83/Garvey Crew: Ashton, Pathfinders

Object/Artifact

RAF Pathfinders Archive

Name/Title

83/Garvey Crew: Ashton, "Pathfinders"

Entry/Object ID

2022.1.421

Description

Hugh Ashton, formerly gunner, 83 Squadron - "Pathfinders" by Bill Anderson. (Jarrolds, London, 1946)

Context

This is Hugh Ashton's personal copy of the Anderson classic. He has signed and dated it, 24.8.1946, so he must have bought it almost as soon as it was published. Bill Anderson was a Staff Officer in navigation, who was in at the very beginning of the Pathfinders in August 1942. He remained at PFF HQ until the end of the summer, 1944, before being moved on. He survived the war. The copy does not have a cover; the image here is from another copy in the Archive.

Collection

83 Squadron, PFF Memoirs, Books, & Manuscripts, YASH: HUGH ASHTON, DFC