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Information Sought - Can You Assist?

There are several things that I would like to know, some of which I used to know but I cannot remember from over 15 years ago. I wonder if you might be able to help. Please let me know if you can.

Email dave_daasnz@hotmail.com or write to me at 13 Froude Street, Cambridge.

ONE - I was in A Flight, the only flight that did not lose any of its members by the end of R1/89. I know that a few people did drop out of recruit course from B and C Flights. As my main roll information comes from the Passing Out Parade programme, obviously their names are not going to be on it. Can you recall who they were? What were their names, where were they from?

One of these people was a girl in 'B' Flight called McDonald. She's in the Flight photo here. I recall everyone else in her dorm saying she did little work and she told everyone she'd already been in the RAF, the RAAF, the USAF, the US Marine Corps and any other service she could lie about - depending on who she spoke to. The GSI's were however soon awake to this, and she was kept in the Flight by them and given tough duties as a punishment till the last week when she probably thought she would pass like the others in the flight, but then the GSI's dumped her. Anyone recall her first name and what happened to her?

TWO - My memory for some of the names of fellow R1/89'ers has faded. Some I only knew by face, others by nickname. Does anyone have any idea of the first names of the following R1/89 Air Force Cadets?

B Flight
M.L. Muir    (was this Malcolm Muir?)
B.L. Paterson   (was this Brad?)

C Flight
J.A. Omundsen