Ivor & Joan Kelloway
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Ivor Kelloway was born in Somerset
Joan Chilton born was the daughter of Frank & Elsie Chilton
Ivor was in the RAF during the 2nd World War. click RAF Local Residents for his RAF career.
Ian Kelloway, Ivor and Joan's son, reported:-
Ivor and Joan Kelloway Lived at “The Haven”, main Road, Lacey Green, post WW2.
Ivor Kelloway decided the RAF was the career for him, when aged 4, on holiday near the prime naval port of Portland, he witnessed an air battle when some Swordfish took on some German bombers.
1941, aged 16, he joined the Air Training Corps. A keen sportsman, he played cricket for Somerset and football for Yeovil, albeit because many of the first teams had been called up.
Military Career
Sept 1943 Called up, (being a member of ATC). Ironically to report to Lords (the home of cricket in London. Training followed in a number of venues. One in East Anglia using F.I.D.O. in which fuel was set alight alongside the runways to disperse the fog. More training at 617 Squadron, (of dam busters fame), at that time hunting the German battleship “Tirpitz”.
Cranwell followed where he trained to be a navigator in Mosquitoes. One training flight ended up overshooting the runway and his back was hurt. It was the day of the RAF football cup, he was patched up and declared fit, but while heading in the winning goal the goalie knocked him flying. He came round in hospital, where he was kept for six weeks.
Back to Cranwell, where he was obliged to start again from scratch on a different course, this time for signaling. Next, Blackpool for a course on movement control. Late 1944. Posted to Bomber Command, Walters Ash, Ivor Kelloway was responsible for physical education and organizing fixtures for all types of sports and looking after the personal fixtures of all Bomber command aircrews.
Summer 1946. Spent flying to airfields that were closing down, removing any equipment worth keeping and playing cricket for the RAF. At King George V docks, Glasgow, to keep control of RAF equipment and also the kit of deceased airmen.
After V.E. Day. The RAF allowed the youths like Ivor to go one day a week to try out a civilian workplace. Having a friend at Mill End School, High Wycombe, Ivor went there.
March 1947. Posted to Swindon as R.T.O. (rail transport officer) to assist service personnel travelling by rail.
Ivor had applied for a place at St. Lukes College, Exeter for a two year course for teachers. The RAF agreed to his discharge and also agreed sponsorship for him.
Personal History
Spring 1945. Frank Chilton, stalwart of Lacey Green Sports Club, hearing there was a good cricketer at Bomber Command, cycled over to the base to invite him to come and play. February 1947 (a winter of record snow) Ivor Kelloway, from Somerset, married Joan, the daughter of Frank and Elsie Chilton, of Lacey Green. Ivor never lost his enthusiasm for sport and was for many years a school headmaster in High Wycombe.
Personal History
Spring 1945. Frank Chilton, stalwart of Lacey Green Sports Club, hearing there was a good cricketer at Bomber Command, cycled over to the base to invite him to come and play. click Frank & Elsie Chilton for more about Frank
February 1947 (a winter of record snow) Ivor Kelloway, from Somerset, married Joan, the daughter of Frank and Elsie Chilton, of Lacey Green. Ivor never lost his enthusiasm for sport and was for many years a school headmaster in High Wycombe.
Ivor and Joan had 4 children.
Ivor Kelloway represented The Sports Club on the Village Hall Committee in 1981, 82 and 83.
Report in Hallmark September 1982. "Ivor Kelloway has retired after 25 years in the teaching profession, a founder member of Princes Risborough County Secondary School, and at retirement Headmaster of Micklefield County Combined School.
A keen sportsman, former Wycombe Wanderers player, and a very active member of both the cricket and football sections of our own sports club.
We wish Ivor a happy retirement.