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Tag: The Pathfinders’ Group Medical Officer was in the RFC during WWI.

10Nov

Cecil Macgown and the Royal Flying Corps

Posted by RAF PATHFINDERS ARCHIVEon November 10, 2018November 10, 2018in PFF HQ and Ground Staff, RAF Station Wyton

Cecil Macgown, the Group Medical Officer of the Pathfinders, usually known as Doc Macgown or ‘Mac’, was in the RFC during the First World War. In one momentous letter to his sister in 1917, he wrote: “Still alive and getting along fine. Very fed up at being out of everything. A shell hit my machine at 3000 feet up and I hit the ground rather forcibly.” To read more, see: Doc Macgown in WWI

 

The Pathfinders

  • Formation
  • Appointment of Bennett
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  • Setting up the Path Finder Force
  • PFF HQ Staff in December 1944
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  • PFF HQ Staff – Doc MacGown
  • PFF HQ Staff – Mahaddie
  • PFF HQ Staff – Thomas, the Met Officer
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  • 582 Squadron – May 1945
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  • 635 Squadron – Tubby Baker
  • Churchill at Oakington, 1942
  • Chief Technical Officer at Warboys

Pathfinders – Some Other Topics

  • PFF – Ops Board at Wyton
  • PFF HQ, Castle Hill House, January 2008
  • PFF – Ruined PFF Airfields
  • The Gunnery Dome at RAF Wyton
  • Sector Clock at Wyton and Castle Hill House

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97 Sqd Crews, Black Thursday

  • Crew: Billing
  • Crew: Brill
  • Crew: Cawdery
  • Crew: Coates
  • Deverill Crew on 17 December 1943
  • Crew: De Wesselow
  • Crew: Flack
  • Crew: Kirkwood
  • Crew: Mackenzie
  • Crew: Mansbridge
  • Crew: Mooney
  • Crew: Nicholls
  • Crew: Owen
  • Crew: Pelletier
  • Crew: Riches
  • Crew: Roberts
  • Crew: Scott
  • Crew: Smith
  • Crew: Snell
  • Crew: Thackway
  • Crew: Thackway, Biographical Details
  • Crew: Wilson

Some of our crews

  • Alabaster & Eaton-Clarke Crew
  • Armstrong Crew
  • Baker (Valentine) Crew
  • Benton Crew
  • Brown (Kenneth) Crew
  • Brown (Kenneth) Crew, Lionel Boyton
  • Burns Crew
  • Chatten Crew
  • Clarke Crew
  • Clarke Crew, Dutch Eyewitness Crash Report
  • Coleman Crew
  • Covington Crew
  • Edwards Crew
  • Emerson Crew
  • Fletcher Crew
  • Garlick Crew
  • Johnson Crew
  • Jones (Doug) Crew
  • Marks Crew
  • McEgan Crew
  • Moore Crew
  • Moroney Crew
  • Munro Crew
  • Palmer Crew
  • Penny Crew
  • Reilly Crew
  • Robertson Crew
  • Seward Crew
  • Shnier Crew
  • Steven Crew
  • Stevenson Crew
  • Treacy Crew
  • Wakley Crew
 

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