Two photographs - aircrew

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Title

Two photographs - aircrew

Description

Top - seven aircrew inside a hut. Submitted with caption 'Seven airmen inside hut; at centre is a pilot (P/O PJ Richards - later DFC, who transferred from 106 Sqn at the expiry of his tour) and on the right of the photograph are two aircrew wearing half brevets, one a navigator. Annotated: "P/O P J. Richards end of 1st tour" and the photograph is signed "All the best Ricky Richards"'.
Bottom - an aircrew officer standing behind a 1939 Hillman Minx RAF staff car with headlight blackout covers. Nissen huts in the background. Submitted with caption 'Copy of photograph showing an RAF aircrew officer stood next to a car in front of Nissen huts. Annotated on rear: "Henry Edwin Bevan".

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Format

Two b/w photographs mounted on an album page

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.

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PFOMetheringhamAF25030012

Citation

“Two photographs - aircrew,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed January 16, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/58508.