Squadron Command
| Commanding Officer: | Wing Commander HS Carver MVO 02/09/1969: Handed over to Wing Commander RK Hepburn |
Strength
| No. of Commissioned Officers (Air Crew): | Varied between 50 and 56 (10 constituted crews) |
| No. of Non Commissioned Other Ranks (Ground Trades) | 1 |
Commissioned Officers (Air Crew)
The following are known to have been on strength of (or attached to) the squadron in 1969:
- C Barnes (AEO)
- DA Barnes (Nav Plotter)
- JA Bayliss (Co-Pilot)
- C Bullock (AEO)
- VRD Bussereau (Nav Plotter)
- WD Butterworth (Nav Plotter)
- HS Carver (Pilot)
- F Collinson (Nav Radar)
- C Cowie (Pilot)
- [-] Cross (Co-Pilot)
- E Dale (Co-Pilot)
- GH Delmege (Co-Pilot)
- DJ Dennis (Co-Pilot)
- D Dinmore (Co-Pilot)
- B Dorrington (Pilot)
- RJ Duncan (Co-Pilot)
- GLS Dyer (Pilot)
- CM Edwards (Co-Pilot)
- RA Forrester (Nav Plotter)
- RAW Frampton (Pilot)
- PN Fulena (Nav Radar)
- C Gilbert (Nav Plotter)
- NG Hardinge (AEO)
- CJ Henderson (Nav Plotter)
- RK Hepburn (Nav Plotter)
- TF Hilton (Co-Pilot)
- MB Hutchins (Co-Pilot)
- Peter Jeffers (Co-Pilot)
- R Jones (Nav Plotter)
- RJ Kemmett (AEO)
- JAW Laurenson (Nav Plotter)
- Frank Henry Lee (Nav Radar)
- LB Leeder (Pilot)
- DJ Loveridge (Pilot)
- H Mackie (AEO)
- DR Major (Nav Plotter)
- DJ Milne (Nav Plotter)
- David Henry Moore (Nav Radar)
- P Morgan (Nav Radar)
- TW Nichols (Nav Plotter)
- ER Norris (AEO)
- MJ O’Leary (AEO)
- J Power (AEO)
- CFS Redmond (Pilot)
- IA Rhodes (Nav Radar)
- PD Rice (Co-Pilot)
- PJ Roche (AEO)
- DL Rogers (Nav Radar)
- PP Rolfe (Pilot)
- LDA Russell (Pilot)
- MG Saunders (Pilot)
- JM Shackleton (AEO)
- RE Sinclair (Nav Radar)
- DH Skelton (Nav Plotter)
- J Stanley (Pilot)
- PW Stannard (Co-Pilot)
- Norman Richard Tench (Pilot)
- RD Thomas (Co-Pilot)
- AJ Turner (Nav Plotter)
- JS Walker (Nav Radar)
- G Wensley (Nav Radar)
- DM Wilson (Nav Radar)
- Eric Winter (AEO)
- RR Wood (Pilot)
- R Yates (AEO)
Some of the 35 Squadron Personnel on arrival in Cyprus [MAHC]
[Thanks to Cyprus Years Group for providing names]
Back Row: Mike O’Leary
Centre Standing (L-R): Chris Edwards; Rick Wood; Colin Barnes; Bob Sinclair; Dave Loveridge; Norman Tench; Chris Henderson; Les Leeder; Red Skelton; Mike Saunders; Pete Stannard; Charles Gilbert; Terry Nicholls; Frank Redmond; Pete Jeffers; Dave Dinmore; Woody Fulena; Fred Collinson; Roger Frampton; Dave Moore
Front Row (L-R): Mike Hutchins; Frank Hilton (Man in Bush); Bob Forrester; Paddy Roche; Tony Carver; Al Turner; Garth Wensley; Colin Bullock; Vic Bussereau
Commissioned Officers and Non Commissioned Other Ranks (Ground Trades)
No. 35 Squadron’s Record Books contain little or no information regarding the names, postings and movements of Commissioned Officers and Non Commissioned Other Ranks that provided essential ground services to (a) the operational station at RAF Akrotiri and (b) the operational squadron(s) that were stationed there (including 35 Squadron), although listings can be found in the following Movement Orders:
- None available for this period
More details can be found on the following page
– Ground Trades 1969 to 1974 –
Note: Technical, Non Technical and Administrative Personnel, who were on strength of the station, were attached to the squadron to ensure that it was fully independent and self supporting whenever it was detached.
October 1969 RAF Akrotiri [Courtesy of Geoff Dyer]
Back Row: Wilson, O’Leary, Barnes, Thomas, Sinclair, Bussereau, Stannard, Henderson, Rice, Hilton, Wensley, Rhodes, Milne, Walker, Bayliss, Turner, Frampton, Edwards, Hutchins, Dennis
Middle Row: Admin Sgt, Moore, Rogers, Dinmore, Nichols, Yates, Collinson, Jeffers, Mackie, Kemmett, Dale, Roche, Morgan, Dyer, Shackleton
Front Row: Wood, Cowey, Tench, Lee, Dorrington, Rolfe, Skelton, Gilbert, Hepburn, Leeder, Loveridge, Power, Hardinge, Major, Forrester, Norris, Duncan
Absent: Redmond, Butterworth, Fulena, Bullock
Gilbert, Dorrington, Lee and Shackleton
[Courtesy of Ken Delve]
No. 35 Squadron 