RAF Metheringham Collection - album 4

Title

RAF Metheringham Collection - album 4

Description

22 items. Photographs of air and ground crew, many from 106 Squadron.

The collection has been licensed to the IBCC Digital Archive by the RAF Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

Date

2019-01-31

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

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

FOMetheringhamAF

Collection Items

Cologne aiming point certificate
106 Squadron token with picture of Lancaster, of Cologne opeartion, 3/4 July 1943. Crew: F/Lt Hartley [pilot], Sgt Sillitoe [W/Op], F/O Mclver [Nav], Sgt Liston [F/E], Sgt Roberts [RG], Sgt Cromb [B/A], Sgt Miles [MUG], F/O Ham [2nd pilot]. This crew…

Airmen
Photograph of Gordon Hartley and crew. Annotation on album page reads: "Gordon Hartley & crew; Syerston - Middle East Shuttle raid". Handwritten annotation on photograph reads (left to right): Ken (W/Op), Gordon (pilot), Jimmey [sic] (F/E), Les…

Aircrew an aircraft
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…

Airfield and Lancaster rear turret
Top - A view over an airfield with seven dispersed Lancasters and a "J" Type hangar in the background. An unidentified large structure is in the middle background and is surrounded by unidentified items.

Bottom - A photograph showing the rear…

Lancaster and target photograph
Top - 106 Squadron Lancaster W4118, ZN-Y "Admiral Prune" at a dispersal, RAF Syerston, November 1942. The aircraft is being loaded with sea mines by a group of armourers and there is an airman sitting in the pilot's position. In the background is…

Album page with text
List of crew 'Left to right. 1, Chester W/Op, 2.Hunt RAG, 3. Burgess F/Eng, 4. Bradshaw BA, 5.Burnside Nav, 6. G P Lace pilot, 7. Lee MUG'.
Two labels 'Coningsby Aug 42' and 'Des Richardson, Doug Jordan'. Missing photographs.

Aircrew and Lancaster cockpit
Album page, incorporating two connected photographs, crew detail and a transcript of an official report of a flying incident. The top photograph shows a group of seven aircrew, six wearing battledress and the pilot wearing RAF service dress. An…

Airmen and aircraft
Top - A group of seven aircrew in a mix of battledress and service dress, standing in front of the starboard wing of a Lancaster. The officers are wearing peaked caps, the NCO's side caps. This is the F/Lt Dave Shannon crew, 106 Squadron. A…

106 Squadron badge award
Photograph of an informal squadron award, comprising a 106 Squadron badge, signed by the squadron adjutant and the aircraft crew. Across the top of the document is the wording "Crew of 'Y' Yorker. Le Creusot - Milan - Genoa - Turin". Under the…

Airmen
Top - Six airmen outside a brick building. Five are RAF, of which three are wearing service dress and two battledress. The other, second from right, is an FAA airman. The annotation to the photograph reads: "L.R. Frank Ruskell, Johnny Wickins, Winco…

Aircrew and places
Top left- air-to-air photo of 30+ Lancasters flying at low level over a river, fields in foreground and buildings to rear. Location Blere. A shared label on the album page reads: "En route to Le Creusot" This apparently refers to the daylight…

Recommendation for Distinguished Flying Cross
Copy of the recommendation of a DFC for Flying Officer Frank Ruskell, signed by Wing Commander G Gibson, and confirmed on 31 December 1944.
Description kindly provided by the donor.

Wing Commander Frank Ruskell
Head and shoulders portrait of an airman in RAF service dress, annotated: "W/Cdr Frank Ruskell". He is wearing an observer brevet and pathfinders badge. His medal ribbons include a DFC and bar. As a Flying Officer, Frank Ruskell RAFVR, the navigator…

Lancaster rear turret
Lancaster FN.20 rear turret with the gunner visible. The annotation on the rear of the photograph reads: "Jack Tucker" - identified as the rear gunner in the Flight Lieutenant Jim Cooper's crew.

Description kindly provided by the donor.

Airmen
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…

Airmen and aiming point certificate
Top left - Group of aircrew queuing to board crew bus at an unidentified location. All are in flying kit with parachute harness and Mae Wests; several are carrying flight bags.
Top right - A group of nine airmen, two sitting, at RAF Syerston outside…

Airmen
Top left - Two aircrew standing outside a single-storey hut at RAF Syerston. Both are wearing battledress, parachute harness and Mae Wests. The man on the left wears flying boots. On the right is Flight Lieutenant Don Curtin, wearing lace-up shoes.…

Airmen
Top left - Eight aircrew in flying kit, most with parachute harness and Mae Wests, outside a single-storey Hut at RAF Syerston. Third from right is F/Lt Scrivenor, a navigator. At extreme right is an RAF officer wearing a greatcoat and peaked cap.…

Airmen
Top left - aircrew, wearing assorted flying clothing, including parachute harnesses and Mae Wests, in a group next to an aircrew bus at RAF Syerston.

Top right - Wing Commander Guy Gibson, dressed in sheepskin flying jacket, and two unidentified…

106 Squadron aircrew and Manchesters
Members of 106 Sqn RAF, including the Commanding Officer, Wing Commander Guy Gibson (standing middle, front row), celebrate at RAF Coningsby after Operation Millennium, the the first ‘Thousand Bomber’ operation to Cologne, on 30/31 May 1942. The…

106 Squadron History
Copy of a printed page, containing a short history of 106 Sqn from its inception in 1917 to disbandment in 1946. The history includes a representation of the squadron badge and an image of Hampden P1320, ZN-B. A handwritten annotation on the page…

Album cover
Album cover with note '106 Squadron circa 1942 March 1943 circa April 1943 Dec 1943. Coningsby/Syerston'.
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