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SBratleyHW755503v10018-0001.jpg
Gives personal details and list of postings. Notes at one stage missing believed intered.

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Relates early life and employment before the war. Was RAF reserve and was called up at beginning of the war. Mentions training including operational training unit before joining 9 Squadron. Includes letter describing in some detail his first…

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Top. Jack, in uniform, standing outside the doorway of the Parish Church of Chadwell Saint Mary with his bride Eileen, in wedding dress, holding a bouquet of flowers. A bridesmaid stands in the foreground with three male and one female guest standing…

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Eleven men in uniform standing alongside a Hurricane. They are arranged around one of the men, wearing glasses, examining an open map which he is holding. Annotated on the reverse 'The Boys at Debden 2nd week of the war' and '10/17 Sept'.

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Details of his three tours of duty and decorations received.

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To Eileen advising that Jack has been reported missing following an aircraft accident.

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A report of the assistance James gave to a fellow crew member leading to his being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during his first operation. Annotated '1944'.

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Kenneth James Broderick in a RAF uniform walking across Warrior Square, Hastings. He has a towel under his arm. A wide street and four-storey building behind him. On the reverse "on leave".

Identification kindly provided by Graham Walton of the…

SRoyallGL1801494v10039-51.pdf
12 pages listing 204 aircraft that were flown by No. 166 Squadron. Six columns record each aircraft's registration number, the date received, where it came from, the code letters and details of it's loss or disposal. For some aircraft the number of…

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S102SqnRAF19170809v30002.pdf
Details of operation to Berlin on 15/16 February 1944. Gives numbers of Bomber Command aircraft involved for 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 Groups. Details other targets - spoof to Frankfurt, Mosquitos to Aachen and mine laying. Weather, Enemy raid reaction -…

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PFieldPL19040019.jpg
Full length image of three airmen wearing tunics and side caps standing in a line in a field with trees in the background. On the reverse 'Bob Cooke, Paul Temple, Bill Charasse [...] 1942'.

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SChristianAL29160v10121-0009.jpg
Four photographs from an album page
#1 and 4 are side views of a Bristol Bulldog.
#2 is a port side view of an Armstrong Whitworth Atlas J-9460.
#3 is a group of nine biplanes.
All captioned RAF Hornchurch.

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SChristianAL29160v10114-0001.jpg
Four photographs on a page.
#1 is Arnold's wife, Catherine, taken in 1928.
#2 is a woman, Molly, with four children - Buster, Nancy, Cathie and Neil.
#3 is two men (Allan and Tom) with four children - Buster, Neil, Nancy and Cathie.
#2 and 3 were…

SWeirG19660703v080001-0017.jpg
Top left - view across lake of building in far distance. Captioned 'Lake in grounds of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 10.6.44'.
Top left - view across field of trees and building in the distance. Captioned 'Boxted Hall from main road, Essex,…

SThomasFDJ120392v10011.jpg
Crew brought crippled bomber home from operation to Cologne. Brief description of damage to aircraft and recovery to base. Three members of crew received awards including DFC for pilot Thomas Mahaddie DSO AFC who was awarded his fourth decoration the…

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PWeedenRC1711.jpg
Three Lancasters (leader registration 'TW878') airborne in echelon formation. Below is a town and open countryside

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MPotterPL1878961-150914-24.jpg
Account of return from an operation to Westkapelle when they flew over authors father's farm and local village where they threw out window.

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MPotterPL1878961-150914-18.jpg
Part made out for Warrant Officer P L Potter qualified for 1939/45 star.

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Tells story of taking girlfriend to a pub while on leave and misadventures on bicycle on return journey. Concludes with her trying to get into her parents locked house and encounter with her angry father.

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MSladdenD25115087-160623-18.pdf
Notes on slides in this collection providing subject covered at RAF Great Dunmow (Little Easton). Explanation of some of the slides.

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Garden with columns, hedge rectangles and ornamental trees. In the distance fields and trees.

Identification kindly provided by John Vigar, Alastair Disley and Andy Macdonald of the Unidentified photos of the British Isles Group.

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Large three story house half covered with ivy. In the foreground a formal garden.

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Large three story house covered in ivy with bay windows and tower with turret at right end. In front ornamental trees with other trees right and left.

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Two versions of the same strip with enlargements of all slides.
Slide 1 - captioned 'Stirling to Stirling whilst towing to Arnhem'. Air-to-air view of the port side of a Stirling with D-Day stripes on rear fuselage.
Slide 2 - captioned 'Stirling D4…

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PSladdenD16010011.jpg
Two versions of the same strip with enlargements of all slides. Slide 1 - captioned 'Heavy transport drivers on right George and Hardy GD 1945'. Four men standing in front of four lorries (at least one of which is a petrol bowser) with nose of a…

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