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Other Home Commands/Units - January 1945


RAF in Northern Ireland

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

Embarkation Units

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

Stations transferred to USAAF

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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