WO Jack Holt Linton on Ouse
I did my BFT at Linton in1980-81 when we were blessed by having a great SWO In the form of W/O Jack Holt who apart from being a big man physically had the bearing of a Guardsman andthe always bulled boot to match! As an. APO doing my first stint as Orderly Officer he gave my lots of advice and confidence I how to handle defaulters on parade in the guard room and who were people perhaps twice my age....
He featured quite prominently on “Fighter Pilot” when it was bing filmed a short time later to my arrivalmyast recollection of him before he sadly died whilst in post was a bollocking he gave me for not wearing a hat! He recognised me as I was walking to the Officer ‘s Mess after I had mad a weather diversion to Linton in a Jetstream from FY when the weather at FY closed in and I had no instrument rating ( and no hat!). I thereafter made sure I flew with at least a “chip bag”!
MB