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On 5th November 1940 Stan was posted to Radio School to probably what was to be shortly renamed No.2 Radio School RAF Yatesbury near the village of Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Calne. It was an important training establishment in the First and Second World Wars, and until its closure in 1965.
At this unit he is now officially transferred to the RAF Home establishment strength - Reason H.
“Myself, in process of becoming a proficient radio op!
Working for the Radar Operator Skills, Stan is on left
Stan remembers:-
“We all ended up. Um, there's sort of derelict camp right out in the middle of nowhere. I was, um, just barracks there and nothing else. And we sat there for about a fortnight. Nothing happened. And then one day, we got called in and we went down this lane was about two miles down into the woods and in the middle of the woods was a secret camp where they had mock up radar stations. And that's where we did our training”
“It really was the back of beyond. I wanted it from and about. Yeah, and first of you laugh as a radar unit. But of course, mains electricity all over the country hadn't arrived in those days, so we had to have our own little power stations. So we had Lister generators, which is what the fairground people have. You know, you've probably seen them. They want him out and it lights up everything we had then, um, frightening things they were, they really were. It took four of you to turn them over.”
Stan passed out qualified from Yatesbury on 21st or 23rd November 1940.
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