Browse Items (14 total)

A starboard side view of a Hampden in flight over a city.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Mother, father and two boys, one of whom is Jack. Information supplied with the collection indicates that one is Jack, around 1930.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

A full length portrait identified in extra information supplied with the collection as 'Belgian Joss'. He is on crutches having lost a leg.

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Large group of airmen with a dog arranged in three rows in front of a Hampden.
Information supplied with the collection indicates 144 Squadron.

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Four Hampdens of 144 Squadron flying over Hemswell. One has the serial number L4125.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Two identical head and shoulders portraits of Jack Howell. DFM.

Three photographs of a crashed Hampden.
#1 is two rudders
#2 is a roundel with part identity 'PL'. [144 Squadron]
#3 is two rudders.

Two head portraits of an airman, one in civilian attire and one in uniform.

A heliograph signalling mirror that can be used to signal to searching ships and aircraft, complete with instructions, front and reverse.

I J Howell’s wireless operator/ air gunner’s flying log book covering the period from 6 September 1939 to 10 April 1941. Detailing his operations flown as wireless operator/air gunner. He was stationed at RAF Finningley (76 Squadron and 7 BATFlt),…

The DFM awarded to Jack for saving a fellow airman.

An air-to-air photograph of four Hampdens including L4125 flying over RAF Hemswell.

Identification kindly provided by Jayne Barraclough of the Unidentified photos of the British Isles Group.

A head and shoulders portrait of Jack with his DFM ribbon and Air Gunner brevet.

A newspaper cutting with a description of how Jack was awarded a DFM. This was awarded because he assisted an unconscious colleague to bale out of their damaged aircraft.