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Top left - Seven airmen standing on the port side of a Lancaster bearing the code ZN-Z. All are wearing battledress trousers, shirt and tie, with one wearing a battledress jacket. Four wear parachute harness. Attached labels identify them as, from…
Note about J C Aston's record of service
Handwritten note describing J C Aston's record of service. It states that he was posted to 83 Sqn, RAF Wyton on 3 March 1943. His first operation was to Berlin on 29 March 1943 and his second raid was to Essen. His aircraft was shot down and crew…
Maurice James Blower’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Maurice Blower’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 29th June 1942 until 12th December 1945. During this time trained as a wireless operator and air gunner. Training as an air gunner started at No. 45 Air School in South Africa, and…
Hampdens, Wimpeys and Barbed Wire
Bomber Command wartime memoirs 1939-45 by Ted Allison. He completed 35 bomber operations as wireless operator/air gunner 1941-43, which he described as being looked down upon. The introduction describes his role as a Wop/Ag and how they're replaced…
Harry George Samual Garnham
The document gives details of his birth in 1917 and his parents in Suffolk and tells us he was called up for service in 1940.
There then follows a summary of a typical training route to becoming an air gunner and it is presumed Harry followed this…
There then follows a summary of a typical training route to becoming an air gunner and it is presumed Harry followed this…
List of RAF airmen, 44 and 83 Squadrons
A handwritten list of eight airmen who lost their lives when Joseph Bradburn's aircraft crashed.
Framed photograph of D I Sharp
Picture of D I Sharp wearing RAF uniform. On reverse, handwritten details - 751062 - F/S Donald Ivor Sharp, Wop/AG - 83 Sqn (Hampdens), RAF Scampton, Lincs, KIA 25/8/41.
DI Sharp's service record
DI Sharp RAF service record (RAF Form 543). Printed form with handwritten entries detailing service from enlistment to death (killed in action).
Clare Connor's grave
Clare's grave at Brattleby. One the reverse is an RAF Scampton stamp.
Eulogy to Flying Officer Clare Arthur Connor DFC
The eulogy was read at Brattleby church in the presence of Clare's widow, Elizabeth.
The Unknown Canadian
Clare Connor's biography. The article is full of details about Clare's RAF brief life and events after his death.
There is a second copy.
There is a second copy.
Connor, P/O Clare Arthur Hovendon (40892) biography
A brief biography of Clare.
E Renfrey’s South African Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
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E Renfrey’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 20th June 1942 until 20th August 1945. During this time trained as an air gunner, navigator and bomb aimer.
Trained at Nos. 43 and 45 Air Schools , 16 Operational Training Unit and 1660…
Trained at Nos. 43 and 45 Air Schools , 16 Operational Training Unit and 1660…
Peter John Reynolds research notes
A page, torn from a notebook, with handwritten notes about Peter John Reynolds' service career. Included are training and operational units, his service number, the dates of his service, his national insurance number and the query "83 Pathfinder…
Chan Chandler's biography
A biography of Chan's life.
He flew 95 operations as Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Gunnery Leader and Cameraman with 49 and 617 Squadrons and survived nine days adrift in the North Sea. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a rare Soviet…
He flew 95 operations as Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Gunnery Leader and Cameraman with 49 and 617 Squadrons and survived nine days adrift in the North Sea. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a rare Soviet…
Gratitude and appreciation
A booklet containing various documents including a certificate expressing thanks to Frederik Christian Oscar Körvel for the help provided to evading combatants. Personal accounts of the events following the crash of a mine-laying Lancaster including…
Trevor Blewitt’s RAF service record
Listing Trevor’s service history between 1927 and 1953.
Aircrew and ground crew
Twelve airmen, five squatting in front and seven standing. Some are wearing overalls, other uniform. Three in rear have visible aircrew brevet. They are in front of a Lancaster.
On the reverse 'R Terras, I don't know who these people are. 83…
On the reverse 'R Terras, I don't know who these people are. 83…
Engine and Airframe mechanics B Flight, 83 Squadron
Thirty-six airmen and two airwomen sitting and standing in three rows in front of a brick building. On the reverse 'Engine and Airframe mechanics "B" Flight, 83 Squadron (Lancaster) "Pathfinders" RAF Wyton, Huntingdonshire'.
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Newspaper cutting - airmen back with squadrons
Description of 83 Squadron ground crew reunion for former Bradford airmen at RAF Coningsby. Also covers fifth reunion of 170 Squadron.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.