WWII RAF Training Centre
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	neil40
	 
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	Mon 20th Apr 2015  10:29pm  
	 
	
	 
	 
Hi,
I am researching my uncle's RAF WW2 career.
He was from Coventry, enlisted in 1938, and was called from the RAF Volunteer Reserve on 2nd September 1939 to "Coventry TC"
I presume this means 'Training Centre'
I've read of RAF bases at Baginton and Ansty, so I wonder if anyone knows which it might have been, or indeed, could it have been either!
Thanks for any help
Neil 
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	Covkidd
	 
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	Wed 22nd Apr 2015  6:30pm  
	 
	
	 
	 
The Volunteer Reserve used Ansty for flying training, they also used a large house on the Tamworth Road for midweek lectures. 
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	neil40
	 
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	Sat 25th Apr 2015  10:50pm  
	 
	
	 
	 
Thanks covkidd 
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	neil40
	 
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	Tue 5th May 2015  8:54pm  
	 
	
	 
	 
covkidd
I have learned that the "Coventry TC" actually means "Coventry Town Centre" - the RAF set up "Town Centres" and "Aerodrome Centres" - RAF Ansty would have been the latter, and the house on the Tamworth Road the former.
Do you happen to know which house it was?
From an article I was sent:
"Volunteer Reservists in the aircraft crew section must be able and willing to attend for air training during alternate week-ends and on some summer evenings, and for ground instruction on two evenings a week"
Neil 
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