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Mike, with his pipe, standing with a woman and other spectators alongside the race track.

Mike, with pipe, standing with a woman wearing a dress and overcoat in a park with people, trees and buildings behind.

Left: Mike in suit and tie. Captioned, 'Mike in a serious mood!!'.
Right: Mike lying in the grass near the open door of a car. Two horses are alongside. Captioned, 'Mike recovering from a lunch-time binge!! (August 1939)'.

Notes on Jack's service career including coordinates and distances.

Top left - boy in school uniform standing on path outside a house. On the reverse 'Lewis and 54 Wulfric road'.
Left middle - three-quarter length image of a man and woman with wooden fence and hedge in the background. On the reverse 'Mr and Mrs…

View over camp buildings and hangars. On the reverse 'Hurricane should be somewhere, mock war 39, August'.

View over camp with water tower on left. On the reverse 'Some where in the sky are Spitfires, mock war, August 39.

Left page:
Top left - view out to sea with cliffs on the right.
Top right - six men and a woman wearing summer clothes sitting on chairs round a table in grass field.
Middle left - two women wearing dresses on a beach with sea behind them.
Centre…

Two women wearing dresses paddling in waves on beach. On the reverse 'Peg & Auntie Mary, Bournemouth, August 1939, last holiday before the war'.

Photo 1 is a young woman looking out of a window.
Photo 2 is a young woman in a coat with a man in a coat seated. The image is taken from inside a building with the two people framed by the doorway.
Photo 3 is a man and a young woman sitting…

Letter from David Boldy to his father about situation in London, war breaking out and his intention to volunteer for the Royal Air Force. He provides details about working on the farm picking plums, getting fit and tanned.