Australia's Few. 19 August 1940

Ken Holland received orders to go to Warmwell on 17 August. He arrived there late at night and, on reporting to the orderly office, found there was ‘nothing doing’. He met a friend in Weymouth and stayed there overnight. It seems as if the ‘nothing doing’ extended to the 18th as, after breakfast at his hotel, he was off for a swim, then lunch and tea out. ‘Back late and slept at the Albany’. He returned to Warmwell on 19 August where he was introduced to Squadron Leader Devitt, the Commanding Officer of 152 Squadron. He was initially allocated to A Flight but later that day changed to B Flight. It was a grand day for the 20 year old Australian.

 

 

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