Two airmen with rifles

Two airmen with rifles

Two airmen wearing tunics with peaked caps standing at ease with grounded rifles with bayonets. Behind them a wooden hut with open window. On the reverse 'RAF Wittering July 1939. Beckett and Bell ready for first guard at this camp with rifles and fixed bayonets against IRA bombs. Geoffrey on the left side, Jean'. Second version has a similar caption.

1939-07

One b/w photograph

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