Initial Training Wing, Paignton

Initial Training Wing, Paignton

Group of airmen

Forty-five airmen wearing tunics and side caps sitting and standing in four rows. In the background left a three story building with bay windows and columns. Submitted with description 'Group photo of RAF personnel in the grounds of Initial Training Wing, Paignton, September 1940. Rear of photo annotated: "Front row last on right. P/O C.P. Hall? One of the 50 POWs shot by Gestapo after 'Great Escape'. Sagan, Germany 1944/3/25]'.

1940-09

One b/w photograph mounted on an album page

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