Recording the History - Recalling the Memories.
Postings In: NONE
Postings Out: See Below
Duty Officer: LONG RETIRED
Duty NCO: LONG RETIRED
Pay Parade: What’s a Pay Parade Grandad?
RAF ABERPORTH
CINEMA
PRESENTS
Clint Eastwood
IN
A FISTFUL of DOLLARS
ON WEDNESDAY 18TH JUNE 1969
COMMENCING AT 8 PM…… DOORS OPEN AT 7.45
TICKETS 2/6
MEMBERS OF THE RAE ARE WELCOME AT THESE SHOWS,
BUT ADVANCED BOOKING IS REQUIRED AS SEATING IS LIMITED
FOR ADVANCE BOOKING CONTACT
NCO I/C STATION CINEMA … SGT M.FORD
RAE - BUILDING 247 ext 553 or ext 310
THERE WILL BE A REPEAT SHOWING IN THE OFFICERS MESS
ON SATURDAY 21ST JUNE AT 8.15 PM
“When a man with a.45 meets a man with a rifle,
the man with the pistol is a dead man.”
Jim Muir.
Sad to report the death of Jim Muir on Thursday 30th of August 2012.
Since his RAF days, Jim and his wife Davina, have lived at Cenarth about 8 miles from Cardigan. He was 78 when he died peacefully in hospital at Carmarthen.
“Flt Lt Jim Muir” was the Officer Commanding MSF (Missile Servicing Flight), based in Building 247 on the RAE Aberporth Range site, from around 1966 to 1970, covering the start of the BHFU Mk2 trials.
Jim can be seen in the front row of the 1967 and 1969 BHFU Squadron photographs, and taking down the RAF Ensign at the Station Closedown in May 1984.
Always a true gentleman, it was a real pleasure to have worked with him on many firing trials at RAE Aberporth in those “pioneering” years. Mike
Post Script: November 2013 - Sadly, Jim’s wife Davina died this month.
RAF LOCKING APPRENTICES - 91st Entry
If by some FLUKE you were a 91st Entry RAF Apprentice at Locking from 1959 to 1961, or know someone who was, the Entry Celebrated their 50th Anniversary of Graduation on December 19th 2011.
Around 50 ex-members out of the 110 who graduated have been found, and there have been a few reunions since 2008.
The last reunion was held at Weston Super Mare in April 2012. And another, a BBQ, was held in summer 2014.
To find out more visit the 91st Web Site via this link below.
The following have been Posted Out and are holding a farewell
Bar-B-Q & Dance
at the RAF Aberporth Social Club on:
Friday 22nd June 1973 8pm
The following request your company. Admission by Invitation Only.
Flight Sgt’s Ron Adams Jim McKernan Ken Pugh
Chief Tech’s Frank New Mick Saxby Bert Thorogood
Sergeant’s Ian Grant Sid Mathias
Corporal’s Pete Burford Dave Dunn
& Mr John Griffiths
Dress - Informal. Drinks - Half Price. Food and Dancing - FREE
And
Mandy Ford.
Much sadder, for my own family, was the sudden death after a short illness of my daughter-in-law Mandy.
Mandy died unexpectedly aged 50 on Thursday Sept 6th 2012, just a week after Jim Muir.
Mandy was married to my son and business partner Chris, and having worked in our retail shop for some years, her loss is having an on-going impact on our family AND our business as you may imagine.
Family events like this make one look at life with a different perspective, such that in March 2013 we made a BIG decision to drop down to a 5 day week, permanently, by closing all day every Wednesday.
It’s having only a small financial impact on the business, but a good one on ourselves.
After retailing 6 days a week for 40 years from 1975 when I left the RAF as a Chief Tech,
I realised we should have done it a long time ago.
Time given over to Updates to this web-site are still affected even in summer 2015.
1429 ATC Cardigan & Aberporth Squadron
Of interest to anyone involved with the Air Training Corp, for several years Mandy was also
the much loved O.C. 1429 ATC Squadron based at Parclyn, near the RAE .
Hence her funeral was attended by many hundreds of mourners.
For more about the ATC life of “Flt Lt Mandy Ford”, ”Click” this link:
http://www.aircadets-3ww.org.uk/archive/inmemoryofmandyford.htm
Mike @ July 2015
