Elliott, Frank William

Title

Elliott, Frank William
F W Elliott

Description

Seven items. The collection concerns Frank William Elliott (b. 1924, 1865520 Royal Air Force). He flew as a wireless operator on Wellington of 192 Squadron. Collection contains an oral history interview, flying log book and photographs of people and aircraft.

The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Frank Elliott and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

Date

2018-05-30

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Elliott, FW

Collection Items

No 2 entry - course photograph
Fifty-seven men, all wearing uniform tunic and fifty-one cadet side caps. The other five are wearing peaked caps (2) and normal side caps (3). Sitting and standing in four rows with eight sitting on the ground in left and right side. In the…

Large group of airman in front of a concrete building
Six rows of airmen wearing various uniforms sitting and standing in front of a concrete building with wooden door. Names are annotated below. Flight Sergeant Elliot is second row down, right hand end.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive…

Wellington on fire and afterwards
Top - an aircraft on fire with just the tail and rear turret visible. Bottom - burned out rear fuselage and tail of a Wellington.

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

Wireless operator
Head and shoulders portrait of an airman wearing tunic with wireless operator brevet. Captioned 'To Dad with love best wishes Franky'.

Six aircrew and eight ground crew
Eight airmen squatting down in line with dog sitting front centre. Six aircrew wearing battledress with brevet and side caps standing in line behind. In the background a Wellington with 'Bambi' nose art and many operations symbols.

This item was…

Frank Elliot's wireless operator’s flying log book
Wireless operators flying log book for F W Elliott, covering the period from 1 October 1943 to 13 July 1947. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and post war flying duties with Radio Warfare Establishment. He was stationed at RAF Madley,…
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Collection Tree

  • Elliott, Frank William