The History of Easingwold Air Cadets - Central & East Yorkshire ...

Squadron Leader Brian
Mennell presents Cadet
Snowdon with the Rock it
Ball Player of the Year Award
2009.
Author’s Note
I have attempted to portray the squadron
history by taking small snap shots of each
year and highlighting them. Obviously
many normal activities continued
throughout the years, including sport,
swimming, model making, drill, training
courses and the academic subjects. I
have made little mention of any of them to
avoid repetition and only limited mention
of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, but
they have always featured on the
squadron. Indeed the cadets have always
done very well at all of them. Equally, I
have tried to mention as many of the
people as possible, be they cadets or
adults, involved in the squadron. Inevitably I will have missed some
and for that I apologise. I would like to think that most key players
have appeared, at least somewhere in this publication and that
overall the squadron’s history is portrayed as accurately and as
interestingly as possible.
I could not have achieved this task without the help of those who,
over the years, maintained the squadron scrap books. The
photographs, cuttings and information in them made all the
difference. I would also like to thank Liz Page, the Editor of the
Evening Press for allowing the re-production of several of the
photographs herein. I also thank past and present members of the
squadron who have contributed, but in particular Wing
Commander Ray Kidd OBE.
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