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Most of the photo Is taken up by some church ruins, to the left a women in a long coat and hat is sat down on the grass. In the centre a figure is stood looking at the ruins, tress can be seen in the background.

A row of buildings line the back of a riverbank, some boats are parked up to the edge.

Margaret Cuthill's account of her time in the WAAF. At the age of 17 she volunteered for the WAAF and was enrolled as a teleprinter operator. She was sent to Wilmslow for training. After four weeks of drill and physical exercise she was posted to…

Thanks him for the party

Thanks them for their efforts.

Reply to a request from Cheshire that 4 Group provide crew. Not possible at present due to heavy commitments and new squadrons forming.

A diary recording events during 1944. Includes detailed notes on operations, military life, the weather etc.

The story of a complete engine failure in Wellington LN 487 over York at 15,000ft at night. The aircraft was over York and crash-landed safely. The rear-gunner had been knocked unconscious but was unhurt, as were the rest of the crew.

Bettie was born in Wakefield. The family moved to Doncaster when she was eleven and at 21 she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service. While in Doncaster she helped at the YMCA café as part of the war effort and that is where she met and married…

Short note requesting that Dennis get the enclosed (unidentified) for his father and discussing how to pay. Page has faint embossed single engine aircraft.

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Details of nine operations carried out between February and May 1943 from RAF Elvington on 77 Squadron flying Halifax. Targets include Cologne, Berlin and several in the Ruhr.

Iris McClements was a member of the Women’s Junior Air Corps and then the Royal Observer Corps. She met her husband on one of his visits to York.