Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Other Home Commands/Units - January 1945
Command HQ - RAFNI, Belfast
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Aldergrove | see Coastal Command | |
RAF Station Ballyhalbert | ||
Northern Ireland Training School | RAF Ballyhalbert | |
RAF Station Ballykelly | see Coastal Command | |
RAF Station Ballymena | ||
RNAS Belfast | RNAS Station | |
RAFNI Communication Flt | RNAS Belfast | Various |
RAF Station Bishop's Court | ||
RAF Station Castle Archdale | see Coastal Command | |
RAF Station Cluntoe | C & M Party | |
RAF Station Holywood | ||
RAF Station Kirkistown | C & M Party | |
RAF Station Limavady | see Coastal Command | |
RAF Station Lisburn | ||
RAF Regiment Command Training School | RAF Lisburn | |
RAF Station Long Kesh | ||
RAF Station Maghaberry | C & M Party | |
RAF Station Mullaghmore | C & M Party | |
RAF Station Mallusk | ||
RAF Station Newtownards | C & M Party | |
RAF Station Nutts Corner | see Transport Command | |
RAF Station St Angelo | C & M Party | |
RAF Station Toome | C & M Party |
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 12 | Aberdeen | Dyce |
No 4 | Avonmouth | Filton |
No 29 | Ayr | Ayr |
No 16 | Barrow-in-Furness | No 10 AGS, Walney Island |
No 5 | Barry | No 7 MT Company |
No 11 | Belfast | Belfast |
No 71 | Cardiff | No 7 MT Company |
No 32 | Douglas | Jurby |
No 8 | Glasgow | Self-accounting |
No 21 | Hull | Sutton-on-Hull |
No 9 | Leith | HQ, No 17 Group, Edinburgh |
No 10 | Lerwick | Sumburgh |
No 3 | Liverpool | Self-accounting |
No 35 | Lochboisdale | Lochboisdale |
No 1 | London | No 1 Balloon Centre, Kidbrooke |
No 95 | Newhaven | RAF Brighton |
No 6 | Newport | No 7 MT Company |
No 37 | Oban | Oban |
No 30 | Port Ellen | Port Ellen |
No 17 | Preston | HQ, No 9 Group |
No 2 | Southampton | Self-accounting |
No 36 | Stornoway | Stornoway |
No 14 | Stranraer | Castle Kennedy |
No 22 | Stromness | Skeabrae |
No 7 | Swansea | No 7 MT Company |
No 27 | Thurso | Castletown |
No 31 | Tiree | Tiree |
No 28 | Workington | Silloth |
Alconbury | Goxhill | Old Buckenham |
Aldermaston | Grafton Underwood | Podington |
Atcham | Great Ashfield | Polebrook |
Attlebridge | Greencastle | Poynton (Handforth) |
Bassingbourn | Greenham Common | Rackheath |
Bodney | Grove | Rattlesden |
Boreham | Halesworth | Raydon |
Bovingdon | Hardwick | Ridgewell |
Boxted | Harrington | Seething |
Braybrooke | Hethel | Sharnbrook |
Bungay | Honington | Shipdham |
Burtonwood | Horham | Snetterton Heath |
Bury St Edmunds | Horsham St Faith | Stanstead Mountfitchet |
Chalgrove | Kimbolton | Steeple Morden |
Cheddington | Kingscliffe | Sudbury |
Chelveston | Knettishall | Thorpe Abbots |
Chipping Ongar | Lavenham | Thurleigh |
Debach | Leiston | Tibenham |
Debden | Little Walden | Warton |
Deenethorpe | Martlesham | Wattisham |
Deopham Green | Membury | Watton |
Duxford | Mendlesham | Welford |
East Wretham | Metfield | Wendling |
Eye | Molesworth | Wormingford |
Fowlmere | Mount Farm | Wortley |
Framlingham | North Pickenham | |
Glatton | Nuthampstead | |
Stations temporarily occupied by the USAAF | ||
Barkston Heath | Folkingham | Saltny |
Chilbolton | North Witham | Spanhoe |
Cottesmore | Ramsbury |
Source - SD161 (52nd Edition) - January 1945
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