Airmen
Title
Airmen
Description
Top left - Seven airmen standing on the port side of a Lancaster bearing the code ZN-Z. All are wearing battledress trousers, shirt and tie, with one wearing a battledress jacket. Four wear parachute harness. Attached labels identify them as, from left to right (rear row): F/Lt Jim Cooper [pilot]; Sgt A Spencer (F/E); Sgt H Bailey (MUG); Jack Tucker (R.AG) and front row: F/O Johnnie Buzza (Can) (W/OP); Sgt DB Gregory (B/A); F/O F (Paddy) Drew. NAV. An annotation on the rear of the photograph reads "J Tucker, 81 Wells Road, Glastonbury, Coningsby 1942".
Top right - Airman wearing battledress trousers, shirt, tie, parachute harness and oxygen mask standing next to an aircraft rear gun turret. A separate label reads "Jack Tucker, R.AG, ZN-Z". This airman is Sgt F J Tucker.
Bottom left- Head and shoulders portrait of an RAF airman wearing service dress. He carries a pilot's brevet and a DFM medal ribbon An annotation on the rear of the photograph reads: "Doug Hamilton, Coningsby 1942" This identifies the airman as Sgt Douglas Hamilton who completed a tour with 106 Sqn, and a second with 83 (Pathfinder) Sqn. He was later commissioned and awarded a DFC. The second medal ribbon is problematic and cannot be definitively identified. It resembles that of the 1939-43 Star but that was only worn from late 1943; i.e. contradicting the dated annotation.
Descriptions kindly provided by the donor.
Top right - Airman wearing battledress trousers, shirt, tie, parachute harness and oxygen mask standing next to an aircraft rear gun turret. A separate label reads "Jack Tucker, R.AG, ZN-Z". This airman is Sgt F J Tucker.
Bottom left- Head and shoulders portrait of an RAF airman wearing service dress. He carries a pilot's brevet and a DFM medal ribbon An annotation on the rear of the photograph reads: "Doug Hamilton, Coningsby 1942" This identifies the airman as Sgt Douglas Hamilton who completed a tour with 106 Sqn, and a second with 83 (Pathfinder) Sqn. He was later commissioned and awarded a DFC. The second medal ribbon is problematic and cannot be definitively identified. It resembles that of the 1939-43 Star but that was only worn from late 1943; i.e. contradicting the dated annotation.
Descriptions kindly provided by the donor.
Date
1942
Temporal Coverage
Language
Type
Format
Three 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
PFOMetheringhamAF26010008
Collection
Citation
“Airmen,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed October 17, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/61785.
Item Relations
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