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Michael Foster - Initial Training at RAF Kenley

My father, Michael Foster, spent his Initial Training Wing (ITW) at Kenley in 1941. The following information comes from his letters home to his parents in Kirton, Lincolnshire. He was nineteen, fresh out of Boston Grammar School and had volunteered for the Royal Air Force. Along with thousands of other young men he followed the prescribed local selection routes until he was sent to London for pre-selection before eventually being sent to Kenley, but reaching Kenley had not been a straightforward process.