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Record of service, education and professional qualifications
Made out for Charles Robert Cuthill. Gives years of service in RAF and brief history of service. Includes specialist symbols - flying instructor and lists decorations.
Roll of honour for Path Finder Force RAF Little Staughton
Lists casualties for 109 Squadron and 582 Squadron in 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1946. Has squadron badges for both squadrons an 8 Group and two Victoria Crosses (Squadron Leader Robert A.M.Palmer V.C, D.F.C & Bar 109 Sqn and Captain Edwin E Swales V.C.,…
List of aircraft flown
Gives dates when flown, name, type, use and where flown. Aircraft include Wellington, Stirling, Lancaster, Lincoln, Washington, Shackleton, as well as post war jet aircraft.
Interview with Frank Mouritz
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Frank was born in Australia in 1923 and joined the RAAF in 1942. After initial training as a pilot in Australia and Canada on Tiger Moth and Anson aircraft he arrived in England. Over the next 12 months he progressed from Oxford to Wellington to…
Memoir
Chapter 8 - Overture and Beginners. Gives account of time on OTU at RAF Lossiemouth. Includes ground instruction, crewing up and description of station and training on Wellington. Writes about a fatal crash he sees and about some of his sorties.…
69 Airmen
69 men arranged in three rows in front of a wooden building. On the reverse 'Canada 1943'.
John S Hitchcock DFC AFC
Explanations of why John was awarded a DFC and AFC.
Laura Lascelles and baby
A woman wearing a dark overcoat sitting on a bench holding a baby. On the reverse 'Laura Lascelles an RAF friend at Blackpool 1943/4, m'.
Hamburg operation and aircraft losses
Top - Title note Hamburg 1944 relates 431 squadron lost 48 aircraft between July 1943 and October 1944. Mentions that 5 aircraft were lost out of 17 dispatched to Hamburg om 29 July 1944.
Below - document listing all aircraft lost on squadron with…
Below - document listing all aircraft lost on squadron with…
431 Squadron
Top - squadron photograph of a large number of airmen sitting and standing in three rows in front of, and on top of the wings, engines and cockpit of a Halifax, Captioned 'No 431 Squadron RCAF March 1944, C.O. Wing Commander W Newsum DFC "Big Bill",…
History of 106 Squadron
A short history of 106 Squadron. Covers formation in world war one. Reformed in 1938 with Hinds and Battles. Equipped with Hampden at beginning of the war. Initially a advanced training unit. Became operational in September 1940. Describes early…
History of RAF Syerston
History of the station from December 1940 including resident squadrons and aircraft , royal visit and other points of interest after the war up to the current day.
Royal Air Force - airman's record sheet
For William Roy Peter Perry - gives some personal details and list postings and re-mustering. Includes form for temporary service in Canada with list of postings. Notes awarded flying badge. Commissioned 18 May 1943.
Banff and RAF Woolfox Lodge
Top - view of swimming pool with bathers in water. Pool surrounded by buildings. Captioned 'Hot springs baths, Banff, Alta'.
Left - two airmen wearing flying jackets standing in woods. Captioned 'Doug and Dickie, Woolfox Lodge 43'.
Right - and…
Left - two airmen wearing flying jackets standing in woods. Captioned 'Doug and Dickie, Woolfox Lodge 43'.
Right - and…
People
Top left - four airmen standing in line under fuselage of a Lancaster. Captioned 'ground crew on "Z" Zebra, 106 Sqdn 43'.
Top right - and airman wearing battledress with half brevet sitting in wooden chair in long grass with trees and huts in the…
Top right - and airman wearing battledress with half brevet sitting in wooden chair in long grass with trees and huts in the…
Aircrews
Top left - five airmen wearing battledress and side caps standing in line behind the port wing of a Wellington. Captioned 'Wellington III, 1943, ("Shorty", Dickie, Doug, self, Jonny), North Luffenham'.
Top right - seven aircrew wearing a variety of…
Top right - seven aircrew wearing a variety of…
Java Jive
Note explaining why author's father and several pilots of 106 Squadron arrived singing Java Jive over the radio (R/T). Station commander was not impressed.
Service history
Joined in 1942 and then details training and tour on 115 Squadron, gunnery course, tours as gunnery instructor. Further tour with 625 Squadron, crashed twice before another instructors tour. Mentions 14 ops on first tour and 20 on second. Comments on…
Record of Flying Officer Kenneth Gill D.F.C (155097) RAFVR joined 1941
Mentions training in Canada and qualified at navigator. List training on Wellington and one operational flight while at operational training unit at RAF North Luffenham December 1942 - March 1943. Continues to list training on Halifax and Lancaster…
No. 9 Pre-AFU Course No. 11 Perth
34 airmen arranged in five rows. On the reverse each individual is named.
Two men
Full length image of two men, one in civilian dress, the other in uniform standing in a back garden with dog on the left and shed and part of house in the background. On the reverse '1943'.
Stuttgart
A chart of Stuttgart at a scale of 1:100000. It is titled Robert Bosch as the intended target.
Beatrice Holden
Beatrice wearing a great coat is standing in a street. On the reverse on a sticky note is 'Beatrice Holden' and handwritten 'Beatrice 1943'.
Brighton seafront
View down seafront with beach and sea to right, road in centre and tall buildings on left. Three versions of same image. On the reverse 'From the Metropole Hotel, Brighton UK, 1943'.
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Six airmen and a Wirraway
Six airmen wearing flying suits, five standing in front of and one sitting on the port wing of a Wirraway trainer. On the reverse 'Uranquinty, l to R, RV Jubb, Herb Thwaites, Andy D Wine, Don McKimling, Tom Hoon, David Wilson'.
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