Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester visits RAF Stafford
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester is pictured receiving a Spode plate during her visit to RAF Stafford. The Duchess travelled extensively to perform her royal duties and over the years she became ...
Princess Anne visiting RAF Stafford
Princess Anne, The Princess Royal, meets the RAF Stafford Mountain Rescue Team after watching a mountain rescue demonstration at RAF Stafford in 1982.
Pictured L-R: Jim Morning, Wg Cmdr Admin, HRH, ...
Princess Anne visits RAF Stafford
Front Row (left to right): Wg. Cdr. Mike Barham, Wg. Cdr. John Andrews, Wg. Cdr. Don Rule, Wg. Cdr. John Pink, Princess Anne, Gp. Capt. ‘Dickie’ Allerton, Wg. Cdr. Stewart Adams, Wg. Cdr. Chin Lim, ...
Princess Anne visits RAF Stafford
Princess Anne is pictured meeting service personnel and their families during her visit to the Station where she opened the new Corporal’s Club, she also saw the Sergeant’s and Officer’s Messes, SADAC ...
Princess Margaret visiting RAF Stafford
Princess Margaret is pictured here meeting the RAF Mountain Rescue Team during a visit to RAF Stafford in 1974.
Princess Margaret visits RAF Stafford
Princess Margaret meets service personnel during her visit to RAF Stafford.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December 1939 following the purchase by the Treasury of 362 acres of land near Stafford. The main ...
Prospective recruits visit RAF Stafford
Prospective candidates considering making a career in the RAF are shown around the RAF Stafford site. In the background there is a Gloster Javelin aircraft with a Firestreak air to air missile and on ...
Publications, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Quartermaster's staff, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
RAF Memorial Window, St Thomas's Church, Walton on the Hill
Stained glass memorial window to the Royal Air Force, dated 1942 and showing the silhouette of a bomber plane flying over crossed searchlights. At the top, the Greek letters 'Alpha' and 'Omega' flank ...
RAF Personnel in the Officers' Mess at RAF Stafford
This group of RAF personnel are pictured in the Officers' Mess at RAF Stafford after attending a colleague’s funeral.
Left to right: J/T Ross - TSW, SAC Owen - TSW, SAC Elson - TSW, Cpl Galloway ...
RAF Stafford 25 years of the Freedom of the Borough of Stafford
The Borough of Stafford conferred the Freedom of Entry into the Borough to RAF Stafford (16 MU) on 16 December 1954. To mark the 25th Anniversary of this honour there was a major parade through the town ...
RAF Stafford 25 years of the Freedom of the Borough of Stafford
The Borough of Stafford conferred the Freedom of Entry into the Borough to RAF Stafford (16 MU) on 16 December 1954. To mark the 25th Anniversary of this honour there was a major parade through the town ...
RAF Stafford 40 years of the Freedom of the Borough of Stafford
The Borough of Stafford conferred the Freedom of Entry into the Borough to RAF Stafford (16 MU) on 16 December 1954. Forty years later, to mark this honour there was a major parade through the town on ...
RAF Stafford Battle of Britain Parade
RAF Stafford personnel are marching along Greengate Street, Stafford, during the 1986 Battle of Britain Parade. On the platform on the right a Senior Officer is taking the Salute, standing next to the ...
RAF Stafford Battle of Britain Parade
The Mayor of Stafford inspects the RAF Stafford personnel during the 1989 Battle of Britain Parade. Pictured in Earl Street, Stafford, the Parade is facing towards the Borough War Memorial which is nearby ...
RAF Stafford Mountain Rescue Team
The RAF Mountain Rescue Service Headquarters was based at RAF Stafford until 2004 and coordinated the RAF's five mountain rescue teams based at Kinloss, Leuchars, Leeming, St Athan and Stafford. Each ...
RAF Stafford Personnel on a Training Exercise
A member of the RAF Stafford team attending a training exercise in Norfolk is pictured checking over a Land Rover engine.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December 1939 following the purchase by the Treasury ...