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6th April 2009, 20:04
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70 Wing RAF France 1939-40
My uncle Edgar (Burnell) Verney was a driver in the pre war RAF and was sent to France in 1939. I have a Christmas card he sent home in 1939 from "No 70 Wing Headquarters in the field".
It has a photo of a large unit of officers and men, formally photographed in front of a large typically French building, possibly an officers mess. He brought his lorry home with him sometime around the fall of France and parked it outside our house for several days awaiting instructions, such was the shambles then. He spoke about being sent to the same billet that he had been in when he served out there in the 1914-18 war, which I think was in the vicinity of Abbeville. Unfortuneately he was sent straight out to Malta and was killed there about 18 months later Does anyone know what and where, No 70 Wing was, at that time ?
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Peter Verney ex nav/rad 
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