Royal Air Force Cosford

24th ENTRY BOY ENTRANTS
Royal Air Force
February 1955 to July 1956


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24th ENTRY BOY ENTRANTS 50th ANNIVERSARY REUNION
Reports and Pictures

REUNION DINNER - TUESDAY 15th FEBRUARY 2005

The dinner was attended by 101 people including sixty-two 'Boys', the widows of Stuart Hathaway, Peter Nelson and Rex Thompson and other relatives. Before we sat to dine, Joe Kendrick said grace. Throughout dinner there was in the background music from 1955-56. Fred Watkins proposed a toast to 'absent friends' and read messages from those who for reasons of distance, health or other circumstances were unable to attend, including:

Mike Newman (Airframes); Chris Goodlace, Tony Fairbridge (Air Radar); Tony Keyte (Armourer); Tony Allen, Chris Parkes, John Walls (Air Wireless); Les Baker (Cook); John Crabb, Cliff Cullen, Peter Page (Ground Wireless); John (Taff) Layton-Matthews (Instruments).

Reg White concluded the organised part of the evening by thanking everyone for attending and suggesting that a repeat event was considered for the 24th July 2006 to mark the 50th Anniversary of Graduation.