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EDarbyCAHDarbyJ450828.pdf
He caught the train back via Waterloo and Doncaster. They have been on a RAF Regiment course shooting rifles.

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EDarbyCAHDarbyJ450927.pdf
He thanks he for her letter. He is waiting to be posted. He had a pleasant journey to Doncaster. He has been potato picking.

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YDexterKI127249v2.pdf
Day by day diary covering events from November 1942 to June 1943. Describes flying at Little Rissington and illness over Christmas 1942 which delayed posting. Eventually posted in January 1943 to 30 Operational Training Unit. Describes events at…

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AWrightE180422.mp3
Eric Wright lived in Rotherham at the start of the war. As a school child he says that he did not really understand the implications of it. The family moved to Nottingham and he describes life there, with the air raids and sheltering under the…

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BThickettPSaundersEJv10014.jpg
After a spell with 512 squadron mostly transportation flights Sam returned to the UK, flying as an instructor.
A the end of 1943 he returned to Bomber Command, 627 Squadron.
There is a photograph of the squadron grouped in front of a Mosquito.

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SWareingR86325v10012.jpg
Arrive Doncaster 6pm love Bob

SBondS-ClarkeEv10001.pdf
Starts with discussion of Hampden and then getting Manchester and subsequently Lancaster. Relates some Manchester operations including 1000 bomber raid. Provides anecdotes about Manchester operations. Continues with account of joining up and…

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PFaircloughT2206.jpg
Portrait of seven airmen in a row. On reverse, from right, 'Alex (Heath) Sinclair, Engineer; Dickie Baylis, R/Gunner; Johnny, navigator; Stan Slater, Skipper; W E Day, upper gunner; G L Brown, B/A'. Tommy is standing far left. The image is stamped…

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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-017.pdf
News-sheet of the RAF ex-POW Association. This edition covers the large Canadian reunion of 1985 at Calgary, the Annual Dinner at Lords, Recco report of ex-POW activities, requests for help, Alan Bryett's lectures, the Association's AGM and annual…

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SKnoxRW[Ser#-DoB]v20010.jpg
The letter is described as coming from Ken's archives held by Reg Saville, a historian at Langton Matravers.
In the letter Tom writes about losing their pilot due to illness. They have moved from Upwood to a more basic station where they live in…

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Writes hoping that Joan heard her husband, Squadron Leader Bob Wareing’s message on 6/20/44. He conveys the message as best he remembers it saying that Bob feels much better now and is sorry about the leave and asks for Joan to write to him at his…

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MClydeSmithD39856-160919-04.pdf
Histories of twelve Tiger Moth aircraft flown by Denis Clyde Smith while undergoing ab-initio training at Sywell.

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PNichollsJEK20010004.jpg
Left page. Top - Duisburg the main target, 8 bombers missing. Account of operation.
Bottom left - Airman to wed airman's widow. Alex Henshaw (test pilot) to wed widow of Count de Chateaubrun killed eight months after wedding in December 1937.…

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SWilliamsonF1311249v10003-0015.jpg
A newspaper article describing an attack on Hanover. It is annotated 'No 10 22/3 9/43'.

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MSheppardIE2035826-220221-020001.jpg
A postcard of the Doncaster club with five photographs of the club on the front.
A second postcard is of a NAAFI club in Lincoln.

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OSawKC55612-151102-02.pdf
Contains personal data, mustering dates and trades, commission, course, postings, movements and duties. Includes post-war service.

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SEllisEL183959v10005-0001.jpg
Top left - a man and woman in civilian clothes with trees behind. On the reverse 'uncle Lewis and Aunt Bet Waring'.
Bottom left - two boys, one sitting on chair, one standing. On the reverse 'uncles Jim & Harry Goodfellow'.
Top right - wedding…

BJohnsonKAJohnsonKAv10013.jpg
Ken stands with his bride at the church entrance. He is in uniform and wears warrant offer badge on his sleeve. Accompanying the couple are best man Tom Amy, a rear gunner on Halifax bombers, four women in skirts and jackets and three men in suits…

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MRushRW745976-220309-04.jpg
List postings and promotions from September 1939 until July 1945.

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PConnorCA1905.jpg
Clare's wife, Elizabeth, sitting on a rock at the Dell, Hexthorpe park, Doncaster. On the reverse 'Doncaster 1940'.