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Walter Braithwaite’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s flying log book which includes a majority of his training, both stationed in Britain and Canada. Flights are recorded from the 2nd July 1942 to 13th July 1945. Walter began operations on 17th…

A magazine for wireless operators.

Pilots flying log book one, for W R P Perry, covering the period from 24 November 1941 to 19 April 1943. Detailing his flying training. He was stationed at RAF Ansty, RCAF De Winton, RCAF Calgary, RCAF Moncton, RAF Ossington, RAF Scampton, RAF North…

Top left - newspaper cutting with b/w full face photograph concerning Corporal W A Franklin whose wife had received first communication from him since fall of Java.
Bottom left - newspaper cutting with head and shoulders b/w photograph announcing…

Title 'RAF Goose Bay Labrador Canada, C.O. Wing Commander Ron Redding, the only unit to wear K.D. and artic clothing'.
Top - squadron photograph of airmen wearing tropical uniform sitting and standing in three rows in front of a Vulcan,
Bottom -…

Photo 1 is a view of a village church framed by a bridge arch.

Photo 2 is a farmer wearing a cap holding a fox. Behind are cages.

Top right - two images mounted overlapping to form panoramic view of city buildings and street on the left and railways tracks with trains on the right. Middle left - view over the top of city buildings. Middle right - view over the top of city…

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a road winding down a hill with houses in the distance.
#2 is a road heading towards a forest.
#3 is a river, trees and low hills.
#4 is the Mitis river outfall into the Saint Lawrence river.

Photo 1 is a view over Montréal taken from the top of a hill. In the background is the Saint Lawrence River.

Photo 2 is a two storey wooden house taken from the side of the road.

Identification kindly provided by Gianluca Mazzanti of the…

Four views of Victoria Bridge bridge across St. Lawrence

Four photographs from an album.
#1 is the Victoria Bridge, Montreal
#2 is a view across the St Lawrence with the Jacques Cartier Bridge.
#3 and 4 are river rapids.

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is houses and trees, captioned 'Esquimault'.
Photo 2 is a grain elevator captioned 'Victoria Harbour'.
Photo 3 is the centre of Victoria taken from the top of the Hudson Bay Co roof.
Photo 4 is Victoria…

The vertical aerial photograph is of a dam under construction. It is largely completed but the reservoir has not formed behind the dam. Captioned 'The Dam, Fergus'. The second is a vertical aerial photograph of Toronto. The street pattern is a grid…

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a ship, captioned 'Princess Margeritte'.
Photo 2 is a ship captioned 'Island Packet'.
Photo 3 is a ship captioned 'The Seattle Ferry'.
Photo 4 is a girl shovelling snow.
Photo 5 is an airman, a woman…

16 photographs and a tram ticket from an album.
Photo 1 is the waterfront taken from the ferry.
Photo 2 is the waterfront taken from Stanley Park.
Photo 3 is a river and mountains, captioned 'A little more Rockies'.
Photo 4 is of two bridges,…

View across water of city skyline. Captioned 'Vancouver Skyline'.

The photograph on the top left of the left page shows a steam train at a train station. Snow can be scene covering the scene. The photograph is captioned with "MONCTON STATION ALL ABOARD FOR THE STATES."
The photograph on the top right on the left…

The photograph on the top left of the left page shows the silhouette of some buildings.
The photograph on the top right of the left page shows three men sitting on bunk beds in an accommodation hut.
The photograph on the bottom right of the left…

A man wearing swimming trunks standing by the ladder on side of a pool with a wall, trees and mountains in the background. Captioned 'A warm bath in cold surroundings'.

Identification information kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

Top - part of a building with mountains in the background. Bottom - a hot springs pool with two men in swimming trunks in the water at the bottom. Mountains in the background.

A postcard of Union Station.

Three postcards from an album.
Photo 1 is a train rounding a bend, captioned 'Jackfish Curve - North Shore Lake Superior'.
Photo 2 is a woman sitting on a rock at the side of the lake, captioned 'Jackfish - North Shore Lake Superior'.
Photo 3 is a…

The two women are standing in waist deep snow. One is holding a snowball.

Two women leaning on a fence. They are identified in Bob's memoirs as Charlotte and Maureen.

Two photographs taken during a train journey.
#1 is the bridge over the Rimouski River at Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, the river is a tributary of the St Lawrence river which is in the background of the photo. There is a log raft in the foreground…