Personnel Index - Detail
A photograph of Gerard Harold Huntley (always known as Harold) taken during training.
Posted in to 49Sqn too late to fly WW2 operations.
The page of Harold Huntley's logbook showing his posting to 49Sqn on the 28th April 1945.
Image courtesy of Jill McCaskie (daughter of Gerard Harold Huntley)
Gerard Harold Huntley is circled (from the 1945 Syerston Squadron photograph).
Additional information from Jill McCaskie:
Dad never drank alcohol so he became popular with his colleagues. Dad didn’t join them when they went to the local public house. However, at closing time he would walk to the local pub to collect any RAF personnel and walk them back to the base. This became known as the 'Snake Run'. Most of his colleagues would be drunk and if any of them fell over, Dad would stop the line and pick them up to carry on back to the base.
In September 1949 Harold married Joyce Crook.
Jill continues.........Dad didn’t talk much about his RAF days. He once said that they had just come back from a RAF flight when his friend walked the wrong way after getting off the plane. He walked straight into the propeller and was killed instantly. This affected my Dad for years.
I remember we were sitting in our garden in Wallingford one day. We heard the unmistakeable noise of a Lancaster flying overhead. I said to Dad it must be flying to Benson and would he like to go and see it.
He said “No thank you dear, I’ve already seen too much of the Lancaster.”
My Dad was a quiet man but when he spoke we all listened. He was a great Dad and guided us all throughout our lives.
Harold was Posted Out on the 1st November 2010.
Click this link to download Harold's full logbook.