Prior, Alfred Ellis
Title
Prior, Alfred Ellis
Description
Eleven items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Alfred Ellis Prior DFM (b. 1915, 115734 Royal Air Force) and contains correspondence, documents, and photographs]. He flew operations as a pilot with 51 and 161 Squadron and was killed 14/15 March 1943
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lynda Prior and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Additional information on Alfred Ellis Prior is available via the IBCC Losses Database.
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lynda Prior and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Additional information on Alfred Ellis Prior is available via the IBCC Losses Database.
Date
2018-08-30
Publisher
IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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Identifier
Prior, AE
Collection Items
Coventry aeroplane club
A large group of men, a few wearing flying clothes in front of a Tiger Moth, two men on lower wing. Captioned 'Early days of Coventry Aeroplane club. This group of members in front of a Tiger Moth was taken in 1938. many of them, including William…
Course photograph
Forty-three airmen wearing uniform mostly with pilot's brevet sitting and standing in four rows in front of doorway with pillars. Captioned 'No 18 OTU course 7 F.I.S. RAF Upavon June-July 1942'. The names of all participants at the bottom. P/O A E…
Service record - Flight Lieutenant Alfred Ellis Prior DFM
List promotions, squadrons and units, orders and decorations. Crew of special duties squadron lost in Halifax from 161 and 138 Squadrons on night of March 14 1943. Commonwealth war graves commission infomation on graves. Information held by RAF…
Target map of gas works Berlin (Neukoln)
1:1,000,000 scale colour map showing city of Neukoln and surrounds. Marked target gas works in centre and hospitals highlighted with red cross.
Alfred Prior receiving gold watch
An RAF sergeant pilot receiving a watch from civilian man who is shaking his hand. Two other civilians men on the right and an man in uniform on the left. On the reverse 'Presentation by Armstrong Whitworth of a gold watch to Alfred Ellis Prior on…
Pilots and Miles Master trainers
A large group of airmen, many wearing flying suits. helmets and goggles, and some groups further back in uniform standing in a group in front of a line of Miles Master training aircraft.
Alfred E Prior
Head and shoulders portrait of an airman wearing tunic with pilot's brevet and DFM ribbon.
Squadron photograph
A large group of airmen wearing tunics, mostly with brevet, plus dog, standing in front of a Whitley.
Sergeant A E Prior and wife
Full length image of an airman wearing tunic with pilot's brevet standing arm in arm with a woman wearing flowered dress in a back garden. On the reverse 'summer 1940, Coventry, Mum and Dad'.
Sergeant Alfred E Prior
Head and shoulders portrait of an airman wearing tunic. On the reverse 'Christmas 1939. Sgt A E Prior'. Two versions of the same image.
Programme for unveiling of a plaque in memory of 138 and 161 Squadrons who served at RAF Tempsford 1942-1945
Includes badges of two special duties squadrons. The plaque would be in the allied special forces memorial grove at the national memorial arboretum. Programme of events.
Collection Tree
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