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Writes from Medicine Hat that he is having his first Sunday morning off. Writes of flying schedule, early starts, poor weather and lack of winter flying kit but this has now been issued. Tells of Christmas excursion by train to Calgary and activities…

Daily entries for most of year 1941, First half of year entries cover events in England before joining Royal Air Force. Entry for May includes call up papers and travel to Stratford on Avon. June move to Scarborough. August to Wilmslow, sea journey…

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Top left - tree lined river with mountain in the background. Captioned 'Echo river and Mount Rundle'. Top right - snow covered open ground in front with trees and buildings in middle distance. Mountains in the background. Bottom left - snow covered…

Top left - iced lake or river with trees and mountains in the background. Top right - tree lined river in the foreground with triple peaked mountain in the background. Captioned 'Three Sisters, Banff'. Bottom left - car parked on side of snow covered…

Top left - trees with mountains in the background. Bottom left - trees with mountains in the background. Captioned 'From Hot Springs near Banff'. Top right - car parked on snow covered road with valley on the left and mountains behind. Bottom right…

Top - a large multistory hotel in a valley in the foreground with mountains either side and in the background. Annotated 'Bow river valley and Banff Springs Hotel'. Captioned 'In Summer'. Bottom left - car parked in deep snow with snow covered…

Top - a lake in foreground with a large multistory hotel on the left. Trees on the lakeside and mountains in the background. Captioned 'Lake Louise in summer'. Bottom - a large turreted multistory hotel on the right surrounded by trees and mountains…

News-sheet of the RAF ex-POW Association. This edition covers the large Canadian reunion of 1985 at Calgary, the Annual Dinner at Lords, Recco report of ex-POW activities, requests for help, Alan Bryett's lectures, the Association's AGM and annual…

Eight photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is the railway lines below Lake Louise.
Photo 2 is Field Lake taken from the train.
Photo 3 is Cathedral Mountain.
Photo 4 and 5 are mountains taken from above Field.
Photo 6 is a mountain surrounded by…

Top - view of stream with waterfalls with trees either side. Captioned 'Marble Canyon'.
Bottom - view across water with trees on banks of snow covered mountain in distance. Captioned 'Mount Rundle'.

A letter referring to the night of the crash and George's subsequent escape via Switzerland. He was caught while trying to get to Spain and sent to Paris. After the war he worked for the post office in Calgary.

Alan writes thanking his parents for their letters. He travelled to Calgary by train, then Banff and Lake Louise, then Vancouver. He spent a week in Vancouver looking at the tourist sites.

An inventory of items forming a collection of Alan's RAF memorabilia.