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  • Collection: Banks, Peter. Album two

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Main headline: no change in official views on racing. present intention not to cancel Newmarket and Ascot meetings: Scots rugby star is prisoner. Round up of other sports news.

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Page 7 - editorial comments with photograph of a Whitley production line. Other headlines: Britain will fight on, munition worker's pay

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Page six. main article suggesting Hitler would attempt to invade England this month or next. Other headlines: How glorious went down. don't waste a single vegetable, guard ships order.

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Three photographs of passengers on refugee liner Washington after she had been stopped by U-boat. Other headlines: guns are quiet now in no-mans land, Petain's speech stunned France, ambushed pressmen escape.

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Several headlines: London prepares for stern days, German car arrest at sight order, prison sentence for chatterbug, defied the Nazis blew up bridge

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Pages 2 and 3 of Daily Sketch with several other headlines and articles. French army fighting on as dictators decide surrender terms, Will French navy obey cease fire, Empire pledges herself anew, French insist on peace with honour, Nazis near Swiss…

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Top - article subsidiary headline: US hears premiers words. Round up of news from France and broadcast by prime minister Winston Churchill relayed to the United States. Bottom - article headline every man to arms accompanied by photograph of RAF…

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Green cover with photographs printed in gold at bottom right.

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A heap of scrap which includes a Mitsubishi A6M Zero

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A small piece of scrap with a message in Japanese. Captioned on the reverse 'A6M3 model 22?' On a separate sheet is 'Translation Material possible from scrap yard zero. A6M Model 22? "Small above water warrior model type 1100"'.

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The aircraft was found in the jungle close to Seletar camp. It has nosedived into the ground. One man is standing by the cockpit. On the tail is code B1. The wing tip is hinged upwards.

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Photograph 1 is an oblique of a road across a lake captioned 'Road leading to Angkor Wat temples'.
Photograph 2 is a near vertical view of a temple captioned 'Another Angkor Thom temple (still under re-construction)'.
Photograph 3 and 4 are two…

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Oblique aerial photographs of the lost city of Angkor Thom. Captioned 'Cambodia The lost city of Angkor Thom re-discovered in 1861. Above & right:- City founded by Emperor Jayavarman II in 9th century. Angkor Wat temple built by Emperor Suryavarman…

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Photographs 1 to 6 are of rocks with waves crashing over them.
Photograph 7 is of two airmen on rocks by a stream.
Photographs 8 and 9 include three airmen on rocks by the sea.
Photographs 10 to 12 are seascapes with waves crashing over…

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All photographs show rocks with waves crashing against them, Old Wick castle in the background.

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Oblique aerial photograph of a rocky headland near Wick.

Identification kindly provided by Andy Macdonald and Geoff Everitt of the Unidentified photos of the British Isles Group.

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A rock outcrop with waves crashing on it.

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Printed card of His Majesty's Troopship Georgic. Captioned 'H.M.T. Georgic. 27,000 tons Singapore Bombay Port Said Blighty'. Photograph of the side of a ship and its wake. Captioned 'and so for home into a 4 day long storm across the India [sic]…

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A letter from Field Marshall Claude Auchinleck to British forces serving in India. It thanks the forces for their service and wishes them Godspeed.

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Photograph 1 of the side of a ship and its wake. Captioned 'and so for home into a 4 day long storm across the India [sic] ocean (11.00. am 17-08-1979)'
Photograph 2 is a dockside farewell captioned 'Population bid farewell Auld Lang Syngue [sic]'.…

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All photographs taken from the side of the ship showing people and marching soldiers on the dockside.

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Nine photographs taken from the ship looking down on people on the dockside.

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Photographs 1 and 2 are from the deck looking down at people on the quayside. Photograph 3 and 5 are a clock tower at the dockside. Photograph 4, 7, 9 and 9 are views of the docks.

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Photograph 1 is a people including Peter and his mother on the deck of a ship.
Photograph 2 is a tug captioned 'S.S. Georgic, out into Singapore roads and home to Blighty via Bombay'
Photograph 3 is Peter wearing a large hat on his bicycle.…

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Photograph 1 is an aerial view of a ship captioned 'Japanese flak-ship'.
Photograph 2 is a dockside with a Loire 130 and several Aichi E13A seaplanes and a floating crane. Captioned 'Japanese sea planes'.
Photograph 3 and 4 are deck views of…
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