There were plenty of permanent staff at RAF Cranage, but many of those who came were posted to the airfield for training at the No.2 School of Air Navigation [later the Central Navigation School] and as a result of this, a huge number of people were only there for a brief time. This, along with the passage of time and a lack of records makes it all the more difficult to trace people.

I try to add as much information on personnel as possible so that visitors to the web site can get a wider view of life at R.A.F. Cranage, the V-A factory and the surrounding area. Where those who were there on training exercises are concerned it also allows the viewer to see why the training was so important and how it contributed to their role at a later date.

If you, or someone you know/knew were at Cranage then we really would like to hear from you. You can telephone or e-mail me using the details on the contact page or, if you would prefer to write to me, please telephone me for my postal address.

To read more about each person, click on the photo/image. At the bottom of the page is a full list of other 'known' personnel.

R.A.F. personnel

U.S. Army personnel

Name : Charles Greer

Rank : SP3

Ser. No. : RA14557903

Dates at Cranage : Nov 1956 - Jul 1957

620th Engineers, U.S. Army

The following list of names has been compiled from assorted notes, letters and e-mails from ex-personnel.

Where I have placed ‘??’ it is to indicate that I do not know the first name of that person.

Please note that for some people, we only have ‘nick-names’.

The names are shown exactly as they were supplied to myself and other researchers, therefore I would like to make it clear that there is a possibility of errors in names, rank, sections etc.

- in alphabetical order -

Joy Anderton - W.A.A.F.

‘Daddy’ Ashford -

W.O.Bailey - Stores

Ron Baker - L.A.C.

‘Bobby’ Barke - Sgt - W.A.A.F.

‘Ginger’ Beedon - A.C. - Fire Section

‘Geordie’ Braithwaite = Cpl - Cook

?? Card - A.C. - Fire Section

?? Carney - L.A.C. - Cook, Scottish

Joe Caruna - Sgt - Airman’s Mess

Frank Chamber - L.A.C.

?? Connoly - Cpl - W.A.A.F. - P.T.I. with red curly hair - sang ‘three wheels on my wagon’ all the time.

?? Cook - W.O. - Stores

?? Crane - W.O. - Stores

James ‘Jimbo’ Crompton - Guard Room

Margaret Evans - W.A.A.F.

Mr Bill Francis - Civilian Driver

?? Frost-Smith - P/O - Medical Officer

Edith Glover - W.A.A.F.

Bill Goldman - L.A.C. - local man, had been L.A.C. Acting/W.O. aircrew during the war.

‘Ben’ Gunn - Orderly Room

Grace Henderson - W.A.A.F.

Mr Hucknull - Civilian Driver

Paddy Huff - photography enthusiast

Ray or Roy Hunisett - Orderly Room

Ray Isley - Orderly Room

Mr S.R. or R.S. Jackson - Civilian Employee - Daughter married to an American service man she met at the unit. Proud owner of one of the first ball point pens to be seen thereabouts, a gift from the son-in-law.

Johnny Johnson - Cpl - Fire Section

H.V.W.C. Jones

?? Jones - WAAF - Telephonist

Ian Marchbank - golf enthusiast - from Scotland

‘Jock’ Miles - L.A.C. - Married a local girl and lived in Middlewich. NAAFI Crooner.

‘Taffy’ Owen - Orderly Room

Vicky Pemberton - W.A.A.F.

Audry Phillips - W.A.A.F. - Telephonist

‘Paddy’ Reidy - Sgt - Pay Accounts

Maisie Roper - W.A.A.F.

Oswin Joseph Smith - Cpl - Fire Section - from Kingston, Jamaica.

?? Smith - Sgt - M/T

May Spooner - Cpl - Orderly Room

Peggy Tate - W.A.A.F.

Joe Tonna - Cpl - M/T

Cliff Unk

James ‘Jimmy’ Vaughn - Sgt - known to have been there in 1956/57 with 620th Eng. U.S. Army

Lois Lucy Walker - a.k.a. Dizzy

?? Watson - P/P - Education Officer - photography enthusiast

‘Chippy’ Waugh - S.A.C. - Carpenter - possibly from Devon.

Irene Whittle - W.A.A.F.

?? Wilson - Sgt - RAF Regiment

Bert Wimbles - L.A.C. - Fire Section

Stanley Winn - Adjutant

Ross Woods

Norman Wright - L.A.C. - Fire Section

Kathy Yould - W.A.A.F - thought to now be Kathy Knapp

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