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THIS PAGE: Technical Taining Courses 21 LAR and later

LAR stands for Local Airmen Recruits. The LAR courses were trained at No1 GTS (Ground Training School), New Sarum.
The OAR (Overseas Airmen Recruits) courses went to either RAF Halton or RAF Locking.

21 LAR  Attested 02.02.1967

Standing back row L-R: ......?(T), Harry Wise (T), .......?(T) , .....?(T), Bruce Mawdsley (R), Beef Belstead (R), Stretch Merrington (R), Guy Mitchell (T), Mick Bentley (T), Peter de Wet (T), .....?(T), Tim Reynolds (T), ....?(T)
Middle Row standing: Ian Strang (T), Robert Fox (T), Tom Vergis (T), Howie Butler (R), Jim Pawson (R), Stuart Walton (T), Ray Hooper (R), Garth Richert (R), Rick (Bow Legs) Wall (T & R), Des Sharp (R), John Hepple (R), Shumba Taylor (T & R), Ginger Morris (T & R)
Seated back row: Johan Jansen van Vuuren (R), Philip Tither (R), Barry Badenhorst (R), Guy Pearce (R), Brian Warren (R), Spook Annandale (R), Brain McEnery (R), Ron Kaplan (R), Peter Horsburgh (R), Tony Haselhurst (R), Herman (Pottie) Potgieter (R), Dave Gregson Allcott (T)
Seated front row – Instructors : Willie Jervois, Jimmy Crookes, Sqn Ldr Brian Hornby, Tommy Minks, Bob Harris

Unidentified:
WARREN B. C. "Brian", HORSBOROUGH P. V. "Pete", SMITH D. J. "Doug",

24 LAR (ENGINES) 1969

Back: John Woosey - Russell Wantenaar - Brian Wilkinson - Dave Jenkins
Front: Richard Palmer - Frog Ellis - Syd Watson - Mike Sheasby - Rod Timm

26 LAR JAN 1970

Photo by Rhodesian Air Force, submitted by Ian Doig in 2009

29LAR


30 LAR

Back Row: Willem Joubert, Les Booth, Keith Sexton, Gordon Allison, John Berger, Tony Veigas, Clive Ravenhill, Brian Crystal, Craig Moore, Tommy de Bruin

2nd Row: Boet Westermeyer, Tony Mallelieu, Mark Versveld, Neil Campbell, Paul Russell Smith, Rob Berkbeck, Richard Bezuidenhout, Neil Mayo, Ralph Harding, Geoff Haggeman, Tony Howard

3rd Row: Clint Franklin, John Chamberlain, Deon Kirshner, Wynne Dallas, Ken Scott, Sqn Ldr Ted Brent, Mike Upton, Gordon Twiggins, Leroy du Plessis, Ken Brown

Front Row:Kevin Nelson, Dave Cox, Graham Cox, Leon Naude, Mick Breakwell, Ray Walker, Pete Johnstone, Graham Jarman, Bruce Heynes, Hennie Wiegas, Bobby Knott

34 LAR Enlisted 1975

Photo by Rhodesian Air Force, submitted by (Stew) S.B.R. Robinson
NAMES, NOT IN PHOTO ORDER:
6666 Baard John (Airf), 6703 Botha (Instru), 6686 Bradley (Elec), Campbell-Smith Eric (Radio), 6665 Cook (Airf), 6698 Dawel Keith (Instr), 6664 Dawel Steve (Airfr), 6698 Deane Peter (Wing Wing Concie)(Engines), 6685 Du Plessis (Elec), 6651 Erasmus (Arm), 6663 Evans Dave (Gomer Pile) (Airfr), 6682 Fetting Pieter (Airfr), 6669 Fubbs Ian (Fubbsie)(Eng), 6649 Hilton Rob (Arm), 6683 Holden Ging (Elec), 6684 Holmes Mike (Elec), 6670 Jameson Bruce (Eng), 6648 Keen (Arm), 6682 King (Elec), 6697 Kirkham (Instr), 6691 Leaper Warwick (Radio), 6661 Lopes (Airfr), 6671 Maritz Lourence (Eng), 6646 McDulling Huge (Arm), 6654 McKillop Mike (Arm), 6672 Meakin Keiron (Eng), Mogentale Tino (Airfr), 6659 Paar George (Airfr), 6673 Preston (Eng), 6674 Robinson Stewart (Eng), 6705 Rosenberg Adrian (Radio), 6690 Ross Colin (Radio), 6658 Sephton Gareth (Airfr), Steel-Smith Les (Eng), 6694 Syddall Carl (Arm), 6689 Theron (Radio), 6688 Thomas (Radio), 6680 Todd (Electrical), 6641 van Breda (Arm), 6657 Vermaak (Airfr), 6679 Weber (Elec), 6677 White Dave (Eng), 6676 Wolfe Toni (Eng), 6687 Worsley Derek (Radio), 6655 Wright Mitch (Airfr), 6678 Young Ian (Bones)(Eng)

37 LAR, Enlisted January 1978

Marcus Main-Baillie writes:
"Regarding the numbering, part of our course was in the 6990's and the rest in alphabetic order followed in the 9000's. The numbers in between we think were allocated to the army !!

Jerry Bailey, Paul Berretta, Bill Berry, Colin Botha, Keith Bromley, Denis Bronkhurst, Graham Brown, Trevor Brown, Steve Byron, Gary Crosier, Des Davies, Steve Diedericks, Ken Dornan, Edwards, Bill Fleming, John Gillmaster, Rob Godfrey, Rod Goodyear, Graham Muir, Graham Taylor, Pete Gregory, Alan Hagemann, Les Henderson, Martin Hendricksen, Andre Hugo, Ian Scott, Jan Steyn, Pete Jessop, Jeremy Johnson, Jan Justryk, 9050 Marcus Main-Baillie, Gary Mason, Pat Moore, Nigel Ashby, Keith Perks, Cliff Putterill, Stu Ramsey, Richard Kleinschmidt, Paul Ridge, Clive Roberts, Eric Sekull, Keith Sherman, Kevin Shraga, Richard Smallman, Sven Smith, Steve Prophet, Tommy Swales, Rob Talbot, Steve Trowbridge, Steve Van Blerk, Guy Walker, Taff Wallace, Joe Ward, Wayne Ferreria, Rory Williams, Andy Xenakis.

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