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Propaganda leaflets
Middle, left report of an aircraft landing on a car.
Middle centre, woman holding a baby, reports of engagements and births of babies.
Bottom left, report of the death of Lieutenant Geoffrey William…
Wedding
Bottom, four men walking abreast, three wearing top hat and tails and one a vicar.
Right page: top left, a rural scene, top…
Tags: 51 Squadron; love and romance; Whitley
Aerial views
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; pilot
Swift and Sure
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; killed in action; medical officer; pilot; RAF Dishforth
Civilian life
Bottom; six children sat in a cart.
Right page: top, a group of seven men standing alongside an aircraft with a man standing in its open doorway, annotated 'Bob was engaged in charter…
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; pilot
Italiani!
Bottom, Stanley sending love and best wishes.
Right page: propaganda leaflets dropped in Italy and Germany, annotated 'war time propaganda leaflets released by the R.A.F.'.
Tags: love and romance; propaganda
Interview with Terry Hodson
Tags: crash; ground personnel; RAF Coningsby
Interview with Stan Waite
Tags: RAF Scampton
Interview with Nelson Nix
Two part interview with Bob Panton
Part 1. Bob Panton was a child during the war. One day as his father was coming towards their house Bob saw three Dornier 17 come into view. Then out of the sun came six Spitfires and a battle started in front…
Interview with Reginald John Herring
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation; shelter
interview with John Tomlinson
Tags: RAF Elsham Wolds
Interview with Cliff Thorpe and Roy Smith
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; Halifax; RAF Elsham Wolds
Interview with Bernard Bell
Interview with George Arthur Bell
Tags: bombing; crash; ground personnel; Lancaster; training
Interview with Dennis Brader
Tags: childhood in wartime; RAF Wickenby
Interview with Anthony Edward Mason
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; RAF Waddington; strafing
Congratulations
Left page: bottom left, Bob in uniform with a woman in civilian clothes annotated 'Christmas 1940'.
Bottom right, a woman and a…
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; pilot
Skoda works
Bottom left, view of a cathedral.
Bottom right, view of terraced fields.
Right page: top two rows reports family engagements; centre; a list of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserves including R V…
Early days
Bob's father with his second wife, Gwen bottom left.
Right page: top left, head and should portrait of a woman in uniform and other family pictures.
Henley Royal Regatta
Right page: reports from the Henley Royal Regatta.
Tags: sport
Schooldays
Bottom, a class of 21 girls annotated 'Davenport Spring term 1936 (my last)'.
Right page: top left, report of a dance, top right a rural scene of mountains;…
Tags: sport