Christison, Alexander

Title

Christison, Alexander
A Christison

Description

16 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer Alexander Christison (b. 1908, 2210273 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, service and release book and photographs. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 171 Squadron.

The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Alexander John Christison and catalogued by Barry Hunter.

Date

2021-01-10

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

Christison, A

Collection Items

Sandy Christison's Service and Release Book
RAF Form 2520A issued to Sandy covering his RAF service.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Sandy Christison's Log Book
Flying log book for navigator’s, air bombers, air gunner’s and flight engineers for Sandy Christison, flight engineer. Covers the period 6th May 1944 to 24th April 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF…

Silk Map of Western Europe
A map with seven crew signatures and their route back to UK listed.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Halifax
Two photographs of Halifaxes taken at RAF North Creake.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Sandy Christison
A head and shoulders portrait of Sandy.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

No 102 H Equip/Assts
19 airmen arranged in three rows. Each individual is named on the reverse.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Sandy Christison and Crew
Sandy and his seven crew members. On the reverse 'After Nov 1944 Scanlan photo'.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

51 Trainee Airmen
51 airmen and instructors arranged in four rows. On the reverse each man is named and the date is '1943?'

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Parachuted into More Danger
A newspaper cutting referring to two New Zealand airmen who had to parachute over France.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Reported Missing --- Safe
A newspaper cutting from the Berwick Journal announcing that Sandy is safe. Sandy had been a policeman in Berwick before serving in the RAF.

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

Crew of Halifax NA 108
A photograph of the crew of Halifax NA108 who successfully baled out over Montigny. There is French language text describing the men in the photograph, the location of the image at the police station at Donnemarie and two policemen. The text…

Letter to Sandy Christison from WD & HO Wills
The letter expresses thanks for Sandy's report of how he was recognised as being British because he was smoking Woodbine cigarettes.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Letter to Sandy Christison's Mother
The letter reports her son as missing but advising he may have escaped.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Telegram to Sandy Christison's Family
The telegram advises that Sandy is missing.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Telegram to Sandy Christison's Family
The telegram announces he is fit and well.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

Account Dictated by Flight Engineer A Christison
He and his crew members baled out after running out of fuel in cloud and with navigational equipment failure. He had landed near Montigny, in France and after help from a farmer met up with his crew at Donnemarle. They were flown back to Croydon the…
View all 16 items

Collection Tree

  • Christison, Alexander