Course photograph and newspaper cutting

PBakerWB16040004.jpg

Title

Course photograph and newspaper cutting

Description

Top - a large group of trainee airmen wearing greatcoats and side caps sitting and standing in three rows in front of a brick building with large windows criss-crossed with blast tape. On the reverse signatures. Captioned 1 - 'Heaven help poor old England, look at what's arrived, A.C.R.C Feb 1942'. Captioned 2 - 'No play to-day. Lord Cricket Grounds, 6th from left , middle row. I was put in charge of this shower. (not permanent staff).'.
Bottom left - newspaper cutting - wedding announcement. Flight Lieutenant Steiner and Miss Watson. Steiner was trained as observer in Canada and bride was member of Women's Auxiliary Air Force'.

Date

1942-02

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Format

One b/w photograph and one newspaper cutting mounted on an album page

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PBakerWB16040004

Transcription

[photograph]

[page break]

F.R {Dick} Harrison
Bob Gill.
J.A Heatley (Ginger)
Thomas Kerr (Jock)
A. Chesworth
R V Osborne (Grubby)
Billy Laycock
S C Clark (Nobby)
Frank Baker
D Steiner (Stinker)
G. Allen.
C Green CK

[page break]

“Heaven help poor old England.”
Look at what’s arrived.

A.C.R.C. Feb. 1942.

[page break]

No Play to-day. Lords Cricket Ground.
6th from left, middle row. I was put in charge of this shower. (not permanent staff).

[page break]

F/LT. STEINER & MISS WATSON

The wedding took place at Trinity Church, Whitehills, Banff, Scotland, of Helen, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Watson, of “Helenslea,” Whitehills, and Flt.-Lieut. Dennis Steiner, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.Sceiner [sic], Maycross-avenue, Morden.

The bride, who was given away by her father, was attired in white satin, and carried a bouquet of white and bronze chrysanthemums.

She was attended by her sister, Miss Joy Watson, and a friend, Miss Margaret Lawrence, in pink and blue respectively.

Mr. Peter Steiner was best man, and the choral service was conducted by the Rev. E.W. Burnett.

The bridegroom is well known as an ex-member of the Wimbledon Air Training Corps, having joined the then Air Defence Cadet Corps in November, 1938, and remaining in the corps until volunteering for Air Crew duties in 1942. He was commissioned as an Observer in Canada in 1943.

The bride was a member of the W.A.A.F., and the couple met on an R.A.F. Station, when the bridegroom was operating with Bomber Command.

Citation

“Course photograph and newspaper cutting,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 7, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/36044.

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