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CHS - TRAINING ASSETS GLOSSARY
For most part the accommodation of the sitting Commandant, the Lodge is steeped in history, with adjoining lands mentioned in the Doomsday Book. This album reproduces the contents of a small booklet created by the College in 1972. It was donated by Ada Gaskill, wife of one of the VIPs in our College Personalitiies section. A better version is available on Mike Smith's MVS website at the 'FlipBook' link at the bottom of this page.
Reproduction of a small booklet issued by the College commemorating the Hangar Church of Cranwell (1916-1960+). A better version is available on Mike Smith's MVS website at the 'FlipBook' link at the bottom of this page.
Drawing on records archived in the RAF College supplemented by further research on the intenet, this album chronicals the training aircraft employed at RAF Cranwell.
Whilst researching and cataloguing the College archive in 2017/18, we stumbled upon a number of isolated items that have an intrinsic value and add to the story of the College's history. This album presents a selection.
This album gives an explanation of prizes awarded at graduations and lists the lucky prize winners.
This album is sourced from two documents found in the Colllege archive, listing the many trophies held on the College inventory.
Arguably one of the more fascinating finds in the College archive was a beatuifully maintained, handwritten ledger of all the flight cadets to have received a bravery award or an honour durng their careers.
Rather than taking the RAF College's archived records at face value, we have endeavoured to verify their contents with other publicly available material. This album lists the reference source documents we have used and, in many instances, directs the reader to where copies may be obtained.
For obvious reasons (e.g. GDPR), we are precluded from exposing sensitive detail on individual Cranwellians. That said, we are in a position to deliver information in response to to legitimate enquiries, for example, from relatives. This album merely illustrates the databases that we have created that enable us to create verified albums held on this website.
This album is an edited version of the catalogue we created on the contents of the RAF College's archive. It was accurate at the time of composition (September 2018), but we are aware that the archive has since been relocated and items may have been removed.
FlipBook versions of originals on the MVS site created by Cranwellian Mike Smith.
All five Chapters of our Tour Guide Presentation covering in turn the formation and evolution of the College, its founders and leaders, the Dining Hall as its core meeting place, its corridors of history and heritage, and the Library celebrating the unrivalled history of the College and legacy from its alumni.
Links to an original copy of: G/C EB Haslam's The History of RAF Cranwell; Green & Hodgson's Pictoral History of Cranwell; 50 Years of Cranwell; the Lodge commemorative booklet; the Poachers Flying Display Team's commemorative booklet; others being reformatted as FlipBooks by Mike Smith.
A link to four training pamphlets - AP121- Cadet Admission Regulations; two booklets on training officers at Cranwell; 1960 Spring Term edition of Officer - issued by the RAF College and converted to FlipBook format by Cranwellian Mike Smith.
Inspired very much by Gp Capt ret'd Montellier who donated copies of many of his personal photos taken of the College whilst on IOT in 1985, this albums offers a pictorial record of the College and Station through the first 100 years of operation.
This album records for posteririty some of the key College Journal entries and personalities that epitomise the history of the Cranwellian Association, an Association formed on the initiative of George Beamish and fellow Cranwellian graduates in 1924. The Association was formed on 14 July 1926 and boasts a membership of 600 to this day.
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