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- Collection: Gill, Kenneth
Letter card from Kenneth Gill to his parents
Twenty-first birthday card to Vera
Poem on the reverse.
Tags: arts and crafts; love and romance
Letter from Kenneth Gill to Vera
Tags: love and romance
Letter from Kenneth Gill to his fiancé
Tags: love and romance; RAF Bardney
Kenneth Gill and two women
Tags: aircrew
Letter from Kenneth Gill to his parents
Letter from Kenneth Gill to his mother
Bielefeld: Vielesible viaduct
Ijmuiden operation
Middle - reconnaissance photograph showing coast and port with harbour wall and basins in built up area.
Bottom left - b/w photograph of boat pens before…
Note concerning unidentified photograph of crew after returning from bombing Tirpitz
Milan 7/8 August, 1943
Tags: arts and crafts; Lancaster
Record of Flying Officer Kenneth Gill D.F.C (155097) RAFVR joined 1941
Tags: 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; FIDO; Grand Slam; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; memorial; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; P-51; promotion; RAF Bardney; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Biography of Kenneth Gill by son Derek
Tags: 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Grand Slam; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 262; memorial; navigator; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Kenneth Gill's decorations
Kenneth Gill RAF service document
War changes everything
Poem - the first rays of the dawning sun shall touch its pillars
Tags: arts and crafts; killed in action; memorial
Bergen Submarine Pen
Briefing notes and Lancaster
Right - hand drawn sketch from front quarter below of a Lancaster.
Tags: arts and crafts; bombing; Lancaster
Drawings of attack on Tirpitz
Right - hand drawn map showing route along Norwegian coast to Tromso and…
Tirpitz
Bottom target…
Kenneth Gill's crew
Family photographs and medals
Top right - wedding photograph of groom wearing tunic, bride, and another woman…
K Gill's service record
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; navigator; RAF Leuchars