BIRTHDAY EVENT: 🎂 Happy 102nd Birthday to Royal Air Force Veteran Kate Orchard 🎂

Please join us in wishing Royal Air Force veteran Kate Orchard a most glorious 102nd Birthday.

According to Cromwell Live Kate celebrated her monumental day with a visit from RAF personnel and her extended RAF Family at RAF St Mawgan in addition to four generations of her family - including her niece who flew all the way from Switzerland to be part of the special day.

"If I could put my uniform back on and do it all over again, I would in a heartbeat." - Kate Orchard

"Having always been interested in aircraft, Kate underwent an interview for the Air Defence Centre, in which she passed the tests for speed and plotting.

A year later she was working in the Air Defence Centre, Number 5 Filter Room, alongside both the RAF and the Indian Air Force, as a plotter/teller on 24-hour watches, plotting aircraft targets and sending signals to the air warning systems.

"Kate rose to the rank of Warrant Officer First Class and became a trainer of new plotters. She also met her husband, Bill, during the war who was serving in India with the Royal Artillery before he was, later, sent to Burma.

Having married in 1944, after the cessation of hostilities, in 1946, the couple moved to Bill’s home in Cornwall" - Cromwell Live.

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