Memories of an RAF engineer home from the Far East
Author: Gareth Owen
An oral history interview with Ron Ricketts. Interview Date 14/04/15
Ron Ricketts left school at the age of 14 in 1939. He lived in Frogham and recalls the bomb testing done locally, both at Ashley Walk and Millersford, but no real detail. He was then conscripted into the RAF and sent out to the Far East, where he spent most of the war, only coming home on leave on one occasion when they were celebrating VE Day. He did join the ATC but has few war memories relating to the New Forest.
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Interviewed by: Sue Jackson
Transcription by: John Martin
Checked by: Gareth Owen
Audio Editor: Cosmic Carrot