RAF Hereford was a non-flying station of the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

. It was the home of a wide variety of training schools from 1940 until it closed for RAF training in 1999. It was also known as RAF Credenhill, as it is situated in Credenhill

Credenhill

Credenhill is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England,Near Credenhill is the site of the former Royal Air Force station RAF Hereford, which is now the headquarters of 22 Special Air Service Regiment.-Notable residents:...

, north-west of Hereford

Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, southwest of Worcester, and northwest of Gloucester...

. The site was transferred to use by the Special Air Service

Special Air Service

Special Air Service or SAS is a corps of the British Army constituted on 31 May 1950. They are part of the United Kingdom Special Forces and have served as a model for the special forces of many other countries all over the world...

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Units

• No 11 School of Technical Training (15 June 1940 - 30 September 1945)
• School of Torpedo Maintenance (1942-1946)
• No 7 Mobile Parachute Servicing Unit (17 April 1944 - February 1945)
• HQ, No 24 Group (September - December 1944)
• The Air Crew Officers School (3 May 1945 - 1 November 1944)
• No 1 Air Crew Officers School (1 November 1944 - 1 May 1946)

No 2 S of A T (School of Administration training.) May 1948.

• No 533 Sqn RAF Regiment (1 July 1952 - ?)
• No 3 School of Technical Training (April 1959 - 17 May 1974)
• Administrative Apprentice Training School (1953)

External links

• RAF Apprentices recollections