Polytechnic School Cadet Corps

[Beverley]

Hi
For the past 3 years I have been trying to find information about the Lancaster crash that my Granddad was killed in. Last night I came across Internet records that somehow I had missed. My Grandad AC1 Harold Quinton was killed in the same crash as your relative EFK Campling. Finding this new information about the crash has opened up a mass of questions about the circumstances of the crash. My grandad was, I think, likely to have been the oldest person on board, he was 34, a Father of 5 with his 6th child born just 4 weeks after his death. My mother was 9 when he died. Do you know where the crash was as the family history is at odds with what I have just unearthed. Thank you so much

[Beverley]

I am rewriting a message that I posted two weeks ago. My grandad was killed in the same Lancaster crash as Eric Campling. I would be interested to make contact. I have only recently found the information about the crash as for many years I have been looking in the wrong place. Thank you

[magpie]

you may find out something here http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/foru...f=322&p=505094 or one of the links
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1944-incident-logs

Andy

[Alan O]

For interest this is the cap badge in question. Bosleys sold one last year or 2 but I can't find the result but it was 3 figures.

[Alan O]

Originally Posted by Peter Brydon

Neil,

Unfortunatley I only have a limited number of copies of Army Lists, my November 1932 List shows the Polytechnic Schools Cadet Corps as still being affilited to the 12 London Regiment ( Rangers ) so we are potentially looking at a time period for ST`s slider named badge that could be well after WW1 and I suppose it is possible that the E Campling in your post might be the same person who put his name on the badge slider.

Does any member know when the Polytechnic Schools Cadet Corps ceased to exist ?

Peter

Peter They were certainly still affiliated to the Rangers (KRRC) Bn in 1938. I suspect they were wearing the Rangers cap badge at that point.