Pearce, NL

Title

Pearce, NL

Description

48 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer Noel 'Bob' Pearce (941082 Royal Air Force) and contains correspondence, documents, his scarf and photographs
He flew operations as an air gunner with 102 Squadron and became a prisoner of war in December 1943.
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Ian Box and catalogued by Barry Hunter.

Date

2018-06-11

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Pearce, NL

Collection Items

Noel Pearce and crew
Two photographs of Noel with his fellow crew members. #1 seven airmen under the starboard wing of their Halifax with their names annotated underneath. #2 five airmen at the door of their Nissen hut. Their names are annotated underneath.

Scarf
A folded scarf.

Moorgreen Airman missing
A newspaper cutting reporting that Noel is missing.

Released prisoner of war
A newspaper cutting reporting that Noel Pearce has arrived home on May 28th.

Over 2000 tons of Bombs on Berlin
The front page of the Nottingham Evening News, Thursday, 30 December 1943.
Handwritten is 'Noel's raid (went missing)'.

Noel Pearce's communion card
A communion card issued to Noel whilst at Stalag IVB.

Operational Crew 102 Squadron
A list of crew for an operation to Hannover.

Gus Fraser notes
Brief biographical notes about Gus.

Five Rouble note
A Russian five Rouble note.

Envelope
An envelope with 'W/O Pearce N.L. XPOW Money' handwritten.

10 Reichspfennig note
A 10 Reichspfennig note used as currency in prisoner of war camps.

Five rouble note
A Russian five rouble note.

50 Lepta note
Both sides of a Greek 50 Lepta note.

One Rouble note
Both sides of a Russian one Rouble note

100 Drachma note
Both sides of a 100 Drachma note. The note has Italian text and was issued by Italy to occupied Greece.

Tien Frank note
Both sides of a Belgian 10 Frank note.

One Rentenmark note
Both sides of a one Rentenmark note

One Rentenmark note
Both sides of a one Rentenmark note

Two Rentenmarks note
Both sides of a banknote.

Five Rouble note
Front and reverse of a five Rouble note.

Noel Pearce's Scarf
A maroon scarf with a note stating 'This scarf was worn on every bombing trip I ever did over Germany in the II world war. It was my lucky charm. It was also my pillow case in IVB POW camp. Bought for me by my mother before the war. Noel'.

Noel Pearce in group photograph
An envelope with a group photograph. On the envelope is a mini-biography of Noel, the group photograph is of 23 mostly airmen arranged in three rows. On the reverse is a post-it with 'subject Back row 4 from rt'.

Whitley Card
A painting of a Whitley, port side, in the air. On the front it is annotated with Noel's crew members and 'Stanton-Harcourt June Oxford 1942'.. On the reverse is a three view silhouette and text of the aircraft's statistics. It is further annotated…

Noel Pearce
A head and shoulders portrait of Noel.
On the reverse 'World War 1939-45 Harrow London 1940'.

Noel Pearce
Noel in uniform and steel helmet, standing in a garden.
On the reverse 'Hungdon 288 Ext 146 Noel' and on a post-it 'subject'.
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