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Notification of attachment to course number 80 commencing 9 June 1942 at A.I.D training school, Bristol. Includes reporting instruction.

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Notifies him of move for training to Aeronautical Inspection Directorate school in Bristol. Continues with description of training, comments on possible future employment once he passes training, domestic arrangements and reporting instructions.

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Notes place of aircrew selection board on 10/03/43 and lists all course undertaken, promotion dates, flying times on operational aircraft and last medical board.

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24 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a building. On the reverse each individual is named.

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Two pages from a logbook. Ralph is mentioned as a second pilot or passenger.

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A large group of airmen arranged in four rows in front of a Stirling. Information supplied with collection:

Black and white landscape photograph of 620 squadron at Fairford taken in front of a Short Stirling Mk4, K Watson is in the front row 8th…

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Five items on an album page.

Item 1 is a newspaper cutting about Germans giving an aircrew champagne, then surrendering.
Item 2 is a handwritten list of three operations and their dates.
Item 3 is a photograph of a number of Stirlings…

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Terry and his father standing outside their house. Both are in Home Guard uniform.

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A newspaper cutting with a head and shoulders image of Terry. It states he has won his wings and commission whilst in Canada. It is annotated 15/5/43.

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PThomasAF20020024.jpg
Photo 1 is an outside view of Bishop Hooper's Lodging.
Photo 2 is Gloucester Cathedral, South Porch.
Photo 3 is the south transept of Gloucester Cathedral.
Photo 4 is the south transept from the west.
Photo 5 are Old Cottages where the First…

PThomasAF20020022.jpg
Photo 1 is Carol Thomas, Arthur Thomas' wife, taken in 1948.
Photo 2 is Mr Haytor on Banwell Hill.
Photo 3 is Banwell from the hill.
Photo 4 is Carol holding Paddy, the dog.
Photo 5 is Mr Haytor and Arthur's father with Paddy.
Photo 6 is…

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Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a three quarter length portrait of a man identified as Great Uncle Joshua Owner, husband of Jane.
Photo 2 is a full length portrait of an elderly lady identified as Great Aunt Jane.
Photo 3 is a half…

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Photo 1 is a side view of a RAF B-24, captioned 'Liberator, Moreton, August 1946'.
Photo 2 is the nose of a Wellington with an airman leaning on the propeller.
Photo 3 is a side view of a Lancaster, captioned 'Lancaster Lindholme O.C.U. 1947'.

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Full face portrait of a woman wearing white blouse. On the front 'A portrait by H E Jones. 75 Northgate, Gloucester'. On the reverse 'To [..], with love from your pal. Trotts'.

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Building with one and two story parts. Many glass windows with white bricks below. Steps lead down from doorway in centre front. A nurse stands at the bottom of the steps. In front grass and in the distance behind a hill.

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Two sergeant pilots smiling facing camera.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

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PDobleRG1511.jpg
Three airmen standing at the front of a Wellington with no front turret. On the reverse
'S/Ldr Corbishley Pilot
F/Lt Ray Nav
Sgt R Dobble R/Gunner.
Moreton in Marsh 21 OTU'.

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Six airmen standing outside a wooden hut. Five are wearing flying helmets, googles and flying uniforms. On the reverse 'Moreton in Marsh 21 OTU Gunners'.

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Thanksgiving eulogy for the life and times of Arthur Hollis OBE, DFC of Bomber Command which covers his childhood successes whilst at Dulwich College, his subsequent enlistment into the RAF in 1941, and his pilot training in Florida and the UK. It…

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Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Log Book
The Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Log Book covering the period 15 June 1941 to the 16 August 1963. Manning qualified first as an Air Gunner on the 4 July 1941 and second as a flight engineer on the 1 September 1941. He was commissioned on the 4…

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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…

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MClydeSmithD39856-160919-04.pdf
Histories of twelve Tiger Moth aircraft flown by Denis Clyde Smith while undergoing ab-initio training at Sywell.

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A group of 15 Women's Auxiliary Air Force women of different ranks and a Sergeant airman arranged in two rows. The front row is seated on deckchairs and the second row is standing. Kathleen Croft is front row, third from the right. Behind are bushes…

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Left page title 'Lancaster 97 Squadron, PFF, Bourne'. Top left - full length image of Pilot Officer Stephen Dawson wearing tunic and peaked cap standing in front of a Lancaster with open bomb doors. Captioned 'Pilot Officer'. Top right - a Lancaster…

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39 men in tunic and side caps in four rows RAF Little Rissington. The second row up are all officers apart from the outside two. All the rest of the men are sergeants. In the background a brick building with two arched entrances to windows and a…

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