Passing out photograph
Title
Passing out photograph
Description
No 14 initial training wing, RAF Bridlington. A large group of airmen sitting and standing in four rows on grass in front of a four storey building with other buildings on the right. Annotated 'LAC Geoff Beckett seated on right hand end of front row. Appended explanation states photograph show Geoff with 53 other trainees, six instructors and three officers. Continues with location of and journey to next posting to RAF LLandwrog. Mentions him starting a diary.
Date
1942-03
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Format
One b/w photograph and one printed document
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Identifier
SBeckettG622136v10037
Transcription
March 1942
Passing out Photograph
No 14 Initial Training Wing, [inserted] R.A.F. BRIDLINGTON. [/inserted]
[black and white photograph of four rows of airmen with the front row seated. In front of a large building with other buildings to the side]
L.A.C. Geoff Beckett seated on the right hand end of the front row.
[page break]
March 1942
Geoff Beckett
End of front row.
[page break]
The end of course photograph, taken in March 1942, shows Geoff with the other 53 trainees, whose ranks vary between A.C., L.A.C., and Corporal, with six instructors and three officers. Geoff is the only one apparently displaying a ‘good conduct’ stripe, for which he would have received an extra 3d a day.
On the 20th of March, Geoff was posted from I.T.W. to R.A.F. Llandwrog in North Wales. He left Brid’ at 8am with other airmen, travelling by trains, via Manchester and Chester, arriving at their new camp, very tired.
At this point Geoff started to write a diary about his time at R.A.F. Llandwrog, which is not only a unique record of wartime events, but enables his story to largely tell it’s self, for several months to come.
Passing out Photograph
No 14 Initial Training Wing, [inserted] R.A.F. BRIDLINGTON. [/inserted]
[black and white photograph of four rows of airmen with the front row seated. In front of a large building with other buildings to the side]
L.A.C. Geoff Beckett seated on the right hand end of the front row.
[page break]
March 1942
Geoff Beckett
End of front row.
[page break]
The end of course photograph, taken in March 1942, shows Geoff with the other 53 trainees, whose ranks vary between A.C., L.A.C., and Corporal, with six instructors and three officers. Geoff is the only one apparently displaying a ‘good conduct’ stripe, for which he would have received an extra 3d a day.
On the 20th of March, Geoff was posted from I.T.W. to R.A.F. Llandwrog in North Wales. He left Brid’ at 8am with other airmen, travelling by trains, via Manchester and Chester, arriving at their new camp, very tired.
At this point Geoff started to write a diary about his time at R.A.F. Llandwrog, which is not only a unique record of wartime events, but enables his story to largely tell it’s self, for several months to come.
Collection
Citation
“Passing out photograph,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 13, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/41288.