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Four b/w photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a parade. One man is dressed as the invisible man and is posing fro the camera. He has a number '75' held up.
Photo 2 is Rex Searleband two women, standing at the side of the road.
Photo 3 is Rex…

Three photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is 18 trainee airmen arranged in three rows in front of a brick building.
Photo 2 is 19 trainees arranged in three rows in front of a brick building with 'YPRES' above the door.
Photo 3 is an airman sitting…

Four photographs from an album.
Photos 1 to 3 are views across his barracks.
Photo 4 is a head and shoulders of Rex Searlein RAF uniform.

Two postcards of Albrighton (now RAF Cosford).
The first has a brick building fenced off with a car on the road. The second has five views of the town.

Three photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is two head and shoulders portraits of two airmen.
Photo 2 and 3 are a group of five airmen standing together with other airmen in the background.

Airmen on rowing boats on the River Severn at Worcester. Top photograph taken under Worcester's main road bridge, showing Worcester Cathedral and Worcester Porcelain Factory in the distance. Bottom photograph taken further downstream, with…

Four photographs from an album. Photo 1 is three airmen in a cockpit of an aircraft. Photo 2 is a Bleheim with several airmen standing at the front. Photo 3 is an airman standing by a stream. He is wearing a thick woolen polo necked pullover, boots…

Two airmen, one in the cockpit, one about to hand start the aircraft, which has no chocks. It is captioned 'Miles Magister' and annotated 'RAF Tangmere'.

Six airmen are leaning and sitting in a Miles Magister.

A group of four airmen including Rex Searle.

Four airmen positioned around a Magister. One is sitting in the cockpit, one sitting on the wing and two leaning on the wing.

A postcard of a hilly area captioned 'Valley of a Thousand Hills, Natal'. There is also a clipping of 'Parted' by Patience Strong.

Two notes. The first is a letter with bus information and the second is a partly obscured list of names.

A list of friends and colleagues.

A postcard of Africa with a native child sitting. On the reverse there is a reference to Freetown being their first port of call.

A Christmas Card sent by Rex Searle.

Three sheets of a newsletter describing forthcoming events plus adverts.

Two photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a man and two women walking in their best clothes.
Photo 2 is a man and woman standing by their front door.

Twp photographs of the RAF Reception Depot at West Drayon, from an album. They are captioned on the image.

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is an airman sitting on the tail of a Spitfire , BP34[?].
Photo 2 is a half length portrait of two airmen, including Rex.
Photo 3 is an airman sitting on the tail of a Spitfire, BP34[?].
Photo 4 is four…

A group of about 59 airmen arranged in four rows in front of a Spitfire. It is captioned 'Test & Issues 103 MU Aug 1941'.

Half length portrait of Rex Searle and another airman.

Rex Searle in swimming trunks in front of a wooden cabin, on the beach.

Three different group photographs. All the airmen are in tropical uniform.

Six photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is someone steering a dinghy.
Photo 2 is a local standing by a dinghy.
Photo 3 and 4 are the exterior of the club house.
Photo 5 and 6 are dinghies moored in the sea.