Clare Bennett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Emma Bonson]]> Heather Hughes]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Warwickshire]]> Croatia--Rijeka]]> Danube River]]> Egypt]]> Italy--Foggia]]> Poland--Warsaw]]> Italy]]> Poland]]> Romania--Ploiești]]> Croatia]]> Romania]]> Danube River]]> 1944]]> Photograph 2 is of a dredger.
Photograph 3 is of a lighthouse.
Photograph 4 is of trees at the side of the canal.
Photograph 5 is of two cargo ships.
Photograph 6 is of some birds. In the distance some ships and low hills.
Photograph 7 is of some distant ships.
Photograph 8 is of sand dunes at the side of the canal.
Photograph 9 is of a bridge and some buildings at the side of the canal.
Photograph 10 is of six men leaning on the side of the ship.
Photograph 11 is of a native sailing boat.
Photograph 12 is of a three funnelled passenger ship passing a dredger. Captioned 'Vessel passing dredging machine'.
Photograph 13 is of two ships captioned 'Crossing of two vessels'
Photograph 14 is of a monument captioned 'Indian Memorial near Suez'.
Photograph 15 is of a statue of a man on a plinth with a protective chain fence, captioned 'De Lesseps Statue'
Photograph 16 is of a monument captioned 'War memorial 1914/8 at Timsah Lake'.
Photograph 17 is of a passenger ship and a twin funneled tug captioned 'Entrance to Timsah Lake'.
Photograph 18 is of several small boats and in the distance some larger ships.
The group of photograph are captioned 'Suez Canal 1 to 18 Port Said to Port Suez 90 mile x 90 yds x 90 feet'.

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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> North Africa]]>
Pam Locker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Christine Kavanagh]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Torquay]]> Egypt]]> Gibraltar]]> India]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942-08]]> 1944-09]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hugh Donnelly]]> Phil Crossley]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Australia]]> Egypt]]> Libya]]> Italy]]> Italy--Udine]]> Germany]]> Italy--Grupignano]]> Germany--Mühlberg (Bad Liebenwerda)]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945-05]]> Sheila Bibb]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> Egypt]]> Italy]]> South Africa]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Sidi Barrani]]> 1945]]> ]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> Middle East]]> Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]> Egypt--Alexandria]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Miriam Sharland]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> New Zealand]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Hamburg]]>
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Gary Rushbrooke]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> South African Air Force]]> Bosnia and Herzegovina]]> Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Italy--Bari]]> Italy--Foggia]]> North Africa]]> India]]> India--Pune]]> 1944]]>
Ken Hicks]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Angela Merrall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Africa]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Kent]]> Germany--Berlin]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1948]]>
Top right - Stephen Dawson in swimming trunks sitting in a cane chair by a table under and awning in front of a single story building. Captioned 'out of everything Cairo'.

Centre - garden with table and chairs bottom right and single story building with steep pitched roof in the background. In the foreground a picket fence, and a caption 'me' with arrow to shadow bottom left. Captioned 'Bar-B-Q, Johannesburg'.

Bottom left and bottom right - two images of the same group of men sitting round a table on a beach with thatched single story building in the background. Captioned 'Taken by' on the left 'Me' on the right 'Ted'.

Right page.

Top - two men and two women in swimwear sitting on grass in front of a building. Captioned 'The Lido, Steve, Cookie, Mary, Steve, Jo'burg'.

Middle left - two men lying down facing camera either side of three women sitting in a garden.
Middle right - three women and a man lying in a garden. Left hand women is holding a dog.
Captioned for both photographs 'Old friends at home'.

Bottom - Stephen Dawson in the cockpit of an aircraft looking backwards with control yoke in front of him. Captioned 'In the office of an Avro York'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--Johannesburg]]> North Africa]]>
]]> A Dorricott]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nicki Brain]]> Alan Pinchbeck]]> Karl Williams]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text. Diary]]> Text]]> ]]> British Army]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Burma]]> Burma--Rangoon]]> China]]> China--Hong Kong]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Port Said]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> Great Britain]]> England--Southampton]]> India]]> India--Mumbai]]> India--Kolkata]]> Malta]]> Singapore]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> North Africa]]> England--Hampshire]]> 1914]]> 1915]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> Egypt]]> France]]> Libya]]> Greece]]> Germany]]> Gibraltar]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Scotland]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Belgium--Haine-Saint-Pierre]]> Egypt--Alexandria]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]> Egypt--Marsá Maṭrūḥ]]> Egypt--Tall al-Ḍabʻah]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Devon]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Kent]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Angers]]> France--Caen]]> France--Creil]]> France--Mantes-la-Jolie]]> France--Nucourt]]> France--Rennes]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Germany--Berchtesgaden]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dorsten]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Osterfeld]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Troisdorf]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Wesseling]]> Greece--Ērakleion]]> Greece--Piraeus]]> Libya--Darnah]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> Netherlands--Hasselt]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> North Africa]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Libya--Gazala]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1942-03-23]]> 1942-06-10]]> 1942-06-11]]> 1942-06-12]]> 1942-06-13]]> 1942-06-14]]> 1942-06-15]]> 1942-06-16]]> 1942-06-17]]> 1942-06-18]]> 1942-06-19]]> 1942-06-20]]> 1942-06-22]]> 1942-06-23]]> 1942-06-24]]> 1942-06-25]]> 1942-06-26]]> 1942-06-28]]> 1942-06-29]]> 1942-07-02]]> 1942-07-03]]> 1942-07-05]]> 1942-07-08]]> 1942-07-09]]> 1942-07-10]]> 1942-07-12]]> 1942-07-13]]> 1942-07-15]]> 1942-07-16]]> 1942-07-17]]> 1942-07-19]]> 1942-07-20]]> 1942-07-25]]> 1942-07-26]]> 1942-07-28]]> 1942-07-29]]> 1942-07-31]]> 1942-08-01]]> 1942-08-06]]> 1942-08-07]]> 1942-08-08]]> 1942-08-09]]> 1942-08-14]]> 1942-08-15]]> 1942-08-16]]> 1942-08-17]]> 1942-08-18]]> 1942-08-19]]> 1942-08-21]]> 1942-08-22]]> 1942-08-23]]> 1942-08-24]]> 1942-08-25]]> 1942-08-26]]> 1942-08-27]]> 1942-08-28]]> 1942-08-29]]> 1942-08-30]]> 1942-08-31]]> 1942-09-01]]> 1942-09-03]]> 1942-09-05]]> 1942-09-06]]> 1942-09-08]]> 1942-09-09]]> 1944-05-06]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-05-13]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-05-29]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-08]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-07-07]]> 1944-07-09]]> 1944-07-10]]> 1944-07-14]]> 1944-07-15]]> 1944-07-16]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-29]]> 1944-07-30]]> 1944-08-01]]> 1944-08-04]]> 1944-11-17]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1944-12-12]]> 1944-12-15]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-24]]> 1944-12-28]]> 1944-12-29]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-07]]> 1945-01-08]]> 1945-01-23]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-04]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-09]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-02-18]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-02-21]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-22]]> 1945-03-24]]> 1945-03-25]]> 1945-03-31]]> 1945-04-11]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-25]]> 1945-04-30]]> 1945-05-05]]> 1945-05-07]]> 1945-05-15]]> 1945-05-22]]> 1945-06-08]]> 1945-06-18]]> 1945-08-03]]> 1945-08-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-08-03]]> Annie Moody]]> Gary Rushbrooke]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cathie Hewitt]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Italy--Sicily]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1965]]> Mrs Raettig]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Alan Pinchbeck]]> David Bloomfield]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Suez]]> England]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Hull]]> North Africa]]> Great Britain]]> Great Britain]]> 1941-07-28]]> Anna Hoyles]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jackie Simpson]]> ]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Burma]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> India]]> United States]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> Sometimes Dennis was on special night duty alone in a hut a mile away from the control tower. His job was to operate the lighting system on receiving an order from the control tower. He referred to a memorable incident when a Lancaster landed safely and some of the crew kissed the ground.
When the invasion of Normandy began Dennis was transferred to a C-47 squadron. At the end of the war he went up in a Halifax to retrace some of the routes the bombers had taken and to witness the devastation. He left the RAF in 1947. In 1981 Dennis was seconded to the City University of New York.
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Mick Jeffery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> United States]]> Egypt]]> Italy]]> Middle East]]> England--Kent]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Somerset]]> New York (State)--New York]]> New York (State)]]>
Mick Jeffery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Gemma Clapton]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Greece]]> Italy]]> Italy]]> Danube River]]> South Africa]]> Greece--Zakynthos]]> Italy--Foggia]]> Greece--Corinth Canal]]> Danube River]]> 1944-10]]> Anna Hoyles]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Sylt]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> North Africa]]> Iraq]]> Iraq--Mosul]]> After an unsuccessful attempt to run his family business, he applied for the civil service and worked until 1985 on radar development, auto triangulation, Cathode-Ray Direction Finder, Identification Friend or Foe, infrared devices, laser and chain radar stations.]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> Algeria]]> Austria]]> Austria--Mauthausen]]> Egypt]]> France]]> Germany]]> Rhine River]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Tunisia]]> North Africa]]> 1944]]> Anna Hoyles]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Gibraltar]]> Great Britain]]> Ireland]]> Italy]]> Mediterranean Sea]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> North Africa]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Egypt]]> Italy]]> Kenya]]> South Africa]]> Sudan]]> Zambia]]> Zimbabwe]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Italy--Rome]]> Kenya--Nairobi]]> Sudan--Khartoum]]> Zambia--Ndola]]> Zimbabwe--Bulawayo]]> North Africa]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hugh Donnelly]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> Egypt]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> George joined the Army in 1935 in a tank regiment, serving in Egypt at Al El-Alamein, and in Italy. He was also mentioned in dispatches.
Gordon worked for the Spalding Free Press, in his free time he was a keen radio amateur wishing to become wireless operator. He joined the Royal Air Force and served with 12 Squadron at RAF Wickenby. Margaret reminisces receiving a telegram claiming he was missing, the subsequent notification of death and the whole family grieving. Margaret’s husband Arthur, was ten years her senior - he served in the Royal Air Force with 9 Squadron and 106 Squadron from RAF Metheringham. He took part in an operation to Saint-Leu-d'Esserent with Flight Lieutenant Bill Williams, then was posted to RAF Bardney practising for Tirpitz operations. Gained his Distinguished Flying Medal, he went to Singapore with 50 Squadron as part of the Tiger Force. He married Margaret after the war. Margaret also elaborates on the bombing of Dresden and discusses lack of recognition for Bomber command veterans.]]>
Rod Pickles]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> British Army]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> Azores]]> Norway]]> Singapore]]> Egypt]]> France]]> France--Creil]]> Italy]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Alamayn]]> 1945]]>
Bob volunteered for Bomber Command which had lost a lot of crews. After one air test for Number 9 Bomber Squadron, he went to 149 Squadron at RAF Mildenhall and flew in Wellingtons. He describes the difficulty of targeting well-defended Essen and bombing cruisers in coastal areas, such as Wilhelmshaven.
Bob then transferred to 70 Squadron in RAF Kabrit, Egypt and the Middle East. Water rationing was an issue. They would carry out raids on transport and railway sidings in response to Field Marshal Erich Rommel bringing German forces into the desert via Benghazi.
Bob had instructor stints at the Operational Training Unit at RAF Pershore and Advanced Flying Unit. He went on operational liaison duties to 950 Squadron. Other aircraft in which Bob flew included: Battle, Defiant, Lancasters, Lysanders and Bothas. Bob undertook 73 operations and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 12th March 1943.
He describes the evolution in air gunnery during the war. He also praises Barnes Wallis’s geodetic construction.

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Nigel Moore]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Beth Ellin]]> Sally Coulter]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Thames River]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Kibrit]]> Libya]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1943]]> 1943-03-12]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>