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Technical Training Command - January 1941


[No 20 Group | No 24 Group | No 26 Group]

Command HQ - Wantage Hall, Upper Redlands Road, Reading Berkshire

No 20 (Training) Group

HQ - Market Drayton, Shropshire

Unit Location/Address Notes
No 2 School of Technical Training RAF Cosford  
Engineering Course (Officers) RAF Cosford  
No 3 School of Technical Training Stanley Road, South Shore, Blackpool
No 6 School of Technical Training RAF Hednesford
No 8 School of Technical Training RAF Weeton
No 9 School of Technical Training RAF Morecombe
No 10 School of Technical Training RAF Kirkham  
No 3 Recruits Centre RAF Padgate  
No 4 Recruits Centre RAF Bridgnorth  
No 5 Recruits Centre RAF West Kirby
No 6 Recruits Centre RAF Wilmslow
No 2 Personnel Despatch Centre RAF Wilmslow
No 7 Recruits Centre RAF Morecombe  
No 9 Recruits Centre Brighton Hydro, South Shore, Blackpool  
Aviation Candidate Medical Boards Blackpool - Deacons Bank Chambers, Talbot Square,  
Nos 17 & 18 Aviation Candidate Selection Board Blackpool - Deacons Bank Chambers, Talbot Square,  
No 10 (Signals) Recruits Centre Blackpool - Imperial Annexe, Dickson Road,
No 2 School of Photography Blackpool - Ripon Road,  
Equipment & Accountant Officers' School RAF Grange-over-Sands  
The Officers' School RAF Loughborough  
School of Administration RAF Loughborough  
Nos 5, 6, 10 & 30 Aviation Candidate Selection Board Padgate, nr Warrington, Lancashire  
RAF Hospital RAF Rauceby  
RAF Czechoslovak Depot Wilmslow  
RAF Polish Depot Goodwood Hotel, Park Road, Blackpool
RAF Station Arbroath 36 Guthrie Port, Arbroath, Angus
Airmen's Convalescent Depot Harrowside, South Shore, Blackpool

No 24 (Training) Group

HQ - Hindlip Hall, Nr Worcester, Worcestershire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
No 11 School of Technical Training RAF Hereford  
No 12 School of Technical Training RAF Melksham  
No 1 RAF Depot RAF Uxbridge  
No 1 PAC Establishment Denham  
No 1 Recruits Centre Gloucester  
No 2 Recruits Centre RAF Cardington  
No 14 School of Technical Training RAF Henlow  
School of Physical Training RAF St Athan  
RAF Service Police RAF Uxbridge  
No 1 Personnel Dispatch Centre RAF Uxbridge  
School of Cookery RAF Halton  
School of Aeronautical Engineering (Officers) RAF Henlow  
Anti-Gas School Rollestone Camp, Salisbury, Wiltshire  
No 1 School of Photography RAF Farnborough  
Medical Training Establishment  & Depot RAF Halton
RAF Institute of Pathology and Tropical Medicine RAF Halton  
RAF Central Band RAF Uxbridge  
Central Medical Establishment London
Inspector of Recruiting London WC2  - Victory House, Kingsway,  
Record Office Ruislip  
Hospitals Base Accounts Office Ruislip  
RAF Depository (Officers' and Airmen's effects) Colnbrook Administered by Record Office, Ruislip
Central Trade Test Board RAF West Drayton  
WAAF Depot RAF Harrogate  
WAAF Hospital RAF Uxbridge  
WAAF Officers School Bulstrode Park, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire Administered by RAF Uxbridge
Princess Mary's RAF Hospital RAF Halton  
RAF Hospital Ely, Cambridgeshire  
RAF Officers' Convalescent Hospital Torquay  
RAF Neurological Hospital Rockside Hydro, Matlock, Derbyshire
Ground Defence Instructors' School RAF Eastchurch Station in Coastal Command
Nos 1, 3 & 8 Aviation Candidate Selection Board RAF Uxbridge  
RAF Cardington Nos 4, 7 & 9 Aviation Candidate Selection Boards Station in Balloon Command
RAF Cardington Nos 19 & 20 Aviation Candidate Selection Boards Station in Balloon Command
No 2 (Ground) Armament School RAF Manby Station in Flying Training Command
No 3 (Ground) Armament School RAF Stormy Down Station in Flying Training Command

No 26 (Training) Group

HQ - Langley Hall, Langley, Slough, Buckinghamshire

 
Unit Location  
RAF Central Teleprinter Exchange RAF Leighton Buzzard  
RAF Inter-Command W/T Receiving Station RAF Leighton Buzzard  
Air Ministry Communication Staff Whitehall Administered by AM Unit, London
RAF Unit Worcester  
Air Ministry Communication Staff (Western Area) Worcester Administered by RAF Unit, Worcester
Air Ministry (Harrogate) Unit Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire  
RAF Station Cranwell Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire  
Air Ministry Communication Staff Harrogate Administered by AM (Harrogate) Unit
Air Ministry Communication Staff Harrow Administered by Leighton Buzzard
Air Ministry Communication Staff 'Z'  
Air Ministry W/T Station Cheadle  
Air Ministry W/T Station Birdlip  
Air Ministry W/T Station Sutton Vallence Parent Station, Detling
Air Ministry W/T Station Waddington  
Air Ministry W/T Station Montrose  
Air Ministry W/T Station Lydford Parent Station, Cheadle
Air Ministry W/T Station Greenford Parent Station - Leighton Buzzard
Air Ministry W/T Station Dunstable Parent Station - Leighton Buzzard
Air Ministry W/T Station RAF Cardington Parent Station - Leighton Buzzard
Air Ministry W/T Station Dagnall Parent Station - Leighton Buzzard
Air Ministry W/T Station Bodmin Parent Station - St Eval
No 1 Supplementary School of Wireless Training Hamble  
No 2 Supplementary School of Wireless Training Prestwick  
No 3 Radio School RAF Prestwick Station in Flying Training Command
Emergency W/T Fitting Parties    
Operational and Development Party (Signals) RAF Kidbrooke  
RAF Code and Cypher School Oxford  
No 1 Signals School RAF Cranwell  
No 2 Signals School RAF Yatesbury  
No 3 Signals School Compton Bassett  
Special Signals School RAF Yatesbury  
No 1 Signals Depot West Drayton Detachment at White Waltham
School of Clerks, Accounting RAF Cranwell  
Equipment Training School (Airmen) RAF Cranwell  
No 80 (Signals) Wing Radlett  
Specialist Signals Course (Officers) RAF Cranwell  
Supplies Depot RAF Cranwell  
No 109 Sqn RAF Boscombe Down Operationally controlled by No 80 (S) Wing.  Station in Flying Training Command (formerly WIDU)

Source - SD161 (6th Issue) January 1941

County names used are those in use at the time

[No 20 Group | No 24 Group | No 26 Group]

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