238. Sidney Cotton’s Private Airforce

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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History, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Sidney Cotton played an important role in the development of photographic reconnaissance, taking pictures of Germany and Holland at the start of the war. His personal driver was a young man called Geoffrey Turnham. In these memoirs, sent to us by his great grandson Danny Turnham, Geoffrey describes day to day operations at No2 Camouflage Unit. Read by Al Murray. Many thanks to Danny Turnham. We Have Ways has a membership club which includes a live version of the podcast streamed on the internet each Thursday evening. Join at Patreon.com/wehaveways A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Joey McCarthy Exec Producer Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Website: www.wehavewayspod.com Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.0	Hello, Al Murray here.
0:41.0	Now, as you may know, we get a lot of correspondence that we have waste tasks and we read all of it.
0:46.0	It's always fascinating, but sometimes a letter or photograph or diary entry stands out as something really special.
0:53.0	Over the holiday period, we received an email from Danny Turner, which really caught our attention.
0:58.0	In his email, Danny says, my great-grandfather, Jeffrey Turner, served as Sydney Cotton's personal driver in France in 1940,
1:05.0	up until the evacuation of the BEF.
1:07.0	I would like to share with you his memoirs.
1:10.0	They were published in an issue of the RAF Association's airmail in 2004, before he sadly passed away the year after.
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