Turnham, Ken

Title

Turnham, Ken
K Turnham

Description

11 items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant Ken Turnham (1924 - 2018, 1850743, 197068 Royal Air Force) his log book and documents. He completed 29 operations as a wireless operator with 115 Squadron.

The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Ken Turnham and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.

Date

2017-10-09

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

Turnham, K

Collection Items

Speeding ticket for Ken 1947
Issued by the Military Police in occupied Germany in 1947. It was passed to his unit for action.

My Life and Time by Ken Turnham
The majority of this document is an account of Ken's life written by Ken. After his death a family friend offers a summary of Ken's life.

Ken Turnham's original Flying Clothing card
Ken's original RAF Form 667B Flying clothing card from RAF Yatesbury recording the issue and return of his flying clothing.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Ken Turnham's substitute Flying Clothing card
His RAF form 667B raised at RAF Lossiemouth in June 1944, records the issue and return of flying clothing.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Ken Turnham's Airman's Pay book
Records his daily rate of pay as an airman.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Ken Turnham's Airman's Service and Pay Book
Records, trades, ranks inoculations and vaccinations.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Ken Turnham's Medical Record Card
RAF Form 1427, records medical category, inoculations and vaccinations, entries for 1946 and 47.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Ken Turnham's Pay and Allowances book
First entry August 1946 runs until August 1948.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Ken Turnham's Service and Release Book
RAF Form 2520C.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Memories of WWII
Booklet produced as part of 'Their Past Your Future's series produced for the Heritage Lottery. This is based on Ken's memories of his training for and operations with Bomber Command and his post war service in the Royal Air Force, as described to a…

Ken Turnham
Informal head and shoulders portrait of Ken in Flight Lieutenant uniform with signaller brevet.

Ken Turnham's navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Ken Turnham’s RAF Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book, from 27th October 1943 to 14th April 1945, recording training and operations as a Wireless Operator. Based at RAF Yatesbury (No. 2 Radio School), RAF Mona (No. 8…

Interview with Ken Turnham
Ken Turnham was born in St Albans and volunteered for the Air Force on his 18th birthday. After his initial training as a wireless operator he was posted to an Operational Training Unit at Lossiemouth. He and his crew were posted to 115 Squadron at…
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Collection Tree

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