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Includes work activity and complaints of cold. Mentions continuing to work during enemy bombing as comments on severity of raid. Mention of bombing Cardiff, defensive anti-aircraft fire. Goes on with 3rd Jan mentions frosty morning and working on…

YTerrasRW1050292v1.pdf
Entry for activities on 18 January including cold weather, work on Hampden aircraft and bombing attack on base he was working at.
Entry for activities on 26 February - working on aircraft hydraulic system, and then going to cinema.
Entry for…

ESmithKJBSmithE[Date]-06.pdf
Writes that he had just arrived at new camp after hazardous journey which he describes in detail. Mentions falling asleep on train and being woken by an SP who took a dim view of the whole affair.

ESmithKJBSmithE[Date]-05.pdf
Thanks her for letter and white flash. Writes of going to Cardiff to visit friends and describes activities. Says in spite of having a good time he would endeavour to gradually fade away from a girl as she was getting too serious. Mentions getting a…

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Head and shoulders portrait of Ronald 'Tom' Arthur Gorton, flight engineer (1946 - 1986, 1877467 Royal Air Force). Annotated 'L J Teronia's Cardiff'.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies…

BLazenbyHJLazenbyHJv1.pdf
Harold Jack Lazenby's autobiography.

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A newspaper article describing an attack on Nuremberg. It is annotated 'No 9 27/8 1943'.

MStimpsonMC155249-190922-10.pdf
An address book kept by Maurice. It includes a list of when he wrote letters.

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Head and shoulders view of a gentlemen in shirt sleeves in the foreground. In the background a Lancaster on runway.

Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.

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Bride, Groom and wedding party totalling 21 arranged on the pavement outside a house on Belle Vue Crescent, Cardiff.

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Head and shoulders portrait of Arthur in uniform with sergeant's stripes and Air Gunner's brevet. Submitted with caption: 'Arthur Young. Born in Cardiff he was killed in the crash of the "Salford Lancaster" on 30 July 1944, returning from an…

AMorganVT170908.mp3
Vernon Morgan, from Cardiff, joined the civil service working at the Royal Ordnance Factory, and volunteered for the RAF in 1941. After pilot training in South Africa he returned to several different roles: CO of a satellite aerodrome, pilot for…

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Harry Winter grew up in Cardiff and worked in a paper mill from the age of 14. He served in the Home Guard before volunteering for the Air Force. After training as a wireless operator at RAF Yatesbury he flew operations over Germany, France, and…

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An extract of the Marriage Register, dated 26 January 1944.

BBascombeEJBascombeEJv.pdf
Flight Engineer Ron Jones 61 Squadron, killed in action 25 April 1944. Details of his early life and service career. Some information how he met his wife, then their brief marriage. Initially he was declared missing but on January 1945 he was…
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