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                <text>57 items. Photograph album showing pictures taken during Reginald George Cavalier's service as a squadron photographer. It includes material from his photographic course training in 1940, and service with 76 Squadron at RAF Middleton St George, and with 88 Squadron and 226 Squadron with 2 Group and 2nd Tactical Air Force at RAF West Raynham. The album also includes target photographs, images of Christmas parties, visits by VIPs including Eisenhower and the King, as well as captured German ordnance and aircraft in France, the Netherlands and Germany.&#13;
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                <text>2017-04-10&#13;
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            <text>Farnborough 1940&#13;
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RAF&#13;
MENU&#13;
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[underlined] SOUP [/underlined]&#13;
CREME OF TOMATO.&#13;
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[underlined] JOINT [/underlined]&#13;
ROAST TURKEY. ROAST PORK&#13;
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[underlined] VEGETABLES [/underlined]&#13;
ROAST POTATOES. PARSNIPS,&#13;
BOILED POTATOES. BRUSSELS SPROUTS&#13;
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[underlined] SWEETS [/underlined]&#13;
CHRISTMAS PUDDING&#13;
BRANDY SAUCE. MINCE PIES.&#13;
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[underlined] SAVOURY [/underlined]&#13;
CHEDDAR CHEDLETS &amp; BISCUITS&#13;
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[underlined] DESSERT. [/underlined]&#13;
APPLES. ORANGES. MIXED NUTS. DATES AND FIGS.&#13;
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Christmas dinner, R.A.F. Farnborough Photographic Course, Dec 24th 1944.&#13;
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[page break]&#13;
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R.G. Cavalier&#13;
[signature]&#13;
K.H. Manning&#13;
F. Mason&#13;
Graham Holland&#13;
[signature]&#13;
G. Rushton&#13;
[signature]&#13;
[signature]&#13;
C F Searle.&#13;
P. Bonnett&#13;
A H Aldridge&#13;
[signature]&#13;
J. Harrison&#13;
U B Blackway&#13;
R. Dagville&#13;
[signature]&#13;
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[signature]&#13;
[signature]&#13;
[signature]&#13;
[signature]&#13;
[signature]&#13;
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[page break]&#13;
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[Photograph]&#13;
Coventry Climax generator for Photographic Trailor. [sic]&#13;
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[page break]&#13;
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[sketch]&#13;
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VIDE ET CREDE&#13;
THE SELECT ORDER OF H-UNOFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF GERMAN TERRITORY.&#13;
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[sketch] ............ IS HEREBY INITIATED INTO THE SELECT ORDER, BY VIRTUE OF HAVING PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE AIR, CERTAIN PORTIONS OF GERMAN TERRITORY ON THE NIGHT OF ............. NAMELY ........... MUCH TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE HUN'S PEACE OF MIND.&#13;
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[sketch] SIGNED&#13;
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PRESIDENT.&#13;
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R. Cavalier&#13;
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[page break]&#13;
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[sketch]&#13;
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RESOLUTE&#13;
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WE CAME –&#13;
WE SAW –&#13;
WE PHOTOGRAPHED&#13;
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IN ……………..&#13;
NIGHT OF ………………..&#13;
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SIGNED&#13;
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PRESIDENT.&#13;
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R. Cavalier&#13;
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Certificate awarded to Air Crews for Night Photographs of enemy targets. Designed and drawn by R.G. Cavalier.</text>
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              <text>Memorabilia from Photographic course</text>
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              <text>Photograph 1 - the Christmas dinner menu at RAF Farnborough with a cartoon of a German reconnaissance aircraft being shot down.  &#13;
Photograph 2 - the signatures of some of the participants.&#13;
Captioned 'Christmas dinner, R.A.F. Farnborough Photographic Course, Dec 24th 1944.' [sic]&#13;
Photograph 3 -  five airmen around a generator captioned 'Coventry Climax generator for Photographic Trailor' [sic].&#13;
Photographs 4 and 5 are of two cartoons relating to the photographic unit. Captioned 'Certificate awarded to Air Crews for Night Photographs of enemy targets. Designed and drawn by R.G. Cavalier'.&#13;
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