Memorabilia from Photographic course

Memorabilia from Photographic course

Christmas dinner menu, signatures of dinner participants, airmen and generator and two cartoons

Photograph 1 - the Christmas dinner menu at RAF Farnborough with a cartoon of a German reconnaissance aircraft being shot down.
Photograph 2 - the signatures of some of the participants.
Captioned 'Christmas dinner, R.A.F. Farnborough Photographic Course, Dec 24th 1944.' [sic]
Photograph 3 - five airmen around a generator captioned 'Coventry Climax generator for Photographic Trailor' [sic].
Photographs 4 and 5 are of two cartoons relating to the photographic unit. Captioned 'Certificate awarded to Air Crews for Night Photographs of enemy targets. Designed and drawn by R.G. Cavalier'.

1940-12

Five b/w photographs on an album page

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PCavalierRG17010004

Farnborough 1940

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RAF
MENU

[underlined] SOUP [/underlined]
CREME OF TOMATO.

[underlined] JOINT [/underlined]
ROAST TURKEY. ROAST PORK

[underlined] VEGETABLES [/underlined]
ROAST POTATOES. PARSNIPS,
BOILED POTATOES. BRUSSELS SPROUTS

[underlined] SWEETS [/underlined]
CHRISTMAS PUDDING
BRANDY SAUCE. MINCE PIES.

[underlined] SAVOURY [/underlined]
CHEDDAR CHEDLETS & BISCUITS

[underlined] DESSERT. [/underlined]
APPLES. ORANGES. MIXED NUTS. DATES AND FIGS.

Christmas dinner, R.A.F. Farnborough Photographic Course, Dec 24th 1944.

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R.G. Cavalier
[signature]
K.H. Manning
F. Mason
Graham Holland
[signature]
G. Rushton
[signature]
[signature]
C F Searle.
P. Bonnett
A H Aldridge
[signature]
J. Harrison
U B Blackway
R. Dagville
[signature]

[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]

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[Photograph]
Coventry Climax generator for Photographic Trailor. [sic]

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[sketch]

VIDE ET CREDE
THE SELECT ORDER OF H-UNOFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF GERMAN TERRITORY.

[sketch] ............ IS HEREBY INITIATED INTO THE SELECT ORDER, BY VIRTUE OF HAVING PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE AIR, CERTAIN PORTIONS OF GERMAN TERRITORY ON THE NIGHT OF ............. NAMELY ........... MUCH TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE HUN'S PEACE OF MIND.

[sketch] SIGNED

PRESIDENT.

R. Cavalier

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RESOLUTE

WE CAME –
WE SAW –
WE PHOTOGRAPHED

IN ……………..
NIGHT OF ………………..

SIGNED

PRESIDENT.

R. Cavalier

Certificate awarded to Air Crews for Night Photographs of enemy targets. Designed and drawn by R.G. Cavalier.