402 Gravesend Sqn. Great times. AEF from Manston with a short trip in a Wessex. Summer camps at Lyneham doing circuits in a Herc. We went to Hullavington the next year. Not the ideal place for a summer camp and I managed to miss the tour of the parachute packing hangar by going flying. I spent the entirety of my career as a squipper avoiding it too.
I always got beaten in the a/c recce competitions by another cadet who went on to fly F3s, Tomcats and Typhoons so I guess his recce skills needed to be better than mine!
Every now and then I catch the whiff of a cigar and it takes me back to that hut with models strung from the ceiling and its little tuck shop in the corner.
