Ronald Walter Medland

Private Ronald Walter "Ron" Medland
18 Jan 1925 - 26 Apr 2006
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Ron Medland 2005 (from Ancestry)
Biography

The nominal roll records his year of birth as 1924 when it was actually 1925.

Postings
Unit or location Role Posted from until
Tamerton Foliot Patrol Patrol member 17 Feb 1941 16 Apr 1943
National ID
WHVC 104/3
Commissioned or Enlisted
17 Feb 1941
Occupation

Blacksmith apprentice

Address
4 Harwood Villas, Harwood Avenue, Tamerton Foliot, Devon
Other information

Ronald was discharged from Auxiliary Units to join the RAF 16th April 1943. His Home Guard records state he joined 8 Nov 1940 and resigned to the dockyard 28 Jan 1941. This would have been him joining the Auxiliary Units.

After the war he worked for Plymouth City Police.

He was a near neighbour to Edward Pedrick who was his Uncle. The son of Walter and Florence, he married Peggy Musto in 1948.

He left school at 14 and was blacksmith apprentice in Devonport Dockyard joining the RAF at 18 years in 1943. He told the family of having an underground OB at Roborough, and that he was issued with a commando knife and Sten Gun. They would do night exercises around Tamerton Foliot and on one occasion blew up a farmers granite trough. When he initially joined the Home Guard he lied about his age and was guarding the rail bridge across the River Tavvy, he remembered seeing the Salmon swimming upstream by moonlight.

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Ron and Peggy Medland (from Ancestry)
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Ron Medland RAF - left (from Ancestry)
References

TNA ref WO199/3391

1939 Register

Son - Andy Medland

Ancestry.co.uk