Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

RAF Middle East - May 1940

HQ - Cairo

 

Unit	Location
RAF HQ	Cairo
Base Accounts Office	Cairo
Base Personnel Office	Cairo
HQ, No 202 Group	RAF Heliopolis
RAF Station Heliopolis	Heliopolis, Egypt
No 208 (Army Co-operation) Sqn (2 Flights)	RAF Heliopolis
No 113 (Bomber) Sqn (Blenheims)	RAF Heliopolis
No 216 (Bomber Transport) Sqn (Bombays)	RAF Heliopolis
Communication Unit	RAF Heliopolis
Meteorological Station	RAF Heliopolis
Target Towing Flight	RAF Heliopolis
No 250 (Bomber) Wing	RAF Ismailia
RAF Station Ismailia	Ismailia, Egypt
No 30 (Bomber) Sqn (Blenheims)	RAF Ismailia
No 55 (Bomber) Sqn (Blenheims)	RAF Ismailia
Inter Command Wireless Station	RAF Ismailia
Meteorological Station	RAF Ismailia
RAF Station Helwan	Helwan, Egypt
No 112 (Fighter) Sqn (Gladiators)	RAF Helwan
No 70 (Bomber Transport) Sqn (Valentias)	RAF Helwan
No 252 (Fighter) Wing	Shafrakana
No 253 (Fighter) Wing	Maaten Bagush
No 45 (Bomber) Sqn	Fuka
No 31 (Middle East) Air Stores Park	Fuka
No 6 Supply and Transport Column*	Fuka
No 211 (Bomber) Sqn (Blenheims)	Daba
No 208 (Army Co-operation) Sqn (1 Flight only) (Lysanders)	Qasaba
No 33 (Fighter) Sqn (Gladiators)	Mersa Matruh
No 80 (Fighter) Sqn (Gladiators)	Amiriya
No 103 Maintenance Unit	RAF Aboukir
Meteorological Station	RAF Aboukir
Port Detachment	Alexandria
No 101 Maintenance Unit	Tura (El Ma'sara)
No 102 Maintenance Unit	RAF Abu Sueir
Pilots' Training Unit (Various)	RAF Abu Sueir
Reinforcement Pool	RAF Abu Sueir
Target Towing Flight (Gordons)	Firdan
MT Storage Unit	Firdan
No 254 (Bomber) Wing	Khartoum
No 47 (Bomber) Sqn	Khartoum
No 223 (Bomber) Sqn	Khartoum
Communications Flight	Khartoum
RAF Station Nairobi	Nairobi, Kenya
No 237 (Southern Rhodesian) (Bomber) Sqn (Audax)	RAF Nairobi
2 Flights, Kenya Auxiliary Air Unit (Various)	RAF Nairobi
1 Flight, Kenya Auxiliary Air Unit (Various)	Mombasa
Air Defence Unit	Dar-es-Salam, Tanganyika
HQ Palestine and Trans-Jordan	Jerusalem
RAF Station Ramleh	Ramleh, Palestine
No 6 (Army Co-operation) Sqn (Gauntlets/Lysanders)	RAF Ramleh
No 2 Armoured Car Company (less 1 section)	RAF Ramleh
Meteorological Station	RAF Ramleh
Station Flight (Various)	RAF Ramleh
RAF Station Amman	Amman, Trans-Jordan
No 14 (Bomber) Sqn (Wellesleys)	RAF Amman
Meteorological Station	RAF Amman
No 14 (Bomber) Sqn (1 Flight only)	RAF Amman
No 2 Armoured Car Company (1 section)	RAF Ma'an

*Vehicles temporarily withdrawn and stored, 13 Nov 1939, will be reformed when required.

The following changes to the above took place before the issue of the next SD161

Source - SD161 (3rd Issue), May 1940

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