Air Sea Rescue Collection

Title

Air Sea Rescue Collection

Description

15 items. The collection concerns RAF Air Sea Rescue and contains 14 oral history interviews and a memoir.
Interview with Henry Morris
Interview with Kenneth Stoker
Interview with Frank Standen
Interview with Peter Olney
Interview with Alec Moore
Interview with Charles Meacock
Interview with Terry Lloyd
Interview with Cyril Jones
Interview with Ronald Huntley
Interview with Eric Haynes
Interview with George Griffiths
Interview with Frank Boutcher
Interview with Bill Bilton
The interview with Ken Done has been moved to the relevant collection.

The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Markham Jones and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.

Date

2017-01-10

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

ASR-MCS

Collection Items

Charles Meacock saw an advertisement for motorboat crew in a newspaper and decided this was the role for him. He had been a Sea Cadet on the Thames for many years and loved life on the water. He had to wait for some time before he received his…

George Griffiths memoir
Discusses his training and service with Air Sea Rescue in Great Britain and Malta

Terry Lloyd’s older was a wireless operator in Bomber Command and became a prisoner of war. Terry was also determined to join the RAF as aircrew. However, he was rejected due to his eyesight and served on Air Sea Rescue launches. Terry was posted…

He served at the Marine Aircraft Research Establishment

George served as a wireless operator on Air Sea Rescue launches.

Bill Bilton served as Motorboat Crew in the Mediterranean.
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Collection Tree

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