Personnel Index - Detail

Name
LESTER
First Names
Horace Ronald
Rank
 - 
Service
RAF
Service Number
1667895
Crew Position
Technician

 

Ron Lester was born in 1922 in Thame, Oxfordshire and volunteered to join the RAF.
He became a groundcrew technician on worked on Manchesters and then Lancasters.
After his time in 'Bomber County' he returned home to Thame.
He worked later as a mechanical engineer until his death in 1967 of throat cancer.



Ron Lester is marked in the 1943 Squadron photograph........click the image or this link to view this photograph.

Whilst in the RAF he married a WAAF named Miss Madge Skerry.



Madge Skerry sat on the bonnet of a truck............click the image or this link for the full picture (opens in a new window).