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Swimming club
Members of the polo team with 11 in swimming attire and three in suits. A shield sits alongside the group.
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The crew of Lancaster ND 345.
Top: Flight Lieutenant Donald MacKay DFC, Pilot.
Second row, from left: Pilot…
Rheinberg War Cemetery
Top, a view of white headstones.
Bottom, a woman next to an inscription on a wall.
Right page:
Top, air-to-air aerial photograph of two Short Stirling aircraft.
Bottom, Squadron Leader Andrew Muir, DFC's 115170 headstone in Rheinberg…
Remembered with honour
Top, a memorial to Squadron leader Andrew Muir, DFC.
Bottom, the memorial at Rheinberg War Cemetery.
Right page:
Top left, stone cross war memorial with white headstones beyond.
Right, rows of white headstones.
Bottom, a view of the…
In memory of
A pocket with paper enclosed.
Right page:
Notes in memory of Squadron Leader Andrew Muir, DFC including his death, family details and final resting place with a memorial reading 'Their Name Liveth For Evermore'.
Crew of Lancaster ND345
Second row, from left: Pilot Officer Ronald Halperin DFC, navigator; Flight Officer James Moffat DFC, air gunner and Squadron leader Andrew Muir DFC, air gunner, wearing Sidcot suit.
Third row, from…
If Love were all...the story of a Second World War bomber crew
Tags: 12 Squadron; 15 OTU; 1667 HCU; 30 OTU; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ditching; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; love and romance; lynching; Me 110; memorial; mess; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Binbrook; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Seighford; RAF Shellingford; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Watchfield; RAF Wickenby; RCAF Calgary; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Graves of Doug Box's crew
On the reverse 'Note the order:- Ian - Henley - Watson'.
Tags: aircrew; final resting place
Rheinberg War Cemetery
Tags: final resting place
Letter to Doug Box from CE Nelson-Smith
Tags: aircrew; final resting place
Letter to Doug Box from CE Nelson-Smith
Letter to Doug Box from CE Nelson-Smith
Tags: aircrew; final resting place
Flying Officer Theodore Arthur Lumb and Pilot Officer Raymond Fletcher Lumb
Tags: 14 OTU; 49 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; final resting place; Hampden; killed in action; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Hendon; RAF Scampton; RAF White Waltham; Red Cross; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Hier ruhen 7 unbekannte englische Flieger
Correspondence regarding Alfred Stanley Pring's grave
The image shows a white cross, inscribed with Alfred's name, service number and when he died.
The reverse reads "RHEINBERG" "K 52/ A 1828" "1X-L-17" and "P 409187"
List of Lost Aircrew
Record of Loss of Halifax W7884
Pope (1578663) and Theodore Ian Mardon Edwards (R/97583) were killed. Their burial details are recorded.
Photograph of grave cross and note from under-secretary of state for air to Mrs F A Doughty
Letter to Jimmy Doughty' s father from the Air Ministry
Rheinberg cemetery and Hoffnungsthal memorial
Right - three men and a woman standing beside a stone memorial with many wreaths. Captioned 'Daddy (right) and Les Owen (third from right) laying flowers…
Headstones
Middle - white headstone for B Nundy.
Right - white headstone for W Delgarno.
Headstones
Middle - white headstone for G Russell DFC.
White headstone for A L Carter DFC.
Robert Palmer headstone
Right - three rows of white headstones with Robert Palmer's front left with two poppy wreaths.
British war cemetery Rheinberg
Bottom right - a name wearing suit standing between rows of white headstones in a cemetery. Captioned 'Daddy visiting Bob's grave in…
An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1651 HCU; 1678 HCU; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Andreas; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Croughton; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Leslie Valentines pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 13 OTU; 88 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bombing; Boston; Dominie; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bicester; RAF Hartford Bridge; Second Tactical Air Force; strafing; training; V-1; V-weapon