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SCookeH115312v10008-0001.jpg
Top left: A card signed by Flight Lieutenant H Cooke to recognise his first solo flight as pilot.
Right: Programme and menu for the 59th graduating class. Includes a list of class members, including Flight Lieutenant H Cooke, and…

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MCookeH115312-240224-01 1.pdf
Examination paper, including problem solving questions based on operational flights in Europe, with Horace's answers. Lecture notes on armaments and ammunition, aircraft identification, aero engines, the theory of flight, airmanship, signals,…

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LCookeH115312v1.pdf
Pilot's flying log book for Horace Cooke covering the period 11 April 1944 to 1 June 1945 when Horace served in Canada with 31 Personnel Dispatch, 19 Elementary Flying School, 17 Service Flying Training School and 7 Bombing and Gunnery School.

The…

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SGrewB[Ser#-DoB]v10001.pdf
Flight Sergeant Archibald Steele’s Flying Log Book as a pilot and flight engineer from 20th April 1943 to 10th September 1945. Flying training started with 19 Elementary Flying Training School then at 12 and 36 Service Flying Training Schools in…

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MEllisEL183959-211116-07.jpg
Leave pass and permission to enter the united States

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LEllisEL183959v1.pdf
Pilot’s flying log book for Flying Officer Ernest Lewis Ellis from 28 November 1941 to 23 February 1945 when he failed to return from his 23rd operation. Training with 19 EFTS and 12 SFTS in Canada. Posted to England in 1943 for further training with…

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EEllisELEllisH-[Fa]420124.pdf
Acknowledges receipt of their letters and wonders why they had not received any from him. Mentions he passed his end of course exams, that he now had 100 hours flying and comments on cross country flight. Writes that he will be posted to another…

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EEllisELEllisH-[Fa]411230.pdf
Writes that he had received many letters from home and while they had had none from him, he had written every week. Describes his leave in Winnipeg and gives extensive details of his Canadian hosts and his activities while there. Mentions upcoming…

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EEllisELEllisH-[Fa]411214.pdf
Says he had been flying almost every day and that he had gone solo. Comment on his flying training, his pay, cost of living, graduation dance for previous course and the fact that it was snowing. Mentions getting a letter from a girl in Wigan as well…

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EEllisELEllisH-[Fa]411130.pdf
Says that he had flown four times since he last wrote. Writes about flying, his instructor, food and compatriots. Ask if they had had air raids and of any news of his friends Fred and Hats.

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EEllisELEllisH-[Fa]411126.pdf
Writes that he had now travelled to Virmont [sic], Manitoba an elementary flying school. Describes the local area, food and activities.

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SEllisEL183959v10019-0001.jpg
Top left - head and shoulders portrait of an airman wearing tunic and side cap. On the reverse 'for my aunt Bet'.
Bottom left - full-length image of an airman wearing tunic, standing on a road. On the reverse 'Virden (Jan 1942)'.
Top right - two…

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PEllisEL21040036.jpg
Fourteen airmen wearing tunics and side caps sitting and standing in three rows with a trophy centre front. On the reverse 'senior Class, Virden flying trophy'.

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PEllisEL21010008.jpg
Left page - left - airborne Lancaster.
Right - Me 109 on ground. Its propeller blades are bent.
Right page - left - view from air looking down at airborne Tiger Moth. Captioned 'breaking off'.
Right - view of town and river from air. Captioned…

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PEllisEL21010005.jpg
Left page - left - Lysander on the ground.
Right - Noorduyn Norseman,
Right page - left - airfield from the air. Captioned 'Virden rom the air'.
Right - town street. Captioned 'Main Street'.

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PEllisEL21010004.jpg
Left page - left airborne Battle.
Right three Bolingbroke in formation.
Right page - left - view of river from the air. Captioned 'Assiniboine River'.
Right - ice skaters with building in the background. captioned 'Skating Virden'.

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PEllisEL21010003.jpg
Left page - left - airborne Tiger Moth.
Bottom right - Cessna Crane twin engine trainer landing.
Right page - top left - view of snow covered landscape from train. Captioned 'on the road'.
Bottom left - snow covered street with house. Captioned…

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PEllisEL21010002.jpg
Right page - 14 airmen wearing tunics and side caps sitting and standing in three rows with trophy in middle of font row. Captioned '"C" flight, Virden'.

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MEllisEL183959-211116-030041.jpg
Permission for L.A.C. Ellis E L. Two copies.

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PHarrisonRW2103.jpg
Reg Harrison grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada and enjoyed watching aircraft when they flew over. He had his first flight as a youngster after borrowing five dollars from a shopkeeper. He volunteered for aircrew as soon as he was of age and…

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LCattyMA164193v1.pdf
Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book one for Martin Catty, covering the period from 5 October 1942 to 24 June 1943, detailing his flying training. He was stationed at RCAF Virden and RCAF Brandon. Aircraft flown were Tiger Moth and Crane.

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MCattyMA164193-180822-070001.jpg
A Graduation Banquet for Course 75 given in honour of the 32nd graduating class of the Virden Flying Training School, Manitoba, Canada.

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ACattyMA180822.mp3
Martin Catty grew up in London and was evacuated, with his school, to Westward Ho! at the beginning of the war. He completed a short training course at Cambridge University in 1942 and joined the Royal Air Force. After training, he flew 40…

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