CREW MEMBER PROFILE |
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Surname: |
MASTERS |
First Name/s: |
David James "Mickey" |
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Service No/s: |
742567 & 84336 |
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RAFVR |
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Pilot |
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Awards: |
Distinguished Flying Cross, 1939-1945 Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Air Efficiency Medal |
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SERVICE RECORDS |
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01 Jan 1938 |
Enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) at (location not known). Precise date not known. |
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25 Nov 1938 |
No.18 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School (18 ERFTS), operated by Universal Flying Services, Fair Oaks, Woking, Surrey |
DH82A Tiger Moth, Hind, Hart |
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17 Mar 1940 |
No.2 Elementary Flying Training School (2 EFTS), operated by the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Filton, Gloucestershire |
DH82A Tiger Moth |
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01 Jun 1940 |
No.3 Service Flying Training School (3 SFTS), South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire |
Oxford, Hart |
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31 Aug 1940 |
Awarded Pilot's flying badge, promoted to Sergeant, and immediately Commissioned as Pilot Officer on probation (emergency) (London Gazette 27 September 1940, p5718) |
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31 Aug 1940 |
No.4 (Continental) Ferry Pilots Pool (4 (C)FPP), Kemble, Gloucestershire |
Anson |
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03 Sep 1940 |
Central Flying School (CFS), Flying Instructors Course, Upavon, Wiltshire |
Oxford, Tutor |
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20 Oct 1940 |
No.6 Flying Training School (6 FTS), Little Rissington, Gloucestershire; as an Instructor |
Anson |
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16 Nov 1940 |
Embarked the United Kingdom (port not known) on board the HMT Strathaird, for South Africa. |
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13 Dec 1940 |
Disembarked in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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13 Dec 1940 |
Clairwood Transit Camp, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, pending transport to Southern Rhodesia (all to be confirmed) |
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18 Dec 1940 |
No.26 Elementary Flying Training School (26 EFTS), Guinea Fowl, Gwelo, Midlands, Southern Rhodesia; as an instructor. |
DH82A Tiger Moth |
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04 Feb 1941 |
Accident on landing in Tiger Moth T5488 due to 'an error of judgement'. Masters' logbook records the flight with the comment, 'bent face'. |
DH82A Tiger Moth |
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27 Feb 1941 |
No.21 Service Flying Training School (21 SFTS), Kumalo, Bulawayo, Matabeleland |
Oxford, Harvard |
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12 Apr 1941 |
Accident in Oxford P6861; during a low-flying exercise the aircraft struck some high-tension cables and was damaged. The cause of the accident was attributed to 'carelessness' by his Commanding Officer, while Masters wrote in his logbook, 'argument with HT cables'. |
Oxford |
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26 Jul 1941 |
No.24 Combined Air Observers School (24 CAOS), Moffat, Gwelo, Midlands; as staff pilot |
Oxford, Anson, Harvard, Battle, Tiger Moth |
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31 Aug 1941 |
Promoted to Flying Officer (war substantive) (London Gazette, 19 September 1941, p5430) |
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31 Aug 1942 |
Promoted to Flight Lieutenant (war substantive) (London Gazette, 09 October 1942, p.4386) |
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19 Feb 1943 |
Attached to No.33 Flying Instructor's School (33 FIS), Norton, Salisbury, Mashonaland |
Battle, Oxford, Harvard, Tiger Moth |
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26 Feb 1943 |
Returned to his Unit at No.24 Combined Air Observers School (24 CAOS), Moffat, Gwelo, Midlands |
Oxford, Battle, Harvard, Tiger Moth |
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16 Dec 1943 |
Embarked from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on board HMT Pulaski |
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08 Jan 1944 |
Disembarked at tbc (possibly Cape Town, South Africa) |
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13 Jan 1944 |
Embarked on board HMT Orontes for the UK |
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576 Squadron FLYING RECORDS |
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