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Posted to No.5 Bombing and Gunnery School on Isle of Man - Headquarters Holding - Reason HH - so not on establishment strength of unit.
This was an accommodation unit providing pay, messing etc. for the local AMES - Air Ministry Experimental Station - Radar Unit. So he would have been doing this trade at the AMES station but living at Jurby. Stan was at Cregneash and Lima during his time on the Isle of man. (Picture to the left is the view from Cregneash).
View from Cregneash
This was an accommodation unit providing pay, messing etc. for the local AMES - Air Ministry Experimental Station - Radar Unit. So he would have been doing this trade at the AMES station but living at Jurby. Stan was at Cregneash and Lima during his time on the Isle of man.
”When I think about it now, it makes my blood run cold. These masts that we had were 80 ft tall, and wooden, and held together with sort of bits of bent metal and bolts because they had to be able to take them down and move them on a lorry, you see. So it was like a Meccano set. And if anything happened to the that the actual aerial by the way was a lump of copper tubing, just like you see a plumber have. They were the best receptors for it, but if anything went wrong with them in the night, you had to go up there.”
“We didn't see any action. See, there was no gunfire, and I think like that. And I got fed up All the action was abroad see, and I was keen, mad, like you are at that age. So I put in for a transfer.”
“What had happened was a bloke was being transferred without his wish. And he was married. He hadn't been married long, so I went to the CO and I said, look, He don't want to go. I'll go, He said. You sure? Yeah. I've got no family. I've got nobody really in the world. Uh huh. I'll go and he can stop here.”
Adventure was calling Stan.
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