British Military Airfield Histories.
a project that offers you the histories of 790 airfields or seaplane bases

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With the Military Airfield Histories Display at the Yorkshire air Museum.

                                                      Guy Jefferson. MBE. YORK. England. January 2000.

Guy was born in the small village of Newton on Ouse near the City of York, England. After an elementary education he left school at the age of 14 in early 1942, a time when the Second World War was at its blackest. For the next 3 years he worked on the construction of the airfields at Tholthorpe and Linton on Ouse,  both on the admin and motor transport aspects. This brought him into close contact with both personnel and aircraft of operational bomber squadrons, an exciting experience never to be forgotten.

In the autumn of 1945 he joined the Royal Air Force, and although he spent well over 3 happy years in the service he sadly never worked on aircraft, but gained a great affinity towards the R.A.F that was to last for the rest of his life. This led him to apply for a job as a civilian radio and radar technician for the Air Ministry, after previously working as a wireless and television engineer in civvy street for several years.

From 1952 to 1985 he spent a very pleasant 33 years working at the R.A.F Station Linton on Ouse, engaged primarily in the servicing of both air and ground radio and radar equipments. He spent most of this time in air traffic control, where he was known as Jeff. The first seven years of this era were marvelous because flying was still great fun and morale was extremely high until strict disciplines began to be introduced. Over the years he was responsible for inventing many potentially life saving electronic systems associated with his trade, for which he was recognized by H.M the Queen for his 'dedicated contribution to flight safety'.

During the above period he came into contact with many departments of the Air Ministry/M o D, and members of the R.A.F, who supplied a great deal of information for this project on airfield histories.

Since his retirement he has been actively engaged as a volunteer with the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York, where he continues to use his inventive skills to create 'hands on' displays. He has also undertaken research projects to produce unique displays, one of which covers all military aircraft that have crashed in Yorkshire, and a computer programme that tests the visitors skill at aircraft recognition.

 If any reader of this page served at R.A.F Linton-on-Ouse between 1953 and 1985 then Guy would like to here  from you.  Contact via the E mail address shown on the Home Page.

With Bud Morgan, wartime pilot of Memphis Belle. With Air Vice Marshall Bird Wilson of BofB fame. With Linton's C.O after his final flight.