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Including photographs, notes, cartoons and newspaper cutting details of Stan's early life and gaining his pilot's licence aged 18. He married and was commissioned into the Royal Air Force and transferred to Canada to train as a flying instructor at…

Pay book for driver Harry Ellis attested in 1914.
Gives some personal details, pay rates and payments from May 1915 to August 1917. Includes a will signed in May 1914.
Includes envelope with seeds, blank field service post card, photograph of…

Top left - full length image of a soldier in uniform. On the reverse 'Dad'.
Bottom left - head and shoulders portrait of a soldier wearing tunic and peaked cap. On the reverse 'uncle Clifford (Dad's youngest brother) Nov 20'.
Top right- twelve…

Head and shoulders portrait of a man wearing army uniform and peaked cap. On the reverse 'Dad 1914'.

A large number of aircraft fuselages some with engines mounted others with none, parked outside a multi-story brick building. On the left part of a crane. On the reverse '26, 1914, outside Park Works, Newton Heath, often used photo in magazines,…

Large group of men and women sitting and standing in front of a brick building. Some men are in suits and others in working clothes. Building has three arched doorways with windows above. On the reverse 'Original photo, vital please keep safely of…

Three Avro 504s in line from left to right. There are men in front of each. On the reverse '? Belgium?, 3 Avro 504s getting ready for the historic flight to Lake Constance to bomb the Zepplin [sic] works at Friedrichshafen, 1914'.

A handwritten notebook containing the war diary of A Dorricott from October 1914. He embarks the SS Deseado at Southampton and sails through the Bay of Biscay, past Gibraltar to Malta. They continued with naval escorts to Port Said, through the Suez…