Carew Cheriton
CAREW CHERITON: Military aerodrome (originally known as PEMBROKE in WW1)
Aerial photo c.1918
Military users: WW1: Royal Flying Corps
225 Sqdn (Special Duty Flights, including anti-submarine patrols)
WW2: Royal Air Force 27 Group
Technical Training Command (Radio School)
RAF Coastal Command 19 Group
206 Sqdn (Avro Ansons)
254 Sqdn (Bristol Blenheims)
320 (Netherlands) Sqdn (Avro Ansons later Lockheed Hudsons)
321 (Netherlands) Sqdn (Avro Ansons)
Location: 6nm W of Tenby just E of Carew Cheriton village
Period of operation: WW1: 1918 only? WW2: 1939 to 1945
Runways: WW2: 12/30 950x46 hard 05/23 882x46 hard
16/34 700x46 hard
NOTES: Commencing in June 1918 No.225 Sqdn operated obsolete DH.6 types.
See PEMBROKE for more WW1 details
Chris
This comment was written on: 2020-03-18 13:53:26My late father did some of his training during WW2. It was with No 10 radio school, in September and October 1943. The training was in Oxfords and Ansons prior to him moving on to a Catalina OTU at Killadeas. Cheriton would have been one of the few training bases that he could fairly easily nip home to his family in Llanelli. I do not think I have identified photos of the unit or station in his collection.
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