Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation

Other Overseas Commands/Units - March 1943

Air Headquarters, West Africa

HQ - Freetown

 

Unit	Location	Notes
Gambia
RAF Station Bathurst
No 44 Embarkation Unit	RAF Bathurst
No 652 AMES	RAF Bathurst
No 176 Maintenance Unit - Detachment	RAF Bathurst
No 5000 AMES	Bald Cape
No 204 Sqn	Half Die	Sunderland
No 200 Sqn	Jeswang	Hudson III/IV
No 295 Wing	Marina Camp
No 375 AMES	Sarahunda
Sierra Leone
No 514 AMES	Aberdeen
No 244 AMES	East Kissi
AHQ West Africa	Freetown
No 26 Embarkation Unit	Freetown
W/T Station	Freetown
Base Personnel Office	Freetown
RAF Station Hastings
No 128 Sqn	RAF Hastings	Hurricane IIB
No 176 Maintenance Unit	Kosso
RAF Station Jui
No 95 Sqn	RAF Jui	Sunderland
No 270 Sqn	RAF Jui	Catalina
No 305 AMES	Lakka
No 5001 AMES	Tumbu
RAF Station Waterloo (Nucleus)
No 371 Wireless Unit	Waterloo
No 513 AMES	Wellington
No 265 AMES	Wilberforce
No 296 Wing	Wilberforce
Gold Coast
No 62 Embarkation Unit	Accra
No 5050 AMES	Accra
RAF Station Takoradi
No 116 Maintenance Unit	RAF Takoradi
No 33 Embarkation Unit	RAF Takoradi
Fighter Defence Flight	RAF Takoradi	Hurricane
Communication Flt	RAF Takoradi	Various
RAF Hospital	RAF Takoradi
No 302 AMES	RAF Takoradi
No 529 AMES	RAF Takoradi
Central Accounts Office	RAF Takoradi
No 178 Maintenance Unit	RAF Takoradi	Equipment Holding Unit
Nigeria
No 177 Maintenance Unit	Apapa (Lagos)
Officers' Transit Camp	Ikoyi (Lagos)
No 5 Ferry Control	Ikeje (Lagos)
No 349 Sqn	Ikeje (Lagos)	Non-operational
No 1432 Flight	Kaduna	Hurricane
No 38 Embarkation Unit	Lagos
No 298 Wing	Lagos
No 5077 AMES	Lagos
Airmen's Transit Camp	Yaba (Ikeja)
Staging Posts (Northern Route): -	Ikeja (Staging Station) Apapa Oshogbo Kano (Staging Station) Maidguri (Staging Station) Fort Lamy Takoradi
Staging Posts (Southern Route): -	Makurdi Yola Fort Archimbault	All Care & Maintenance
Units not located
No 5151 Mechanical & Electrical Sqn
Nos 6001 and 6002 Works Supy Units
No 1560, 1561 and 1562 Meteorological Flts
RAF Station Yundum
RAF Station Brikama
Nos 201, 202 and 249 ASR Units
No 21 AACU

RAF Schools in Canada

Administered by the RCAF

 

School	Location	Notes
No 31 Elementary Flying Training School	De Winton, Alberta
No 32 Elementary Flying Training School	Bowden, Alberta
No 33 Elementary Flying Training School	Caron, Saskatchewan
No 34 Elementary Flying Training School	Assiniboia, Saskatchewan
No 35 Elementary Flying Training School	Neepawa, Manitoba
No 31 Service Flying Training School	Kingston, Ontario	Formerly No 7 SFTS, Peterborough
No 32 Service Flying Training School	Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan	Formerly No 10 SFTS, Ternhill
No 33 Service Flying Training School	Carberry, Manitoba
No 34 Service Flying Training School	Medicine Hat, Alberta
No 35 Service Flying Training School	North Battleford, Saskatchewan
No 36 Service Flying Training School	Penhold, Alberta
No 37 Service Flying Training School	Calgary (Mu), Alberta
No 38 Service Flying Training School	Estevan, Saskatchewan
No 39 Service Flying Training School	Swift Current, Saskatchewan
No 41 Service Flying Training School	Weyburn, Saskatchewan
No 31 Air Navigation School	Port Albert, Ontario	Formerly No 1 S of AN, St Athan
No 33 Air Navigation School	Hamilton, Ontario
No 31 General Reconnaissance School	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island	Formerly No 2 GRS, Squire's Gate
No 31 Bombing and Gunnery School	Picton, Ontario
No 31 (General Reconnaissance) Operational Training Unit	Debart, Nova Scotia
No 32 (Torpedo Bomber) Operational Training Unit	Patricia Bay, British Colombia
No 34 (Bomber) Operational Training Unit	Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick
No 36 (General Reconnaissance) Operational Training Unit	Greenwood, Nova Scotia
No 31 Radio School	Clinton, Ontario
No 31 RAF Personnel Depot	Moncton, New Brunswick

West Indies

New Providence Island, Bahamas

Source - March 1943 SD161

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