Aircrew an aircraft
Title
Aircrew an aircraft
Description
Top - Seven airmen wearing battledress and side caps in an outdoors location. The annotation on the rear of the phtograph, largely repeated on the album page, reads: "106 - Syerston 1943. Standing L To R: 1. Pilot EJ Foulsham (RAAF), 3 [sic] M/U Keenan; Middle Row: 1. F/E Bright, 2. B/A Hayward; Front Row: 1. RG Black, 2. W/OP Yeomans, 3. Nav Coxon." This crew flew 24 operations with 106 Squadron between April and August 1943, when they transferred to another squadron.
Bottom - Photograph of Lancaster, coded G, with nose art reading "Let George Do It!". An adjacent album label reads" Left to Right - [Rear Row] Pop Smith MUG, Laurie Modistach W/OP, Arthur Baggeley F/Eng, Alan Roper Pilot, Will Goldthorpe B/A, Hank Gardiner NAV, Harry Smith RAG. [Front Row]: 1 [Blank], 2 Ken Taylor Flt/Mech Eng, Cpl Webster ENG, Nobby Hall Airframe Fitter. The annotation on the rear of the photograph, however, disagrees with the album information in several aspects and reads: "L to R - Back Row 1 Harry Smith RAG; 2 Hank Gardiner NAV; 3 Wilf Goldthorpe A/B; 4 Alan Roper (Skipper); 5 Arthur Baggeley F/ENG; 6 Laurie Nodistach WOP; 7 Pop Smith MUG" [For the record, the crew is listed in the 106 Sqn Operations Record Book as: F/O S Roper (Aus) Captain; Sgt A E Baggaley F/E; F/Sgt SW Gardiner Nav; F/Sgt W Goldthorpe B/A; F/O OLH Modistach (Aus) W/Op; Sgt EC Smith MUG; Sgt HA Smith RG].
Description kindly provided by the donor.
Bottom - Photograph of Lancaster, coded G, with nose art reading "Let George Do It!". An adjacent album label reads" Left to Right - [Rear Row] Pop Smith MUG, Laurie Modistach W/OP, Arthur Baggeley F/Eng, Alan Roper Pilot, Will Goldthorpe B/A, Hank Gardiner NAV, Harry Smith RAG. [Front Row]: 1 [Blank], 2 Ken Taylor Flt/Mech Eng, Cpl Webster ENG, Nobby Hall Airframe Fitter. The annotation on the rear of the photograph, however, disagrees with the album information in several aspects and reads: "L to R - Back Row 1 Harry Smith RAG; 2 Hank Gardiner NAV; 3 Wilf Goldthorpe A/B; 4 Alan Roper (Skipper); 5 Arthur Baggeley F/ENG; 6 Laurie Nodistach WOP; 7 Pop Smith MUG" [For the record, the crew is listed in the 106 Sqn Operations Record Book as: F/O S Roper (Aus) Captain; Sgt A E Baggaley F/E; F/Sgt SW Gardiner Nav; F/Sgt W Goldthorpe B/A; F/O OLH Modistach (Aus) W/Op; Sgt EC Smith MUG; Sgt HA Smith RG].
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Date
1943
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
PFOMetheringhamAF26010020
Collection
Citation
“Aircrew an aircraft,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed October 8, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/61825.