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My Father's RAF Wartime Experience

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posted on 2024-06-05, 17:34 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

My father was in the RAF and was an aircraft maintenance engineer and was stationed in Baghdad (Persia, now Iraq). He first joined in 1924 when aircraft had cables (not engines). He left (not sure when) and re-joined at the start of the war.

History

Item list and details

1. Baby cradle/gas mask 2 RAF service and release book 3 Inside of RAF service and release book 4 Another page of service and release book 5-8 Pages from Harold Guiver's service record

Person the story/items relate to

Harold Guiver

Person who shared the story/items

David Guiver

Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor

Harold Guiver was my father.

Type of submission

Shared at Hadleigh Library, Essex on 4 November 2023. Organised by Hadleigh Castle u3a.

Record ID

99578 | HAD007