Sergeant “Dick” Rogers (deceased)

I arrived in Fontainebleau in December 1952 and worked in the Unit Orderly Room  as the movements clerk having joined the RAF in 1948 as a Clerk G.D./ Shorthand Typist served for 22 years eventually leaving in 1970. During this time I served at the RAF Delegation in Greece, RAF Nicosia, Aircrew Allocation Unit RAF Innsworth, HQ RAF Germany, RAF Thorney Island, RAF Handling Squadron Boscombe Down and RAF El Adem (for my sins) before a final posting to RAF Records Innsworth where I was in charge of overseas postings for over 8000 personnel in the trades of General Fitters, E Mechanics and Motorboat Crews.

After leaving the RAF I worked in the cleaning industry and then as a Progress Chaser at a factory making tractors and low loaders and then with Dowty Fuel Systems where redundancy led to me to working with a pharmaceutical company in Tewksbury. After a serious operation I decided that enough was enough and finally retired from “active service.”  My retirement years are spent making garden furniture from wood specialising in wishing wells and wheelbarrows which are in evidence at the Reunions as raffle prizes. I live in Gloucester with my wife Shirley and we are keen caravaners.