This website is here to help keep alive the memories of those many service personnel and others lucky enough to have served at RAF Seletar Singapore which was an active RAF station from 1928 through to 1971 (but for a couple of years in WWII during the occupation by the Japanese).
RAF Seletar has an very colourful history laying claim to many fascinating events, visited by Royals, celebrities and global adventurers in its long years of operation. The RAF Seletar Association was formed in 1997 with the aim of bringing together anyone who has been associated with the Singapore RAF base in any capacity service or civilian so that they can renew old friendships and hopefully make new ones. If you're not a member yet - join! Please contact Dave Taylor david.taylor@rafseletar.co.uk for membership enquiries
Members of the Seletar Association are now able to sign up to the new Member Forum - a place where members can have a chat with other members - create their own topics and .. basically get on with talking to other members. People not registered to the Association will be able to view the chat but will not until they register will they be able to use the forum: email webmaster@rafseletar.co.uk for registration details.
Where are all those people who were based at Seletar during the 60's through until 71? We'd love to hear from you - this is a great way to catch up with old chums.
So many have served at Seletar over the years and so many have lost contact with old friends that we have introduced a Where are they Now section to this website. Click here to see the list as it stands and please complete the reply form at the foot of that page if you are looking for an old Seletar comrade.
Whatever you are looking for in Singapore:
Members' Forum - click here - apply to join on line and you might soon be chatting to old pals!
Gordon Hawarth kindly sent in some pics from his tour 1952-53 - click here
New:: Heritage Trees on Seletar Air Base - click here
We were all there and we all have a story or three that keeps the memories of Seletar alive in the old grey matter! Want to share it here? Please!
The new website, apart from carrying more up-to-date information about the association, will carry more interesting stuff about our beloved base. So if you have some experiences or events that went before that you saw, experienced and think it might be worth including - let me have it - please.
Photos
Please can you rummage through your shoe boxes and drawers and albums and dig out those old black & whites (and colour!) of shots you took when you were there?
Please let me have copies of any picture you think we might use on the site. If you send them in the mail please do so please using the address below - all originals will be returned once we have them scanned.
Preferably - please have copies made and get them copied to a CD or if you choose, email them to me at the email address below. Mike Rees sent his pics and a story and they are now published - click here.
They say every picture has a story - please let me have a few lines about the pics you send so when the images appear on the website people will know what was going on - any naughty stuff will of course be published: name & address withheld!
Special mention: Banner for the site used the image of Seletar's last Sunderland pictured with
Air Sea Rescue launch in 1965 - original photograph by Brian Randall
New books by Members of the Association:
Association Member, Frank Authers , has a book published.
"My recently published book covers the 30 years of my life and experiences whilst serving as a ground staff member in the RAF from 1938 to 1968. It starts with my enlistment and service life before WW2, and goes on to tell of some of the facets of war whilst on active service in France, U.K., Egypt and through the Western Desert to Tunis, then on to Sicily and Italy, and finishing the war serving in Yugoslavia.
Subsequent service life in the R.A.F. Police was served in Germany, Malta, Bahrain, Singapore, Gan Island and of course the U.K."
Peter Neville, has a book published. Peter actually did his time in Singapore at Changi but dropped out of that Association because us lot at the RAFSA are such a friendly lot. Quite right!
Peter's book, The Rose Of Singapore, "..An Epic Tale of Love, Loss and Sexual Awakening in 1950s Malaya and Singapore" is reviewed on a number of websites - click on the image on the left here to see just one of them. Welcome to the Association Peter!
Action Stations!
The world-famous Red Arrows have been banned from appearing at the 2012 London Olympics because they are deemed 'too British'.
Organisers of the 2012 London Olympics say that the Arrows military background might be 'offensive' to other countries taking part in the Games. The display team have performed at more than 4000 events worldwide, but the Department of Culture, Media and Sport have deemed the display team 'too militaristically British.' Red Arrows pilots were said to be 'outraged', as they had hoped to put on a truly world class display for the Games, something which had never been seen before. Being axed from a British-based event for being 'too British' is an insult - the Arrows are a symbol of Britain.
The Red Arrows have been excellent ambassadors for British overseas trade, as they display their British-built Hawk aircraft all over the world. The Arrows performed a short flypast in 2005 when the winning bid was announced, but their flypast at the Games was to have been truly spectacular. It is to be hoped that common sense prevails.
