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Also in November 1981 Alan Swales joined the unit as a Civilian Instructor. Alan, like Mark Boyle, was a gliding instructor and powered aircraft pilot and his expertise was soon put to use in the classroom teaching principles of flight and navigation. He was commissioned in 1982 making a full complement of three officers at the Squadron. Annual camp that year was at RAF Bawtry, near Doncaster. Unlike the previous two camps that decade, Bawtry was not too exciting, being mainly a weather station, however, with RAF Finningley only a few miles away, Mark Boyle was able to negotiate quite a lot of flying from there which made the camp far more interesting. During 1982 the squadron took part in the Lyke Wake Walk on the North Yorkshire Moors. Supported by members of staff, several cadets completed the tough moorland hike. The picture above shows the “Glorious finishers” including Paul Fewster (second from left) Richard Flanagan (third from left) Alastair Braid (fourth from left) and Kevin Rae (second from right) 1983 was to be a very busy year. Activities included an adventure training week at Pexton Moor Farm, a drill display at Easingwold Show and a visit to RAF Finningley's “At home day”. Football was very popular on the squadron and an excellent team had been formed culminating in their winning the Wing finals in 1983 against 152 Squadron Detached Flight of Hull Grammar School. An interesting version of events appeared in the Hull Daily Mail and I quote “What a weekend it was for parents, officers and cadets connected with No 152 Detached Flight at Hull Grammar School. The cadets were involved in the Central and East Yorkshire Wing Cup. They fought cliff-hanger matches in the semi-final against Hawker Blackburn Squadron, Brough, on Saturday and Easingwold in the final on Sunday Hearts sank as they grappled with a 3-0 half time deficit in the homematch with Brough. But Hull hit back and were level at full time. Skipper England missed a penalty in extra time which did not ease jangling nerves. Stephens scored Hull’s winning goal with just two minutes to go. Dale had his shooting boots on again on Sunday in the final at RAF Linton on Ouse against Easingwold. He hit 32
a hat trick as both sides finished up level 4-4 at full time. A lofted shot two minutes from the end, robbed Hull of victory. The match went into a goalless extra time and had to be finished on penalties. Easingwold put away four of their five shots to win. The picture shows Wing Commander George Mitchell the Officer Commanding Central and East Yorkshire Wing presenting the cup to Easingwold's Cadet Daniel Widdowson. In a strange twist of fate the Squadron at Thirsk which had been the parent unit for Easingwold when it first started in 1966 as a Detached Flight, was itself made a Detached Flight in this year, this time of Easingwold Squadron. Flying Officer Chris Lodge was in command of that unit at the time. It was also during 1983 that the Squadron’s first Commanding Officer, Ray Kidd, was promoted to Wing Commander and appointed as the Officer Commanding the Central and East Yorkshire Wing. One of his first tasks was to visit his old squadron on Friday 19th November along with all the other previous commanding officers, Ernest Astley, Steve Palmer and Mark Boyle where the newly designed squadron badge was announced and each was presented with a wall plaque featuring the new crest. The crest was designed by Eric Reavill, a parent and committee member and described as follows – The horse is based on the original drawing of the White Horse of Kilburn by John Hodgson, who was instrumental in carving out the full scale version – measuring 228 x 312 feet on the cliff adjoining Sutton Bank in 1857. The site is equidistant between the two neighbouring towns of Easingwold and Thirsk, the latter now supplementing the Squadron with a Detached Flight. The White Horse of Kilburn has for many years served as a landmark for pilots undergoing training in this area and has become well known as a 33
Page 1 and 2: 40th Anniversary Edition The Histor
Page 3 and 4: Appointments and Awards Commanding
Page 5 and 6: clasp. Officers were selected by co
Page 7 and 8: to all Squadrons. Each cadet would
Page 9 and 10: The Easingwold Squadron paraded thr
Page 11 and 12: The Cadet’s Gliding and Flying Lo
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Page 15 and 16: Above Cadet Corporal Sampson boards
Page 17 and 18: Annual Camp in 1969 was at RAF Syer
Page 19 and 20: Corps at a service at Easingwold Pa
Page 21 and 22: twenty mile round trip by car each
Page 23 and 24: Bird Wilson's visit. With one very
Page 25 and 26: Timothy Shaw. Whilst on his summer
Page 27 and 28: with the Duke of Edinburgh Award Sc
Page 29 and 30: In 1979 the squadron purchased its
Page 31: The picture above shows Air Commodo
Page 35 and 36: Some of the senior cadets also took
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Page 40 and 41: 1986 saw Wing Commander Kidd again
Page 42 and 43: Captain Smith, the Regional Command
Page 44 and 45: Camp during 1988 was at Royal Air F
Page 46 and 47: Northallerton for a civic presentat
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Page 50 and 51: Winners of the annual awards in May
Page 52 and 53: team along with Cadet Warrant Offic
Page 54 and 55: one had to be purchased immediately
Page 56 and 57: Group Captain Bill Gambold, the Reg
Page 58 and 59: Following the service the parade ma
Page 60 and 61: Cadet Andrew Harris the Best Turned
Page 62 and 63: Dennis Tottie applied to the Nation
Page 64 and 65: to over £5000, but another vehicle
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Page 72 and 73: Chapter 7 - A new millennium This t
Page 74 and 75: A very poignant moment of the year
Page 76 and 77: Competition on 13th May she represe
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Page 80 and 81: Wing Commander Howard Nash the Offi
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performed annually on the feast day
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Flt Lt Gary Mennell (Right) with Fl
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Ray Kidd, Squadron President, Group
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The end of the year was celebrated
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and the Environment wrote to her on
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F/Sgt Skingle being presented with
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CI Tony Harteveld and Flying Office
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Paul Sewart bids farewell to his ca
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A gathering of some of the cadets a
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The first big event in 2006 was ATC
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Above: Corporal Triffitt and other
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2007 was to be the year that saw Ea
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The award winners with the Mayor of
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one time been the Corps Chaplain. H
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In April Tom Hildreth was honoured
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Still on Rock it Ball, in October t
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parent Kaye Tester. Flight Sergeant
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3 4 Award, Cadet Brooker who receiv
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