This site started life as our The 51st RAF Hereford 2 Squadron Boy Entrants  'archive', to sit alongside our Facebook Page.  Now, several years later - this is a HUB - with a fairly easy to remember name - (The 51st RAF Boy Entrants Reunion Group) - and is quickly found on Google.

This site that you are looking at is one part of a cluster of facilities surrounding this specific topic - called a Xntre (centre).  In this one place we keep emails, photos, videos and anything else to do with the subject matter.  This hub is surrounded by a number of historic centres/sites including one Xntre including a site for each of our reunions, between 2014 and 2022 (upcoming).

Between them they form an ever-growing '51st Universe of Xntres.   Which has a parallel  universe of one Xntre - or planet - for each of the 99 RAF Hereford, 51st Entry, 2 Squadron BEs from 1964/64.

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE ARCHIVE

The purpose of this project is to archive - spread across all of these Xntres - EVERYTHING we possess - and can carry on to find out about 'the 99' RAF Hereford 2 Squadron 51sters and their lives.

The 51st '99' refers to the ninety-nine fifteen and sixteen year old boys, now the 'Ex-51st RAF Boy Entrants' (51sters) of RAF Hereford 3rd School of Technical Training, 2 Squadron 1964 entry, divided between D and J Flights.  

These 99 hopeful lads, seeking to become career airmen, trained at RAF Hereford from 22nd January 1964 to 23rd July 1965 and, between them, all have a lot to remember about those times.

And, there is a lot to be remembered about them.

This website, it's associated 'blogs' and many other linked satellites online Xntres -  include sites/Xntres covering  1964 to 65.

There is a Xntre recording each reunion - many and other specific events.

Each of them is dedicated to capturing those memories and assisting and prompting for more, and more and more records.    

SHARING IS CARING

In particular the 51st Re-Union Group want this site to be available to share those memories with families and friends, and each other, for generations to come.

Because of that aspiration - this entire project has been developed in a manner as to (hopefully) last for many years - and almost certainly way beyond the date that the last of 'the 99' 51st RAF BEs leave this earth.   

The manner in which it is constructed is currently 'Free Forever' - and if that remains the position then what we are building is capable of lasting so as to be available online forever.

FREE FOREVER?

This expectation is feasible because the site and its surrounding 'universe of features' is built using the free servers and services of giant organisations (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) who say that their facilities will be 'forever free'.  

And therefore this Hub - and its (eventually 120 or so) satellites will not lapse and die - so long as those global mammoths (Amazon, Google, Facebook et al) do not die.

IF it all does remain in place - then it can become a near-permanent record of that 'way of life', of boys joining the RAF, at school age 15.5 - 16.5, intended to be its life blood for the >35-year length of their careers.

THE R.A.F.'s LIFEBLOOD

Cut a Boy Entrant and the blood that flows is RAF blue.   

Our story, and the story of the times we joined up and then lived through, may well fascinate some people 50 or 100 years from now.

So - as we can write it down in a way that is likely to still be here at that time.

We can it seems - so we might as well?

Explore the content and enjoy.   Contribute if you can.

We plan to use the remaining time we have -  and the people who survive still - and - those who are willing to participate, to paint as much of a picture of each BE from their time in Hereford until today.