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J Humphries audio memoir
J Humphreys trained as a wireless operator before being posted to 640 Squadron at RAF Leconfield. In this recording he recounts being attacked and his aircraft being severely damaged. They managed to return to the UK flying only about fifty yards…
Interview with W Pilling
W Pilling trained as a gunner before joining 102 Squadron at RAF Pocklington. During a training flight he jumped out of a burning Whitley. While at his first squadron he flew with several crews and when he no longer flew with them they had a tendency…
Interview with G V Korner
G Korner completed his training as a rear gunner and was posted to RAF Leconfield. As gunner he witnessed other aircraft above heading into their bombing run and their bombs just missing his aircraft. He also witnessed aircraft being shot down and on…
Interview with R W Harvey
R Harvey trained as a gunner before being posted to RAF Lossiemouth to join an already established crew. While based at Leconfield he married and his wife moved close by. He was sure that the weather conditions were such that there would be…
Interview with Ken Trueman
Ken Trueman trained as a navigator and flew operations with 640 Squadron from RAF Leconfield. While on operations they came under attack and the plane began to burn. The crew baled out except the pilot and rear gunner. Ken parachuted into a field…
Warrant Officer A. Elson. R.A.F. V.R. No. 751538
A brief account of Albert Elson's service in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during which time he trained as an air gunner, flew 39 operations, was shot down and captured and finally repatriated. It also describes how he returned to Belgium…
Albert Elson postings and aircraft flown
A list of the postings Elson was given when training, on operations and when instructing. Also a list of six aircraft types he flew in - Tiger Moth, Hawker Hart, Dakota, Folker, Stirling, Wellington. A small newspaper cutting is included, reporting…
Albert Elson, evader and prisoner of war
Photographs on Elson's failed attempt at evading capture. On the first sheet is a full length photograph of Albert Elson in a garden and wearing trousers with braces and a vest. Below that is a photograph of 24 men in various military uniforms,…
Three crews lost on an operation to Mainz
A list of the crew members of three Wellington MkIII aircraft that took part in an operation to Mainz and were killed or captured. The aircraft tail numbers and the fates of each crewman are detailed, including burial sites.
Albert Elson forced march record
A record of a forced march from Stalag VIIIB at Görlitz to Stalag IXA at Zeigenhain over a period of 31 days.
A daily tally of distance walked, rations provided and sleeping locations is given.
Below this is a summary of the previous march from…
A daily tally of distance walked, rations provided and sleeping locations is given.
Below this is a summary of the previous march from…
Albert Elson Royal Air Force certificate of service and release
A certificate of service in and release from the Royal Air Force for Albert Elson. It includes his aircrew category,, date of captivity, description and duration of service.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form.…
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form.…
Interview with Jim Gray
Stationed at 640 Squadron at RAF Leconfield Jim Gray recalled an occasion when having been briefed for an operation to Trappes airmen having a drink in Beverley heard the local townspeople talking openly about the operation. Since the operation was…
Interview with R Knowles
R Knowles served with 640 Squadron at RAF Leconfield. As bomb aimer he had to deal with at least two remaining hang ups in the bomb bay. When they missed a Group message telling them not to return to base but to divert due to fog they insisted on…
Interview with Ian Wilkie
Ian Wilkie served as a flight engineer on 158 Squadron before being posted to RAF Leconfield in January 1944. Paddy, the mid-upper gunner on his crew always said that shrapnel wouldn’t hurt them until he was hit by it. He was pulled from the turret…
Interview with J Wiltshire. One
J Wiltshire trained as a flight engineer. He joined his crew at RAF Riccall before being posted to RAF Leconfield. On one occasion a navigational error found the crew over enemy territory rather than Norfolk they had expected. However, they got home…
R G Goldsworthy's RAF colleagues
Two pictures: left is captioned 'Joe' showing RAF serviceman in No1 uniform and wearing 'O' brevet, right is captioned 'Ali Baba' showing RAF serviceman wearing battledress with sergeant chevrons and AG brevet.
R G Goldsworthy
Four pictures.
Top left - 20 trainees wearing RAF uniform with trainee flashes and caption Millom 1941.
Top right - four unidentified aircrew, and caption Harwell 1942.
Bottom left - R G Goldsworthy in a garden with caption 'Embarkation leave…
Top left - 20 trainees wearing RAF uniform with trainee flashes and caption Millom 1941.
Top right - four unidentified aircrew, and caption Harwell 1942.
Bottom left - R G Goldsworthy in a garden with caption 'Embarkation leave…
Richard ‘Dick’ Goldsworthy, RAF Navigator, Wellington Torpedo-bomber, prisoner of war
Dick Goldsworthy trained as a navigator and was posted to Ferry Command. In August 1942, he and his crew, Pilot “Cisco”, Wireless Operator Arthur, Rear Gunner Joe Gordon (Canadian), and two others delivered a Wellington to Palestine and was posted o…
Pathways in the Sky
The memoir contains a summary of Daniels' flying career. He completed initial training at Torquay and his flying training at Bulawayo in South Africa, sailing out on the Reina Del Pacifico and returning on the Empress of Canada. As a navigator he…
John Richard Davies press cutting
J R Davies 'in memoriam' press cutting placed by family and recording his failure to return from operational flight in August 1942.
Hampden
Hampden bomber aircraft.
Hampden
Hampden aircraft with hangar in background and a wheelbarrow and hardstanding under repair or construction in foreground.
Brief history of 1324224 (posthumous Warrant Officer) Peter Selwyn Courtney Thorne
Covers joining RAF and training initially as pilot in United Kingdom and the United States, then having failed due to poor eyesight re-mustered and trained as navigator in Canada. Flew anti-submarine patrols on Whitley then joined 102 Squadron. Lists…