On 15 September 1943, the 92d BG was moved to RAF Podington (Station 109), near Wellingborough in Bedfordshire when the decision was made to take Alconbury off operational bombing missions and change the airfield's mission to pathfinder and radar-guided bombing with the 482d and 801st Bomb Groups.
He was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the son of the Reverend George James Ayre and Margaret Mary Burgess, and was educated in Bath, Somersetshire and at Hymers College in Hull, Yorkshire.
Born in Wellingborough and educated at Wellingborough School Pindar entered trade as the apprentice to an Italian merchant in London.
In September 2012, following on from their win of ITV's show 'Britain's got Talent', Ashleigh and Pudsey A.K.A 17-year-old Ashleigh Butler from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and her six-year-old dog, Pudsey, joined forces with Vets4Pets to help raise awareness of the importance of preventative pet healthcare and responsible pet ownership.
Educated at Finedon Mulso Secondary Modern School on Wellingborough Road, Finedon (now a Junior School), Brian Binley joined the Conservative Party in 1959.
Unable to find employment at home and deciding to go to sea, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City and bound for Liverpool, England.
Wellingborough School RAF section is linked to No. 5 Air Experience Flight at RAF Wyton, where cadets are flown on Friday afternoons in the Grob Tutor training aircraft, and to 616 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, at RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, where cadets go on Sundays to fly in the Grob Vigilant motor glider, and where Flt Lt Walker is a C Category instructor.