From "High Flyers" -
6/49 as AC2 Tebbitt square bashing at Padgate
summer 49 -36 Course at Wittering as officer cadet
2 FTS at South Cerney on Prentices and Harvards
11/50 commissioned
early 51 to Middleton St. George on Meteors
OCU at Stradishall
two years National Service finished
later joined RAFVR, flew Chipmunks
Then RAuxAF on Vampires and Meteor 8's [four years service during which he survived a total write off accident on take-off and a mid-air collision not to mention [he says]all manner of Fri. and Sat.evening parties,generally more hazardous than flying.