Top right, six wedding guests including a man and woman in uniform. Middle left, wedding party.
Middle right, the bride and groom. Bottom, bride and groom with a man cutting a wedding cake.
Right page, left, 53 women in uniform, annotated, 'W.A.A.F Officers Initial Training Course, Loughborough 1941. Ursula (5th front) 1st row'.
Top right, man in tails with top hat on a path followed by a man and woman in uniform.
Bottom right, view through trees over water.]]>
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Part 1.
Doug Marsh was the son of a Royal Navy officer and moved around quite a bit as a child between Kent and Lincolnshire. When his father retired from the Navy his parents bought a fish and chip shop in Grimsby but shortages meant that the business could not succeed and Doug had to find other work. He had secured a place as a trainee with the local authority but the start of the war cancelled the scheme he would have joined. He worked for the Prudential Insurance Company until he volunteered for the RAF aircrew and began training as a navigator in the UK and then in South Africa. Following training in South Africa Doug returned to the UK to continue his training. During part of this training a German plane dropped a bomb on the local railway station and on the hotel where recruits were billeted. He was posted to RAF Bruntingthorpe for his OTU where he joined up with his crew and the trained together after training flights on Manchesters and on to the Lancaster.

Part 2.
Doug Marsh continued his training on H2S at RAF Scampton before being posted to 57 Squadron for operational flying. During that time the flight engineer on the crew had gone up on an operation and failed to return. On the day of their last operation the wireless operator was in hospital and so received the news there that his crew had crashed. On the morning of the last flight the ground crew told the pilot to remember not to land at their usual dispersal because the aircraft was due for an overhaul. In the air the crew heard a bang and the plane was soon on fire. The crew baled out. Doug was knocked unconscious and came to in a field with the parachute in a tree. He hid until he was discovered by French prisoners of war who hid him in the expectation of him finalising his escape plans. He was caught and assumes his capture was due to betrayal by one of the French.

Part 3.
Doug Marsh was was captured and taken to Frankfurt on Oder where he was treated well. One night his German cell mate alerted him to the red glow outside of the window which Doug recognised as Pathfinder flares followed by a single explosion as a bomb fell. Doug just went back to sleep much to the surprise of the youth with him. On his journey to Stalag Luft 6 he passed the towns where he had hidden before his capture. Doug remained a prisoner of war until the POWs were moved away from the Russian advance. On one occasion during the march they came under attack from Allied fighters. Dougie was a small distance from a POW who was killed outright who had been a prisoner from the beginning of the war. ]]>
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Records a total of 45 operations (42 night, 3 day) with 9 and 97 Squadron. Targets in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands are: Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Stettin, Brunswick, Magdeburg, Stuttgart, Schweinfurt, Augsburg, Marignane, Munich, Clermont Ferrand, Toulouse, Louailles, Annecy, Amiens, Maisy, St. Pierre du Mont, Argentan, Rennes, Poitiers, Greil (Saint-Leu-d'Esserent), Culmont Chalindrey, Nevers, Courtrai, Donges, Givors, Brest, Deelen Airfield, Bordeaux, Darmstadt and Konigsberg.
His pilot on all operations was F/O Lasham.

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Served at RAF Halton, RAF Wittering, RAF Hornchurch, RAF Eastchurch, RAF Harrogate, RAF Little Rissington, RAF Market Harborough, RAF Scampton, RAF Wiglsey, RAF Syerston, RAF Skellingthorpe, RAF Wymeswold, RAF Castle Donington,

Aircraft flown were DH 82 Tiger Moth, Stearman, Valiant, Harvard, Commodore, Catalina, Anson, Oxford, Wellington X, Stirling III, Norseman (C64), Lancaster, Dakota, Sea Otter, Auster, York, Sunderland.

Carried out 5 day and 27 night operations with 50 Squadron to Darmstadt, Bremerhaven, Rheydt, Kaiserslautern, Munster, Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Nuremberg, Flushing docks, Bergen, Dusseldorf, the Dortmund-Ems Canal, the Mitteland Canal, Harburg, Duren, Heilbronn, the Urft Dam, Heimbach, Munich, Politz, Houffalize, Leuna, Brux, Siegen, the Rositz Oil Refinery, the Bohlen Synthetic Oil Plant, Wurzburg. He also carried out two Operation Exodus flights.

Awarded the DFC after an operation during which his aircraft was hit by bombs from another aircraft above him. He successfully flew his aircraft back to England. Includes various newspaper clippings.]]>
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Served at RAF Yatesbury, RAF West Freugh, RAF Bramcote, RAF Bitteswell, RAF Lindholme, RAF Tiree, RAF Dale, RAF Cairo West (LG224), RAF Holmsley South, RAF Blackbushe, RAF North Weald. Aircraft flown were Dominie, Proctor, Battle, Wellington, Tiger Moth, C47, B24, Warwick,

Flew on 14 bombing operations (1 day and 13 night) and 39 day anti-submarine sweeps with 304 Squadron. The bombing targets were Boulogne, Emden, Dunkerque, Cologne, Hamburg, Essen, Dortmund, Hamburg, Rostock, Bordeaux, Bremen. The anti-submarine sweeps were over the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay.
His pilots on operations were Flying Officer Kucharski (35 operations), Sergeant Janski (1 operation), Flying Officer Zurek (16 operations), Sergeant Gotebiowski (1 operation).
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Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

Identification kindly provided by Wilfred Ptolemy of the Unidentified photos of the British Isles Facebook group.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Loughborough]]> England--Leicestershire]]> 1941-04]]>
D R Burns]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Sheffield]]> England--London]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Newquay]]> England--Manchester]]> Canada]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> Nova Scotia]]> England--Harrogate]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Arnstein (Main-Spessart)]]> Poland]]> Poland--Opole (Voivodeship)]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Manitoba]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1946-01-19]]> Harry Bartlett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> Canada]]> Italy]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Frank talks of his evacuation to the countryside near Croxton Kerrial when he was nearly five. He was accompanied by his two brothers and initially his mother. His sister was sent to Somerset. He enjoyed his time in the countryside and shares memories about the people who looked after him, his school, mealtimes and leisure time pursuits.
Frank reluctantly returned to Chingford in Essex two years after the end of the war. He missed the countryside and was bullied at school. At the aged of 15, he ran away to Croxton Kerrial, to which his parents subsequently agreed. He never saw his parents again.
He started work on a farm and met his wife. After four years in the Coldstream Guards, he married and worked on another farm in Croxton. Frank then moved to Londonthorpe to set up the shoot. The shoot rented the land from the Belton Estate. When the estate was bought by the National Trust, no shooting was permitted. He was taken on as keeper by Sir Montague Cholmeley. After retirement, the latter let him live rent free.
Frank has written a book, “London Evacuee to Countryman” and appeared in Sporting Shooter and Lincolnshire Life magazines.
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David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Melton Mowbray]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Egypt]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Libya]]> Malta]]> Tunisia]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Marsá Maṭrūḥ]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--West Midlands]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Italy--Catania]]> Italy--Palermo]]> Italy--Paternò]]> Italy--Sardinia]]> Italy--Sicily]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> Tunisia--Bizerte]]> Tunisia--La Goulette]]> Tunisia--Mareth Line]]> Tunisia--Qābis]]> Tunisia--Sfax]]> Tunisia--Sūsah]]> Tunisia--Tunis]]> Egypt--Kibrit]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Fukah]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942-08-07]]> 1942-08-09]]> 1942-10-27]]> 1942-10-28]]> 1942-11-01]]> 1942-11-02]]> 1942-11-03]]> 1942-11-12]]> 1942-11-13]]> 1942-11-14]]> 1942-11-19]]> 1942-11-20]]> 1942-11-22]]> 1942-11-23]]> 1942-11-24]]> 1942-11-26]]> 1942-11-27]]> 1942-11-29]]> 1942-11-30]]> 1942-12-01]]> 1942-12-03]]> 1942-12-04]]> 1942-12-05]]> 1942-12-06]]> 1942-12-09]]> 1942-12-10]]> 1942-12-12]]> 1942-12-13]]> 1942-12-14]]> 1942-12-15]]> 1942-12-16]]> 1942-12-17]]> 1942-12-18]]> 1942-12-19]]> 1942-12-21]]> 1942-12-22]]> 1942-12-25]]> 1942-12-26]]> 1942-12-27]]> 1942-12-28]]> 1942-12-31]]> 1943-01-01]]> 1943-01-02]]> 1943-01-03]]> 1943-01-05]]> 1943-01-06]]> 1943-01-07]]> 1943-01-08]]> 1943-01-09]]> 1943-01-10]]> 1943-01-12]]> 1943-01-13]]> 1943-01-14]]> 1943-01-15]]> 1943-01-18]]> 1943-01-19]]> 1943-02-24]]> 1943-02-25]]> 1943-02-26]]> 1943-02-27]]> 1943-03-02]]> 1943-03-03]]> 1943-03-11]]> 1943-03-12]]> 1943-03-20]]> 1943-03-21]]> 1943-03-22]]> 1943-03-23]]> 1943-03-24]]> 1943-03-25]]> 1943-03-26]]> 1943-03-27]]> 1943-03-30]]> 1943-03-31]]> 1943-04-04]]> 1943-04-05]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> 1946-09-25]]> 1946-04-08]]> Judy Mansbridge]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1944-01-26]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cara Walmsley]]> Pending review]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicester]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Leicestershire]]> 1943-12-02]]> RAF Bitteswell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Rugby]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> 1943-12-10]]> Great Britain. Air Ministry]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Warwickshire]]> 1944-02-02]]> #1 is a note about the crew - 4 were killed and 3 baled out.
#2 is the reverse of the note explaining that the WAAFs at Edith Weston were very kind to the Forces. Ted sold his logbook and medals to raise money for a hospice in Leicester but wouldn't part with his 'Caterpillar'.
#3 is Ted's Lancaster and six of the crew. It is annotated with the crew's names and the date of its loss on 2/3 December 1943.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicester]]> England--Rutland]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Leicestershire]]> Germany]]> 1943-12-02]]> 1943-12-03]]>
J C Doughty]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Leicester]]> 1944-05-08]]>