May I add a bit more? Logie would have been a very easy bike ride, about three miles, from Forres airfield which had no perimeter fence and therefore children could get access to aircraft being serviced. Although the airfield remained Ir ministry property for a long time after the war its use as an airfield fell off in 1944, presumably as training needs changed. The huts used by the RAF ground crew were handed over to the army and were used to accommodate Poles who had been conscripted into the German army and were captured in France by the British army. Here they were screened and then drafted into the Free Polish army which served with great distinction in France and Italy; we remember their gallantry and sacrifice at Monte Cassino. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Forrest Anderson [mailto:listmail@military-researcher.com] Sent: 02 April 2006 19:04 To: WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WORLD WAR II] RAF AIRFIELDS IN SCOTLAND On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:52:30 -0500, Peter Monks <arethusa@shaw.ca> wrote: >We lived on a >farm property with buildings adjacent to the main farm house/farm sheds, >this would have been around 1943 to 1945/6... >Around 1974 I... found the actual farm.... Now I cannot remember >the name and address, but it might have been near Dava at the junction >of A939 or was it B9007 and near Logie and A940?? >In my fathers service records he is >listed as >605 Sqdn 13/9/42 >11 S. of TT 3 Feb 43 >19 OTU 8/4/43 >56 Base 4/11/44 >19 OTU 26/4/45 >6 (c) OTU 18/7/45 >102 PDC Released 27/11/45 >As a child I recall being taken to see the aircraft... The aircraft was an >Anson I believe. Though I have dim memories of Lancasters, but where >and when.....?? Having his Service Record is a major help! No 19 Operational Training Unit, which was formed to train night bomber crews, was based at Kinloss from the unit's formation in May 1940 to its disbandment on 26 Jun 1945. 19 OTU also used the airfield at Forres as a satellite from 1940 or 1941 up to 22 Oct 1944. During its existence, 19 OTU was equipped with quite a large variety of aircraft, including Ansons. After the departure of 19 OTU, 6 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit moved to Kinloss on 18 July 1945, and was equipped with Beaufighters and Mosquitos. Given that the airfield at Forres was less than 5 miles from the junction at Logie, it rather looks as though he was based at Forres and Kinloss airfields. Forrest -- Forrest Anderson, Edinburgh, Scotland. E-mail: forrest@military-researcher.com Website: www.military-researcher.com Forrestdale Research - Military Genealogical Researcher ==== WORLDWAR2 Mailing List ==== To post queries/answers to the list, send an email to: WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com We are an international list. Please remember to tell us what country your ancestor was from and what country you are in now if different. This helps us help you. If you give dates please help us understand the date you are referring to. For example: 4 Nov 1944 or Nov 4, 1944. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Greetings, I was watching the war series attack on Monte Cassino yesterday, and the attack by each of the countries troops, and the Polish flag flying in triumph. I am reminded of an ex POW or displaced person who used to ask for a cheese roll at the canteen EVERY single day. Finally, he arrives and asks for 'Ham Roll Please', the lass asks do you want mustard with that?................Cheese Roll please. Ah, nostalgia! Ask a question, from many years back and get great feed back. Many thanks. I have an address: Col. G.M. Forteath, Marcassie, Forres, IV36 0RM (Being the owner of the ex farm in 1974) The information that you supplied is wonderful. I remember Forres as a small sleepy villiage where we got our accumulators charged that ran the radio. Where we took our cat whose leg was nearly severed by a trap......the vet returning the cat now on three legs said that it would never catch mice again. It never had before......... but did after becoming a parent!! I think that this apparition on three legs puzzled the mice until it was to late. Now on a nostalgia mode, we had an Italian POW camp near the farm, I recall the POW's coming to work on the farm, no guards as I recall, they seemed happy to be out of the war, it could not be far as they marched each day I think. Do you have any knowledge of the POW camp? Now another incident if I may bother you, memories of their swapping us fresh bananas (??????) for the banana powder that we were 'issued'. Seems that they were making ice cream and using the banana powder as a taste treat. ICE CREAM for the POW's??? Did the civilian population have such treats? Amazing how one query leads to more and more! May I send you a copy of my self published book "The Flying P Ships" being a history of the sailing era of the Laeisz Shipping Company of Hamburg, as a thanks for your excellent help? If you care to share your address, I have no commercial connections! Peter James Flemington wrote: >May I add a bit more? > >Logie would have been a very easy bike ride, about three miles, from Forres >airfield which had no perimeter fence and therefore children could get >access to aircraft being serviced. Although the airfield remained Ir >ministry property for a long time after the war its use as an airfield fell >off in 1944, presumably as training needs changed. The huts used by the RAF >ground crew were handed over to the army and were used to accommodate Poles >who had been conscripted into the German army and were captured in France by >the British army. Here they were screened and then drafted into the Free >Polish army which served with great distinction in France and Italy; we >remember their gallantry and sacrifice at Monte Cassino. > > >Jim > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Forrest Anderson [mailto:listmail@military-researcher.com] >Sent: 02 April 2006 19:04 >To: WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WORLD WAR II] RAF AIRFIELDS IN SCOTLAND > >On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:52:30 -0500, Peter Monks <arethusa@shaw.ca> >wrote: > > > >>We lived on a >>farm property with buildings adjacent to the main farm house/farm sheds, >>this would have been around 1943 to 1945/6... >> >> > > > >>Around 1974 I... found the actual farm.... Now I cannot remember >>the name and address, but it might have been near Dava at the junction >>of A939 or was it B9007 and near Logie and A940?? >> >> > > > >>In my fathers service records he is >>listed as >>605 Sqdn 13/9/42 >>11 S. of TT 3 Feb 43 >>19 OTU 8/4/43 >>56 Base 4/11/44 >>19 OTU 26/4/45 >>6 (c) OTU 18/7/45 >>102 PDC Released 27/11/45 >> >> > > > >>As a child I recall being taken to see the aircraft... The aircraft was an >>Anson I believe. Though I have dim memories of Lancasters, but where >>and when.....?? >> >> > >Having his Service Record is a major help! No 19 Operational Training >Unit, which was formed to train night bomber crews, was based at >Kinloss from the unit's formation in May 1940 to its disbandment on 26 >Jun 1945. 19 OTU also used the airfield at Forres as a satellite from >1940 or 1941 up to 22 Oct 1944. During its existence, 19 OTU was >equipped with quite a large variety of aircraft, including Ansons. > >After the departure of 19 OTU, 6 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit >moved to Kinloss on 18 July 1945, and was equipped with Beaufighters >and Mosquitos. > >Given that the airfield at Forres was less than 5 miles from the >junction at Logie, it rather looks as though he was based at Forres >and Kinloss airfields. > >Forrest > > >