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- Collection: Madgett, Hedley Robert. Canada and Royal Air Force Album
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32 Elementary Flying Training School, RAF Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Top left - road with telegraph poles on left side going into the distance with entrance on left with sign 'Royal Air Force [.......]'. Top right road running into the distance with single story huts either side. An airman is walking way from camera…
34 S.F.T.S Medicine Hat, Alberta
Top left - a road running from the bottom with a row of single story huts on the left. Telegraph poles along right side of road. Caption 'the camp'. Bottom left - a cluster of single story huts in the middle distance. Captioned 'our billets'. Right -…
Air to ground views and servicing Tiger Moth
Top left - air to ground view of town with starboard wing. Captioned 'above Swift Current'. Top right - air t o ground view of open country. Captioned 'the experimental farm'. Middle left - air to ground view of open countryside with river. Captioned…
Airborne photographs of Saskatchewan river
Top left - air to ground view of river running bottom right to top left.Middle left - air to ground view of river in middle distance. Middle right - air to ground view of river on left. Bottom right - air to ground view of river in distance on left.…
Aircraft
Top left - Lockheed Lodestar parked on airfield. Captioned 'T.C.A. plane'. Top left - Lockheed Lodestar parked on airfield with another aircraft behind to right. Middle left - cockpit and port engine of Lockheed Lodestar with maple leaf on nose.…
Album cover
Album front cover.
Album cover
Rear cover of album
Banff
Top left- view of street with buildings/shops either side an large snow covered mountain in the background. Captioned 'Banff main street, Mt Rundle in the background'. Top right - view of divided street with buildings/shops either side an large…
Banff and Lake Louise
Top left - trees with mountains in the background. Bottom left - trees with mountains in the background. Captioned 'From Hot Springs near Banff'. Top right - car parked on snow covered road with valley on the left and mountains behind. Bottom right…
Banff and Lake Louise
Top - a large multistory hotel in a valley in the foreground with mountains either side and in the background. Annotated 'Bow river valley and Banff Springs Hotel'. Captioned 'In Summer'. Bottom left - car parked in deep snow with snow covered…
Bostons and Oxfords
Top left - rear quarter view of a Boston parked on airfield with two men on top and several others round tail. Bottom left a front quarter view of a Boston parked on airfield with a man standing under port wing and others on a raised platform by the…
Canada, Swift Current Saskatchewan
Top left - street with buildings/shops either side and cars parked at curbs. Top right - view over town with residential houses. Snow on the ground. Bottom left - railroad tracks with steam train coming towards. Commercial buildings beyond tracks.…
Double exposure
Unidentifiable double exposure. Model aircraft and open area with trees surrounding
Flying Officer B Girdwood
Full length portrait of an officer wearing tunic with observer brevet and peaked cap. He is standing by the wall at corner of a building with another two story building in the background. On the reverse 'Flying Officer B Girdwood, 4 Main Street,…
Flying training and friends
Top left - Man wearing flying clothes and carrying parachute walking away from Tiger Moth. Captioned 'Sgt Smith, my first instructor' Top right - two men in flying clothes standing behind the wing of a Tiger Moth. Captioned '"Murf" Murray with Sgt…
Friends during training
Top left - man in flyng suit standing in snow in front of a single story building. Captioned 'Lucien Eccles'. Top middle - man in flying suit coming out of a door. Captioned 'Bill Girdwood'. Top right - two men wearing greatcoats and side caps…
Harvard and students
Top left - side view of Harvard on airfield. Top right - four student pilots wearing flying suits standing in front of a Harvard. Captioned 'Left to Right, Yours truly. Les Mills, McAteer (Irish) & Rogers'. Bottom left - four pilots wearing flying…
Harvards and students
Top left - view of front of Harvard with pilot in cockpit. Captioned 'McAteer'. Top right - an airman wearing greatcoat and side cap standing at the top of steps in open door of a building. Middle - side view of Harvard with pilot in the cockpit.…
Havards
Top left - line of Harvards on airfield Captioned 'Harvard II'. Top right - line of Harvards in the distance. Bottom left - Front quarter view of Harvard with buildings in the background. Bottom left - nose of a Harvard with hangar in the background.…
Hedley Madgett
Headley Madgett sitting on a wooden bench in a garden wearing a civilian suit. In the background a fence and flowers.
Hedley Madgett and crew in front of bomber
Six aircrew, four standing behind and two kneeling in front.Three are wearing parachute harness and one a flying jacket. In the background part of an aircraft. Hedley Madgett is standing on the left holding a parachute and helmet.
Instructor, students and prairie
Left - five airmen standing in line. Four wearing tunic and side cap and the middle man wearing greatcoat and fur hat. In the background a two story building. Captioned 'my Harvard instructor P/O Hansel, with his pupils: Nev Oakley, Me, "Tuck"…
Lake Louise and Banff
Top - a lake in foreground with a large multistory hotel on the left. Trees on the lakeside and mountains in the background. Captioned 'Lake Louise in summer'. Bottom - a large turreted multistory hotel on the right surrounded by trees and mountains…
Lancaster parked on dispersal
Lancaster with man on rear fuselage, another behind cockpit and two by starboard inner engine. In the foreground part of a tree and a bicycle on edge of dispersal. Behind the aircraft miscellaneous equipment. Aircraft letter 'S'.
Medicine Hat
Top left - hangars and huts in the middle distance. Bottom left - in the middle distance a large parade of men. In the foreground left two Oxfords and right the side of a hangar. In the distance other buildings. Captioned 'The Inspector General's…