Can you be an RAF Squadron Leader in the accounts branch? I have a death cert of my great uncle which says he was a Squadron Leader RAF (retired) which was a big surprise because I don't think my Dad ever mentioned that his uncle was a squadron leader. Something to be proud of surely?
In clearing out masses of old paper notebooks from my earliest researches, I have just found a page dated 1989, headed PRO Kew - looking for Charles Henry Goodall.
Underneath I have a long lists headed Date, Personal Number and Rank. Mainly the entries are personal number 43761 starting May 1940 Flying Officer then subsequent dates in 1944 give rank Accountant Branch Squadron Leader, then from 1948 F L Secretarial Branch until 1952.
Does this mean that he never was a Squadron Leader in the heroic sense but was in fact a team leader of some kind with a desk job?
In clearing out masses of old paper notebooks from my earliest researches, I have just found a page dated 1989, headed PRO Kew - looking for Charles Henry Goodall.
Underneath I have a long lists headed Date, Personal Number and Rank. Mainly the entries are personal number 43761 starting May 1940 Flying Officer then subsequent dates in 1944 give rank Accountant Branch Squadron Leader, then from 1948 F L Secretarial Branch until 1952.
Does this mean that he never was a Squadron Leader in the heroic sense but was in fact a team leader of some kind with a desk job?
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