RAF Hereford

RAF Hereford was a non-flying station of the Royal Air Force. 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, north-west of Hereford. The site was transferred to use by the Special Air Service.

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)

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