Author On Dragons’ Wings by @YLolfa, Ex-@SouthWalesArgus @JusticeinWales now @WelshGovernment, Su’s husband, Carys’ dad, Manx 🇮🇲 siarad Cymraeg🏴
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I’m grateful to Pen & Sword for putting out my book on the part-time pilots and their Auxiliary squadrons which helped win the Battle of Britain. Thanks for your support!
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Here's Martin Wade with his new release - Volunteer Aces of Churchill’s Few 📸✈️
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It’s a real honour (and surprise!) to make the King’s Birthday Honours List with a Deputy Chief of the Air Staff Commendation. Thanks to all who made this possible! Diolch yn fawr!
👏 Proud to celebrate our personnel recognised in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours List 2025.
Congratulations to all recipients!
Full list: raf.mod.uk/news/articles/raf…
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Really looking forward to talking about ‘On Dragons’ Wings’ - the history of the Welsh RAF Reserves - 614 Squadron with @GriffinBooksUK - still some tickets available
ticketsource.co.uk/griffinbo…
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Gwych bod
Great to be
@LlyfrauCymru @Books_Wales @eisteddfod i arwyddo copiau o/to sign copies of ‘On Dragons’ Wings’
Gwych cwrdd â chi! Great to meet you!
Prynwch yma/Buy here: bit.ly/OnDragonsWings
@YLolfa
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Great story on 614 Squadron and my book on its history’On Dragons’ Wings’ on @BBCWales today. Thanks for running this story on our history in this historic year! Diolch!
#RAuxAF100 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr5…
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For a last minute Father’s Day present, my book is on sale from tomorrow on Amazon. It tells the story of Wales’ only RAF Reserve squadron from formation in 1930s, through WW2, Cold War to present day. With next day delivery he should get it by Sunday! 😀 amazon.co.uk/Dragons-Wings-G…
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On this momentous day, I’m thinking of my Granddad, Bert Wade of the Royal Engineers who landed on Gold Beach at Arromanches, almost exactly 4 years since he was evacuated when the Germans invaded. He and 1000s of others had returned.
#DDay80
#WewillRemember
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Martin Wade retweeted
Welsh squadron celebrated in new book on centenary of the Royal Auxiliary Airforce in Wales
Read more>>
ylolfa.com/articles/welsh-sq…
On Dragons' Wings by Martin Wade is available now, £14.99
@Books_Wales #royalauxiliaryairforce
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Grateful to all who came to launch of my book ‘On Dragons’ Wings’ - A History of No.614 (County of Glamorgan) Sqn by @YLolfa at South Wales Aviation Museum. Proceeds to them & @RAFBF
Thanks to SWAM for painting Vampire in 614 Sqn colours for #RAuxAF100
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Thanks to @clark_aviation, @RAFinWales,
@VoirreyWade, @RAFBF, @PDHeritageCent, @YLolfa
Diolch yn fawr iawn!
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Martin Wade retweeted
An open letter, signed by 143 Welsh writers, calling for urgent action to address the financial precarity of news/culture periodicals and websites in Wales. The situation is desperate.
Please read and RT.
mikeparker.org.uk/openletter…
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I feel very lucky to get some amazing opportunities as an RAF Reservist - and this was one of them!
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I wrote this piece as part of a series of features for @SouthWalesArgus in 2016 for the 50th anniversary of the #Aberfan disaster. The words of the survivors haunted me then and remain with me still. #CofiwchAberfan
southwalesargus.co.uk/news/1…
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As proud today of @RNLI as I’ve always been. Two of my relatives in this picture were lifeboat crew who rescued people from Norwegian ship the St George, in a violent storm off Peel #IsleofMan in 1890. Today as then, rescuing ‘foreigners’ in danger at sea.
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It’s been a long and hard winter.
One of the things that has kept me going is passing @RWCMD in Cardiff and hearing music through its open windows into Bute Park. But on this spring-like morning there was something especially joyful about the students’ playing today. Diolch!
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