'A' Flight, 3 Squadron, No. 17 Initial Training Wing, August 1942

A group of cadets of No. 17 Initial Training Wing at Scarborough, August 1942. At Initial Training Wings, recruits received ground instruction before posting to Elementary Flying Training Schools.

Errol Walton Barrow from Barbados is in the middle row, third from left. Barrow became a navigator and completed 48 bombing operations. He became the first Prime Minister of Barbados in 1969. Leslie William Leigh from Sierra Leone is in the middle row, third from right. Leigh served in the RAF as a bomber pilot. In 1961, he was appointed the first African Commissioner of Police at Sierra Leone’s independence.