Two airmen

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Two airmen

Description

Head and shoulders portrait of two men wearing greatcoats and side caps. man on left has sergeants rank. Submitted with caption 'Ron (on the left) and his mate Ken Pugsley - the Sgt stripes are from the Air Cadets - Ron and Ken went to sign on for the RAF together but Ken was not accepted, and went into the army instead. They met 5 years later as POWs in Fallingbostle after the Long March as they were to be liberated, Ken had been captured at Arnhem. The story is on the recording'.

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One b/w photograph

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PTomlinR1504

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Citation

“Two airmen,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/34295.

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