Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
HQ - Kingsway, London WC2
Units administered directly by the Air Ministry
Operational control and personnel matters relating to officers manning the Embarkation Units was vested in the Director of Movements at the Air Ministry but the parent stations were responsible for pay, accounting and administration of airmen.
Unit | Location/Address | Parent Unit |
No 1 | London | No 1 Balloon Centre, Kidbrooke |
No 2 | Southampton | Self-accounting |
No 3 | Liverpool | Self-accounting |
No 4 | Avonmouth | Filton |
No 5 | Barry | No 7 MT Company |
No 6 | Newport | No 7 MT Company |
No 7 | Swansea | No 7 MT Company |
No 8 | Glasgow | Self-accounting |
No 9 | Leith | HQ, No 17 Group, Edinburgh |
No 10 | Lerwick | Sumburgh |
No 11 | Belfast | Belfast |
No 12 | Aberdeen | Dyce |
No 14 | Stranraer | Castle Kennedy |
No 16 | Barroe-in-Furness | No 10 AGS, Walney Island |
No 17 | Preston | Barton Hall |
No 21 | Hull | Sutton-on-Hull |
No 22 | Stromnes | Skeabrae |
No 27 | Thurso | Castletown |
No 28 | Workington | Silloth |
No 29 | Ayr | Ayr |
No 30 | Port Ellen | Port Ellen |
No 31 | Tiree | Tiree |
No 32 | Douglas | Jurby |
No 35 | Lochboisdale | Lochboisdale |
No 36 | Stornoway | Stornoway |
No 37 | Oban | Oban |
No 71 | Cardiff | No 7 MY Company |
No 95 | Newhaven | Brighton |
Source - SD161 (51st Edition) - December 1944
County names used are those in use at the time
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