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Top left shows the prototype Lysander K6127 standing on the grass with buildings in the background.
Top Right shows T E Lawrence's grave.
Middle left shows airmen attaching bombs to an aircraft
Middle right shows a line of Hawker biplanes standing…

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Right page:
Top left - woman sitting in chair in garden.
Top right - woman and a man sitting alongside each other on chairs in garden with trellis behind them.
Bottom left - a man wearing suit and tie and woman wearing dress standing side by side…

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Two men, one on the left wearing civilian suit and the one on the right wearing swimming trunks, both sitting in deck chairs on a beach. Other chairs and three women behind. On the reverse 'Swanage Monday August 21 1939, Honeybone (Dick's year at…

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Seven men, four standing behind and three squatting in front. All wear battledress with half brevet and side caps except centre front who has pilot's brevet and peaked cap. They are standing in snow with a building in the background.
Submitted with…

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An RAF officer wearing overcoat and peaked cap riding on a motorbike with sidecar. In the background a wall and monument with sea beyond. Submitted with caption 'Dad Poole Harbour may 1946'.

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A man wearing blazer and shorts sitting on top of a wooden fence with open ground in the background. On the reverse 'Harold Fry on top of Ballard Down, Swanage, 1935'.

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Two photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a cliff with four people climbing on it, captioned 'Warbarrow Bay Cliffs'.
Photo 2 is a nine scouts in a wood, captioned 'Natives in the woods'.

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Four b/w photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is three scouts on a cliff close to the sea, captioned 'George Vic'.
Photo 2 is one man sitting on a rock on the beach, captioned 'Jake Scout Master'.
Photo 3 is a beach scene, captioned 'The Tout an…

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Four photographs in an album
Photo 1 is six scouts sitting on blankets outside their bell tent, captioned 'Dagos after kit inspection'.
Photo 2 is a view over the campsite with a row of kit in the foreground, captioned 'General veiw [scored out] of…

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Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is four scouts on a rock, captioned 'On the end of the "Tout" '.
Photo 2 is a group of Scouts on a wooden structure, captioned 'After a bathe at Kimmerage [sic]'.
Photo 3 is a group of scouts arranged at a…

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Photograph of rocky coast line captioned 'The "Boys" at Worth'. Annotated 'From here I went to Uxbridge for my "Demob" suit, on leave from July to Sept 1946'.
Photograph of rural coast line with lattice tower in fore ground, captioned 'Ringstead…

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Colour post card of Sennen Cove annotated with 'The School' and 'Station Headquarters'.
Three small photographs of 20 service personnel informally posed in front of a blast wall, wooden hut and base of an aerial tower in background.
Small head…

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In uniform. Standing on the grass, band stand in background. On the reverse 'MAY 1940, SHERBORNE PARK, CURRIE AND AB'.

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In uniform, seated on motorcycle. In a farmyard, with another motor cycle , farm house, farm buildings and two individuals in background. On the reverse 'April 1940 Sherborne'.

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Soldiers lounging on the grass with bandstand in background. On the reverse 'MAY 1940 SHERBORNE PARK, McINTOSH, DAVIDSON, AB, McDONALD, SMITH, CURRIE, HASTIE.'

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Account of daylight attack, 27 September 1940, on Parnell aircraft factory in Yate, Gloucestershire by bomb-carrying Me 110s of ZG 76. On their return they were engaged by Hurricanes of 504 and 56 Squadron, and one Me 110 force-landed at Iwerne…

ERaettigMDRaettigDW460721.pdf
Letter date 21 July from 'Don'. Reply to letters sent two years after Don left the squadron. Notes that he is in touch with some other squadron members and recounts what happened to him after he left the squadron. He went originally to 1669 Heavy…

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Left page title 'Holiday at Highcliffe - July 1953'

Top left - a woman and man stand either side of an open topped car with Christine Dawson standing in the car. In the background caravans. Top right the same car with Christine Dawson sitting in…

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Left page title 'Shebbear, May 52'

Top left - Joy Dawson wearing glasses and jacket standing with another woman in a garden. Top right - Christine Dawson standing feeding chickens. In the background a man wearing boots and flat cap, a shed and…

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Right page.

Top left - Christine Dawson riding on a toy horse in a garden with fence in the background. Top right - Christine Dawson between a woman kneeling and a man squatting in a garden. Middle - a woman standing in a garden holding Christine…

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Left page. Title 'Holiday for another, July 51'.

Top left - Christine Dawson paddling on beach with a man kneeling holding her hand. Top right - Christine Dawson squatting on sand at beach. Captioned 'Hunstanton'.

Middle and bottom left - Tow…

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Oblique aerial photograph of the may runway running left bottom to top right; on the southern end are two lines of sixteen Hamilcar gliders with further Hamilcars dispersed in the background. On the grass each side of the runway are parked fourteen…

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…

ADaviesPO221106-AV.mp3
Peter volunteered in 1942 and was accepted early in 1943. He outlines the combat training they received. Talks of the rations he received early in the war and on the RAF station. He describes the autonomy of his anti-aircraft unit. Reflecting on…
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