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RAF Holmpton (1,145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Command & CCIS, the site also contained an operations area for the Royal Observer Corps (ROC); the Corps was 'stood down' in 1992 with some ROC units remaining

Abercraf (547 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Brecknockshire. Between 1965 and 1991, the village was the location of a Royal Observer Corps monitoring bunker, to be used in the event of a nuclear attack. It

John Nash (artist) (1,802 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Northcote Nash CBE, RA (11 April 1893 – 23 September 1977) was a British painter of landscapes and still-lifes, and a wood engraver and illustrator

Eric Ravilious (3,657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

military as a rifleman but was deterred by friends; he joined a Royal Observer Corps post in Hedingham at the outbreak of war. He was then accepted as

Burgh Windmill (397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Group ROC in Colchester. The building was to remain occupied by the Royal Observer Corps until a new underground post was constructed immediately south west

Sandhead (199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

castles along the eastern shore of the Rhins. The top was used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Second World War as a lookout point, but in earlier times

Frederick William Holmes (1,471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Frederick William Holmes VC (15 September 1889 – 22 October 1969) also known as F. W. Holmes, was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the

Gilbert Gunn (501 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with Seven Locks (1940) a.k.a. Chamber of Horrors Landfall (1949) Royal Observer Corps (1941) Birth of a Tank (1942) The Owner Goes Aloft (1942) Is Your

Abernyte (436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

here. Between the 1961 and 1991, the village was the location of a Royal Observer Corps underground monitoring post, part of 28 Group. The post has now been

Island Davaar (704 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

close to the lighthouse, was built during World War II as one of the Royal Observer Corps' (ROC)'s four Kintyre observation posts. While the men and women

Hillingdon House (1,380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'Jammy [cunts],' sneered Sailor enviously." On 1 March 1929, the Royal Observer Corps established its headquarters at Hillingdon House, where it remained

Eric Gray (photographer) (605 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

director on Bitter Sweet). During the Second World War, he joined the Royal Observer Corps from 1939 to 1945. In 1941, he was hired as a stills photographer

Old Higher Lighthouse (782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

founder Marie Stopes as a summer residence. During World War II, the Royal Observer Corps used the tower as a lookout. During the early 1960s the lighthouse

1946 New Year Honours (British Empire Medal) (27,020 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Henry Charles Greest, Chief Observer, Royal Observer Corps. George Gregory, MM, Chief Observer, Royal Observer Corps. Ormond Grey, Carpenter, SS Everleigh

Stallingborough (2,240 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

guns. Post war a location near the Little London site was used as a Royal Observer Corps monitoring post. In 1953 National Titanium Pigments Ltd (or Laporte

Carsphairn (603 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kells with hill walking routes Holm of Daltallochan stone circle Royal Observer Corps database of UK monitoring posts Great Britain. Parliament. House

Pakefield Lighthouse (794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Second World War, the tower became an observation post for the Royal Observer Corps, who were checking for any possible seaborne or air invasion force

Loftus, North Yorkshire (1,142 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

player Paul Drinkhall born in 1990. Boulby Mine, near Loftus List of Royal Observer Corps Posts UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Loftus Parish (E04000265)"

RAF Fiskerton (553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

member of 576 Squadron. Between 1962 and 1992 a Headquarters of the Royal Observer Corps was located within the airfield boundary. The following units were

Garvald, East Lothian (1,064 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

additions. In the Cold War, Garvald was the site of an underground Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post, still extant and situated in a field only a few

Culham (1,683 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hampden parish, but HMS Hornbill was also called RNAS Culham. A Royal Observer Corps Post was also constructed, in a field east of Tollgate Road, adjacent

Veryan (1,540 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hurlers". Mysteriousbritain.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2010. "The Royal Observer Corps: 67 Post Veryan". Truroca.co.uk. 2004. Retrieved 25 January 2010

Whittingham, Lancashire (1,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 19 January 2025. Hunt, p.151 Subterranea Britannica: Royal Observer Corps: Preston, accessed 6 November 2007 Preston RD, Vision of Britain

Gayton, Staffordshire (1,382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

southwest of the village, but it closed in 1963. During World War Two a Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post was installed south of the village on Wadden Farm

Brandsby (1,119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Later in the 20th century, the village was the site for the York 37 Royal Observer Corps Post (Brandsby). The Nuclear Monitoring Post is located on the road

W. Heath Robinson (2,408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

during the 1914–1918 First World War. The spotting table used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Battle of Britain to determine the bearing and altitude

RAF Shipton (1,454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Norman (1987). Watchers over the broad acres : the story of the Royal Observer Corps in Yorkshire. Harrogate: Ramsay. p. 88. ISBN 0-9512290-0-7.{{cite

Great Whittington (368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

west of the Unnamed Road leading to Matfen, lies Great Whittington Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post. This was 1 of approx. 1,563 underground monitoring

1988 Birthday Honours (15,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Service. John Thomas Hughes, Observer, Llanrhaeadr Post, No. 17 Group, Royal Observer Corps. John William Hughes, Governor Grade V, H.M. Prison Bedford. William

Scottish mythology (3,524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reported during the World War II days in May 1943 by C.B. Farrel of the Royal Observer Corps. Loch Ness measures 22+1⁄2 miles (36 kilometres) and has a width

Slaley, Northumberland (391 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2021. "Sites And Locations Of UK Royal Observer Corps Posts". 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2010. "Tynedale Links 689 - Hexham

1963 New Year Honours (21,074 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Commander Thomas William Dobson, Group Commandant, No. 23 Group, Durham, Royal Observer Corps. Ernest George Down, Station Master, Waterloo and Waterloo and City

List of Roman-to-modern scheduled monuments in Powys (Radnorshire) (2,683 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: RD270: Llananno Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet

Charles Lavers (610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

awarded the civilian British Empire Medal for his service in the Royal Observer Corps circa 11 June 1960. Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) Lieut. (A./Capt

Battle of Britain Bunker (1,859 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Royal Observer Corps Uniform displayed in Battle of Britain Bunker

Tunstall, East Riding of Yorkshire (1,423 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pillbox structures was re-used as a nuclear explosion monitoring post (Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post) during the Cold War period. In 2016, a 'Golf-Ball'

1962 New Year Honours (20,684 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lieutenant George Marchbank Chalmers, Group Officer, No. 23 Group, Royal Observer Corps. Kathleen Ruth Chance, Attached War Office. Doris Pepita Chappell

1987 Birthday Honours (14,643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dunfermline. Malcolm Napier, Observer Lieutenant, Group Officer, 31 Group Royal Observer Corps, Belfast. Arthur Naylor, Head Teacher, Balby Street Primary School

1961 Birthday Honours (21,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bernard Parkes, MVO, Area Commandant, Metropolitan Area Headquarters, Royal Observer Corps. Edward Wynn Parry, Director and Engineering Manager, Cammell Laird

1989 New Year Honours (15,031 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Saunders Adams, Observer Commander, Group Commandant No. 8 Group, Royal Observer Corps. Richard Hugh Macgregor Adams, Chairman and Managing Director, Northumbrian

East Lothian Yacht Club (431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Town Council. In 1990 the club bought the "watchhut" (formerly the Royal Observer Corps lookout post which had a direct phone link to the gunnery control

1946 New Year Honours (MBE) (29,444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Barracks, Riddrie and Mossbank. Observer Lieutenant Thomas Cant, Royal Observer Corps. Beryl Garden, Nursing Matron in Chief, Prison Nursing Service. Alfred

1973 Birthday Honours (17,650 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Graves Commission. William Miller Holmes, Observer Officer, 24 Group, Royal Observer Corps. William David Homewood, Land Reclamation Officer, Fife County Council

1953 Coronation Honours (30,800 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Commander Frank William Mitchell, Deputy Commandant, Southern Area, Royal Observer Corps John Christopher Morgan, Chairman, Atcham District Committee, Salop

1969 New Year Honours (20,488 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Observer Lieutenant Thomas Jervis Madew, Group Officer, No. 16 Group, Royal Observer Corps. Marjorie Ethel Mainwaring, Grade 7 Officer, Diplomatic Service.

1965 New Year Honours (21,027 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Commander John Percival Pickford, DL, Group Commandant, No. 13 Group, Royal Observer Corps. The Reverend Alfred James Pilgrim, Chairman, Wireless for the Bedridden

1968 Birthday Honours (20,253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

William Smith MacDonald, Lately Group Commandant, No. 29 Group, Royal Observer Corps. Harold McGinley, Technical Class Grade A (Shipwright), Ministry

Plessey (4,480 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

also used by the British Army. Most ended up in the hands of the Royal Observer Corps and manufacture would discontinue by the late 1980s. In 1959 AT&E

1972 Birthday Honours (19,503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Department of the Environment. Harry Hughes, Observer Lieutenant, Royal Observer Corps. Arthur Horace Sydney Hull. For political and public services in

1960 Birthday Honours (21,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1 Group, Royal Observer Corps. (Farnborough). Charles Stewart Touzeau Lavers, Chief Observer, Post 5/C, No. 5 Group, Royal Observer Corps. (St Albans)

1986 Birthday Honours (13,658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Isobel Carson Matthews, Chief Observer, Armagh Post, No. 31 Group, Royal Observer Corps. Leopold William John Maycock, Senior Operating Department Assistant

1960 New Year Honours (21,351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Observer Commander Frank Rodgers, Group Commandant, No. 15 Group, Royal Observer Corps. Nellie Alice Rooke, Office Registrar, Royal National Lifeboat Institution

1943 New Year Honours (5,975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Drummond Warrington-Morris, C.M.G., O.B.E. (Retd.), Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps from 1 March 1936, to 24 June 1942. Cyril Augustine Birtchnell, Esq

1991 Birthday Honours (14,950 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Enniskillen. Edith Walker Thomson, Crew Supervisor, No.25 Group, Ayr Royal Observer Corps. Norman Thrussell, Electrician, Property Services Agency, Department

Speaking clock (5,366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

there, automatic warning sirens could be started and alerts sent to Royal Observer Corps monitoring posts and other civil defence volunteers equipped with

1943 Birthday Honours (38,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Works Ltd. Captain Frank Thomas Bright, DFC, Observer Commander, Royal Observer Corps. Arthur Brooks, District House Coal Officer, Hull. Horace Skeet Broom

York (17,256 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

York Cold War Bunker, former headquarters of No 20 Group of the Royal Observer Corps. The city's first subscription library opened in 1794. The first

Hornsea (8,141 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

antitank obstacles, including extensive anti-tank cubes on the beach, Royal Observer Corps posts, weapons pits and/or infantry trenches, barbed wire protected

Regimental marches of the British Army (2,053 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

- Heart of Oak; Royal Naval Association - Under the White Ensign Royal Observer Corps - Skywatch; Royal Pioneer Corps - Pioneer Corps; Royal Regiment of

Boyd's Automatic tide signalling apparatus (2,129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

new door, the building re-painted and a radio aerial installed. A Royal Observer Corps watchtower was based here during WW2 as the building gave a wide

1981 Birthday Honours (17,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Kenrick Jones, Group Officer, No. 13 Group, South Wales, Royal Observer Corps. Eleanor Elizabeth Noel Jones, Headteacher, Mount Street County Primary

1944 Birthday Honours (BEM) (9,003 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Ahmed Sali, Donkeyman, Merchant Navy. Arthur Aked, Chief Observer, Royal Observer Corps. Louis Alcantara, Local Chargeman of Engine Fitters, HM Dockyard

Penarth (9,656 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

naval guns, anti-aircraft and searchlight batteries and the town's Royal Observer Corps observation post, that sounded the air raid sirens nightly in the

1967 New Year Honours (20,571 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Corps, Nottingham. Thomas Edward Beer, Chief Observer, Post 1/Q.2, Royal Observer Corps. Ethel Kate Bellamy, Allowance Deliverer, Redmile Sub-Post Office

1966 New Year Honours (20,304 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Commander Eric Gordon John William Kent, Group Commandant, No. 4 Group, Royal Observer Corps. Muriel Newman Kerr, Personal Assistant to the General Administrator

1972 New Year Honours (19,838 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Overseas. Athole John Spalding Stewart, DFC, Commandant, Scottish Area, Royal Observer Corps. John Young Stewart. For services to Motor Racing. John Michael Stratton

1959 New Year Honours (21,420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Stewart George Bunn, Chief Observer, No. 7 Group Operations Centre, Royal Observer Corps. (Bedford). Henry Burdett, Chargehand Fitter (Electrical), Ministry

1967 Birthday Honours (20,226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chief Woman Observer, Assistant Duty Controller, No. 22 Group, Royal Observer Corps. Alfred Edward Manship, Foreman, Rolls-Royce Ltd, Derby. Harry Marchant

1946 New Year Honours (36,022 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Ltd. Observer Captain William Gordon Hanson, Royal Observer Corps. Edwin Harle, lately Director of Communications Components Production

List of memorials at the National Memorial Arboretum (1,829 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cambridgeshire Regiment Memorial; Anglian Regiment Royal Norwegian Navy Royal Observer Corps Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Original) Memorial Royal Regiment of

1958 New Year Honours (22,436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bristol. John Lees, Chief Observer, Post 25/H.1. No. 25 Group, Royal Observer Corps. (New Cumnock, Ayrshire.) Dugald Logan, Chief Clerk Officer, HM Prison

Simpson (name) (5,124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Herbert Thomas Simpson (1907–1967), senior RAF officer and Commandant Royal Observer Corps John Wistar Simpson (1914–2007), American electrical engineer John

1983 Birthday Honours (10,534 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lieutenant Commander, Deputy Group Commandant, Inverness Group, Royal Observer Corps. Ronald Gibbs, Assistant Secretary, Wessex Water Authority. Miss

1976 Birthday Honours (10,692 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Walter McGill Galloway, Observer Lieutenant, No. 25 Group, Prestwick, Royal Observer Corps. John Alfred Gamble, Traffic Technician, Warwickshire Sub-Unit, Midland

List of former Royal Air Force stations (1,561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wales Cardiff 1939 1944 HQ No. 14 Balloon Unit (and HQ Cardiff Group Royal Observer Corps from 1953 to 1968). Name changed to RAF Llandaff in 1946. RAF Caerwent

1975 New Year Honours (13,009 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Board, Post Office. Kenneth Maynard, Group Commandant, No. 22 Group, Royal Observer Corps. Derryck Peter Mercy, Higher Executive Officer, H.M. Treasury. George

1992 Birthday Honours (14,566 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Officer, West Midlands. John Murphy, lately Grade 7, Observer Captain, Royal Observer Corps, Bentley Priory. Renee Myers, Chairman, Brent and Harrow Family Health

1994 Birthday Honours (15,615 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

services to Conservation. Leslie Edgar Wellington, lately Observer, Royal Observer Corps, Truro, Cornwall. Leslie John Wells, Safety Representative for Airport

1988 New Year Honours (15,782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ltd. Thomas Edwin Hetherington, Observer, No 8 Group, Coventry, Royal Observer Corps. Osbert Hicks, Auxiliary Coastguard in charge, St Agnes, Isles of

1974 Birthday Honours (18,575 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Defence. Desmond Leonard Savage, Chief Observer, No. 3 (Oxford) Group, Royal Observer Corps. Michael Shanley, Plant Attendant, Independent Broadcasting Authority

1948 Birthday Honours (17,987 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Observer Commander John Reginald Nixon, Group Commandant, No. 18 Group, Royal Observer Corps, Essex. Albert Edward Noakes, Senior Executive Officer, War Damage

1950 New Year Honours (18,833 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Neill Thompson, Commandant, No. 19 (Surrey and West Kent) Group, Royal Observer Corps. Hatton Henry Ewart Timmis, FRICS, Assistant Regional Planning Officer

Guy Gibson (13,590 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lawrence (December 2004). "Guy Gibson and the Cornish Connection". Royal Observer Corps Association Newsletter (44). Archived from the original on 4 October

Sylvia Cummins Betts (1,180 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1944) produced for Information Films of India Paratroops (194?) Royal Observer Corps (194?) for the Ministry of Information Breathing Space (1943) for

1970 New Year Honours (20,311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Muriel Anderson, Assistant Duty Controller 30/Crew I, Inverness, Royal Observer Corps. Jack Alfred Bacon, Storeman, Avon Rubber Co. Ltd., Industrial Products

1979 New Year Honours (20,455 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

McConachie, Chief Observer, Head Observer, No. 29 Group (Aberdeen), Royal Observer Corps. Arthur McCullough, Civilian Instructional Officer 3, Home Office

1944 Birthday Honours (MBE) (9,072 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Office. Observer Commander Charles Alfred Lakin, Group Commandant, Royal Observer Corps. Norman Gerald Lancaster. For services to the Ministry of Production