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  • Category: Medical Services

    The RAF’s excellent medical services for aircrew and ground personnel. Also includes Medical Boards and admin procedures relating to health.

  • Brock Robertson & His Crew

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on April 5, 2022July 8, 2022

    Oliver Brock Robertson was an outstanding Canadian pilot who flew with 97 Squadron. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross in unusual circumstances in July 1943, just over a month before his death in action. There …

    97 Squadron, Dominion & Colonial Airmen, Medical Services
  • Medicine in Bomber Command

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on October 17, 2020February 23, 2022

    A Medical Officer’s office in a Nissen hut, note the very cramped space and the stethoscope on the papers on the desk. The wartime RAF had very extensive medical services. Most were located in the …

    Medical Services, RAF BOMBER COMMAND
  • First Aid Kit for Aircrew

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on March 24, 2019February 23, 2022

    A vivid reminder of the terrible dangers of flying on bombing operations, where wounding from machine gun fire, flak fragments or burns from fires on board were an ever-present hazard. Crashes in Britain were also …

    Medical Services
  • SSQs in Wartime Nissen Huts

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on August 28, 2018July 10, 2022

    Photographs of RAF Station Sick Quarters (SSQs) in wartime are extremely rare. These three photographs show the characteristics of an SSQ in a Nissen hut, such as were found on bases like RAF Bourn and …

    Medical Services
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