THE search is on throughout the Swindon area for ex-National Servicemen who served in the Royal Air Force during the days of conscription.

A National Service (RAF) Association has recently been formed and it is hoped that more people will join up as members.

Spokesman Graham Weaver said: "The details we require are names and addresses, service numbers, dates of entry into the service, and the names of the stations where people served.

"The idea of the association is for us all to find our buddies of yesteryear. Newsletters and lists of new members will be published on a quarterly basis, throughout the coming year and we hope to arrange re-unions in the future.

"The prospect of finding friends from service days can be both interesting and exciting."

Full details of the Association can be obtained from Graham Weaver at 20, Beech Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1DT.