Ronald Walter Medland

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.

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.