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Updated: 12 Sep 10
Formed: 1 Oct 1943
Disbanded: ??
Squadron was based at:
RAF Kelstern :: 1 Oct 1943 - 5 Apr 1945
RAF Scampton :: 5 Apr 1945 -
Squadron code: CF
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RAF Kelstern is now commemorated in a small memorial stone to 625 Sqn at the corner of the road near the old airfield. See RAF Kelstern photos and "A Brief History of the RAF in Lincolnshire" :: website. The relevant page is linked directly in the column to the right of this page.
We have been fortunate to have had a selection of historical documents submitted, relating to Sgt Edmund Kenneth Day (189663), whose Lancaster Mk I departed from RAF Kelstern on 16 March 1945 to carry out operations over Nuremberg and failed to return. 277 Lancasters and 16 Mosquitoes were despatched for this raid, which sadly resulted in the loss of 24 Lancasters. View the memoirs pages.
The below is an amusing anecdote cited on The Ridgewell Association's Bomber Command History
Most Station Commanders were tour-expired men, who occasionally flew on operations, usually "incognito" and in defiance of orders. Such spirit and example has to be greatly admired. At Kelstern, G/Capt. Donkin, a WW1 veteran, had flown as supernumerary with a 635 Sqdn. [sic] crew on a 1944 Berlin operation, and on return a BBC reporter, broadcasting "live" in the early hours, asked him what it had been like. The great waxed moustaches bristled. "Ai dain't maind telling yew," replied the aristocratic voice, "that Ai was shite-scaired all the way theyah, and Ai was shite-scaired all the way back."
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Battle Order 204
A book which tells the story of David Mattingley, an Australian bomber pilot from the age of 19, who served with 625 Sqn at RAF Kelstern has been written by his wife, Christobel.
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