Pitman's College]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> 1947-02]]> 1947-03]]> 1947-04]]> 1947-07]]> 1946-12]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> 1947-02]]> #2 is a car, captioned 'The original "Old Mother Riley" Mk1'.
#3 is a starboard side view of a Mosquito, captioned 'Rollo Kingsford-Smith's Mosquito AZ-R 627, PFF Squadron, Woodhall Spa July 1945'.
#4 is an airman standing in front of Blenheim Palace, captioned 'Rollo at Blenheim Palace after Victory Parade Woodstock June 1946'.]]>
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Bottom left - front quarter view of a civilian twin engine aircraft (Airspeed Consul). Captioned 'Consul snowed up at Zurich, Feb 47'.
Bottom right - view from air of sea with breakwater on coast top left. Captioned 'Dover'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Croydon]]> England--Kent]]> England--Dover]]> Switzerland]]> Switzerland--Zurich]]> 1947-02]]>
Top right - tail of a civilian aircraft parked at airport with buildings in the background. Captioned 'With the Consul at Hamburg, Jan 47'.
Bottom right - view of airport from cockpit on runway. Captioned 'Landing at Ruzyne Aerodrome Prague, Oct 46'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Switzerland]]> Switzerland--Zug]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Prague]]> 1947-02]]> 1947-01]]> 1946-10]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Somalia]]> Somalia--Mogadishu]]> 1947-02]]> G W G W Whittaker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Claire Monk]]> Royalty-free permission to publish]]> Cheshire, Leonard. Correspondence]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> 1947-02]]> Bottom is the rear of an air-to air view of a Lancaster captioned 'Lancaster EM-A in which we flew on Operations to:- Dortmund Ems Canal 6hrs 45 m Politz (Baltic) 10hrs 5min Nordhausen - 6hrs 45min Molbis - 5hrs 30min Lutzendorf - 8hrs 20min Cham 8hrs 30min'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1947-02]]> Philip Hopgood lived in Liverpool and after matriculation he registered for the Royal Air force as he was a member of the Air Training Corps. Too young to be enlisted, he worked as a clerk in the Ministry of Supply.
Called up at the age of 18 in March 1943, he was given pilot aptitude testing and basic training in England before travelling to Canada as part of the Empire Training Scheme. There he completed his pilot training at 6 Elementary Flying School at Prince Albert and 4 Secondary Flying Training School in Saskatoon, flying Ansons. Leave was spent being entertained in the homes of local Canadians.
He became a pilot in October 1944 and returned to England. Phillip spent time in hospital and on discharge was sent to 4 School of Technical Training at RAF St Athans where he was trained on Lancaster aircraft as a flight engineer. Phillip was posted to various stations before being sent to 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Woolfox Lodge flying as a flight engineer on Lancasters.
The war ended and he spent time at various stations, then 29 Elementary Flying Training school at Cliff Pypard flying Tiger Moths. Here he made a forced landing after running out of fuel.
After various aircrew allocation centres, he spent time at 1 Gliding Training School at RAF Croughton before being sent to a number of maintenance units.
Finally in February 1947, he was discharged and worked for Dunlop at Speak Airport in the laboratories, and then as a salesman for Avery Scales.
Phillip Hopgood died in 1999.
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