Thank you for the link to the Eastern Daily Press story. My dad joined on 7 Dec 1941 as a volunteer and went to Canada on the training scheme, then stayed on as what we later called a creamie. His time in Canada came to an end after Market Garden, when 271 and other squadrons urgently needed Battle Casualty Replacements. Dad joined them in time for the crossing-of-the-Rhine ops, which were far better-managed than those of the previous year - still good for a story or 2, though.