Form 543 - No. 2 R.C. Cardington

[Larry]

Thanks Spike.

For my father in law he did not want to be in the Forces and got conscripted. I think it may have been some kind of Administrative 'cock up' that led to him being sent to an active Bomber Command Squadron, as a GG. They did ask him if he wanted to do circuits and bumps in a Wellington and go on a Air Gunners Course but he declined as he had seen so many of the aircraft crash land or come back with the rear fuselage skin burnt off, that he was put off.

After RAF Elsham Wolds and the formation of the RAF Regt he was sent to Burma and served in No 8 AWOU, about which I have very little info except that it was something like Aircraft Warning Observation Unit. The idea was that the unit trekked in to the Jungle and set up an OP on a high hill and gave early warning of approaching Japanese air raids. I believe this was visual detection before radar was available.