Flying Instructors - Awards of AFC

[RockHound]

I'd appreciate any help forum members can give me in locating any recommendation that might exist for the award of the AFC to Acting Squadron Leader Keith Constantine ROBERTS 70817 RAFO. The award was Gazetted on 11th June 1942 in the 2nd Supplement to the Gazette of 5th June - which was the Birthday Honours List - at which time he was serving as a flying instructor with 54OTU at Charterhall. I am assuming that the award was made as one of the normal half-yearly awards.

The NA files AIR2/8891 and AIR2/8968 list awards to flying instructors in 1941 and 1943 respectively but there appears to be no similar file for 1942. Could anyone point me in the direction of a likely file AIR2/8909 or AIR2/8910 perhaps (although these appear to refer to Birthday Honours awards)?

I don't have the opportunity to visit Kew so any help in narrowing the field would be appreciated.

Regards,

David

[HughAHalliday]

Roberts' award was indeed part of the Birthday Honours list and your most likely source will be Air 2/8910.

There were some 85 awards of the AFC and AFM on 11 June 1942 and I have citations for about half. Whoever digs out this citation would benefit mankind (okay, myself and other patrons of this Forum) if they could fill in the blanks with respect to:

ADDY, Ronald Gerald, F/L, AFC
BELL-SYER, Herbert Benjamin, S/L, AFC
BELSON, John Richard James, Flight Sergeant, AFM
BIRCHALL, Reginald William, Flight Sergeant, AFM
BRIGHT, Edgar Bulmer, S/L, AFC
BROMLEY, Curwen William, W/C, AFC
BURNE, Thoms Roper, F/L, AFC
BUTLER, Ian Bishop, F/L, AFC
CLARKE, Gerald Arthur, F/L, AFC
EMMERSON, John Richardson, Flight Sergeant, AFM
FLACK, Leslie John, F/L, AFC
GODDARD, Henry Godron, S/L (DFC), AFC
GRANT, William Henry Leslie, Flight Sergeant, AFM
GREY, John Leonard, F/L, AFC
HALL, Arthur Gordon, F/L, AFC
HOLMES, Oswald Victor, F/L AFC
LARSEN, Lewis, Sergeant, AFM
LEWIS, William Edward Lawley, S/L,
MacDONALD, John Charles, WC (DFC), AFC
McGUIRE, John William, W/C, Bar to AFC
MEHARG, Bryce Gilmore, S/L AFC
MILLEN, Leslie Stewart, Warrant Officer (DFM), AFC
MOFFETT, Alan Ormerod, F/L, AFC
ROBERTS, Keith Constantine, S/L, AFC
ROLLO, Arthur Alexander, P/O, AFC
ROSS, William Gordon, Warrant Officer, AFC
SAGE, Robert John, S/L, AFC
SAINSBURY, James Edwards, Flight Sergeant, AFM
SIKES, Richard Somerville, S/L, AFC
STATHAM, Ivan George, S/L, AFC
STIRK, Roy Derwent, Flight Sergeant, AFM
TOBIN, James Richard, S/L, AFC
WHEELER, Norman John, F/O, AFC
WHITE, Thomas Stanley, Sergeant, AFM
WHITWORTH, Walter Peter, W/C, AFC
WRIGHT, Clifford, F/O, AFC

[RockHound]

Hugh

Thank you. I thought that AIR2/8910 seemed the more likely of the two but your confirmation has narrowed the odds nicely.

I forsee a raid on the piggy-bank - and a lot of reading!

Kind regards,

David