1260 Newark And District Squadron Air Cadets

Today we paid our respects to Jim Auton a true hero.

Tomorrow 1260 Sqn will be attending the funeral of Mr Jim Auton MBE to pay our respects to this remarkable man RIP. The funeral takes place at Newark Parish Church at 1300 with his burial at the Cemetery afterwards. I also understand there will be a flypast by an aircraft from Waddington subject to the weather being suitable.

On Saturday CWO Olivia Wightman travelled to RAFC Cranwell to represent Central & East Region in the Corps Senior Girls Netball Competition.
This competition saw them face off against the other regions in the country, except for Scotland & Northern Ireland who unfortunately couldn’t put a team together.
Central and East won two out of the four matches including a 16-8 victory over the eventual winners, London & South East Region. Carrying on the theme from last weekend, the... girls came away with a silver medal and their regional representative blues.
Congratulations Cadet Warrant Officer, Hockey next?
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Last Saturday 8 of our girls traveled to RAF Digby to participate in the annual Trent Wing Girls’ 5-a-side Football Competition.
In our first game against 1403 we won 2-1. The second game was against 2292 with the final score being 1-0 to us. We came into our own against 195 with the final score being 7-0. Finally we played 303 and after a close game we finally cemented our position as league 2 winners and our place in the knoc...kouts with a 1-0 win.
Entering the knockout stage we played the runners up of league 1, 17 Sqn, and won 2-1. Then came our 3-0 win over 2160 which meant we were headed for the finals, now all we needed to do was wait and see if we were playing 2222 or 1208.
A 5-0 win for 2222 meant we headed off against them in the final game. It was a tough match but 2222 managed to win 3-1 after some great saves by their goalkeeper.
This overall fantastic effort from all members of the team and some amazing goals from CWO Wightman and Cdt Cousins combined with FS Darby refusing to let many ball past her meant we came 2nd overall. This is the highest out Squadron has ever placed in this competition. Well done girls!
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1260 Sqn were saddened to hear of the recent passing of Mr Jim Auton MBE, an RAF veteran and familiar face at many of the local services we attend.
Jim was a highly decorated hero surviving 37 missions, including bombing heavily defended oil refineries at Ploesti and working for SOE dropping secret agents and weapons to resistance groups in Poland and Yugoslavia, and was part of the Warsaw Air Bridge mission.
Jim does not have family so all are invited to his funeral to ensur...e this wonderful man gets the send off he deserves. It will be held on Thur 6th Feb at 1pm, at St Mary Magdalene Parish Church Newark.
A huge thank you for your service Mr Auton, from all at 1260 Newark and District Air Cadets.
Per Ardua ad Astra.
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Today we are doing a bag pack at Waitrose to help raise funds for our cadets activities and equipment. If you are in town today drop in and say hello, we are here until 4pm.

CROSS COUNTRY STARS
On Sunday 12 of our cadets traveled over to RAF Cranwell to compete in Trent Wing’s Cross Country competition. Despite the awful British weather the cadets did the Squadron proud and overall we placed 5th. The full results are below;
JUNIOR BOYS... Vaitekunas 20/63 Owen-Jones 44/63 Roberts 34/63 Dunkley 56/63 Overall in that age group 8th
YOUTHS CPL Town 21/40 Overall in that age group 12th
JUNIOR GIRLS Sillett 8/50 Cousins 10/50 Hinze E 30/50 Garner 47/50 Overall in that age group 4th
SENIOR GIRLS CPL Nowatkowska 17/31 Hinze M 16/31 Baldwin 27/31 Overall in that age group 4th
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Congratulations to Sgt Town on recieving her Bronze Radio Operator badge and to Cpl McCunnell for receiving his BTEC qualification in Aviation Studies.

Can you spot our Cadet Warrant Officer on her recent camp to Cyprus?

Today 40 cadets and 7 staff members marched along side veterans, serving members of the Armed Forces (Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and 32 (Minden) Battery of the 16th Regiment Royal Artillery), Newark Army & Sea cadets, CCF cadets from the Magnus School as well as St. John’s Ambulance cadets, members of the emergency services and civic dignitaries.
The laying of the wreaths was followed by a Church service and a march by through the town square. The cadets were by far the largest contingent and were a credit to the Squadron.
We will remember them @ St Mary Magdalene Church, Newark on Trent

MASS PROMOTIONS
Tonight the Commanding Officer expanded the NCO Team by promoting seven worthy individuals after a hard selection process; which saw their uniform, drill and leadership standards assessed as well as their knowledge of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets.
Promotion from Cadet to Corporal for Astra Taylor, Amelka Nowatkowska, Ethan Mason, Reece Mitchell-Lawson and Josh Town. From Corporal to Sergeant for Corporals Joe Sharp and Amber Town.
... Congratulations to you all and we can’t wait to see what you bring to the NCO Team
Trent Wing Air Cadets Central & East Region Air Cadets Commandant Air Cadets Royal Air Force Air Cadets
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The story of Jim Auton who set up the Airbridge Memorial where we parade at the end of September each year.

Well done to CWO Olivia Wightman who helped Trent Wing reclaim the gold at the Central & East Region Netball Competition at RAFC Cranwell. She was also selected to play for the Region team at Corps level in the next couple months. Good luck CWO! @ RAF Cranwell

Today CI Town and Cpl Town went to RAF Scampton and successfully completed thier Blue Radio Assessors Course, Cpl Town also completed her Bronze Radio badge too.

Tonight was the annual Halloween party, we played games and had a best costume competition. Great effort made by everybody and a big thank you to CI Wright for making a coffin cake which was delicious!

Huge congratulations to the Region and well done to our very own CWO Olivia Wightman who was part of the ‘Fantastic Four’. Here’s to the rest of the sporting season

This week four of our cadets at on camp at RAF Halton. They are partaking in a number of different activities throughout the week whilst getting a feel for how an RAF Station works