. Many happy memories of flying on Argosy aircraft.  Had trips to Malta, Germany and a few other places, can’t quite remember where.
 
I became sick and hospitalised at Halton after a holiday to Majorca, spent a fair amount of time in hospital. Whilst in hospital I was posted to Binbrook, a Lightning squadron.  The posting was cancelled because of my illness. I returned to Benson to find my squadron clerk job had been taken as they needed a replacement due to the length of my absence. Ended up in the general office as the P2 clerk, I think that’s what it was, officer movements, postings, etc.
 
I think it was 1968 or 1969 I was posted to RAF Muharraq, Bahrain, a thirteen month tour. Worked in the general office there. On completion of my tour in Muharraq I was posted to 38 Group Tactical Communications Wing at RAF Tangmere, West Sussex. Tangmere was eventually closed down and we moved the whole wing to RAF Benson. Can’t remember the exact year, posted to RAF Bracknell, Officer Staff College.
 
I bought myself out of the RAF in 1973. I could not see a bright future for promotion as many RAF bases were being closed and promotion came to a grinding halt.  I remained an SAC. Whilst at Bracknell I met my future wife, an Australian, who worked for the Queensland Government at The Strand in London. We married later in 1973 and left a week after the wedding to start a new life in Australia.  I had applied for the Australian migration programme and had the best  ten pound trip all the way to Brisbane where my wife’s family lived.
We had one daughter in 1989 who still lives in Australia and has recently married. The wheels fell off my marriage in 2006 after 33 years of marriage.
I left Australia and moved to Thailand where I still live, more than seventeen years now. Thailand is my home and I see no reason to leave until I depart permanently from this life.
 
Anyway, enough of my rambling.It was nice to read your website and spend some time down memory lane.
 
Kind regards,
Derek Bunce
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

19th  May 2020

Some Memories Provided By Alan Hastings

During a period of boredom during this lockdown I browsed your website and came across the 306th entry page. I was particularly interested in the shield as I have mine on the wall of my home office. Mike’s recollection of its origins is just about spot on, but I think our trade instructor (Sgt Mike Smart if my memory hasn’t faded too much) had a major input to the design. One thing that Mike missed was that the football also represents the “0” in our entry number. the “3” and “6” being either side of the ball.

As for the “bolshie” comment, I don’t know what he means! We were high spirited and closely knit. I remember us going mob handed to watch Johnny Webb (a feisty small Irish lad) in the RAF Boxing Championship (I think it was at RAF Halton) and we were asked several times to show a bit of decorum as we raised the rafters at Johnny’s performance. I was the FS Apprentice and got it in the neck for not controlling the boys! Rumour had it (started by me) that I got the FS rank because my last 3 were the same as the entry number!

21st May 2020

Alan Hastings has kindly provided me with more memories as shown below:

I actually had my RAF interviews at Rheindahlen and I more or less got to be a clerk by default as the interviewer asked why I wanted to be an airframe fitter and my reply was that I babysat for our neighbours and he was a Chf Tech Airframe Fitter!. At the time my dad was a Cpl MT Driver but that trade never appealed to me. He was invalided out of the RAF in 1967 and died in 1980, a month after I was commissioned. One of my postings was as the RAF Recruiting Officer in Sheffield during the time David Blunkett ruled the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire. I saw a lot of potential officer candidates, who were relieved to know that their dad’s being a miner was not a bar to being an officer, and I could cite the fact that I was the some of a Cpl MTD and who had been a gasworks stoker when I was born.

My last posting as an airman (I was a Sgt at the time) was to the Secretarial Officers’ School, RAF College Cranwell as the Adj. The Senior Sec Instructor (a Sqn Ldr who had been a FS) called me in one day and told me I was an ‘effing idiot’ as all the young officers going through their Secretarial training would one day be my boss, and none of them could hold a candle to me. Talk about a motivational kick up the backside! 6 weeks later I was at the Officer Selection Centre at Biggin Hill, and another 6 weeks later I joined the very last Officer Cadet Course at RAF Henlow.

Incidentally, in 1970 when you were having your idyllic cruise to Poland,  I was sweltering at RAF Masirah, Oman. I was the clerk/driver/gofer on No 13 Radio Fitting Party (they were building a new commcen), our HQ being 5 miles out in the desert. We used to get a visit every morning from the Stn Cdr as we had the only air conditioned bog on the island!! At the same time Cpl Ken Wilkins of 306 entry was the clerk on No 276 Signals Unit, a mile up the road from my office.

Website Manager Note:

The reference to Poland was in response to an earlier email dialogue between Alan and Myself

 
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