The 68th Entry, Royal Air Force, Halton, Trenchard's Brats

The official website of the
¹⁹⁵¹ 68th Entry ¹⁹⁵⁴
No.1 School of Technical Training, Royal Air Force, Halton
"The last of the great entries"^†

On 20th April 2008 I took over compiling the website from Brian McCarthy who has done many years of sterling work in creating and maintaining it but is now living in Switzerland. Nothing much has changed yet and it won't, apart from some cosmetics, without your input so please come up with anything that you think other ex 68thers would be interested in e.g. photos, reminiscences, whereabouts of lost members, links to your website etc.

The site is now being hosted by one.com which is cheap, provides 1 gig of webspace and unlimited bandwidth so there's oodles of capacity for all your gen. If you have photographs or documents in non-digital format then please send them by snail mail with an SAE to ensure their return. I can scan up to A3 size.

For those of you who have been accessing the website as halton68th.110mb.com please note that the website has now become
http://www.halton68th.co.uk/
so please amend your bookmarks accordingly.
You can continue to use halton68th.110mb.com but it now only provides a link to here.

Bob Kellock
The Elms, High Street, Tisbury, Salisbury, SP3 6HH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1747 870318
bob§chainganger.co.uk
or
webmaster§halton68th.co.uk
www.chainganger.co.uk

Ken Smith passed away on 31st May 2008
The funeral took place at Canewdon parish church on Thursday 12th June.
Jean and John Player, Keith and Eileen Gauntlett, Jim and Geraldine Le Moine, Ray and Maureen Hart and Mike Williams attended to represent the Association.

We decided at our last reunion, confirmed at the 2007 Triennial, to have an Entry Reunion in 2009. This is will held on 24th and 25th April 2009 at The Old Wisteria Hotel, Oakham, Rutland.

15th September 2008. Just received issue 11 of The Wheel (Newsletter of NZ Ex-RAF Apprentices Association)
Click here to view/download in PDF format (It's not on their website yet)

I found my copy of the May '54 Halton Magazine which covers our passing out. Pictures from it have been added to the photos section.

Rob Parsons (Airframes) has also been found: he lives in the Wye Valley. I have his email address.

Leon Slee (Airframes) has been found: he lives in Purton (Near Swindon). I have his email address.

Found the Kiwi ex brats website - quite a lot about 68thers - worth a visit. http://www.nzrafaaa.co.nz/
† See the section about the 68th and "The last of the great entries" in their newsletter no. 9. Click here to see it

In most photos on the website, where there are faces, there is provision for showing individual's names when you move the mouse over a face. Many of them have codes instead of names because I don't know the name. If you can identify any of them please let me know so that I can insert the name.

●	Main page				Takes you back to the opening page
	●	The 68th Association			What it is, what it does, who does it and list of members
		●	News letters		of the68th Association
			●	No 1	June 2001
			●	No 2	December 2001
			●	No 3	June 2002
			●	No 4	December 2002
			●	No 5	July 2003
			●	No 6	December 2003
			●	No 7	September 2004
	●	68th entry brats
		●	List of Members		List of all? members of the 68th
		●	Missing List		List of those brats with whom contact has been lost
			●	Do you know where ····· is?	Requests for contact details of missing brats
		●	In memoriam		List of those who have passed away
			●	Obituaries	of some of the above
		●	Individuals		Reminiscences and pictures from individuals
			●	Geoff Carr
			●	Del Holt
			●	Bill Howell (NZ)
			●	Bob Kellock
			●	Brian McCarthy
			●	John Nicholson
			●	Roly Oliver (NZ)
			●	Ossie Osmond	Takes you to newsletter #6 where you can read his story
			●	John Player
			●	Sam West (NZ)
			●	Mike Williams
	●	Photographs
		●	General brats snaps		Lots more will be coming soon I hope
		●	Reunion pics
			●	Mini Reunion 1955
			●	Reunion April 2001
			●	Reunion 2004
			●	Triennial reunion 2007
		●	Graduation pictures
		●	The 68th Window		Pictures
	●	Miscellaneous			Just an index to the following pages
		●	Map and aerial view		of Halton area and Parade ground with 1 and 2 wings
		●	Brat's yarns		Brief anecdotes form Halton and later days
		●	Updates		Update history for website
		●	Links		Links RAF, other apprentices and members' websites
		●	Encyclopedia Bratanica		Brat slang mainly
		●	Instructions for using the website		How to send contributions for the website
		●	Odds and sods		Anything that doesn't fit in any other category
		●	Have I got old news for you?		Archive of old news items