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John Turner certificate of service and discharge
Shows entry as apprentice on 30 august 1927. Details next of kin, and description. Shows service as fitter at Gosport and Khartoum before No 4 Flying Training School, 216 Squadron and 9 Squadron. Promoted Flight Sergeant in June 1939. Discharged on 4…
Page 18 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 1 - a night street scene, captioned 'Cairo Street en route to Palestine May 1946'.
Photo 2 - Denis sitting in uniform on a ship's railing. On a building is graffiti reading 'Nelson look at your heirs'. Above is the caption…
Photo 2 - Denis sitting in uniform on a ship's railing. On a building is graffiti reading 'Nelson look at your heirs'. Above is the caption…
Cairo
Photograph of city square, statue of man on horseback in centre, reverse captioned '6 16/9/44 Darling, Cairo! city of Mystery? in more ways than one! Love Jack XXX'.
Two men and two girls
A group of four, two men and two girls, all wearing roller skates. On the reverse 'Cairo Roller Rink'.
Winston Churchill arriving Heliopolis
Winston Churchill and a group of officers being met by more officers and a photographer as he disembarks from a C-47 at Heliopolis. On the reverse 'Helio'.
Cairo Album Cover
Album cover for a collection of photographs of Cairo
List of Cairo Photographs
A list of 12 Cairo photographs, in English and French.
Tribunal Mixed, Cairo
Street scene with the Tribunal Mixed (Courts) behind.
Cairo street scene
A group of men standing and seated at the side of the road.
Mosque el Rifai, Cairo
Mosque el Rifai, Cairo seen from street level.
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
The Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo taken from the side. In the foreground are pedestrians, a cyclist, a street sweeper and a man with a horse and cart.
Panorama of Cairo
A view of rooftops, mosques and minarets.
Bab el Haded Square, Cairo
The railway station at Cairo at Bab el Haded Square.
Elizabeth Church, Cairo
A view of a church identified as the Elizabeth Church in the list of photographs.
The Citadel, Cairo
A large mosque identified as The Citadel set on a low hill.
Kasr el Nil bridge, Cairo
A road bridge across the Nile. Large numbers of pedestrians are waiting on the pavement. Police on horses are doing crowd control.
Mosque el Azhar, Cairo
A street scene in front of the el Azhar Mosque
Rommel's army in full retreat
Headlines: Rommel's army in full retreat, 9000 prisoners taken, relentless attacks on disorderly columns, commander if Afrika Korps captured. 12 nights and days of attacks by allied forces, General von Stumme captured. 260 German and Italian tanks…
Two articles: 8th Army on heels of fleeing enemy and where can we surrender
First article headlines: 8th army on heels of fleeing enemy, prisoners expected soon to number 100000, drive ahead, Montgomery new order to his troops. Account of operations in desert against German and Italian forces. Second article mentions…
Two articles: Paulus and 15 generals captures and Mr Churchill flies to Turkey
Article 1. Headlines: Paulus and 15 generals captured, 18,000 more prisoners at Stalingrad, total force surrounded known to be 330,000, Germans peril in Caucasus. Article 2. Headlines: Mr Churchill flies to Turkey, meeting with president Inönü,…
Churchill Roosevelt talks: closest unity and Scharnhorst sunk in arctic battle
Article 1 headlines: Churchill-Roosevelt-talks, closest unity, General Smuts joins premier and president in news Cairo conference. Article 2 headlines; Scharnhorst sunk in arctic battle, attack by home fleet guarding Russian convoy, long fight off…
Race Meeting at Helmieh Track Programme
A programme for a race meeting at Helmieh. There are four races with six horses in each race. On the front are a cartoon of two horses and riders, one carrying a mace and the second has a shirt with the caption 'Another shirt gone?'.
Advertising Leaflet for Cairo
The leaflet has two maps of Cairo and adverts for holidays, restaurants, a book on Cpyrus [sic], language books and Arabic, French and Italian phrases.
RAF Receipts
Four receipts for money received from Dick Curnock.
The first is for £40 sent to his mother. The other three are for messing in Helmieh camp, Cairo.
The first is for £40 sent to his mother. The other three are for messing in Helmieh camp, Cairo.
My War Story
A memoir written by Dick Curnock. It covers his wartime service and also his service after the war for the RAF. It covers his brother Sam and his accident as a pilot. Dick started his training at Lords in London, RAF Bridlington then RAF Bridgnorth…