... 1145 (Dunfermline) Squadron Air Training Corps
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| On 5th February 1941, the Air Training Corps was officially established under the terms of a Royal Warrant given at the Court of St James, and from it's inception on 6th March 1941. | |||
| 1145 (Dunfermline) Squadron was born. As with Squadrons throughout the country, young men flocked in great numbers to join, so that they could train to ultimately serve as pilots, navigators, gunners and wireless operators in the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, the fleet Air Arm, or in the Royal Air Force Reserves or Auxiliaries. | |||
| The Squadron's first home was in Abbot House, one of the oldest buildings in Dunfermline, and to accommodate the influx of cadets, six rooms had to be specially adapted and refurbished, including the 'Navigation ' room, where several hundred pictures of aeroplanes had been painted onto the panelled walls, to help with aircraft recognition. The new Headquarters was opened by his grace the Duke of Hamilton AFC, Commandant of the Air Training Corps in Scotland, who was accompanied by the first Commanding Officer, Flight Lieutenant A B Hyslop. | |||
| In the advent of time, the Squadron was forced to move from it's inaugural home, and for a long period was based at Royal Air Force Pitreavie Castle, Dunfermline, where it's training and reputation brought back memories of earlier days, with large numbers of cadets enjoying life in the unit. In 1996, Royal Air Force Pitreavie Castle closed, and the Squadron moved to it's current location H.M.S. Caledonia, Rosyth, Fife, a shore establishment, where 'on board', it's first class facilities are most certainly the envy of many, and where cadets continue to uphold the aims and traditions of their predecessors in Abbot House. |
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