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The bombing operations he took part in are described, as is his investiture and his time in India as an administrative officer.

Cruickshank then moves to Instructing before returning to Operations including Nuremberg. He then describes the transition to civilian life after his demobilisation from the RAF, poor health and his attempt to build a business in post war Britain.

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India--Mumbai]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> India]]> India--Mumbai]]> Item 1 - programme for a revue 'Let's Have Another One' taking place on RMS Scythia on 5-8 November 1945.
Item 2 - photograph of A C Coller in tropical uniform standing beside two local boys who are sitting on either side of him.
Item 3 - three women sitting on a steps in front of a wooden building. One is holding a small dog. It is captioned 'Rita, Gail, Rita'.
Item 4 - stamp with a phoenix.
Item 5 - photograph of the sign for RAF Kankesanturai.
Item 6 - photograph of a dormitory.
Item 7 - photograph of a nurse sitting on a chair, captioned 'Matron 48 IGA Bombay India'.
Item 8 - head and shoulders portrait of A C Coller in tropical uniform and wearing a brimmed hat. He has a moustache.
Item 9 - head and shoulders portrait of A C Coller in tropical uniform.
Item 10 and 11 are photographs of beds in a dormitory.
There is a handwritten caption '[obscured] Malana & Colombo holding camp. We found out, soon after getting there that the camp was often raided by gangs who would cut the moskito [sic] nets which would fall over us so I adopted a dog to sleep under my charpoy who could warn me. We also chained our tin boxes together. This worked until moving on to Negombo air station. The dog was ok with a new owner.'

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Item 1 - photograph of an airman standing beside a monument, captioned 'Birt Littlewood Kandy Ceylon'.
Item 2 - photograph of an airman seated, captioned 'Birt Littlewood Kandy Ceylon' and 'Our leave at Queen's Hotel, Kandy, Ceylon'.
Item 3 - photograph of an airman in tropical uniform beside a sign 'To AHQ Ceylon and SHQ Kandy'.
Item 4 - photograph of a hotel behind a lake, captioned 'Queen's Hotel Kandy Ceylon'.
Item 5 - photograph of a sign pointing one way to AHQ Ceylon and WAAF Camp and the other way to SHQ and Training Wing.
Item 6 - photograph is of a lake captioned 'Lake near Queens Hotel, Kandy'.
Item 7 - photograph of a street scene, captioned 'Road leading to docks Colombo Ceylon'.
Item 8 - photograph of a tower with a man on a bike at the front. It is captioned 'Clock Tower Jaffna Ceylon'.
Item 9 - photograph of the clock tower captioned 'Clock Tower not far from docks Colombo. Chatham Street Colombo Ceylon'.
Item 10 - photograph of a large building captioned 'Town Hall Jaffna Ceylon'.
Item 11 - the cover of a guide to Andaman and Nicobar Islands captioned 'A posting that never happened. We were landed in Bombay this was a typical happening'.
Item 12 - Souvenir of Voyage on the 'Duchess of Bedford'. Rangoon to Liverpool November-December 1946.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> India]]> India--Mumbai]]> Solomon Islands]]> Solomon Islands--Tulaghi Island]]> Solomon Islands]]> 1942-08]]> Photo 1 is six people round a funeral pyre, captioned 'Creamation' [sic]
Photo 2 is a monument captioned 'Gateway to India Bombay'.
Photo 3 is a man, plough and cow, captioned 'Farmer' and 'Ploughing'.
Photo 4 is a man making pots on a spinning wheel, captioned 'Pot Making'.
Photo 5 is a Sikh man with a table of medicines, captioned 'Street Doctor'.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> India]]> England--Melton Mowbray]]> India--Mumbai]]> England--Leicestershire]]> 1943-12-31]]>