Leave pass for Leonard William Fairbanks

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Title

Leave pass for Leonard William Fairbanks

Description

Form 295 allowing him to be absent from his quarters at RAF Yatesbury.

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Date

1941-07-08

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Two page printed document

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Identifier

MFairbanksLW10611800-180215-020001, MFairbanksLW10611800-180215-020002

Transcription

SILBURY CAFE, BECKHAMPTON, MARLBORO’

ROYAL AIR FORCE LEAVE/PASS} FORM

[inserted] AB 7/ Sgt [/inserted]

[stamp] “A” SQUADRON
8 AUG 1941
No. 1 WING
No. 2 SIGNALS SCHOOL
R.A.F. [/stamp]

[Inserted] S.O.P. [/inserted]

Unit A Squadron 1. Wing R9A Station YATESBURY.
Official No. 1061800 (Rank) AC2 (Name) FAIRBANKS L.W.
has permission to be absent from his quarters, from AFTER DUTY
hours on DAILY. August 10-8- 1941
to 0800 hours on 17-8-41 DAILY August 1941
for the purpose of proceeding on *leave *pass

[Signature] S/L
Commanding Officer

(Date) 8/7/41

R.9.A

P.T.O.

[Page Break]

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE HOLDER

1. Leave will expire by the time stated overleaf unless you are in possession of a sleeping-out pass entitling you to return at another time.

2. Passes will state whether monthly, for a limited period, for one occasion only, or for sleeping-out.

3.This form is not valid unless bearing the stamp of the office of origin, and the signature of an officer. When on leave or pass you must carry this form with you, and must produce it on demand by Air Force, Military or Civil Police on duty.

4.When on leave, you must notify your C.O. at once of any change of your address while on leave or pass, and must be prepared at all times to rejoin on the slightest notice if ordered to do so.

5. If you are in want of funds to enable you to return at end of leave, you should apply to your C.O. for a railway warrant on repayment. If you do not receive it in time to enable you to reach your unit before expiry of leave, you should, provided that your journey exceeds 10 miles, and that there is no Air Force Unit or Air Force Recruiting Office within easy reach, report to the nearest Police Station, produce this form and ask for a warrant. The Civil Police will not issue a warrant for a journey of less than 10 miles.

6. If in London without means of reaching your destination, you should report to Air Ministry Unit, Staffordshire House, Store Street, W.C.1., where warrants will be issued during normal working hours.

7. When on leave in the United Kingdom, you must not quit the country without Air Ministry permission obtained from your C.O.

8. If you are below the rank of sergeant, on leave or pass, you will not wear plain clothes unless permission is given hereon.

9. The C.O. of an individual on leave or pass from abroad is the C.O., No. 1 R.A.F. Depot, Uxbridge, Middlesex.

10. When passing through London you can obtain board and lodging at moderate rates at the Union Jack Club, opposite Waterloo Station.

11. If when on leave or pass you are a contact of an infectious disease, you will notify your C.O. forthwith, and send a medical certificate showing the date of last exposure to infection.

12. An individual on leave or pass, who requires medical aid, must, if practicable, report to the nearest Naval, Military or Air Force Hospital or Sick Quarters, or other establishment where a Service Medical Officer is employed, or a Civil Hospital included under the Ministry of Health Emergency Scheme. If you should reside more than 2 miles from a Service Medical Establishment, and are unable, owing to your condition, to visit an Emergency Medical Service Hospital, although this may be within 2 miles, application may be made to a Civilian Medical Practitioner, to whom you will show this form; fees will then be allowed in accordance with the following scale:-

VISIT, MEDICINE AND CERTIFICATES. (Rates effective from 1st September, 1939.)
[a] 1 [b] Visit to Surgery 2 [c] At Patient’s Residence. [c1] If not more than 2 miles away 3 [c2] Greater Distance 4
[a] Day . . Night 22.00 to 07.00 [b] s. d. 3 0 [c1] s. d. 4 6 6 0 [c2] For each additional mile or part of a mile (in one direction only) night or day 6d. with a limit of £1 per visit.

The “Distance Fee” is payable in one direction only and in respect only of the first case visited when more than one patient is attended in the neighbourhood on the same occasion. The fee shown is the third column will be allowable for each patient after the first, subject to the maximum limit of £1 17s. 6d. a day for all services.

[symbol] 13. You will report the employment of a Civilian Medical Practitioner at once to your C.O. enclosing the Practitioner’s certificate. Claims for medical attendance will be submitted by the Medical Practitioner on form 1667 to your C.O.

14. In all cases where a Civilian Medical Practitioner does not certify that you are unfit to travel, you should return to your unit on the expiry of your leave, or report to the nearest Service Hospital.

15. The Civilian Medical Practitioner will in all certificates state whether or not the individual is fit to travel.

16. If you are unfit on account of sickness, to return to your unit, and are receiving treatment from a Service Medical Establishment, the C.O. of such Establishment will immediately communicate the fact to the C.O. of your unit.

17. You are warned that you are liable to make good the extra expense incurred by engaging the services of a Civilian Medical Practitioner at a distance from your residence, without reasonable cause.

Wt.51464/5011 55,000 lifts 5/40 . . . .51-6678.

Citation

Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Leave pass for Leonard William Fairbanks,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 14, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/41489.