Weir, Greg

Title

Weir, Greg
G Weir

Description

A total of Two hundred and sixty nine items, all in sub-collections. The collection contains items concerning the 14 individuals listed below and contains log books, memoirs, newspaper cuttings, decorations, photographs, documents and correspondence.

Alexander Taylor
Allan Lodder
Joseph Ross
Keith Campbell
Keith Thiele
Ken Oakes
Britt, Leo
Max Langworthy
Album 1
Album 2
Flannigan, J and McManus, JB
Paul Dean Wilson
Robert Jubb
Ron Hickey
William Edwards

The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Gregory Weir and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

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

Date

2017-04-26

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

Weir, G

Collection Items

William Edwards - pilot's flying log book
Flying log book for William Edwards, pilot. Covering the period 25 June 1942 to 31 January 1952. Details his training, operations and post-war civilian flying with Qantas. He was based at RAF Calveley, RAF Windrush, RAF Docking, RAF Church Broughton,…

Royal Australian Air Force pilot's brevet
Cloth pilots brevet with RAAF.

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Decorations
Nine decorations. Distinguished Flying Cross, 1939–1945 Star, Burma Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939–1945, Australia Service Medal 1939–1945, Australian Service Medal 1945–1975 with three clasps and Australian…

Page from pilot's flying log book
Gives total flying while on 38 Squadron RAAF on C-47 and assessment of ability.

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

Ronald Hickey - Royal Australian Air Force flying log book. Two
Logs civilian flights for Trans Australia Airways from September 1950 to June 1961. Aircraft flown were DC-3 (C-47), Loadstar, Viscount and F-27.This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are…

Ronald Hickey - Royal Australian Air Force flying log book. One
Royal Australian Air Force flying log book for Ronald Hickey, pilot. Covers the period from 9 August 1942 to 23 August 1950. It details his training, Bomber Command operations, flights in Transport Command and post-war civilian flying. He was based…

Group having tea
Three men, a woman and a girl sitting on the ground with plates and cups in front of them. On the reverse 'Mr and Mrs Armstrong and Sheila, myself and a Belgian soldier on the creek bank behind their place having tea'.

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Man and woman
A man and woman standing arm in arm on grass with trees in the background. On the reverse 'June and myself, doesn't do June justice, in their front yard, notice no fence'.

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Sergeant and girl
On the left a sergeant with uniform shirt with wearing fancy dress skirt and ladies hat kneeling down by a girl wearing dress. In the background shrubbery.

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Family group
A man, girls and woman standing in line in a garden with a dog in front. On the reverse 'Mr and Mrs Armstrong and Sheila and their dog'.

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Three men a woman and a dog
Three men, two wearing shorts, the other long trousers and a woman wearing shorts all standing holding golf clubs. A dog is sitting up in front of the woman. In the background a row of houses, On the reverse 'Mr Armstrong and Sheila, Dick and myself…

Four airmen
Four airmen wearing battledress with brevet standing in the doorway. On the reverse 'Top left to right, Bill and Alex one of Dick's crew. Bottom left to right, Dick my cobber, Len my wireless operator'.

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Man standing in front of railway signal box
A man in civilian clothes standing on a platform in front of stairs leading to a signal box. Sign on side of building 'Perranwell Signal Box'. On the reverse 'The hive of industry, Perranwell Stn Srpt 48, I admit its a trifle unusual but I go no…

Man and boy
A man wearing civilian shirt, tie and trousers standing next to a boy wearing shorts. Both standing on grass with trees in the background. On the reverse 'Myself and [....] youngest brother, He's not been well'.

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A pilot leaning against a tree
Full length image of a pilot wearing side cap as well as tunic with pilot's brevet and sergeants rank standing in open ground. To the left a tree trunk. On the reverse 'Ronnie boy'.

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Reverse of photograph
Reverse side of unidentified photograph.

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A pilot
Three-quarter length image of an airman wearing khaki uniform with shorts and side cap. Shirts has pilot's brevet and sergeant rank. Behind him a metal railing and part of a building. In the distance city buildings. On the reverse 'Dick'.

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Group of aicrew
A large group of airmen most with visible brevet sitting and standing in four rows. In the background three arches in brick building with door in centre and windows either side.

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Postagram to Robert Jubb from Sir Arthur Harris
Congratulations on award of Distinguished Flying Cross.

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Postagram to 462 Squadron
Announces approval of immediate award of Distinguished Flying Cross to Pilot Officer Robert Venters Jubb.

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Newspaper cutting
Describes heroic action of a Halifax flight engineer, bomb aimer and wireless operator during operation dealing with fire and wounded crew.

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Notes for guidance in the wearing of campaign stars, defence medals and war medals in civilian clothes
States rules and provides list with description of common Second World War awards.

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House of Parliament temporary entry permits
Two tickets made out for Sgt Jubb on 16 Fe 1944 and 2 Oct 1943.

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Fifth Day
Description of attack by bomber command Halifax aircraft on synthetic oil plants. Mentions German jet aircraft.

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Book - Bag the Hun
Book of instruction for air-to-air gunnery including chapters entitled: estimation of range, estimation of deflection, range and deflection and speed tests; all with pictorial examples and illustrations and other information and exercises.

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