Hughes, Clarence
Title
Hughes, Clarence
Clarence Lindsay Hughes
C L Hughes
Description
34 items and two sub-collections. Collection concerns Clarence Hughes' (1334982). He flew operations as a navigator with 427 Squadron. Collection contains his flying and navigators logbooks, photographs of people and aircraft, documents, correspondence, identity disks, decorations, mementos, and items of uniform. One sub-collection is photograph album covering his time training in the United States and Canada and family back in England, The other contains precis of subjects covered on the officer's advanced training school.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Christina Jones and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Christina Jones and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Date
2016-06-02
Publisher
IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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Identifier
Hughes, CL
Collection Items
Officers advanced training school - M.T. administration
Covers duties of M.T. officer, establishments, servicing and maintenance, supply, repairs, lights on service transport, markings on vehicle, licensing of vehicle, types of run, authority of runs: driving licenses, co-ordination of M.T., records to be…
Officers advanced training school - investigation of charges
Covers officers who may hear charges, officers punishable summarily, charges against officers, charges against W.O.s, charges against N.C.O.s and aircraftsmen, use of forms for hearing charges, orderly room procedures, civil offences committed by…
Officers advanced training school - arrest and custody
Covers introduction to air force law, arrest general, arrest - who can order, arrest of officer, open arrest - no escort, arrest of W.O. or N.C.O., arrest of aircraftsman, arrest of W.A.A.F. personnel, airman's possible loss of pay when in close…
Officers advanced training school -W.A.A.F administration
Covers policy, organisation, chain of control, administration, discipline, disciplinary powers and status of W.A.A.F. officers and N.C.O.s, saluting, promotion/officers, promotion/remustering and reclassification - airwomen and pay.
Officers advanced training school - service institutes
Covers objects and organisation of N.A.A.F.I., the running of the institute, president and committee of the institute, sources of P.S.I income, expenditure of P.S.I funds, procedure for dealing with the N.A.A.F.I in regard to complaints and…
Officers advanced training school - station administration
Covers introduction, administrative services, responsibilities of C.O., the adjutant, the station administrative officer, the accountant officer, control of sections, station duties, station duty officer, orderly officer, duty N.C.O., duty medical…
Officers advanced training school - casualty procedure
Covers introduction, definition, reporting of casualty, notification of next of kin, funerals, coroner's inquest, burial in the field and dispersal of effects. Followed by two appendixes, one with details of actions by effects officer. and the other…
Part of Officers advanced school - allocation of manpower and other documents
Missing page 1 and 2. Page 3 onwards covers repatriation and release abroad, compassionate release, action to ensure simultaneous release in class A, interview of personnel, replacement of releases, notification to dispersal centres, return of…
Officers advanced training school - manning policy officers
Covers introduction, sources of supply of officers and then , postings/general, postings - how notified, postings/overseas, posting of non-effective personnel, compassionate postings, postings under K.R. 332. Officers documents - list of documents,…
Officers advanced training school - flying accidents
Covers accidents rates past/present, causes and percentage rates, prevention - approach to problem, interviewing new crews, improvements of flying discipline, engine handling, carelessness, general training, reporting of flying accidents followed by…
Officers advanced training school - discussion groups
Covers the principal aim of discussion groups, summary of aims, advantages over other methods, organisation and hints on techniques of running/guiding/leading, discussion groups, Followed by page of questions.
Officers advanced training school - personnel training
Covers the RAF education and vocational training (EVT) scheme, the compulsory nature of E.V.T, application to individuals, types of training: resettlement training, elementary educational training, secondary educational training, higher education…
Officers advanced training school - field hygiene, sanatory and cooking demonstration site
Covers description and participants, field disinfectors, field incinerators, Urine disposal pits, disposal of latrine bucket contents, shallow trench latrines, trough urinal an sump, bucket latrines, deep trench latrines, ablution bench and sump,…
Officers advanced training school - courts of inquiry and investigations
Covers objects, types of enquiry or investigation, courts of inquiry composition, order for assembly and terms of reference, attendance of witnesses. evidence, procedure, recording of evidence, action when character of person involved, findings,…
Correspondence concerning commission, award of Distinguished flying cross and list of operations carried out
Letters from air secretary branch stating that commissioning parchment was being prepared. Letter from RAF Historian researcher stating that he would obtain and send on the recommendation for his Distinguished Flying Cross and also copies of all his…
Officers advanced training school - service writing
Service writing covers purpose of service writing, formal letters, informal letters, postagrams, D.O letters, air ministry letters, memoranda, reports, paragraphing, abbreviations and style. Part 2 handling of a file covers central registry, degree…
Officers advanced training school - airmen aircrew
Covers introduction and selection of serving airmen. Followed by section on promotion of aircrew including cases for normal, special, pathfinding and captain of aircraft. Then section on commissioning of aircrew with sections on general principles,…
Officers advanced training school - promotion of, and confidential reports on officers
Promotion of officers covers introduction, the scheme. peace establishment promotion, war substantive rank, war establishment promotion, appointment to acting rank, relinquishment of acting rank, recommendation for war establishment promotion,…
Officers advanced training school - careers of airmen (tradesman)
Covers introduction, channels of advancement, trades in the RAF, preliminary action, further action, disposal of Forms 167 and exceptions. Followed by reclassification which covers aim, skilled trades, unskilled trades, methods, promotion from…
Officers advanced training school - documentation: posting
Covers purpose, Forms 28, filling in Forms 28, hastening of documents using a set A, check by C.O, Forms 1580 airman's/airwomen's record sheet, character and trade assessments, examples, assessments when made, authority for postings, points to watch…
Officers advanced training school - equipment procedure and accounting(1) and (2)
first document covers responsibility and control, identification of stores, classification of stores, categorisation of stores, forms to use, accounting and questions. Second document covers passing of forms, loss of equipment. casual and local…
Officers advanced training school - summary of evidence
Covers definition, purpose, when and by whom to be taken, action before taking, procedure - explanation to the accused, procedure - taking the summary, evidence, procedure - making up papers, summoning of witnesses, action by C.O, conclusion and…
Officers advanced training school - powers of punishment
First document covers punishment awarded summarily, C.O's powers of punishment, subordinate commander's powers of punishment, detachment commander's powers of punishment, procedures when badges of rank covered, reduction of punishments, reversions,…
Officers advanced training school - cash accounting
Covers public/non public funds, station commanders responsibilities for both, personnel occurrence reports, pay parades, accounting under active service conditions, officers' pay and allowances, airmen's' pay, cash service instructions and questions.
Officers advanced training school - the air ministry and RAF commands
Covers the work of the air ministry, constitution of the air council, responsibilities of members of the council, the ministerial members, the air members, the permanent under-secretary of state (PUS), general observation on the on the department of…