1022987 F/SGT W. P. RICHARDSON, MiD, RAF

I am very interested in airgraphs. My father was a ground-based RAF radio operator in North Africa and then
Italy. I would dearly love to know where I can ask for information about F/SGT W. P. RICHARDSON 1022987
He was mentioned in despatches in January 1944. I have never seen any mention of a Squadron, Please can
someone help?
Bill Richardson

 

I've moved your post from this thread as it seemed a bit lost there.
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Hope our members can help you out.

 

Hi Bill,

Your best bet is to obtain your dads RAF service records which will give you chapter and verse on his service.

Requests for personal data and service records: a detailed guide

Regards,

Dave

 

Bill,

Can you please add his full name, DoB and possibly his pre-war address. That may help the sleuths here. I expect he has passed, so, was there an obituary?

He is shown on: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36329/page/298/data.pdf Published 14/1/1944 amidst pgs. of RAFVR changes, I went backwards fro several pgs. to see why and stopped.

 

Bill sent via a PM:

CMF is Central Mediterranean Forces, a designation for all forces in Italy and the Balkans.

Tried to identify the unit online, playing with No. 14 H.M. Wireless Telegraphy Unit and found very little. The exception being a rather general thread: Wireless telegraphy (wt)

Changed to Radio and this thread may fit: Ground based RAF Radio Operators - Western Desert

 

I'll prevent this descending into the normal barrage of scatter gun links.

14 Heavy Mobile W/T Unit, (became 14 Heavy Automatic W/T Unit on 1 March 1944). Based in... | The National Archives

Ross