Tillbrook, Ernie

Title

Tillbrook, Ernie
Ernest Hector Angelo Tillbrook
E H A Tillbrook
Ernest Hector Angelo Pedrazzini

Description

Six items. An oral history interview with Flying Officer Ernest Tillbrook (b. 1923, 188677, Royal Air Force), documents and photographs. He flew operations with 431 Squadron as a flight engineer.

The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Ernie Tillbrook and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.

Date

2016-01-05

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Tillbrook, EHA

Collection Items

Ernie Tilbrook
Two photographs of Ernie.
Photo 1 is half-length portrait of Ernie cut from a wedding photograph, shows Flight Engineer, Sergeant, Ernie Tillbrook (formerly Pedrazzini) in uniform with his arm through another's,
Photo 2 is a head and shoulders…

Woman and two Graves
A woman stands beside a memorial gravestone to fallen RAF heroes. The same woman, in a second photograph, is standing beside a second memorial.

Left is photograph of a woman standing next to a memorial set against hillside with the inscription;…

Battle Order 431 Squadron
A list of aircraft and aircrew for an operation on Mimoyecques - Pas de Calais. A handwritten annotation has the location of the attack and 'all returned'.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

This…

Cover of Ernie Tilbrook's Service and Release Book
RAF Form 2520C issued to Ernie Pedrazzini. He later changed his name to Tilbrook.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better…

Ernie Pedrazzini's log book extracts
Ernie's logbook front page with his details as a flight engineer and a page from February 1946.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital…

Interview with Ernie Tillbrook
Ernest Hector Angelo Pedrazzini was the son of an Italian father and an English mother. After the war he changed his name to Tillbrook. Ernie’s father escaped from a prison camp during the First World War and found his way to Russia and…
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