Two photographs of airmen
Title
Two photographs of airmen
Description
Top - fourteen airmen one lying in front other squatting and standing with station buildings in the background. Submitted with caption 'Fourteen airmen in an outdoor location. Rear row shows seven men standing. Front row, shows; six men kneeling, and one man with rank of F/Sgt, is laying in front of the front row. Annotated: "Paddy Ballantyne", with arrow to the airman at the far right of the rear row. And, "Des Richards i/c Bomber Command School Elect School Hemswell 1945". With an arrow pointing to the F/Sgt Des Richards.'.
Bottom - an airmen working with an oxygen trolley in front of a Lancaster while another stands by attached hose. Submitted with caption 'Two airmen with a trolley of gas cylinders in front of Lancaster R5665, ZN-D. Annotated: "D-Dog charging up the oxygen bottles This kite was Stan Walford's baby"'.
Bottom - an airmen working with an oxygen trolley in front of a Lancaster while another stands by attached hose. Submitted with caption 'Two airmen with a trolley of gas cylinders in front of Lancaster R5665, ZN-D. Annotated: "D-Dog charging up the oxygen bottles This kite was Stan Walford's baby"'.
Temporal Coverage
Type
Format
Two b/w photographs mounted on an album page
Publisher
Rights
This content is property of the Royal Air Force Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
Identifier
PFOMetheringhamAF25030004
Collection
Citation
“Two photographs of airmen,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed January 18, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/58500.
