No.248 Squadron RAF

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No.248 Squadron RAF
Group Squadron Base County Arrived Comments
16 248 North Coates Lincolnshire 26/02/40 Ex-Fighter Command.
16 248 Thorney Island Hampshire 08/04/40
16 248 Gosport Hampshire 16/04/40 To Fighter Command, 22/05/40.
18 248 Dyce Aberdeenshire 21/06/40 Ex-Fighter Command.
18 248 Sumburgh Shetland 14/07/40
18 248 Dyce Aberdeenshire 01/01/41 Day of month arbitrary.
16 248 Bircham Newton Norfolk 15/06/41 Beaufighter Ic, 06/41.
18 248 Dyce Aberdeenshire 01/03/42 Day of month arbitrary.
18 248 Sumburgh Shetland 01/05/42 Day of month arbitrary. Beaufighter VIc, 06/42.
248 Ta Kali Malta 01/07/42 Day of month arbitrary.
16 248 Gosport Hampshire 01/07/42 Day of month arbitrary.
18 248 Dyce Aberdeenshire 01/08/42 Day of month arbitrary.
19 248 Talbenny Pembrokeshire 01/09/42 Day of month arbitrary.
19 248 Pembrey Camarthenshire 01/11/42 Day of month arbitrary.
19 248 Talbenny Pembrokeshire 01/12/42 Day of month arbitrary.
19 248 Predannack Cornwall 01/01/43 Day of month arbitrary. Beaufighter X, 06/43. Mosquito VI, 12/43.
19 248 Portreath Cornwall 01/02/44 Day of month arbitrary. Mosquito XVIII, 03/44.
18 248 Banff Aberdeenshire 01/09/44 Day of month arbitrary.
19 248 Chivenor Devon 01/07/45 Day of month arbitrary.
           
18 248 Wick Caithness-shire 13/12/40 Detachment. Left 01/41.
15 248 Carew Cheriton Pembrokeshire 15/06/41 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 03/42.
19 248 St. Eval Cornwall 15/06/41 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 03/42.
19 248 Portreath Cornwall 15/06/41 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 03/42.
18 248 Sumburgh Shetland 01/03/42 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 05/42.
16 248 Wattisham Suffolk 01/05/42 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 07/42.
19 248 Chivenor Devon 01/09/42 Date arbitrary. Detachment. Left 11/42.
15 248 Ballykelly Londonderry 01/07/45 Date arbitrary. Detachment.
Copyright: Ross McNeill April 2000