Telegraphist Air Gunners

Photos Fleet Air Arm Royal Navy - Telegraphist Air Gunners

AT THE ROYAL NAVAL TELEGRAPHIST AIR GUNNERS SCHOOL IN CANADA. FEBRUARY 1945, YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA NA1 Webber of Winnipeg, Canada, and Ordinary Telegraphist Ward of County Wicklow, Eire, learning how to send and receive aircraft calls.

AT THE ROYAL NAVAL TELEGRAPHIST AIR GUNNERS SCHOOL IN CANADA. FEBRUARY 1945, YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA Hoisting the paying-off pendant on closing the school. Left to right: Petty Officer Mant of Canterbury; Chief Yeoman Machin, of Eltham; Flight Lieut C F D Evans, Adjutant, of New York; and Leading Signalman George Poulton, of Milford Haven.

AT THE ROYAL NAVAL TELEGRAPHIST AIR GUNNERS SCHOOL IN CANADA. FEBRUARY 1945, YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA Naval air gunners in the making receiving disciplinary training from Petty Officer Dowd, of Middlesborough. They are wearing a special issue of winter headgear. They include NA2 Truitt and NA2 A Wood of London; NA2 Taylor of Worcester; NA2 R Wood of Birmingham; NA2 Radford of Street, Somerset; and NA2 Webber of Winnipeg, Canada.

AT THE ROYAL NAVAL TELEGRAPHIST AIR GUNNERS SCHOOL IN CANADA. FEBRUARY 1945, YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA. Private William Cook, of the Canadian Army, thanks NA1 Walker, of Leeds, and NA1 Irvine, of Maidenhead for their blood donations which may have helped to save his life whilst on active service in Belgium.

AT THE ROYAL NAVAL TELEGRAPHIST AIR GUNNERS SCHOOL IN CANADA. FEBRUARY 1945, YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA. Naval Airman Hill, of Glasgow, testing the special snow equipment carried in training aircraft at the school.

AT THE ROYAL NAVAL TELEGRAPHIST AIR GUNNERS SCHOOL IN CANADA. FEBRUARY 1945, YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA. Lieut Cdr Harley, RN, of London, Ontario, Commander Flying, and his messenger, NA1 Walker of Leeds, in the control tower overlooking the flying field.

Remembering the Telegraphist Air Gunners

AT THE ROYAL NAVAL TELEGRAPHIST AIR GUNNERS SCHOOL IN CANADA. FEBRUARY 1945, YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA. "Stand-easy" at the school when pupils and instructors make the most of the break to enjoy soft drinks and chocolate bars.