Graduation Reviewing Officer
Commandant
Arrival 9 September 1959
A Sqn
PJ Atkins
NB Baldwin
R Cane
RD Cole
WMN Cross
RE Davies
JC Fittus
MS Herring
FJ Hoare
AJF Hunt
DS Lanigan
BP Nicolle
J Nottingham
AQM Ross
IH Shurdom
CJ Thomson
JEC Williamson
RAF Wilson (18)
B Squadron
MJR Balqez
GPJ Burden
JH Currie
MA Gaynor
AJ Gowing
C Granville-White
JV Harding
MN Jensen
JG Lumsden
JV McCarthy
MSJ McKinley
F Milligan
AG Pearce
PV Pile
DJ Sawyer
TH Sindall
GJR Sutton
AR Tinkler (18)
C Squadron
CB Adcock
RM Annett
NG Bing
P Coulson
I Fazakerley
HFJ Fetherstonhaugh
D Fradley
CS Greensted
M Hanslip
TS Keats
RP O'Brien
JG Parnaby
RJM Patterson
G Pitcher
B Priest
V Rees
PG Sturt
RB Thomson
W Wood (19)
Total 55 (of whom 39 graduated
with 81 Entry, and 4 through 82 Entry)
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81 Entry 9 September 1959 - 31 July 1962
Graduation 31 July 1962
A Sqn
NB Baldwin
R Cane
WMN Cross
MS Herring
AJF Hunt
DS Lanigan
BP Nicolle
J Nottingham
AQM Ross
CJ Thomson
GN Wade*
JEC Williamson (13)
B Squadron
MJR Balqez
MA Gaynor
JR Hambleton*
JV Harding
JG Lumsden
MSJ McKinley
F Milligan
AG Pearce
GH Rolfe*
DJ Sawyer
GJR Sutton (11)
C Squadron
CB Adcock
RM Annett
I Fazakerley
TS Keats
RP O'Brien
B Priest
PG Sturt
RB Thomson
W Wood (9)
D Squadron
NHLW Cleave*
RD Cole
JH Currie
JC Fittus
D Fradley
C Granville-White
FJ Hoare
AH Jones*
JV McCarthy
PV Pile
TH Sindall
AB Stephens*
RAF Wilson (13)
Total 45 (of whom 6* were
originally on 80 Entry)
Graduated through 82 Entry
PJ Atkins
NG Bing
IH Shurdom
AJ Gowing spent time on 82 Entry
and then as an APO at Hullavington where
he graduated
CGW updateJul2016
Nos 81 & 82 entries were the last two entries to arrive at Cranwell when there were only three sqns (A, B & C). During 1960 the fourth wing was built as D Sqn so when 81 moved up the College building after the first year some of the entry transferred to D Sqn.
81 Entry was the first entry with the option of taking a degree. Moreover, 81 Entry pilots were the first entry to fly Jet Provosts. So far so good. For those pilots destined to fly jet aircraft we were supposed to be the first JP & Gnat entry. However, when they arrived at Valley for advanced training the Gnats had not arrived so 81 became the last Cranwell entry to fly Vampires and therefore the only Cranwell entry to train on Jet Provosts & Vampires.
Sir Thomas Pike GCB CBE DFC (CAS)
Air Cdre D. F. Spotswood CBE DSO DFC ADC