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Re: Fighter Flight Prestwick
Air Britain's Flying Training and Support Units has the Reserve Echelon (Fighter Flight) formed at Prestwick in May 1940 - fate unknown. The two Gladiators you mention are only known to have served with this flight, but there is no record for either after 9.5.40. The suggestion is lost in France or Norway - I would think that Norway is the likeliest.
There does not seem to have been any other use of the term "Reserve Echelon"
The only other "Fighter Flight" as such was the Fighter Flight, Shetlands, formed at Turnhouse 18.12.39 with a detachment of 3 Gladiators from 152 Sq., at Sumburgh 27.12.39, renamed Fighter Flight Sumburgh 5.1.40, 24.7.40 left the Shetlands to form the nucleus of 247 Sq at Roborough - interesting enough but not your Gladiators.
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