Sadly I have stopped contributing, there are far too many would be "editors" who lack knowledge of what they decide to "edit", chop and change in the pursuit of their own personal agendas, seemingly unaware of the significance of removing material which a specialist contributor identified as relevant. Continually having to back-check what "editors" have decided to cut out and then try to defend material against those who live for political correctness is crazy, some of these people should try to contribute something themselves rather than taking the soft option to damage what has been provided by others.

Stuff edit

  The WikiProject Barnstar
For "editing articles focused mainly on the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, your contributions to many biographical articles in this area and recent work on the epic RAF Bomber Command aircrew of World War II," I have the honor of awarding you this WikiProject Barnstar as an honorable mention in the Military History Newcomer of the Year 2015 vote. For the Military history WikiProject, TomStar81 (Talk) 02:32, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

I became active here in August 2015 and I am working to get to grips with the Wikipedia way of doing things. I'm interested primarily in Aerial and Naval Warfare of WW2 and also WW1 but I do also follow Military topics of those eras almost as closely. Books dealing with battles involving significant British archery such as the Battles of Crecy 1346, Poitiers 1356 and Agincourt 1415 are regularly on my reading list.

New Articles Contributed edit

Larger Articles edit

  1. RAF Bomber Command Aircrew of World War II
  2. British merchant seamen of World War II
  3. The disappearance of Liberator Commando and its occupants
  4. King's Commendation for Brave Conduct (1916-1952)
  5. The LST-420 disaster
  6. The Lancaster PA278 disappearance

Great Escapers (and those involved) biogs edit

WW2 Fighter Ace Biographies edit

  1. Nicholas Gresham Cooke DFC - 264 Squadron
  2. Philip Hunter (RAF officer) DSO - 264 Squadron
  3. Karlheinz Meltzer - Luftwaffe JG 52
  4. Helmut Mertens - Luftwaffe JG 3
  5. Ted Thorn (RAF officer) DFC* DFM* - 264 Squadron
  6. William Henry Franklin DFM* - 65 Squadron

Other Biographies edit

  1. Charles Skepper MBE CdeG - SOE agent
  2. Jim McCairns DFC** MM - Fighter pilot, escaper, SOE special duties pilot
  3. Arthur Steele (SOE agent) - SOE agent
  4. James Scarlett-Streatfeild CBE - Air Vice Marshal, RAF (Killed 1945)
  5. Andrew Massey (SAS commander)
  6. Daniel Everett DFC** - Bomber Command and Pathfinder Force pilot
  7. Robert Smallbones CMG MBE - Consul-General and British Hero of the Holocaust

Articles built from Stubs (or similar) edit

  1. Eliane Plewman CdeG - SOE agent
  2. William Gell (RAF officer) CB DSO* MC - AVM - Senior RAF officer WWII
  3. William Ash (writer) - Spitfire pilot and escaper
  4. John Grigson DSO DFC** - WWI aviator
  5. Kenneth Berry (British Free Corps) - British traitor
  6. Nicolas Bodington - OBE MBE - SOE officer and field agent
  7. Maurice Buckmaster - OBE - SOE F-Section commander
  8. Arthur Ferdinand Yencken - CMG MC - Diplomat
  9. Michael Rose - KCB CBE DSO QGM - General and former SAS officer
  10. Hugh Verity - DSO* DFC - SOE Lysander pilot
  11. Cedric Delves - KBE DSO - General and former SAS officer
  12. Joseph Berry - DFC** - Top ace against V-1 rockets
  13. Tony Lovell - DSO* DFC* - Spitfire fighter ace
  14. Victor Beamish - DSO* DFC AFC - Battle of Britain ace & fighter leader
  15. George Grimson MiD - Escaper later murdered.
  16. Arthur Watts - DSO - Punch magazine cartoonist, killed in aircrash in 1935
  17. Adam Wise - LVO MBE - RAF officer - ADC & Equerry.
  18. John Cook (VC) - Scottish soldier in Afghanistan 1879-1880.
  19. George M. Cox - MBE MC AFC - WWI aviator
  20. George Innes (RAF officer) - CBE - RAF Provost Marshal and spycatcher
  21. John Ward (RAF officer) - MC KW - RAF escaper who fought in the Warsaw Uprising

Articles improved edit

  1. William Rowan - Field Marshal served in the Peninsular War, at Walcheren and Waterloo
  2. Frank Foley CMG - MI6 officer and Righteous gentile, British Hero of the Holocaust

Articles I'm improving slowly edit

  1. Distinguished Flying Medal
  2. Air Force Medal
  3. Stalag Luft III murders

References and sources added edit

Quite a few and no longer trying to keep a track.

Articles on DYK edit

  1. Thomas Kirby-Green by Casliber on 11 November 2015
  2. Andrew Massey (SAS commander) by Casliber on 27 November 2015
  3. Daniel Everett (RAF officer) by Casliber on 14 December 2015

Stuff edit

  The WikiProject Barnstar
For "editing articles focused mainly on the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, your contributions to many biographical articles in this area and recent work on the epic RAF Bomber Command aircrew of World War II," I have the honor of awarding you this WikiProject Barnstar as an honorable mention in the Military History Newcomer of the Year 2015 vote. For the Military history WikiProject, TomStar81 (Talk) 02:32, 22 December 2015 (UTC)


|}