Bomber Command
From Lacey Green History
click Wars for local details of the Boer War, WW1, WW2, & The Cold War
Hallmark April 1968. 1968 Strike Command formed by mergers.
Hallmark April 1975. 1975 Strike Command becomes the Headquarters of U.K. Air Forces.
Hallmark April 1985. 1985 RAF Main Gates, Strike Command Research by Miles Marshall.
Hallmark February 1987. The New RAF Operations Centre. (An exhibition giving the history of this RAF Command Centre from its inception.)
. The Royal Air Force Station for RAF High Wycombe is at Walters Ash.
Built for WW2 it was then Bomber Command, subsequently Strike Command then Air Command and the headquarters of the European Air Group
.Wing Commander Alan Oakshot. Lived in Naphill
Research Note Alan Oakshot is included in RAF Local Residents because it was he who suggested that the new Headquarters of RAF High Wycombe, should be built at Walters Ash, surrounded by the woods.
-The headquarters and officers houses were built on the north side of Walters Ash to Bradenham Road and are
in the parish of Lacey Green, their children attending Lacey Green School
The majority of the servicemen and women lived in Walters Ash, where a NAFFI, church and playing fields were also constructed.
-3rd May 1940. Mrs Ishbel Ridgley sold eleven and a half acres of Speen Farm. click Ishbel MacDonald for more about Ishbel.
Land for school (site 3) from Mrs Emma Grace
90 acres compulsory purchase from Bradenham Estate
September 1941. Land for sports field site 4 from C W Raffety for Walters Ash Farm.
-October 1940. Commandant. Squadron Leader J F Mehigan
3rd February 1942 Air Vice Marshall Arthur Harris (Bomber Harris). click Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris for more about Arthur Harris