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THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
No 10 SQUADRON ASSOCIATION
Membership of the 10 Squadron Association is open to those who are serving or have served on the Squadron in the past, as well as their relatives. Whilst the majority of the sections on the website require a Username and Password to view and hence may only be visited by paid-up Members, a limited number are nevertheless available to all. We hope that you enjoy your visit here.
Association joining details may be found in the Top Menu.
AIMS OF THE 10 SQUADRON ASSOCIATION
• To preserve the spirit of comradeship formed during service with 10 Squadron
• To sustain a close relationship between the Squadron and the Association
• To provide a focus for contact with other former Squadron colleagues or their relatives, by promoting attendance at Annual Reunions and Remembrance Day Services at the 10 Squadron Memorial
• To encourage the collection and preservation of documents, photographs, anecdotes and memorabilia with which the Squadron’s history may be enhanced
• To encourage Squadron and Association members to contribute to the Association website
• To encourage members of the Squadron to join the Association
MEMBERS
See the ‘Crewroom’ for additional articles and images.
10 Squadron was formed at Farnborough on 1 January 1915 but later that week moved to Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey. Now based at RAF Brize Norton, as part of the AirTanker Hub, the Squadron operates the Voyager A330 tanker/transport aircraft in the AT (Air Transport), AAR (Air-to-Air Refuelling) and VVIP roles. Together with its sister No 101 Sqn, the two units employ a joint manning strategy on flying tasks, without losing a strong sense of individual unit identity as was evident in the Squadron's Centennial Year of 2015 when HRH The Princess Royal presented No 10 Squadron with a new Standard.
The 10 Sqn Association was formed in 1984 with the aim of preserving the spirit of comradeship formed during active service on the unit and a close relationship continues to be maintained with the present day Squadron. Membership is open to all who have served, or continue to serve on 10 Squadron, together with their relatives or friends of former Squadron members.
If you are a potential member, the Association Committee hopes that you enjoy reading the information on this website and after joining the Association, if you so choose, you will be granted access to the Members' Area, where many past records and other items of interest await you. Joining instructions are given in the Top Menu.
The Association organizes two main events each year. A Reunion Dinner is held each May in the RAF Brize Norton local area, to promote a strong fellowship amongst our members. In November, a Remembrance Day Service takes place at the 10 Squadron Memorial which is located at the entrance to the former RAF Melbourne in Yorkshire, where the Squadron was based in WW2. The ceremony preserves the memory of the personnel who sacrificed their lives when serving on the Squadron in WW2 and also remembers those who have passed away during peacetime in later years. All are welcome to attend. Scroll down further to read of the Memorial.
The 10 Squadron Association 2024
Contacting Us
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Memorabilia
Be advised that because the Association has no permanent postal address or official 'home' as such, we cannot accept any items of personal memorabilia that family members might consider appropriate to donate to the Association. Whilst we are most grateful for their kindness to think of us as possibly being suitable recipients, it may nevertheless be more practical to donate any such items to a museum or local history society.
In that way, items will be recorded and placed on an inventory which should then prevent them from subsequently appearing for sale on internet 'sales' websites where their future would be indeterminate. Sorry.
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We will endeavour to reply within 7 days to genuine requests or comments. However due to the increasing numbers of non-Association viewers seeking Family History Research Advice, we regret that the rules in the "Research Help" section will be strictly applied. We have no research facilities ourselves.
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Please be aware that we do not carry out any 'Where are they now?' research or tracing of old friends. However if you wish to make use of our limited 'Research Help' facility, send your enquiry to the above address. You must be prepared to have your email address posted in the open part of the website. Any such post will be kept on the page for about a year, due to the changing nature of email addresses.
Please limit any such enquiries, which must contain a reference to RAF 10 Squadron, to a maximum of 100 words. The Association will not enter into any correspondence as a result of such enquiries.
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WHAT'S NEW ?
To enable our viewers to see what the Latest Additions are to the website, without having to scroll through all the various menus, a list of the latest additions will be posted here for a few months. Be advised that content addition to our Archives section is a continuous process and latest additions are not listed here but are coloured blue in the archives themselves.
Articles that are added to the Crewroom may not be posted here since that menu is one of continual addition.
LOGBOOK
All aircrew are required to complete a personal log book which lists details of their flights.
These are the RAF Form 414 – Pilots Flying Log Book, and the RAF Form 1767 – Aircrew Flying Log Book for other aircrew categories.
It is unusual, particularly after WW2 on a large-crewed aircraft, to find the whole crew listed for a particular flight. Usually it is only the captain's name recorded in the "crew" column on the page.
Regrettably there is limited space available in the 'Spare' column on a log book’s page, and hence, often due to the modesty of the individual, it is rare to find specific reference to incidents that occurred during a particular flight.
For example, we learn from an RFC communiqué, that on 26 October 1915, in combat, an injured 10 Squadron Observer somehow managed to move from the front cockpit of his spinning BE2c into the back in order to take control from his incapacitated pilot. He landed the aircraft and they both survived! It would be interesting to find their log book entries for that particular flight!
This section portrays some of the 10 Sqn History annals which may not have been recorded in Squadron members’ personal log books. It also contains articles that just don't seem to fit in anywhere else.
