Hello Anne, Thanks for your reply, unfortunately I have no photos from that period. Only a couple of incomplete albums from my father’s RAF days. I am certain he knew that something was being developed to try and locate enemy aircraft with radio waves, most local people knew something was going on when the […]
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Martin tells us what TRE really stood for!
I recall my Dad telling me that TRE was known as Tea, Rest and Eat.
Sue Thomas remembers her Dad, Harry Gaunt
Hello Anne, it was really fascinating to read your recent Daily Mail article. My brother & I are also ‘radar kids’, and have very happy memories of being brought up in Malvern. Our father, Harry Gaunt, must be one of the last of that generation: at the age of 103 he still lives locally in […]
Charles Rigg remembers: –
Hi Anne, Many thanks for your reply. We moved here in Sept 1969, with a thunderous noise the next day to see a C130 Hercules some 200 – 300 yards away and 200 feet up about to touch down, so for an aircraft/history/military history ‘nut’ I wasn’t complaining! So since I have always had an […]
Jayne remembers her father Roy Hodges
Dear Anne, My father, Roy Hodges was also a scientist at TRE (later RRE) and came to Malvern in May 1942 along with the thousand other scientists from Worth Matravers. Sadly he died in 2009. I volunteer at the RAF Defford Museum, part of the National Trust property Croome Court. My father’s flying jacket is […]
Nick remembers his father Stanley Ratcliffe
My father Stanley Ratcliffe was one of the “boffins” in WWII. He worked at Worth Matravers, and relocated to Malvern in 1942. He continued to work for TRE/RRE/RSRE until his retirement. He died in July 2018 and the Royal Institute of Navigation (of which he was fellow, despite never having flown a plane, nor captained […]
Terry suggests some more resources
Dear Anne. For your information. I hope it helps with the continuing story. There was a mention in the Mail on Sunday regarding RADAR Families. The first said the story would make a fabulous film. There is already a very good tv adapted film of the initial research into radio waves and RADAR. That being […]
Does anyone know of the Rugby / Lutterworth link
Diana writes: – Hi. My father was a brilliant engineering scientist, who was assigned to research during the second world war. I’d always understood that he worked on the development of radar from Rugby. He was located in the same building as Frank Whittle, who was developing the jet engine from the same base. […]
Does anyone know of Robert Holman?
Alan, Robert Holman’s nephew asks: “Hi, Anne. I saw the feature on Midlands Today about the TRE where I believe my uncle worked during WWII. I have only scant information relayed by my father now deceased but would love to learn more. My uncle’s name was Robert Holman and he had formerly worked at the […]
Rozie Lawrence tells us about her dad – Patrick James
Hi Anne, after reading your article in the Sunday Mail I thought I would drop you a line about my father. His name is Patrick James who like you was a Radar child only he lived at Renscombe Farm, Worth Matravers, Swanage. After reading the article he told me that three of the scientists resided […]