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Trevor Blewitt’s RAF service record
Listing Trevor’s service history between 1927 and 1953.
Huthwaite Council Infants Class 3 1927
A class photograph with three rows of children. It is annotated 'Denis Denis Alexander - front row -4th from left'.
Dan Nash memoir
Born in 1916, Dan spent his early childhood in Kent with his grandmother before moving back to his parents in Fulham. He left school aged 16 to undertake a job with the Hudson's Bay Fur Company, where he met Joyce, his future wife. At the outbreak of…
School life
Top page - twenty-two boys and girls and teacher standing in three rows. Captioned 'Bibury School 1927, Miss Manley's class'.
Bottom page - twenty eight boys and girls and teachers standing in three rows. Captioned '1929 Mr Rigby's Class (the…
Bottom page - twenty eight boys and girls and teachers standing in three rows. Captioned '1929 Mr Rigby's Class (the…
Wheelwright, abandoned wagon, Winson, suited man
Left page:
Top left - three men putting the rim onto a wagon wheel with barn and houses in the background.
Middle left - three men carrying wheel rim towards the wooden wheel while another man waits with tools in hand.
Bottom left - on the left…
Top left - three men putting the rim onto a wagon wheel with barn and houses in the background.
Middle left - three men carrying wheel rim towards the wooden wheel while another man waits with tools in hand.
Bottom left - on the left…
Bronislaw Soltysiak school certificate
Subjects and results 1927
Mervyn, Alex and Edith Adder
Two boys wearing shorts standing either side of a seated girl. Captioned 'Mervyn with older brother Alex and sister Edith c. 1927'.
Roy Chadwick - no finer aircraft designer - volume 1 (draft)
The story of Roy Chadwick, Chief Designer of A.V. Roe & Co Ltd from 1919 to 1947, The aircraft he designed, and the lasting contribution he made to Britain's aviation industry. Covers chapter 1 - 15. Starts with early years and then a has a chapter…
No 8 (B) Squadron, Khormacksar
17 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a DH9A aircraft. On the reverse -
' "A" Flight
No 8 (B) Squadron
DH 9A Aircraft
Khormacksar
Aden 1927
Fl/Lt Mackay F/O Knox F/Sgt Williams (Topsey)
348737 L.A.C. Hales'.
' "A" Flight
No 8 (B) Squadron
DH 9A Aircraft
Khormacksar
Aden 1927
Fl/Lt Mackay F/O Knox F/Sgt Williams (Topsey)
348737 L.A.C. Hales'.
Crowd in a boat
A crowd of men. women and children sitting in an open topped boat on a river with bridge in the background. Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor. 'photo, taken in 1927 it would appear, as someone around 90 years ago…
Autogyro
Autogiro airborne in left bank. Rotors mounted on an Avro 504 fuselage. below in the background, trees. On the reverse 'Senior Juan de la Cierva's rotors mounted on an Avro 504 K body, 1926/7, vital 1st autogyro in world [sic](forerunner of…
Interview with Gerald Rich
Gerald’s father, Wilfred, joined the Royal Air Force in January 1920 and stayed until around 1927, training as an aircraft fitter. He re-joined in June 1940 at RAF Cardington. In 1944, upon completion of training, he went to No. 1 Air Gunnery School…