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The transcript has a note 'Prince Albert March 1943'. The interview records, amongst other things, that Patrick was there to train as a pilot, he was awarded the DFM for shooting down two Me 109s on a raid on Brest in July 1941, and presented with…

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Class of cadets in five rows, some dressed in light coloured uniforms, some in dark, submitted with caption; “No 41 SFTS, Weyburn, Saskatchewan”

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Several men standing in the snow as their train stops at Avola station.

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Ten photographs taken during a crossing of Canada.
#1 is a view towards the steam engine across various coaches. There is a lot of snow by the tracks.
#2 is an arrivals board for the Canadian Pacific Railway at Chapleau.
#3 is the station at Fire…

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Snow covered ground with pine trees. Captioned 'Trail to Upper Hot Springs'.

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Left - snow covered trail though trees.
Right - snow covered trail through trees with signpost. Captioned 'Trail to Sundance Canyon'.

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Three views between Clearwater and Jasper taken from the train.

Tentative identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

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Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a station with a water tank, viewed from a railway carriage.
#2, 3 and 4 are lakes and forests.

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Photo 1 is the Town Hall at Rivers, Manitoba. The ground is snow-covered.
Photo 2 is the theatre in theatre is in Rivers, Manitoba. It is a small wooden building with a sign 'Four Star Theatre'. The ground is snow-covered.

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Four totem poles in Stanley Park.

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A vertical aerial photograph of a town at the edge of a bay. Parallel with the bay there is the Gardiner expressway and railway. In the bay are u-shaped structures. At the bottom there are between the road and the coast are holiday structures and the…

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Top left - view of highway with cars and lake in distance. Captioned 'Sunnyside and Lake Ontario, Toronto'.
Bottom left - view through a line of trees of a highway with cars and lake in the distance. Captioned 'Queen Elizabeth highway and the lake…

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Top - view of lake through trees. Captioned 'Mersey Lake, High Park, Toronto'.
Bottom left - cars in a city street, pedestrians waiting to cross on left. Captioned 'Queen St Toronto'.
Bottom right - view down city street with cars and two storey…

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Top - view of city street with car on right and two airmen walking down pavement on left. Captioned 'Young St, Toronto'.
Bottom left - view down city street with tram in centre. Captioned 'St Clair East, Toronto'.
Bottom right - view down city…

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Four photographs from an album.
#1 is the Temple building, Toronto
#2 and 4 are the Soldier's Tower, at the University of Toronto.
#3 is the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder and Michael Paré of…

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Four photographs from an album.
#1 King's College, Toronto.
#2 is Hart House, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
#3 Royal Ontario Museum
#4 Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Toronto.

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Page captioned Tornto, Ontario, Canada. March 1943. Seven photographs, first and second of skyscrapers from street level.
Third is low level skyscraper captioned Royal York Hotel.
Fourth high rise buildings lining a street, captioned Young…

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14 photographs, one of Keith in uniform walking down a street, the others show buildings, street scenes and people he met in Toronto.
A picture of a church is captioned 'where I met Doris'.
Other pictures are captioned 'YM Hostel', Union Station…

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Tom's memoir of his early RAF days. He talks about his cousin, Vivian Gunning who died in a Blenheim in June 1940.
Tom joined the RAF at 15 after altering his birth certificate. He trained in Canada as a pilot.

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Quote from Byron with note 'this is my wish for you' from Sgt Nav Cecil E Wood from Canada.

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Top - a line of 7 Tiger Moths parked on grass. On the left hangars. Bottom left - a pilot wearing flying suit and carrying parachute walking away from a Tiger Moth. Captioned Sgt Smith. Bottom right - nine pilots wearing flying suits and one man in…

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Top - a group of airmen in various uniform or overalls standing and sitting in front of a line of Tiger Moths. Captioned 'The flight "Mechs"'. Bottom - a row of Tiger Moths in front of two hangars. The aircraft on the left has a group on men in front…

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Top left - a line of Tiger Moths parked, in the background right a control tower. Top right - parked Tiger Moth captioned 'Tiger Moth No 72, the first kite I flew on'. Centre middle a fuel bowser in front of a Tiger Moth with man on top wing…

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Top a row of Tiger Moths on an airfield. Captioned 'Tiger Moths at Bowden'.
Bottom - a Tiger Moth parked on an airfield with two men standing in front.
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