The airfield today

THE RESEARCH

Areas of research include:

 

• RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft

• RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel

• The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944

• No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training

• Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park

• 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights

• Midhurst Rural District Land Army

• South Ambersham Home Guard

• Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall)

• HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place

• Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries

• Selham rifle range

• The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca)

• Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields

• The Close Walks, Midhurst

 

If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.

 

 

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Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.
Areas of research include: • RNAS Cowdray Park’s aircraft • RNAS Cowdray Park’s personnel • The Royal Naval School of Photography at RNAS Cowdray Park, April - October 1944 • No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF and the squadron's use of RNAS Cowdray Park for secret mail pick-up training • Air Training Corps summer camps at RNAS Cowdray Park • 1452 (Rother) Squadron ATC, Midhurst and Petworth Flights • Midhurst Rural District Land Army • South Ambersham Home Guard • Stephen Fraser (London) Ltd and its Home Guard platoon, based at Selham Place (now Millburgh Hall) • HMS Daedalus Pay Office (WRNS), Selham Place • Selham and West Lavington searchlight batteries • Selham rifle range • The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Company at Fernhurst Camp (later the home of ICI Plant Protection/Zeneca) • Easebourne, Wispers and Cocking Down flying fields • The Close Walks, Midhurst If you require further details, or if you think you have some information that might be of interest to the project, please do get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.