Blewitt, Trevor

Title

Blewitt, Trevor

Description

99 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Trevor Blewitt (b. 1911, 562676 Royal Air Force) and contains documents, objects and photographs. He served as an aircraft fitter. Three albums contain photographs of Trevor, other personnel, aircraft and places concerning his service.
Album one 
Album two
Album three

The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Paul Blewitt and catalogued by Lynn Corrigan.

Date

2018-02-08

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

Blewitt, T

Collection Items

Hawker Hardys
Top left: A Hawker Hardy beside a perimeter wire fence next to a building with a ladder leading to the sandbagged flat roof. It is set in an open, flat, barren landscape. Top right: Five Hawker Hardys in a row. The nearest, with identification…

At a wedding
A bride, in a suit and hat, and groom, in uniform, sit in front of nine uniformed men and one woman.

On the reverse, 'Trevor Blewitt behind bride' and 'To Trev from Bill & Margaret Cairo March 1940'.

Trevor Blewitt's wedding
Trevor and Phyllis standing arm in arm with confetti on their shoulders. Both wear suits and have floral decorations in their buttonholes.

Trevor Blewitt
Trevor, standing in a garden in a suit with a decoration in his buttonhole, holding a cigarette. On the reverse, 'Trev @ 12 Wragby Rd ?M&D Wedding?'

First communion
A group of 23 girls in white dresses and veils, seven boys, two priests, two men, and two women. They are arranged in four rows outside a corrugated building with arched glass windows.

Postcard: Empress of Canada
Postcard showing the Canadian Pacific steamship at anchor in a harbour with small boats and a coastal town with hills in the background.

Captioned: 'Canadian Pacific "Empress of Canada," 22,000 Tons'.

Postcard: Mail and passenger services
A postcard with a full moon shining on the Steamship Moldavia and other smaller boats.
Captioned: ‘P.&O. India-China-Australia mail and passenger services, SS Moldavia 18,000 Tons, 13,250 H.P’.

Postcard: Château Frontenac
Postcard with a view of the château on a hillside overlooking a steamship tugs and other boats.
Captioned: ‘Canadian Pacific “Empress” steamer and Château Frontenac, Quebec’.

Squadron photograph
A squadron arranged in front of a Lancaster.

Ground personnel and Lancaster
42 airmen in uniform and side caps arranged in three rows in front of Avro Lancaster PO E of 467 Squadron.

Group photograph with Canberra
55 men comprising RAF officers and aircrew with Air Training Corps cadets arranged in three rows in front of a Canberra. In the background is a hangar with the initials MT mounted at the apex.

Biplane and Royal Flying Corp personnel
Ten men arranged around a biplane fuselage with the wings and fabric covering removed.

Parade
Men in uniform marching along a road with a church tower and a windmill in the background. On the pavement, in front of houses, is a group of women and children watching.

Trevor Blewitt
Head and shoulder portrait of Trevor in an open necked shirt and checked jacket with a patterned handkerchief in the top pocket.

Woman in a hat
A woman wearing a double breasted coat and hat with a bag held under her arm, standing against a rocky background. On the reverse, '? Thelma'.

Halton apprentices football team
Fourteen men, 11 in sportwear and three officers arranged on three rows. The man seated on the ground holds a football and has two presentation cups sat on the ground in front.

Captioned:

Top:
'No. S. of T.T. (Apprentices) R.A.F. Halton. 'B'…

RAF Cranwell hockey team
Eleven members of the Cranwell hockey team in sportwear and holding hockey sticks.

Captioned:

Top:
'Royal Air Force, Cranwell. Runners-Up, R.A.F. Open Hockey Tournament, 1937-38'.

Bottom:
'L/Ac, T. Blewitt L/Ac. L Haughton Musn. W.…

Certificate of service
Personal details and qualities, dates of service, courses attended and decorations awarded, of aircraft fitter Flight Sergeant Trevor Blewitt. Confirms Trevor's date of discharge as 5 October 1953 following 24 years service.

This item was sent to…

Avro 504K
Biplane, with number F8748, showing on its tail, attended by ground personnel and an officer. Includes a description of the history of the aircraft, its features and uses.

The Fairey Flycatcher
An air to air photograph of a biplane with identification N9680 including a description and functions of the aircraft.

Trevor Blewitt
Details of Trevor's family, his early years and marriage to Phyllis. Details his sporting interests, decorations awarded and courses attended.

Hawker Typhoon hydraulic system
A detailed plan of the hydraulic system, signed 'A Sutcliffe'.

Burial
Details of the burial of Trevor Blweitt's daughter, Patricia Diane Blewitt who died aged 18 weeks.

Flight engineer's notes for Lancaster aircraft
Flight engineer's notes for Lancaster Avro Type 683 Mk 1 and 3. The name of the holder of the manual is W D Belshaw 1808996.

This item is available only at the University of Lincoln.

Handbook forRolls-Royce Kestrel aero engines
Manual for the 'installation, running and maintenance of Rolls-Royce Kestrel aero engines'.
This item is available only at the University of Lincoln.
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