No. 247 (China-British) Squadron RAF

RAF Fighter Command 1939 - 1945
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No. 247 (China-British) Squadron RAF
Group Squadron Base County Arrived Comments
10 247 Roborough Devon 01/08/40 Reformed. Gladiator II, 08/40. Hurricane I, 12/40.
10 247 St. Eval Cornwall 17/02/41
10 247 Portreath Cornwall 10/05/41 Hurricane IIa, 06/41.
10 247 Predannack Cornwall 18/06/41 Hurricane IIb, 08/41. Hurricane IIc, 08/41.
10 247 Exeter Devon 17/05/42
9 247 High Ercall Salop 21/09/42 Typhoon Ib, 01/43.
10 247 Middle Wallop Hampshire 28/02/43
11 247 Fairlop Essex 05/04/43
11 247 Gravesend Kent 29/05/43
11 247 Bradwell Bay Essex 04/06/43
2TAF 247 New Romney Kent 10/07/43
2TAF 247 Attlebridge Norfolk 07/08/43
2TAF 247 New Romney Kent 13/08/43
2TAF 247 Merston Sussex 11/10/43
2TAF 247 Snailwell Suffolk 31/10/43
2TAF 247 Merston Sussex 05/11/43
2TAF 247 Odiham Hampshire 31/12/43
2TAF 247 Merston Sussex 13/01/44
2TAF 247 Eastchurch Kent 01/04/44
2TAF 247 Hurn Hampshire 24/04/44 To Coulombes, B6, 20/06/44.
10 247 Warmwell Dorset 21/02/45 Ex-Helmond, B86. To Helmond, B86, 07/03/45.

Copyright: Ross McNeill May 1999