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Order of service including hymns, lessons, prayer and other events.

Acknowledges her letter of 24 October 44

Acknowledges receipt of letter dated 11 September 1944,

From RAF Central Depository advising personal effects consisting of suitcase, bag and trunk dispatched on 17/10/44.

From Simone (daughter) and Anne-Marie Drony birth of brother Michel.

From Mr and Mme Henri Drony birth of first daughter Simone. Note that no news for a year from Scunthorpe.

An accompanying letter from Flight Lieutenant W Hamley regarding the enclosed certificate. The certificate is for appreciation for Flight Lieutenant R Wareing DFC for services while serving between 14th December, 1954 and 13th December, 1958 in the…

Pilot Officer Robert Wareing awarded DFC for his part in attack on Brest harbour. His was one of four crews who volunteered. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were in the harbour but was not known if they were damaged.

Envelope addressed to Squadron Leader and Mrs Robert Wareing.

Addressed to Jacqueline Pillot on front postmarked Scunthorpe - returned to sender.

One soldier, older man and woman, a younger man holding a boy and a girl standing in a garden, with a brick house behind. On the reverse 'Farthing Ave Hughie (Canada)'.

Soldier, two women, man, girl and boy. They are standing in a garden of a brick house, captioned 'Taken at Farthing Ave Hughie (Canada)'.

Bernard Bell was a child in Scunthorpe during the war.

Helga Wynne was born into a family of twelve in 1926 in Kiel, Germany. She describes her childhood and her father working as a shipbuilder in the dockyards. She left school at 14 and went to work on a farm. She fell through the hayloft opening,…

Ralph Ottey joined the RAF from Jamaica. After the war he returned to Jamaica. However, he had met the woman he was to later marry while based in the UK and returned to the settle here. He settled in Boston and had a long career with a local firm. On…

Married in the parish church in Old Brumby.

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A studio photograph of four men and three women grouped around the married couple. Kenneth is in uniform with sergeant rank and his air gunner's brevet. Mabel is wearing a dark suit and holding a bouquet. The couple had been going out since 1939 and…

Kenneth's ex employer expressing regret on hearing of his death.

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Writes expressing his delight at the news that her husband, Bob, is a prisoner of war asks if she will let them have any other news should she receive it.

Advises her that her husband’s Austin car has been authorised to be released by the Air Ministry. However, the car is not on the station and therefore Mrs Wareing needs to collect it from a garage in Market Harborough.

Enclosing key she would need.

Acknowledges her letter and returning her husband’s car Registration Book. He regrets that they can’t issue petrol coupons and the car is not at the Station but suggests she write to her local Petroleum Board and make an application through them.

She writes that she was relieved to hear of his message over the radio and stating that he is safe and well and recovered from his burns. She has been in touch with the authorities, friends and family and tells him not to worry as all is fine. She…

She writes that she is sorry to hear he have been feeling tired and is in need of a long rest which he should get on his next leave. She is sunbathing whilst writing and has the following day off from work. She mentions family and friends and asks…

Letter which was redirected to the Air Ministry. She writes that she has not heard from him for a few days. She writes about family and friends and her social activities. She says that his parcel arrived the previous day but that he would have to…