Dent, John. Album

Title

Dent, John. Album

Description

Twenty four items from an album including two covers. Contains photographs of aircraft, aircrew, airmen and other military and civilian people. Includes some photographs of London Victory parade on 8 June 1946.

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

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Identifier

Dent, J

Collection Items

Album rear cover
Black mottled rear cover for album

Reunion
Top page - top - four men wearing civilian jacket and tie sitting at a round table with blue table cloth, glasses and flowers.
Bottom - three men wearing civilian Jacket and tie sitting at a round table with blue table cloth, flowers and glasses.

Lancaster and people
Left page - left - distant airborne Lancaster giving display over air filed with spectators in the foreground.
Right - two men wearing jacket and tie talking, On the left two women turned away are talking. All are inside a room.
Right page - head…

Model Lancaster
Top page - top - Front quarter view of a large model Lancaster in the open with people standing around.
Bottom - rear quarter view of a large model Lancaster with people standing round and one man holding port wing tip.
Bottom page - front…

Lancaster, Spitfire and poster
Left page - top left, air-to-air view of a distant Lancaster flying to the right with undercarriage down,
Top right - air-to-air view of a distant Lancaster flying to the right with undercarriage down,
Bottom left - air-to-air view from slightly…

Spitfire, Dragon Fly, Vulcan, Rapide and Lancaster
Left page - top left - air-to-air view from below astern of a Spitfire registration 'PS94[..]'.
Top right - view from underneath of an Avro Vulcan. Captioned 'Avro Vulcan'.
Middle right - rear quarter view of the front part of a D H Rapide.…

Parade, Royal Observer Corps and Spitfires
Left page - top left - partially obscured image of marching troops.
Right - troops on parade with standard in front.
Bottom left - two members of Royal Observer Corps standing leaning on the propeller of a twin engine aircraft.
Bottom middle…

Victory parade
Left page - top left - group of military personnel marching top left with spectators in background left. Captioned 'Iraq'.
Top right - group of military personnel on parade with standards. Spectators in distance on the left. Captioned 'Egypt'.…

R.A.F.A Standard and victory parade London
Left page - left - three men wearing civilian suit and tie, the centre man holding a hoisted standard, standing in front of a stone church.
Right - three men wearing civilian suit and tie, the centre man holding a grounded furled standard with…

Vickers Viking and RAF and air sea rescue launch
Left page - forward part of a Vickers Viking with several personnel in a group standing in front. Some men are wearing greatcoats and one a flying suit. Captioned 'A.M. Film Unit 26.1.47, Vickers Armstrong Wisley, photographing "King Flight" before S…

ATC Camp
Left page - a large group of ATC Cadets and officers lined up in front of an Argosy aircraft. Captioned - 'ATC Camp RAF Lyneham'.
On the right page a group of ATC cadets and officers sitting and standing in three rows with a hut in the background…

Air Training Corp parade and A.T.C Camp
Left page - left - cadets and officers on parade being inspected. In the background trees and a building. right - a wing commander RAF and an ATC officer speaking to a cadet on parade. In the background trees and a building. Captioned '261 SQDR Air…

Twenty-two airmen
On the right of two album pages. Twenty-two men wearing tunic or battledress, some with brevet sitting and standing in three rows with trees and part of a building in the background. Captioned 'RAF White Waltham, No 9 Course officer training RAFVR(T)…

Lancaster and personnel
Left page - left - view of the bottom of an airborne Lancaster in bank to the left. Registration TW661'. Hangars in the background at bottom. On the right six thumbprint sized head and shoulders portraits of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet…

Lancaster
Top page - top - air-to-air view of starboard side of a Lancaster with light coloured top, registration TW661'.
Bottom - front quarter view of a Lancaster with undercarriage up, flying just above the ground over an airfield. Hangars in the…

Lancaster and aircrew
Top page - title caption 'RAF Aston Down (Gloucestershire) Air Ministry Film Unit'.
Top - four aircrew all wearing battledress with brevet standing in line with a dog in front, all in front of a Lancaster. In the distant background other aircraft…

Aircraft
Left page - top left - head on view of a parked Lincoln. Captioned 'Avro Lincoln'. Top right - side view of a parked four engine bomber. Both top images captioned 'KM-J, 44 (Rhodesia) Sq, RAF Mildenhall'. Bottom left 'front quarter view of a parked…

Lancaster and bombs
Left page - top left - air-to-air view front port quarter of a Lancaster. Captioned 'Lancaster Mk1 KM-Z (LL854) Operation Frontline May 1946 44 (Rhodesia) SQ'.
Bottom left - similar air-to-air view front port quarter of a Lancaster with further…

Aircrew and other people
Left page - top left - an large group of aircrew, two rows sitting and one standing, all wearing battledress with side or peaked caps on grass in front of a Nissen hut. Captioned '44 (Rhodesia) Squadron flight engineers RAF Spilsby, Lincolnshire, Nr…

Aircrew
Upper page - top left - half length image of a man wearing parachute harness and flying helmet in the cockpit of an aircraft.
Top right - three quarter length image of a man wearing parachute harness looking back from the cockpit of an aircraft.…

RAF personnel and wife
On the left page top - a photograph of five aircrew wearing tunics with brevet standing in line in a garden. Captioned '23 July 1945, John Parker, F/O White (bomb aimer), self, F/O K A Smith (Skipper), George Wellington'.
Bottom - half length…

Course photograph and Christmas meal menu
On the left page a menu for the airmen's' mess at RAF Bridlington Christmas day 1943 meal. Annotated with some signatures, including BE Chadwick (LACW), M.E Kane (WAAF), M. Hughes (Cpl) and D. Darling.
On the right page a course photograph of a…

Flight engineer
Head and shoulders side view of a sergeant wearing tunic with flight engineer brevet and side cap. In the background foliage and the roof of a house. Captioned 'Aug 44'.

Album cover
Black album cover.
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