Shrapnel

PCheshireGL1821.jpg
PCheshireGL1822.jpg

Title

Shrapnel

Description

A two and a half inch piece of shrapnel on top of a wooden ruler. Reported as probably the fragment of shrapnel which ignited the flare causing damage to Leonard Cheshire's 102 squadron Whitley P5005 DY-P over Cologne on 14/11/1940. Addition information about this item was kindly provided by the donor. On the reverse 'G-940'.

Temporal Coverage

1940-11-14

Type

Photograph

Format

One b/w photograph

Rights

This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.

Identifier

PCheshireGL1821, PCheshireGL1822

Collection

Cheshire, Leonard

Citation

“Shrapnel,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/17015.

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