RAF Colerne - History - RAF Units

RAF Units

  • No. 19 Squadron RAF, No. 24 Squadron RAF, No. 29 Squadron RAF, No. 36 Squadron RAF, No. 74 Squadron RAF, No. 87 Squadron RAF, No. 89 Squadron RAF.
  • No. 114 Squadron RAF, No. 118 Squadron RAF, No. 124 Squadron RAF, No. 125 Squadron RAF, No. 131 Squadron RAF, No. 137 Squadron RAF, No. 151 Squadron RAF, No. 165 Squadron RAF, No. 175 Squadron RAF, No. 183 Squadron RAF, No. 184 Squadron RAF.
  • No. 219 Squadron RAF, No. 245 Squadron RAF, No. 256 Squadron RAF, No. 263 Squadron RAF, No. 264 Squadron RAF, No. 285 Squadron RAF, No. 286 Squadron RAF.
  • No. 307 Squadron RAF, No. 316 Squadron RAF, No. 317 Squadron RAF.
  • No. 402 Squadron RAF, No. 406 Squadron RAF, No. 410 Squadron RAF, No. 417 Squadron RAF, No. 456 Squadron RAF, No. 488 Squadron RAF.
  • No. 501 Squadron RAF, No. 504 Squadron RAF, No. 511 Squadron RAF, No. 587 Squadron RAF.
  • No. 600 Squadron RAF, No. 604 Squadron RAF, No. 616 Squadron RAF, No. 662 Squadron RAF.

Used by the British Army as its training facility for the Junior Leaders Regiment of the Royal Corps of Transport. Young men from the age of 16 were trained in a variety of the skills needed to enable them to become better soldiers in the Army. Basic driver training was done on simulators, car driver training to licence level and motorcycle training were undertaken here.

The Regiment consisted of:- 30 (Junior Leader) Squadron RCT, 57 (Junior Leader) Squadron RCT and 90 (Junior Leader) Squadron RCT.

Estranged from the regiment at Driffield in Yorkshire was 32 Driver Training Squadron RCT. Here young soldiers were sent to the ASMT at Leconfield to be taught to drive the basic vehicles of the Army (typically a Land Rover and a 4 Tonne HGV Lorry) and to qualify as Driver Trade B3 before being posted to a full-time working regiment where their technical trade training would be continued.

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