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16-10-2007, 09:27 AM
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__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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16-10-2007, 10:27 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | LG Summary The undermentioned are granted short service commissions as Pilot Officers for four years on the active list with effect from and with seniority of 12th Jan. -1932: Alan McDonald BOWMAN. Gazette Issue 33793 published on the 26 January 1932. Page 7 of 64 The undermentioned Pilot Officers are promoted to the rank of Flying Officer: — 22nd Apr. 1932. Alan McDonald BOWMAN. Gazette Issue 33824 published on the 10 May 1932. Page 7 of 90 The undermentioned Flight Lieutenants are granted permanent commissions in this rank. 1st June 1936:— Alan McDonald BOWMAN. Gazette Issue 34294 published on the 16 June 1936. Page 6 of 76http://beta.gazettes-online.co.uk/Vi...east=&similar= The undermentioned Flight Lieutenants are promoted to the rank of Squadron Leader,1st Dec. 1938: — Alan McDonald BOWMAN. Gazette Issue 34576 published on the 2 December 1938. Page 13 of 88 Distinguished Flying Cross Squadron Leader Alan McDonald BOWMAN (32138). No Citation Gazette Issue 34978 published on the 25 October 1940. Page 4 of 36 Squadron Leaders to be Wing Commanders (temporary). Alan McDonald BOWMAN, D.F.C. (32138). Gazette Issue 35102 published on the 11 March 1941. Page 3 of 46 Bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross. Wing Commander Alan McDonald BOWMAN, D.F.C. (32138), No. 39 Squadron. This officer has commanded the squadron since April, 1941, during which period it has carried out a large number of long distance reconnaissances. By his leadership, skill and determination, Wing Commander Bowman has contributed largely to the great successes achieved. Gazette Issue 35241 published on the 8 August 1941. Page 8 of 86
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16-10-2007, 10:30 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Nice one, Kyt. I see Hughie Edwards was gazetted for his DFC on the sam page of 11 March 41.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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16-10-2007, 10:35 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | As was Acting Squadron Leader Peter Guy WYKEHAM-BARNES, http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/commonwealth_wykeham.htm And the site should be a lesson that no matter how good the information presented, it shouldn't be taken as gospel. It gives WB's service number as 41092 which infact belonged to Squadron Leader Vernon Crompton WOODWARD D.F.C. WB's service number was 33211.
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16-10-2007, 10:39 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Huh, flew with Pattle! There's one of those cool little links I've been talking about that one stumbles across in this big war.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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16-10-2007, 12:09 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Proves three heads are better than two! I still would like to find out why he is not on the Nominal roll! By the way Andy, have you seen the RAAF operation record books for 1 OTU etc on the archives? http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imag...60090&I=1&SE=1
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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16-10-2007, 12:12 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Ooooooh, me likey. Onya, Spidgeman!
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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16-10-2007, 12:13 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | As a career officer in the RAF from the early 1930s, and as there's no indication that he ever transferred between national air forces, he probably wouldn't ever have counted as "RAAF", even though he hailed from Oz. His service number is definately RAF.
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16-10-2007, 12:24 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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16-10-2007, 12:25 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Quote:
Australians usually had either "Aus.XXXXX" and/or "RAAF" in their LG entry
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