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BDowardATansleyEHv3.pdf
Covers background, marriage, civilian occupation and family. Followed by service history including basic and flying training in England and the United States and then advanced flying training and operational conversion back home. Posted to 57…

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MHayhurstJM2073102-170725-03.pdf
A collection of RAF squadron badges kept in a booklet.

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MHayhurstJM2073102-170725-330001.jpg
A form issued to Jose. It includes her rail ticket.

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PJonesJT17040001.jpg
A white, detached, shirt collar with names and addresses.

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SKeelingRV82689v10008.jpg
Left page: top, an advertisement for a hotel.
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…

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EWoolfASWoolfC-[Mo]440924.jpg
Advises them he had arrived back in England at RAF hospital Wroughton.

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EBlumeJonesHWWoolfC440725-0001.jpg
Informs him that his son was missing from air operations on night 24/25 July 1944.

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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-005.pdf
The News Sheet of the RAF ex-POW Association. Inside are articles about reunions and attendances, the annual dinner at Henlow, Massed Bands Spectacular, request for information about the POW camp newspaper - Daily Recco, the 1997 Remembrance Day…

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MLovattP1821369-190903-62-01.pdf
A thesis written by Peter in 2002, for his Phd.

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BPayneTPGunningFVv1.pdf
A biography of Vivian, born in Beaminster in 1920. He trained at Aldergrove and served at Bassingbourne, Wattisham, West Raynham, Watton then Wyton. Losses were high. He was shot down near Le Bourget, his two crew members dying with him. Additional…

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PJonesPW16010023.jpg
Three quarters portrait of three soldiers standing by a railing in front of a brick building. Tom Jones is in the centre. On the reverse 'Homeguard '40 Birmingham'.

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PQuineJW16010006.jpg
48 thumbnail head and shoulder portraits of a man wearing tunic looking in various directions. In the last three rows he is wearing a peaked hat. Another version has transparent sheet with numbers. Envelope from company producing photographs.

PJonesPW16010025.jpg
Head and shoulders portrait of Tom Jones, captioned on the reverse ' 1934 Thomas Jones 100, Mapleton Rd, Hall Green, Birmingham'.

PJonesPW16010025.jpg
Full face portrait of a young man wearing open collar shirt. On the reverse '1934, Thomas Jones, 100 Mapleton Road, Hall Green, Birmingham'.

BBaileyJDBaileyJDv1.pdf
Bill Bailey's wartime memoirs, from enlistment, training in UK and Canada and detail of each of 31 operation in Bomber Command. After completion of his tour he was transferred to Lossiemouth to train Free French aircrew. After successful progress he…

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PBarfootW1654.jpg
Squadron Leader William Barfoot in dress uniform, sitting at a desk at RAF Castle Bromwich; he wears a navigator’s brevet and two rows of medal ribbons.

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PBarfootW1655.jpg
Squadron Leader William Barfoot in dress uniform at RAF Castle Bromwich. He’s wearing a navigator’s brevet and two rows of medal ribbons. A safe is partially visible.

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