Harry Bisby started work with the radar team as a vacation
student
in April 1940 when it was based at Dundee. In July
he joined the
establishment at Worth Matravers as a Junior Scientific
Officer. He worked on Chain Home Low
(CHL) and Ground Control of Interception (GCI) at Worth. In
early September 1940 he was asked to go to Egypt to help with the GCI
equipment used to support the campaign in the western desert. For this
posting he was given an RAF uniform with the rank of Flying Officer. After
the war he joined the atomic energy research group and in autumn 1949 he moved
to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. Bill
Penley, Jan 2011
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