Date Posted:23/03/04 16:13:47 Author:Eric Shepherd Subject: SASF Negombo/Katunayaka
Served with a great bunch of chaps at Neg.and Kat. SASF.
I was Inst Fitt Nav. and greatly appreiate the work Gary has done to keep us in touch with each other.
If anyone from the 19th. entryRAF Cosford reads this would like to hear from them and any one else who remembers me
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Re: SASF Negombo/Katunayaka -- John Cooper, 24/03/04 7:31:27
Thanks Eric!
Some days, even weeks go past and no one comes through yet yesterday, I had a Mark Niman contact me he ditched in the sea twice and baled out on a third occasion! I was in contact with a Patrick Lawrence that was on 205/209 squadron Seletar at the same time as me, I had a John Hill RAF Police who was at St Mawgan with me at the same time! Plus three phone calls after my appeal for SASF Kat bods on Channel 4 Teletext Page 152 and one of those was Bill Upton SASF Rigger 1958/59, another was Bill Vaughan Stores 1955-57, and finally a chap from Koggala in 1942.
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Re: SASF Negombo/Katunayaka -- John Cooper, 25/03/04 16:07:15
A Bill Fraser has been in contact he served at Kat from June 1955 to Dec 1956 and worked in the fire section anyone recall bill, drop me a line and I will pass on his phone number, he is not on line
A new contact today from Johnny Lamont known as 'Dupont' SASF Air Radar, lives in Newbury, Berkshire, was at Negombo up until 1957, appeared in the film Bridge on the River Kwai as an extra as did many of the chaps at this time, anyone recall Johnny I have his telephone number.
