Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Technical Training Command - August 1940
No 20 (Training) Group (HQ - Market Drayton)
Unit | Location |
No 2 School of Technical Training | RAF Cosford |
Engineering Course (Officers) | RAF Cosford |
No 1 Camouflage Unit | RAF Cosford |
No 3 School of Technical Training | Blackpool |
No 6 School of Technical Training | Hednesford |
No 8 School of Technical Training | Weeton |
No 9 School of Technical Training | Morecombe |
No 10 School of Technical Training | Kirkham |
No 3 Recruits Centre | Padgate |
No 4 Recruits Centre | Bridgnorth |
No 5 Recruits Centre | Saughall Massie |
No 6 Recruits Centre | Wilmslow |
No 7 Recruits Centre | Morecombe |
No 9 Recruits Centre | Blackpool |
No 10 (Signals) Recruits Centre | Blackpool |
No 1 Equipment Training School (Officers) | Grange-over-Sands |
Aviation Candidate Selection and Medical Board | Padgate |
RAF Hospital | Rauceby |
Airmen's Convalescent Depot | Blackpool |
RAF Czechoslovak Depot | RAF Cosford |
RAF Polish Depot | Blackpool |
No 24 (Training) Group (HQ - Halton Camp)
Unit | Location |
No 1 School of Technical Training | RAF Halton |
No 4 School of Technical Training | RAF St Athan |
No 417 Flight | RAF St Athan |
No 5 School of Technical Training | RAF Locking |
No 7 School of Technical Training | Hereford (opens 4 Jun 1940) |
No 11 School of Technical Training | Hereford (under construction) |
No 12 School of Technical Training | Melksham (under construction) |
No 1 RAF Depot | RAF Uxbridge |
No 1 PAC School | RAF Uxbridge |
No 1 Recruits Centre | RAF Uxbridge |
No 2 Recruits Centre | RAF Cardington - Station in Balloon Command |
No 13 School of Technical Training | RAF Henlow - Station in Maintenance Command |
School of Physical Training | RAF Uxbridge (to move to Loughborough) |
RAF Service Police | RAF Uxbridge |
Personnel Despatch Centre | RAF Uxbridge |
School of Cookery | RAF Halton |
School of Aeronautical Engineering (Officers) | RAF Henlow - Station in Maintenance Command |
The Officers' School | Loughborough |
Anti-Gas School | Rollestone Camp |
School of Administration | Gerrards Cross (WAAF) |
School of Photography | RAF Farnborough |
Medical Training Depot | RAF Halton |
RAF Institute of Pathology and Tropical Medicine | RAF Halton |
RAF Central Band | RAF Uxbridge |
Central Medical Establishment | London |
Inspector of Recruiting | London |
Record Office | Ruislip |
Hospitals Base Accounts Office | Ruislip |
RAF Depository (Officers' and Airmen's effects)* | Colnbrook |
Central Trade Test Board | RAF West Drayton |
Personnel Transit Centre | RAF West Drayton |
WAAF Depot | RAF West Drayton |
WAAF Hospital | RAF Uxbridge |
Princess Mary's Hospital | RAF Halton |
RAF Hospital | Ely (Littleport now an annexe) |
RAF Officers' Convalescent Hospital | Torquay |
RAF Neurological Hospital | Matlock |
Ground Defence Instructors School | RAF Eastchurch - Station in Coastal Command |
Aviation Candidate Selection Board | RAF Uxbridge |
Aviation Candidate Selection Board | RAF Cardington - Station in Balloon Command |
No 2 (Ground) Armament School | RAF Manby - Station in Flying Training Command |
No 3 (Ground) Armament School | RAF Porthcawl - Station in Flying Training Command |
*Administered by Record Office
No 26 (Signals) Group (HQ - Langley Hall, Langley, Slough, Berks)
Unit | Location |
RAF Central Teleprinter Exchange | RAF Leighton Buzzard |
RAF Inter-Command W/T Receiving Station | RAF Leighton Buzzard |
Air Ministry Communication Staff | Whitehall (Administered by AM Unit, London) |
RAF Unit | Worcester |
Air Ministry Communication Staff (Western Area) | Worcester (Administered by RAF Unit, Worcester) |
RAF Station Harrogate | Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire |
RAF Station Cranwell | Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire |
Air Ministry Communication Staff | Harrogate (Administered by RAF Station, Harrogate) |
Air Ministry Communication Staff | Harrow (Administered by Leighton Buzzard) |
Air Ministry Communication Staff | 'Z' |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Cheadle |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Birdlip |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Sutton Vallence |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Waddington |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Montrose |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Lydford |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Greenford (Parent Station - Leighton Buzzard) |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Dunstable (Parent Station - Leighton Buzzard) |
Air Ministry W/T Station | RAF Cardington (Parent Station - Leighton Buzzard) |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Dagnall (Parent Station - Leighton Buzzard) |
Air Ministry W/T Station | Bodmin (Parent Station - St Eval) |
No 1 Supplementary School of Wireless Training | Hamble |
No 2 Supplementary School of Wireless Training | Prestwick |
Emergency W/T Fitting Parties | |
Operational and Development Party (Signals) | RAF Kidbrooke |
RAF Code and Cypher School | Oxford |
No 1 Signals School | RAF Cranwell |
No 2 Signals School | RAF Yatesbury |
No 3 Signals School | Compton Bassett |
Special Signals School | RAF Yatesbury |
No 1 Signals Depot | White Waltham |
School of Clerks, Accounting | RAF Cranwell |
Equipment Training School (Airmen) | RAF Cranwell |
Specialist Signals Course (Officers) | RAF Cranwell |
Supplies Depot | RAF Cranwell |
WAAF Disciplinary School | Reading - Administered by TTC HQ Unit |
Source - SD161 (5th Issue), August 1940
County names used are those in use at the time
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