Dancy and Wentworth

Title

Dancy and Wentworth
Ian Hadden

Description

Eight items. The collection concerns Mrs V Dancy's eight children: Flight Sergeant H Wentworth, Gunner F Leslie Wentworth, Corporal Jim Wentworth, Leading Aircraftman Jock Dancy, Leading Aircraftman Arnold Wentworth, Cadet Joe Dancy, Flight Sergeant D Dancy, Mary Dancy Womens Auxilliary Air Force. It consists of seven photographs, and a cutting.

The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Ian Hadden and catalogued by IBCC staff.

Date

2016-05-25

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Hadden, I

Collection Items

Cleethorpes gunner killed in action : seven of family still alive
Gunner Francis Leslie Wentworth was 36, single, and for twenty years had been employed by Messrs. Molyneux, ship painters, Grimsby Docks. He was one of the eight children of V Dancy, Flight Sergeant H Wentworth, Gunner F Leslie Wentworth, Corporal…

RAF Skegness personnel at Tower Gardens
28 personnel from RAF Skegness, arranged in four rows, are standing, seated or crouched at Tower Gardens, Skegness. Jack Dancy is third from the left in the back row. On the reverse:
'AC/2 Dancy. J.
Tower…

Five Women’s Auxiliary Air Force personnel
Five Women’s Auxiliary Air Force personnel, no rank insignia visible, are arranged in a single file in front of a structure with a barbed wire fence extending from one side. The uppermost of the two copies has been defaced, the lower appears to…

Mary Hadden (nee Dancy)
Head and shoulder portrait of Mary Hadden (nee Dancy) in Women’s Auxiliary Air Force uniform.

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

Mary Hadden (nee Dancy)
Head and shoulder portrait of Mary Hadden (nee Dancy) wearing a flower in her hair, wearing a flight engineer’s brevet. She wears a striped blouse and a pearl necklace.

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Sons of V Dancy in uniform
Five of the eight sons of V Dancy are arranged in two rows. The front left hand brother is a Royal Air Force flight sergeant with an air-gunner’s brevet, the front middle brother has lieutenant’s epaulets.

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Five personnel on a grassy bank
Five personnel are seated on a grassy bank. The one at the back left and front right have sergeant’s stripes visible, whereas two on the left at the front and the rear right hand all have single winged brevets. David Hadden is back…

David Dancy
Head and shoulder portrait of David Dancy in sheepskin flying jacket. Captioned 'David 1943', On the reverse 'David Dancy'.
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