harrym (your Beverley Memories)
Photographed about the time you were flying Beverleys some shots from my album.
Gan - 14th February 1958. This 47 Sqn R.A.F. Abingdon-based Beverley serial number XB263, piloted by F/Lt Peter Dudley, flew in the advance contingent of Pakistani workers who were to do most of the construction work to convert Gan from a sleepy island with a short crushed-coral landing strip to a busy RAF staging post with an 8,694ft/2,650m long concrete runway.
Close up of the nose of the aircraft emblazoned with Arms of the town of Abingdon and GSM Medal (Malaya)
Below a couple of shots of Beverleys I took a year later when I was stationed at Abingdon in 1959.
