• George Chisholm (musician)
  ...ond World War]], Chisholm signed on with the [[w:Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]] and joined the RAF Dance Orchestra (known popularly as [[w:the Squadronai [[Category:Royal Air Force airmen]]
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• Eddie Braben
  ...[[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national service]] in the [[Royal Air Force]], during which he was posted to the kitchen at [[RAF Kenley]]. He then wor [[Category:20th-century Royal Air Force personnel]]
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• Raymond Allen (scriptwriter)
  ...o the unsocial hours he had to work at. He then served in the [[Royal Air Force]], working at its accounts office in Gloucestershire for three years. He t [[Category:20th-century Royal Air Force personnel]]
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• Talfryn Thomas
  ...g [[World War II|World War II]], he joined the [[Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force (RAF)]], and was a [[rear gunner|rear gunner]] on a [[Lancaster bomber|Lanc [[Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War II]]
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• Denis Norden
  |branch= {{air force|United Kingdom}} ...ss operator with a signals unit. His writing career began in the Royal Air Force when he wrote for troop shows. Whilst preparing for one of these shows in 1
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• Alfred Marks
  [[Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Royal Air Force airmen]]
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• Harry Worth
  ...aid he hated every minute of it. He joined the [[Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]] (RAF) in 1941.<ref name=DMirror>''Daily Mirror'', 15 August 1971, page 11 ...he war. This included three appearances in the [[Royal Variety Performance|Royal Variety Show]].
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• Deryck Guyler
  ...ring the [[Second World War]], he was called up and joined the [[Royal Air Force Police|RAF Police]] but was later invalided from service, whereupon he join ...couse|real Liverpudlian accent]] was heard on the radio. He took part in a Royal Command Performance of ''ITMA'' for [[King George VI]] and [[Elizabeth Bowe
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• Roy Dotrice
  ...in Avro Manchester R5840 of No.106 Squadron based at Coningsby, all seven airmen of the crew being taken Prisoner of War.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web|url=http ...Le Page'', to critical success at the [[New Theatre Royal Lincoln|Theatre Royal Lincoln]].<ref name="WPobit"/> In 2012 [[AudioGO]] produced a complete and
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• Cardew Robinson
  [[Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Royal Air Force airmen]]
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• Harry Fowler
  ...e [[Second World War]], he served as an [[aircraftman]] in the [[Royal Air Force]] and played a cheerful [[cockney]] character with the same job in the film * ''Trouble in the Air'' (1948) – (uncredited)
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• Frank Muir
  |branch= {{air force|United Kingdom}} Muir joined the [[Royal Air Force]] at the outbreak of the [[Second World War]] and spent several years in th
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• Dick Emery
  ...alph Reader]] into the [[Stars in Battledress|RAF Gang Show]] to entertain air and ground crew at bases in [[Great Britain]]. [[Category:Royal Air Force personnel of World War II]]
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• Max Bygraves
  ...ws, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs. He made twenty ''[[Royal Variety Performance]]'' appearances and presented numerous programmes, incl ...g agency at 233 High Holborn before serving as a fitter in the [[Royal Air Force]] in the [[Second World War]] and working as a carpenter.<ref>{{cite news|u
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• Ron Moody
  ...omist.<ref name="BBC"/> During World War II he enlisted in the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) and became a radar technician.<ref name="BBC"/> ...don</ref> and again at the 1985 [[Royal Variety Performance]] in [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]] before Queen [[Elizabeth II]] and the [[Prince Philip, Duke o
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• Dudley Sutton
  ...served in the [[Royal Air Force]] as a mechanic before enrolling in the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]], from which he was later expelled for responding [[Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]
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• Ken Annakin
  ...firefighter in [[Soho|Soho]], then joined the [[Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]]. ...ho is convinced, by his daughter (Miles) and fiancée (Fox), to organize an air race from London to Paris. A large sum of money is offered to the winner, a
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• Ronnie Corbett
  | branch = [[Royal Air Force]] ...d at James Gillespie's Boys School and the [[Royal High School (Edinburgh)|Royal High School]] in the city, but did not attend university.<ref name=bbc>{{ci
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• Denholm Elliott
  | alma_mater = [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] Elliott attended [[Malvern College]] and trained at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] (RADA) in London. He was asked to leave the Acade
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• Bob Monkhouse
  Monkhouse completed his [[National service]] with the [[Royal Air Force]] in 1948. He won a contract with the BBC after his unwitting RAF group cap ...e Boys from Syracuse]]'' (Antipholus of Syracuse) in 1963 at the [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]], alongside [[Ronnie Corbett]].<ref>London Cast Recording. The
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