Linda Duffield

[Linda Duffield @duffield_linda]

@AnchitGupta9 @RoyalAirForce @IAF_MCC So glad you found Tommy's grave ok.. if you're in the area again, please drop Kenley Revival a line and we'll show you round. :-)

[Anchit Gupta @AnchitGupta9]

Visited @RoyalAirForce Kenley yesterday. Two distinct @IAF_MCC connections.

1. Plt Offr Pujji spent nearly three months flying operationally from RAF Kenley, flying coastal patrol and other operational sorties during WWII

2. Flt Lt Cherukara Thomas "Tommy" Philip who had met with a Dakota accident and was burnt badly. He was sent to UK for treatment and died in 1955. He was created at St Luke’s Whyteleafe next to Kenley with OC RAF Kenley carrying out the ceremonial procedure.

@TheBrownBeagle and @vayusena have brought out these in articles earlier.

[Jonny Cracknell @jonnycrackers82]

Overjoyed to share the fundraising total needed for Ray’s Lancaster ride & filming project has been met! So pleased & a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who donated, supported & shared. Ray is over the moon - the best birthday present to give him!
Thank You everyone 🙏🏻
📸 Kerry Wilmot

[City Commons @CityCommons]

Here are some more fantastic photos from the bluebells at #KenleyCommon. Native bluebells are beautiful wildflowers, and a great source of nectar in spring for bees, butterflies, and hover flies.
📸Tim Nightingale

[City Commons @CityCommons]

🚜Bailing hay on Kenley Common. A little tricky this year due to the fickle weather but we're almost there!

This annual cut is really important for keeping nutrients low to encourage wildflowers in the grasslands we manage.

Photo by Tim Nightingale

[Marc Heighway @NewForestRamble]

Tomorrow I am on the wireless with these fine gentlemen...

Or podcast to use more modern parlance.

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari and all air warriors greeted Sqn Ldr Dalip Singh Majithia (Retd) on his 103rd birthday. He was commissioned in 1940 and retired as Flight Commander of 4 Squadron: IAF

(ANI)

[Linda Duffield @duffield_linda]

Crowborough Veterans Assoc are fundraising for a memorial bench to P/O Jim Catt who crashed there in 1939... please support if you can! TIA.. :-)

https://t.co/KgIDG8HQt2

[Sir Michael Take CBE @MichaelTakeMP]

Watch this👇
Tory MP Brendan Clarke-Smith humiliates BBC Marxist Victoria Derbyshire in his articulate defence of Boris Johnson.
Clarke-Smith is buff, chiselled & so impressive.
Bravo sir!👏
Derbyshire has to concede defeat like the crazed moth she is.

[Linda Duffield @duffield_linda]

@TheBrownBeagle @vayusena @KapilChandni @CityCommons @Stlukescr3 Thank you so much for all your help with this. It is our honour and privilege to have F/Lt. "Tommy" Phillips among the pilots buried at St. Luke's and great work from Tony to spot our "missing man."

[K S Nair @TheBrownBeagle]

2: ... And as it happens, are a distinguished Indian military family, including the late Gp Capt CGI Philip, the late Air Marshal PS George, and the recently-retired R/Adm PG Pynumootil:

https://t.co/Lxl9H8TppQ

Thank you to all in the UK and India who helped this connect🙏🏽

[K S Nair @TheBrownBeagle]

Gratified to have helped (alongside friends & fellow-travellers @vayusena & @KapilChandni) @CityCommons trace the history of an IAF pilot in a (currently unmarked, but hopefully not much longer) grave at @Stlukescr3. The family are now aware ... /2

https://t.co/cy0GG2wNLm

[K S Nair @TheBrownBeagle]

@Rohit_Shankster @vayusena & @KapilChandni made most of the connections in India. I just happened to have written the story some years ago 🙏🏽.

We owe thanks to those at @Stlukescr3 who maintained records, & researchers @duffield_linda & Tony Adams who initiated outreach to @vayusena 🙏🏽

[City Commons @CityCommons]

Stillness in last week's snow on #KenleyCommon

📷Tim Nightingale

[Marc Heighway @NewForestRamble]

This is Dora Ball's grave on 4th March, 2021 in Southampton Old Cemetery. Sadly, it has fallen into disrepair - photo by Friends of Southampton Old Cemetery.

[Marc Heighway @NewForestRamble]

On this day 98 yrs ago, Dora Ball aged 12, was killed at Locks Heath School, nr Warsash & Park Gate in Hampshire, when a Gloster Grebe of 32 Sqn RAF crashed on the school's cookery hut. The aircraft had taken off from RAF Kenley, the pilot survived.

[City Commons @CityCommons]

Common kestrel out hunting over #KenleyCommon this morning

Photo by Tim Nightingale

[WW2 Airfields Archive @WW2Airfields]

RAF Manston as seen in 1959. Shows control tower, closed buildings, FIDO system, deserted runway, hangar, commemoration Spitfire, & disused barracks.

From the BBC Archive (no audio).

[Linda Duffield @duffield_linda]

So sad..

[Commemorations and Graves Coordinator. at CWGC @barnes_east]

Horsted Keynes West Sussex this morning. Ronald and Winifred Knapp were killed on their wedding day. They were taking a short cut back to their wedding reception via a train line when they were struck by a train.

[Marc Heighway @NewForestRamble]

Film footage of Calshot, 1936.
With audio.