Transcribed from a hand written record
Joined Imperial Airways 25 September 1933 as Commercial Trainees:
H A Durawala, Douglas Grey, John Maspero, Geoffrey Pett, Ian Scott-Hill, Ross Stainton, Sunny Sunduram, Edwin Whitfield
Movements for Geoffrey Pett
from London/Croydon Sep 1934 to Operating Croydon (Cro)
from Operating Cro Jan 1935 to Accounts Cro
from Accounts Cro 1st April 1935 to Passenger London (Lo)
from London 9 October 1935 to Brindisi
- by Anson G-ACRN. Stationed there were Denis(?) Bustard, Pat Montague-Bates, Ross Stainton & Stephen Broad
from Brindisi 7 Aug 1936 to London 9 Aug 1936
on Leave then TMO London 31 Aug 1936
from TMO Lo 12 Sep 1936 to Rochester
- as Flight Clerk for takeover and delivery of F/B G-ADUT to Alexandria [Centaurus]
from Rochester 12 Dec 1936 to Alexandria 16 Dec 1936
from Alexandria 18 Dec 1936 to Nairobi 21 Dec 1936
S/O Pett from Nairobi 19th May 1937 to Lindi (via DAR) 26 May 1937
from Lindi 3 June 1938 to Nairobi 5 June 1938
from Nairobi 17 June 1938 to Butiaba 18 June 1938
from Butiaba 8 Sept 1938 to Juba (Rejaf) 12 Sep 1938
T/O2 Pett from Juba 22 Apr 1939 to Khartoum
- Clyde Purnell was S/Supt and Pat Bates Asst S/S
from Khartoum to UK 21 June 1939
- for 96 days home leave
from leave 25 Sep 1939 to Bristol
from Bristol 14 Oct 1939 to reopen Victoria Air Terminal
from UK 6 Dec 1939 to Alexandria
- Stn Supt.: A Thomson till 25 May 1940, then G Pett
- Staff at Ras El Tin (Alexandria) included: T/O D Grey, T/A AJR Murray, T/A ERF Anderson, T/A Michael Clapham. Trainees – Ken McGregor, Keith Cockerell, David Forbes, Roddy Barton, Basil Bamfylde, Oliver Hove, Bill Queckett
T/O Pett from Alexandria 16 Oct 1940 to Cairo (as Stn Supt.)
from Cairo (Rod el Farag) 4 Dec 1940 to Cairo HQ
- other station staff in Dec 1940 were Tr K Cockerell, T/A Gandolfo, T/O Brian Nelson
from Cairo 13 Jan 1941 to Khartoum
from Khartoum 19 Mar 1941 to Juba
- T/A O Hove was in Juba June-Aug 1941; T/O A Watts was relieving at Juba and Malakal during Sep/Oct 1941
from Juba 24 Nov 1941 to Khartoum (Wadi Saidna)
- T/A Cockerell was at Khartoum Oct-Dec 1941 covering leave for various Khartoum staff
- T/O B Nelson was still S/S Khartoum May 1942
- Gregson, Shillitoe & Barton were also ‘around’ Khartoum Sept 1942
- T/O G Boughton still in Khartoum Oct 1942
from Khartoum 9 Oct 1942 to Cairo
- T/O D Paton at Kampala Apr 1943
from Cairo 25 Oct 1944 to UK (Lynham) posted as MCO Europe
BOAC European Region created Jan 1945 and included: Maurice Curtis (Commercial Manager) Harry Matheson (Traffic Supt. Europe) and George Boughton, Geoffrey Gibbons, Douglas Grey, Peter Shillitoe, Ian Scott-Hill and Geoffrey Pett inter alia.
Note: there are many records of other staff transfers in the original documents from which these are taken.
