In
December 1937 Reg pursued a career change but was frustrated by just
failing to get into the Hendon Police College
Nevertheless, undaunted Reg still sought service
life and he obtained a commission with the RAF. Commissioned as an
acting pilot officer on 7 May 1938
He
would describe his life on the squadron prior to the war as
A simple life, not exhausting
either physically or mentally and yet strangely satisfying a
life which we later on look back upon and
wonder. We were not unhappy in our lot, we had all felt for sometime
that war was at hand, we knew it had to be if the things we believed
in were to be preserved.
