Royal Air Force

FS published her first article in the Times: about the capture by rebels and the negotiated release of two RAF pilots during the process of British handover of Iraq to the Iraqis.

Back in Baghdad in October 1931, FS began to increase her writing pace. The Royal Air Force printed her maps, and she published in the Geographical Journal. She also disguised herself in an 'abba...

MJ co-wrote a comedy called Sweet Liberty with her brother Bernard Jaeger , who was in the RAF at the time.

In this book she both re-introduced Albert Campion to his many fans, and tried to picture the coming post-war England. The cast of upper-middle-class characters are transformed by their entry into war service in...

GBS was visited during the second world war by an RAF officer who had the greatest admiration for her Rakonitz novels (which had been recommended to him by his aunt, who lived in the same...

As a teenager she socialized with trainee British pilots at a Royal Air Force base near Johannesburg.

AL 's father, Winston Levy , was one of those pioneers from the Caribbean (Jamaica) who came to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. He kept a souvenir postcard he bought on the ship...

They had met as fellow members of High Wycombe Theatre Club; John's father was then Mayor of High Wycombe. Elizabeth was strongly attracted to John, and was wildly excited when she found herself pregnant...

Sarah was close to her father, Ron, an engineer working in oil refineries who had done his National Service with the RAF . She found him a great inspirer, who made up stories for...

MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...

RF married the man with whom she had been living for years, Alan Sillitoe (former RAF radio operator, now a suddenly successful novelist), at Marylebone Town Hall in London.

He had been diverted from physical training instruction in the RAF in 1951, following a horrific plane crash in Scotland, into the field of mountain rescue. From early 1952 he headed the RAF mountain rescue...

Alison's father, Andrew Fell, was an engine mechanic in peace-time and an airman in the RAF during the Second World War, when Alison was born. He bombed Hamburg and Dresden and D Day France, and...

The opening pages of her second book of memoirs give a sketch of her brother John, farming under dreadful wartime difficulty in Kent, the family estate having been requisitioned for the RAF .

Her father, Victor Valentine Gee , was dominant in the household. He was a socialist, an Old Labour man, yet at home he was an unreconstructed conservative authoritarian. He had been born into...