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Notice to Recruit to Rejoin for Service
RAF Form 1376 instructing Arthur Mace to attend the reception unit at Blackpool.

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Arthur Mace - Enlistment notice
A notice sent to Arthur instructing him to attend a medical examination.

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Letter to Arthur Mace from Air Ministry
The letter advises he is still on the deferred list and will not be overlooked.

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Arthur Mace's Enlistment Dental record form
RAF Form 632A with required dental work.

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RAF Volunteer reserve Notice Paper
RAF Form 2168 completed by Arthur Mace.

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Vacancies for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled men, and outline of conditions of enlistment
RAF Form 432 with details of vacancies.

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RAF Application for enlistment
Uncompleted RAF Form 429

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Conditions of entry into the RAF on short service engagements for released qualified airmen
Four pages of conditions and an application form.

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Boy and his dog
Top left: Boy wearing school uniform standing astride a dog on the beach.
Top right: RAF Volunteer Reserve - Notice Paper.
Bottom right: RAF Flying Clothing Card.
Bottom left: Portrait of a dog.

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Notice to Recruit to Rejoin for service
RAF Form 1376 sent to John Mansell.

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Postponement of calling up for service
RAF Form 2150 postponing John's calling up.

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RAF Volunteer Reserve Notice Paper
RAF Form 2168 notice paper issued to John Mansell.

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Notice for the Information of Accepted Air Crew candidates
A notice issued to John Mansell with instructions.

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Mobilization of the RAF Reserve
Form 1018 sent to Jim Hardy.

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Conversation with Eric Clarke
Starts with discussion of Hampden and then getting Manchester and subsequently Lancaster. Relates some Manchester operations including 1000 bomber raid. Provides anecdotes about Manchester operations. Continues with account of joining up and…

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Transcript of conversations with Jack Bromfield
Jack talks in detail about joining the RAF, initial induction and training as a wireless operator and air gunner. He crewed up with an otherwise Canadian crew (pilot, navigator, bomb aimer and air gunners) at OTU and describes some of them, as well…

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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…

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Memoirs of an Air Gunner
Ron Bedford volunteered for the Royal Air Force and was told he had the aptitude to be a pilot but re-mustered as an air gunner, to avoid waiting for call up. He reads the "Message of Welcome" letter he received in July 1942 from the Secretary of…

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Postponement of calling up
Notice for Kenneth Smith. Would be called forward when instructed. In the meantime he would remain on reserve with no pay or allowances. Important that he should not leave civil employment.

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Frank Dennis' memoir
In 1943 Frank completed an engineering apprenticeship and volunteered to join the Royal Air Force as a flight engineer. He completed basic training in London, where he witnessed the fatal crash of a C-47 and then went to Initial Training Wing at RAF…

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Harry Brabin memoir
Harry joined the Royal Australian Air Force on 25 June 1942 as a wireless operator/air gunner, receiving his initial training in Australia before going to Canada for trade training. He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and recalls a…

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Royal Air Force volunteer reserve notice paper
RAF form 2168 issued to E J Duncombe.

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RAF Volunteer Reserve - Postponement of Enlistment
RAF Form 2150 issued to Dick Rooke.

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RAF Volunteer Reserve Notice Paper
RAF Form 2168 issued to volunteers.

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Notice to Royal Air Force Volunteer Reservist to join for service in the Royal Air Force
A notice sent to Bob Butler requiring him to join the 'Volunteer Reserve Town Centre at Nottingham' on '1 Sep 1939' and listing the documents he should take with him.

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