100th Entry Members L

LARTER, Peter (Chip)	687972 L Fitt GR (Ground Radar Fitter Nav)	Corby Glen, Grantham Lincs, UK Contact Web Site
Left RAF in 1996. Still working for the British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association as an administrator. Married for many years with 4 sons and 2 grandchildren (soon to be 3)
Sep 1944	1964	2006

LINDON, Tony

A0688065

L Fitt AR
(Air Radar
Fitter Fighter)

Lancashire, UK

Contact

Web Site

After Locking I completed 12 years service with postings to Chivenor, Tengah, Wattisham, Laarbruch and Coningsby. Squadron detachments also took me to many other locations including Kai Tak, Butterworth, Bruggen, Binbrook, Odiham and Aldergrove.

Left the RAF in 1975 and joined BAe. Retired in 2000, after 25 years, when BAe merged with Marconi to become BAE Systems.

More info about me on my web site.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!

Feb 1945

1962

2006

LOCKYER, John	N0688020 L Fitt GR (Ground Radar Fitter CR)	East Sussex UK Contact
After first posting to Bawdsey in Jan 1965, went to Saxa Vord in July 1966. Dec 1967 posted to Neatishead before going to Singapore in Oct 1969. Returned home Sept 1971 and demobbed that November. Married in April69, but no family. Various jobs, retired April 2005.
Nov 1944	1964	2007

LYON, Michael	S0687976 Air Radar Fitter (Bomber)	Penang, Malaysia Contact Web Site
After leaving the RAF I worked in Manchester selling life insurance (Ugh!) for a few years. Then I went back to my love of aircraft and worked for BAC in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia for six years. After that I spent another four years back in the UK selling more insurance, but was still not convinced it was for me. Then things changed when I saw a job offer in the Far East -- became a Christian and been here ever since (17 years now), building my own ministry/company ... selling insurance, but with a difference -- take a look at my website to see what I mean. Anyway, I'm very happy with life and have a wife and two great kids. If anyone gets a chance to visit Penang, please come say hello as we rarely spend time in the UK now-a-days.
Aug 1945	Then	2007

LUMB, Charles Chas	R0687975 Ground Radar Fitter CR	Herefordshire UK Contact Web Site
Left RAF in 1974 & joined EMI Electronics as a Technical Author. Spent 17 years with them before joining a publications firm in Cheltenham in 1992. Still with them as a senior Technical Author. Married Joan in 1966 at Buchan and generated a boy and a girl by 1970. We celebrated our Ruby wedding in March this year. Both children flown the nest long ago and are married. We have 4 grandchildren, and live near Ross-On-Wye, Herefordshire
Dec 1944	1962	2006

LOGAN, Roger	XO687765 L Fitt AR F (Air Radar Fitter Fighter)	Chipping Norton UK Contact Web Site
Left the RAF in 1978, after having signed on for 22, but got cheesed off with poor pay etc. Went into the printing industry - service engineer, then started own computer dealership in 82. Sold up in 95. Now do 3 days a week running a couple of companies selling marine diesel engine spares.
Oct 1946	Then	2006

LINEHAN, Joseph (Joe)	J0688019 L Fitt AR (Air Radar Fitter Bomber)	NSW coast Australia Contact Web Site
After the apprentices I was posted to Cottesmore on Vulcans with Monty and Stu Brockbank. Posted to St Mawgan in 1969 after six months tour at Goose Bay. I married my wife Glynis early in 1974 in Catholic chapel at St Mawgan village, Cornwall. I left the RAF in late 1974 after the twelve years. In need of life and work change, I returned to study for an engineering degree. I gained an honours degree in 1978. I Worked for ICL, at Winsford and Royal Ordnance Factory at Salford during this period. From 1978 I worked for Marconi Space & Defence Systems on development of Nimrod Simulator in Scotland. Met up with Snowy White at Kinloss. In 1983 I took up a position with the Australian Department of Defence. I gained Chartered Engineer status. I project managed some interesting development projects and also some bad ones. I had a hip replacement in 2002. In our early days in Australia, myself and Glynis lived in the small Australian country town of Yass for 8 years where my son and two daughters went to school, enjoyed life and became Australians. Now the children have left, we are living in quiet domesticity in a leafy Canberra suburb where I manage, usually unsuccessfully, my two pre-school grand daughters, Sophie and Brooke, a couple of times a week. Coming up to 24 years in Australia I am starting to slow down prior to retirement. Glynis has just sold her busy flower shop so we are getting there.
	1964	2007

LUCAS, Paul	Q0687974 Ground Radar Fitter Nav	Bristol UK Contact Web Site
My life/work pattern followed that of many of the entry: Married, kids, postings that included Changi, Gatow, Gutersloh and a couple of Falklands tours. I was too frightened to get a proper job but redundancy got me in the end in 1996. I worked as a civilian instructor for a while but when Locking closed I got a job as civil servant with the MoD in Bristol.
Jun 1945	Then	2006

LEAH, Roger	B0688049 L Tech AR (Air Radar Fitter Fighter)	Gloucestershire UK Contact Web Site
Left the RAF in 1986 to join Smiths Aerospace in Cheltenham. Retired 2 years ago. Playing a fair amount of golf and still windsurfing in the warm weather.
Oct 1944	Then	2006

LODER, Peter (Paddy)
Although an input has been requested several times, Paddy has yet to respond.

LAVERTY, TA (Al)
AL HAS NOT BEEN FOUND.