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Tiger News 41 No 74 (F) Tiger Squadron Association www.74squadron.org.uk Honorary Vice President Air Marshal Cliff Spink CB, CBE, FCMI, FRAeS, RAF Tiger News No 41 Compiled by Bob Cossey Association President AVM B L Robinson FRAeS FCMI RAF Ret`d Association Chairman Gp Capt Dick Northcote OBE BA Association Treasurer Rhod Smart Association Secretary Bob Cossey BA (Hons) Belated congratulations to Tigress Julie Gibson and her partner Tony Gardner on the birth of baby James on 28th July last year. Tiger James weighed in at 5lbs 12 oz and is growing well! And congratulations too to Denise and Vinny Brown who on 16th January became proud parents of Lucas Charles. Lucas weighed in at 7lb 13oz! Reunion 2006 Photo Gallery – photos courtesy of John Crow and Doug Tidy. Dick Northcote John and Margie Crow Far Left – Mike and Judy Shaw Left - Doug Tidy, David Ketcher, John Freeborn and Carl Hicks. Tiger Spitfire! Unfortunately illness meant that our President, Air Marshal Cliff Spink and his wife Caroline were unable to join us this year. Cliff was going to tell those present about his Spitfire (pictured below). It is a Mk XVI with a clear view canopy. It was built in 1944 and is very much original, still with the same wings for example. It is powered by a Rolls Royce/Packard Merlin of 1600hp. The aircraft didn‟t see active service but did serve on several RAF squadrons including the RAuxAF. It is painted in the scheme of the 2nd Tactical Air Force which was worn between D Day and the advanced into Germany. 74 Squadron flew exactly this type and the scheme is taken from a Tiger‟s aircraft. See the Tiger on the engine cowling! The code for 74 at the time was 4D but Cliff‟s partner insisted that as senior officer Cliff put his initials on it with his pennant which as he says has `all been a bit embarrassing and has caused him to buy much beer for his chums`! Another aircraft that Cliff flies is the F86 Sabre. It is believed to be the oldest jet fighter flying in the world and is certainly the only A model of the Sabre. It was built in 1948, just 4 years after the Spitfire. 2 Reunion News The Reunion at Stratford upon Avon on March 3rd was once again a great success and our thanks go to everyone who came, in particular those who joined us for the first time. A well attended AGM (minutes enclosed) preceded a dinner for 96 Tigers and their wives and partners. Our guest of honour was once again Wg Cdr John Freeborn DFC who delighted us all by speaking of his experiences of flying the Spitfire during the Battle of Britain and later in Italy. A special thank you also goes also to Sqn Ldr Ian `Hagar` Hargreaves who brought us up to date with the RAF`s new combat aircraft, Typhoon. Hagar was OC A Flight of 29 Squadron at Coningsby and in fact is just one of a number of ex-Tigers who have piloted or flown in this impressive aeroplane – Russ Allchorne, Stan Ralph, Iain Walsh and Kev Wooff are amongst others. I think we all share the same sense of disappointment that 74 will not be reactivated as a Typhoon squadron and can only reflect on what might have been. Hagar at Coningsby with a line up of predominantly two seat Typhoons behind him. During the war when 74 Squadron were serving in the Near East they were sent to the recently taken island of Kos. On October 3rd 1943 German forces retook the island and air and ground crew of 74 were either taken prisoner, made dramatic escapes or sadly were posted missing. I have been helping Philip Anderson reconstruct events leading up to his brother Harold‟s disappearance by putting him in touch with Association members who served on Kos and he has been pleased with the information they have been able to pass on. As it happened, Harold didn‟t actually make it as far as the island for he developed engine trouble en route and was forced to ditch. We were very pleased to welcome Philip and his wife to join us for the evening and I know that he and Doug Tidy in particular spent considerable time in conversation for Doug is, as always, a mine of information on these matters. 3 Doug also had long conversations with member Ted Mansfield who, at the sprightly age of 85, attended his first reunion with his son. Ted‟s story is told below. But first, a reminder that 2007 marks the 90th birthday of 74 Squadron and that we will be holding a special celebration to mark the event. 74 was activated under the title of 74 Training Depot Squadron on July 1st 1917 under the command of Major O`Hara Wood at Northolt. After six months it lost its training status and began its preparations for an impending move to France –and the rest, as they say, is history. So make sure the weekend of Friday March 9th to Sunday March 11th 2007 is in your diary now, with the dinner itself on Saturday, March 10th. Full details will appear later in the year. Please note that this is the second weekend in March not the first. Unfortunately the hotel‟s calendar was not in tune with ours when Reunion dates were pre-booked and our usual weekend has been allocated elsewhere. Evacuation! By Ted Mansfield Because we focus largely on the time our members were Tigers it is sometimes easy to forget that there is much of interest they could tell us of their time when they were not with 74. And sometimes they are hair raising and very traumatic times too. Such as Ted Mansfield’s experiences in 1940 when he was evacuated from Saint Nazaire on HMT Lancastria. This is his story. Ted Mansfield at Stratford. Ted is now 85 and this was his first reunion. He and Doug Tidy discovered that they had last met in 1943! I joined the RAF on 14th October 1937 as a boy entrant armourer, aged 16½ years and was sent to RAF Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey for a year‟s training. I was on No 7 Entry and was to learn all about every type of gun and bomb including gunsights, bombsights and anything else to do with armaments. We were paid £2.13s.0d a week but were stopped £1 which was to be saved for when we went on leave and 3d for two stamps so that we could write home. The rest was ours to buy soap, polish etc. Whilst at Eastchurch a band of drums and trumpets was formed. I was a trumpeter and enjoyed the perks that went with it, namely Thursday evenings at Officers` Dining In nights when we went up to their Mess and sounded the quarter to eight dinner call - then the eight o‟clock. After that it was round to the back of the Mess to the kitchen for lemonade and doughnuts. 4 At the end of my training at Eastchurch on 21st October 1938 I was posted to RAF Feltwell near Thetford on Station Armoury which was a little disappointing as I had hoped to go to a squadron and work on aircraft. When war was declared on 3rd September 1939 me and two other armourers had to work all weekend making up gas masks which comprised a face piece, a breathing tube and a canister, packing them into a haversack along with the cleaning materials for the face piece. I think we did about five hundred a day! On 28th October 1939 I was posted to RAF Bassingbourne near Royston and 215 Squadron which flew Wellingtons. At last my wish to work on aircraft had come true. Another armourer and I had to do inspections on the Wellingtons after they were flown in from Jurby on the Isle of Man where the Squadron were on Practice Camp doing air firing and bombing in readiness for operations. At the end of the inspection we had to get a parachute and go up on a test flight which was a bit hairy as the pilot would throw the aircraft all over the place – but I enjoyed it. Volunteers were called for to join the BEF in France. I volunteered and on 30th January 1940 went by ship and train to Reims. There I boarded a coach for the twenty five mile journey to Tours. It was a terrible winter with snow and icy roads. The coach slipped and slid all over the place to the extent that everyone had to get out and push the coach about twenty of the twenty five miles! We arrived at Tours and were allocated to different units. I was to go to Ecury near Chalons and join 150 Squadron which was equipped with the Fairey Battle. They were underpowered having only one engine and with a crew of three and a load of four 250 pound bombs they could only lumber across the grass airfield to stagger into the air. In April 1940 I went on leave and on my return I was posted again and off I went by train southwards to Coulommiers near Paris to join HQ BAFF on 13th May 1940. Here I was told not to unpack because the unit was moving to a village just north of Orleans. We didn‟t know what was happening - so much so that when we heard about Dunkirk we actually thought we were winning the war.
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