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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
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39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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2016-04-25
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Peck, PJ
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Description
An account of the resource
Ten photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a snowy landscape, captioned '#5 AOS'.
Photo 2 and 4 are two airmen standing in the snow, captioned ' "Doc" & Hunky'.
Photo 3 is some buildings, captioned 'A last glimpse of Moss Bank'.
Photo 5 is Ansons surrounded by snow, captioned 'Just a few Annies'.
Photo 7 is an aerial view of a settlement.
Photo 8 is an airman in flying kit, sitting on a seat.
Photo 9 is a wooden building with Mossbank painted on. In front is a car, annotated 'Farewell Mossbank'.
Photo 10 is a horse and sleigh.
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Ten b/w photographs on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010032
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Royal Air Force
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Canada
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Mossbank, Canada
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aircrew
animal
Anson
training
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Peck, Peter John. Album
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39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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2016-04-25
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Peck, PJ
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#96 carries on - #5 AOS
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25 trainee airmen arranged in three rows.
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One b/w photograph on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010031
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Royal Air Force
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training
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Peck, Peter John. Album
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An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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2016-04-25
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Peck, PJ
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Anson Cockpit
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Two photographs from an album.
Both photographs are taken looking forward past three airmen, annotated 'Temperature +5. Taken at, or over Moss Bank in Faithful Annie'.
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Two b/w photographs on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010030
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Royal Air Force
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aircrew
Anson
training
-
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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2016-04-25
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Peck, PJ
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Airmen and their Aircraft
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14 photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a port side view of a Harvard, annotated 'My Harvard (line!)'.
Photo 2 is a view of the front of a Lysander, annotated 'A Lysie' (No 1 Hangar)'
Photo 3 is an airman posing at the cockpit of a Harvard annotated 'What! Up again (line! line!)'
Photo 4 is a front/ port view of a Harvard, annotated 'The Harvard again'.
Photo 5 is three Bristol Bolingbroke aircraft, annotated 'Ready for take off'.
Photo 6 is a snowy landscape, annotated 'There is some life in Canada'.
Photo 7 is two airmen in flying gear, annotated 'The 'Doc' & Johnny'.
Photo 8 is six airmen sitting on a log, annotated 'No! its not Scotts Expedition'.
Photo 9 is the same pole without the airmen, annotated 'Low flying, eh!'
Photo 10 is a mid-upper turret of a Bolingbroke with an airman inside, annotated 'The "Doc" in the turret'.
Photo 11 is two airmen about to enter a Bolingbroke with two ground crew at work, annotated 'Keep 'em flying'.
Photo 12 and 13 are two different airmen in flying suits, annotated ' "Studies" in Black & White'.
Photo 14 is a single airman in flying kit.
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14 b/w photographs on two album pages
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eng
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010027, PPeckP16010029
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Canada
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Robert Langham
aircrew
Bolingbroke
Harvard
Lysander
training
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
Date
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2016-04-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Peck, PJ
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Title
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Gunnery Practice and Barrack interior
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Three photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is six airmen watching a seventh sitting behind a machine gun, captioned 'Getting in some shooting hours at the 25 yard range'.
Photo 2 is the inside of barracks with eight men looking on, captioned 'Taken inside Barrack Blocks 9A'. Kitbags are hanging from the end of the bunkbeds.
Photo 3 is an airman sitting on a chair. He is wearing a flying helmet.
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Three b/w photographs on an album page
Type
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010026
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
aircrew
military living conditions
training
-
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Peck, Peter John. Album
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An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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2016-04-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Peck, PJ
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Some of the boys! Good old 96.
G. M. Purbeck [?]
K. P. O. J. Taylor
John Pettarel [?]
H. Burton Kirkley
D. H. [indecipherable]
J. P. [?] Daswell [?]
[indecipherable]
P. Keanon [?]
R. Hyland
C. J. Abbott
R. W. Robertson
D. Tracey
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Title
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Course 96 No 2 B & G
Description
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26 airmen arranged in three rows.
A second copy has signatures of some of the airmen underneath.
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One b/w photograph on an album page
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PPeckP16010024, PPeckP16010025
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
Sally Coulter
aircrew
training
-
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
Date
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2016-04-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Peck, PJ
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Airmen Training in Canada
Description
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30 photographs from an album.
Photo 1 and 2 are the same. Two airmen standing in front of a brick building. They are annotated 'Stan & Jock'.
Photo 3 and 4 are the same. Six airmen in sidcot suits annotated 'Some of the Boys - Howard, Pete, Jim, Jock, Pat, George (Stinker)'.
Photo 5 is an airman in flying kit standing at the entrance to a brick building.
Photo 6 and 7 are the same. They are the same airmen as in photo 3, standing in front of the same building.
Photo 8 and 9 are the same. Three airmen standing in front of the brick building eating bananas, annotated 'England too had bananas - once'.
Photo 10 and 11 are the same. Six airmen grouped in front of the brick building. They are annotated 'Pete, Myself, George, Jim, George, Jock'.
Photo 12 and 13 are the same.Two airmen standing in a field, annotated 'Comrade Cowley & [indecipherable]'
Photo 14 and 15 are the same. Six airmen in the snow at the front of the brick building, annotated 'Pete, Pat, Jock, George, George, Jim'.
Photo 16 is an airman standing in front of the brick building eating a banana. It is annotated 'Yes! The're [sic[ Bananas'.
Photo 17 and 24 are of three airmen in front of the brick building eating bananas, annotated 'Eating Again'.
Photo 18 is an airman standing at the front of the brick building entrance.
Photo 19 is Jim Delaney crouched on the snowy grass in front of the brick building.
Photo 20 is nine airmen grouped in front of the brick building.
Photo 21 is an airman in flying kit standing in front of the brick building, captioned 'The Flying Scotsman'!'
Photo 22 is three airmen standing in the snow in front of a railway carriage, annotated 'Taken during the trek across Canada'.
Photo 23 is one airman standing in the snow in front of a railway carriage.
Photo 25 is a man standing by the brick building eating a banana, annotated 'Av a banana'.
Photo 26 is nine airmen standing outside the brick building. It is annotated 'Howard, Pat, (The 2 Georges) Peter, Jock, Jock, Les & Stan'.
Photo 27 is three airmen seated in front of the brick building, annotated 'Les, myself, Jock'.
Photo 28 is one airman holding four bananas standing in front of the brick building, annotated 'Good Old Jock'.
Photo 29 is a church, annotated 'St Andrews, Moose Jaw'.
Photo 30 is three airmen standing in front of the brick building, annotated 'Les, Stan, Jock'.
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30 b/w photographs on six album pages
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PPeckP16010019, PPeckP16010019, PPeckP16010020, PPeckP16010021, PPeckP16010022, PPeckP16010023
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Canada
Saskatchewan--Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan
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IBCC Digital Archive
aircrew
training
-
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Title
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
Date
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2016-04-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Peck, PJ
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Title
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Harvard
Description
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A front/port side view of a Harvard.
Format
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One b/w photograph
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PPeckP16010016
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
Harvard
training
-
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
Date
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2016-04-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Peck, PJ
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Jim Delaney
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Four photographs from an album, captioned Jim Delaney, a grand chap.
Photo 1 and 4 are the same. Two men standing on a grassy verge in front of a brick building.
Photo 2 is Jim in a Sidcot suit leaning on the side of a car.
Photo 3 is Jim standing on a snowy grass verge in front of a brick building.
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Four b/w photographs on two album pages
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eng
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010015,
PPeckP16010017
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Royal Air Force
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aircrew
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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2016-04-25
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Peck, PJ
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Peter Peck and Mr and Mrs Smith
Description
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Five photographs from an album.
Annotated Memories of the grand time spent at No 3 with Mr & Mrs Smith.
Photo 1 is Peter and Mrs Smith standing behind the garden sundial.
Photo 2 is Peter standing beside the sundial.
Photo 3 is Peter, Mr Smith and another trainee airman standing behind the sundial.
Photo 4 is Peter, Mrs Smith and another trainee airman standing holding hands.
Photo 5 is Peter and airman friend standing behind the sun dial. Trellises and greenhouses in the background of each photograph.
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Five b/w photographs on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010014
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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Peck, Peter John. Album
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An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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2016-04-25
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Peck, PJ
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Lancaster in Flight
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An air-to-air view of the starboard side of a Lancaster in flight seen from the cockpit of another aircraft.
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010013
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Lancaster
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
Date
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2016-04-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Peck, PJ
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Lowestoft harbour
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Lowestoft harbour viewed from the cockpit of an aircraft.
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010012
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Royal Air Force
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Geolocated
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Great Britain
England--Suffolk
England--Lowestoft
aerial photograph
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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2016-04-25
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Peck, PJ
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Newquay Beach
Description
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Two photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a man buried in the sand surrounded by his colleagues, annotated 'And a good time was had by all'.
Photo 2 is 14 airmen in a group, annotated 'Some of the boys'.
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Two b/w photographs on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010011
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Newquay
England--Cornwall (County)
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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2016-04-25
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Peck, PJ
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First Day of Training
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Three photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a group of trainees arranged in four rows, annotated 'The Old 8 Flight at Newquay'. A post-it has been added with '1st day of training'.
Photo 2 is four airmen with trainee side cap white flashes.
Photo 3 is a garden sun dial with two men standing behind. The photo has been tucked behind photo 2 and only half is visible.
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Three b/w photographs on an album page
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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PPeckP16010010
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Newquay
England--Cornwall (County)
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
Date
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2016-04-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Peck, PJ
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Physical Record
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Four sections...physical record, gifts received, foreign places and discharged from service. Only foreign places has been filled in with Halifax and Minneapolis mentioned.
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Peter Peck
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One printed sheet with handwritten annotations
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eng
Type
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Text
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PPeckP16010009
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
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Canada
Nova Scotia--Halifax
United States
Minnesota--Minneapolis
Minnesota
Nova Scotia
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1943-10-29
1944
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Title
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
Date
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2016-04-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Peck, PJ
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Names and Addresses of Family and Friends
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The page has not been filled in. There is a section for names of Officers and Birthdays, these have not been filled in.
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One printed sheet
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eng
Type
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Text
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PPeckP16010008
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Royal Air Force
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Peck, Peter John
P J Peck
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Peck, PJ
Description
An account of the resource
Six items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant Peter Peck (1924 - 2019, 1805919 Royal Air Force), documents and photograph album. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 156 and 12 Squadrons. The collection also contains documents about the court martial of Thomas Hamilton White in India. Peter Peck acted as Defending Officer.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Peter Peck and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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2016-04-25
Transcribed document
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Records and Notes
Arrived at Moss Bank 18/11/43, No 2 B&G
Two Weeks “JOE JOBS”, then started on Co 96.
Bags of bombing hours on “Annies” (Ansons)
Rather a cramped existence at Gunnery Flight, gosh! to think that Blenheims were once on Ops.
25th Feb saw the end of B&G, gee! but they [sic] previous two weeks really were a bind, still! we all got thro’ – Then to Winnepeg [sic]! Look out Winnepeg [sic]! the Moss Bank Wolves are coming.
No 5 A.O.S. , grand place (first impressions), boy! you should see that dining hall, fit for a lord, let alone air bombers.
26th March, Finals are starting, What a panic! 29th Photography exam – strange, seemed fairly easy. 31st, Ah! Here’s the catch Geography, Reco : Navigation – areal days work. We are all wondering! Guess what! Well, how we fared would be the correct answer.
1st April, April fool’s day but a real date to remember, Ssh! unofficially we heard the results.
Relax!
7th April 1944 – The day we have all waited for – Wings Parade!
Gosh! am I nervous
3 oc Hurrah! it’s all over. That
[page break]
Was worse than all the exams.
LAC – SGT – P/O, This really is something that I never expected. It seems as a dream.
I really am lucky though, just 7 out of 22 got the luck break.
Now we are en route for Moncton, I wonder when we will be back home.
8th April, dashed down to see Niagara Falls, simply marvellous
9th April, arrived in Montreal, this certainly [underlined] is [/underlined] a town, The Canadian gay “Paree”, but boy! does money go quick.
Back to Moncton, Groan! 11th April, let’s hope we do not stay here long. The camp seems to be in a bad state of repair. Those rough airmen I expect.
Well it looks as if we are officers, what a different life, actually being waited on, Yes sir! No sir! Gosh! it seems strange.
19th April –
0600 Reveille 0800 Farewell Moncton 1700 All aboard! Groan! who said this was a luxury liner.
7th May – Well! we made it oh! to be in England now that spring is here.
“Sailing down the Clyde”
[page break]
Really a grand experience – so green and fresh – In fact as “Canuck” put it
“This must be Technicolor”
But alas!
We spend the night at anchor, Land is so near yet so far.
Morn’ is here!
Noon is here!
Evening’s drawing nigh! and we are scheduled to disembark at 1945 hrs
I wonder!
Looks like an overnight train journey – How thrilling!
Still maybe our next Sunday dinner will be at home.
Let’s keep on wishing!
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Records and Notes
Description
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Peter's account of his early days training in Canada then his return across the Atlantic to Scotland.
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Peter Peck
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Three handwritten sheets
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eng
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Text
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PPeckP16010005, PPeckP16010006, PPeckP16010007
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Canada
Manitoba--Winnipeg
New Brunswick--Moncton
Québec--Montréal
North America--Niagara Falls
Québec
New Brunswick
Manitoba
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Jan Waller
Temporal Coverage
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1943-11-18
1944-04-07
1944-05-07
aircrew
training
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Title
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Peck, Peter John. Album
Description
An account of the resource
39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
Date
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2016-04-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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NAME Peter. J. Peck
HOME ADDRESS 64 Ashmore Grove
CITY Welling PROVINCE OR STATE Kent. England
[insert] Winnipeg Roller Skating Club
MEMBERSHIP CARD, 1943 – 44 [/inserted]
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Peck, Peter John. Album
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39 items. An album containing photographs of Pete Peck's training and service.
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Six items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant Peter Peck (1924 - 2019, 1805919 Royal Air Force), documents and photograph album. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 156 and 12 Squadrons. The collection also contains documents about the court martial of Thomas Hamilton White in India. Peter Peck acted as Defending Officer.
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[R.A.F. crest]
The . . .
Boosters' Concert Party
PRESENTED BY THE PERSONNEL OF 32 S.F.T.S.
by kind permission of the Commanding Officer
Group Captain E.J. George
DANCERS FROM THE WYNJOY STUDIO
Trained by Miss Joyce Gardner
STATION BAND
S/L McCardle, Cpl. Hendry, LAC Stevens
A/C Coleman, A/C Wiltshire, A/C Llewellyn
Stage Manager – P/O R.T.D. Williams
Electrician – LAC S.A. Munns
Staging – A/C George Long, A/C Fred Hawkins
Floral Decorations – A/C Coane
Curtains – A/C Waudby
Produced and Compered by
F/O J.C.W. DANIELS
[page break]
The Boosters' Concert Party
FIRST EDITION
1. CONCERTED OPENING – Full Company
2. BOOGIE-WOOGIE WASHERWOMAN – Dancers
Shirley Steel, Marguerite Horley, Laura Sadler, Jean Johnstone,
Mary Lou Bell, Maxine Sutherland
3. COMPERE – J.C.W. Daniels
4. AMAMI NIGHT – B. Bratton, M. Jack
5. HARMONY RANGERS – Cpls. Spry, Cattle
LAC Wiltshire, A/C's Shield, Wright, Davidson
6. ETERNAL TRIANGLE
Theo Le Strange, A.J.G. Hall, C. B. Thomas
7. SONG – Kathleen Cooper
8. COMPERE – introducing:-
9. THE DESERT ISLAND – M. Jack, B. Bratton
10. DANCERS – The Girls
11. SONG – W Newbery
12. SKETCH – "Dusty's Dilemma" – M. Jack, Kathleen Cooper
13. MONOLOGUE – A/C Day
14. STATELY HOMES OF ENGLAND
A.J.G. Hall, C.B. Thomas, J.C.W. Daniels, M. Jack
[page break]
15. WIFE WANTED – M. Jack, B. Bratton
16. "I'M GOING TO GET LIT UP" – J.C.W. Daniels
17. COMPERE
18 INTERMISSION – Band
19. ALICE BLUE GOWN – Kathleen Cooper and the Girls
20. SONG – H. Astbury
21. STRICTLY OPERATIONAL
Theo Le Strange, A.J.G. Hall, C.B. Thomas, J.C.W. Daniels
22. "ERKSOME" – O. Cooper, B. Bratton
23. THANKS FOR THE MEMORY – Compere
24. HARMONY RANGERS
25. SOLO TAP – Shirley Steel
26. PIANO SOLO – Reg Coleman
27. LONDON PRIDE – Kathleen Cooper
28. AT THE BAR
Theo Le Strange, A.J.G. Hall, C.B. Thomas, J.C.W. Daniels
29. DANCERS
30. FINALE
[page break]
WESTERN PRESS LIMITED
MOOSE JAW
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GR: This is Gary Rushbrooke with Flight Lieutenant Peter Peck. We’re at Peter’s home in Spalding on the 25th of April for the International Bomber Command Centre. Peter, if you can just tell me a little bit about yourself. Where you were born.
PP: I was born in Bow, London. So they tell me that makes me a Cockney although I don’t, at those times I don’t cry about that. They thought I was a country boy when I moved to Kent.
GR: Within the sound of Bow Bells.
PP: That’s right and at a guess London was [pause] well we were, yes we lived in the London area until 1934. I was born in 1924. So ten. At the age of ten my — I had a younger brother and my father was one of those many people that sort of emigrated from north of the River Thames to south.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Kent. Where —
GR: You went to Kent.
PP: Yes. Houses were being built by Ideal Homes and houses were available. Six hundred and ninety six pounds for a house although my father was only on five pound ten a week as a bank, a bank messenger.
GR: Bank messenger. I was just going to say what did your father do.
PP: Yes.
GR: He was a bank messenger.
PP: He was a bank messenger. But that of course enabled a household to tick-by it seemed.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And I saw what it means to be on the edge of money with my parents. But we moved and in 1934 we moved to Welling in Kent and that’s where recently the London marathon’s just been tearing up and down.
GR: That’s just been doing. Yeah.
PP: Yeah. Shooter’s Hill Road.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And then from — I was ten year old and I had — my brother was five years old and I lived in Kent from then until — well many years. But of course —
GR: Yeah.
PP: At ten year old then that was in ‘34 but in ‘39 the war.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And we lived in Kent.
GR: So you witnessed the Battle of Britain at its height.
PP: We saw. Yes. To me. As a young boy just see aircraft fighting over — well that would be, I presume, Spitfires and Hurricanes.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Fighters over — over Kent. And, and things coming down.
GR: Yeah. Well that part of the country, Kent was protected by 11 Group which obviously was Spitfires and Hurricanes and it saw the main, the main battles of the Battle of Britain.
PP: Well it must have been. I gathered that later when —
GR: It must have been fascinating as a young man watching that.
PP: Oh well. It was fun I suppose. In fact I can remember when I started work. Started work when I was fifteen. Went to work. My first long pair of trousers were my father’s bank messenger’s suit. I could get into the trousers but the jacket made me look as if I’d got a Zoot suit on. Do you remember them?
GR: I do. I do. Yeah.
PP: Zoot suits.
GR: What was your first job? What was you?
PP: I was an office boy.
GR: Yeah.
PP: In the Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Company. An office boy was where I would be with the — didn’t have a chair. The office boy didn’t have a chair. We sat in a little quarter of the office and we looked after the post.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Or an older man. Happy man with a crippled hand. He was the post master. Post clerk I suppose. I would just take the big red bag. Post office bag. Round —end of the day over my shoulder and in the hot summertime I remember my father’s bank messenger’s blue serge suit. It was jolly hot.
GR: Jolly hot. Yeah.
PP: But it was a suit.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And it was fun to dash out of course when the bits of shrapnel were coming out and you heard pinging on. We had, ‘get out the way,’ but it was, it was to me it was an experience.
GR: Did you collect any? Did you collect any shrapnel?
PP: Little pieces. Yeah. Jagged.
GR: Yeah. I’ve heard that.
PP: Yeah. Take a piece home.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Yeah. So that was that and then some sixteen and we were living in Kent and I wanted to be a pilot. I joined the ATC.
GR: Yeah.
PP: It was ATC. There was the very old number 74 ADC. I think, the Air Defence Cadet Corps at a unit at Crayford which was about five miles from where I lived in Welling. We went down there. Sixteen, seventeen volunteered to join. I wanted to join —
GR: Join the RAF.
PP: Join the RAF.
GR: And seventeen.
PP: Yes.
GR: Was when you could volunteer. Yeah.
PP: But then you had to queue up. After a while went, I went to the recruiting centre. At Hither Green that was. And the stories that those that had been the week before drew up were quite horrific. They said you’d got this bit of mercury. You’ve got to hold your breath and hold it up otherwise you’ll fail and you blew into a tube and there was mercury to keep the pressure up.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And it was to see whether your lungs were any good. Oh it was scary. You didn’t want it to happen. You didn’t want to fail.
GR: No. Of course you didn’t. No.
PP: Fortunately passed and had then it was just waiting time.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Until what was that? Thirty. And then after that it was just similar for everybody of course but we went to Lord’s Cricket Ground which was a big thing to me.
GR: Yeah.
PP: We recruits recruited at Lord’s Cricket Ground in to the RAF.
GR: So you volunteered at seventeen.
PP: And I was still seventeen. 1943 I suppose in the end. So I still wasn’t.
GR: Yeah.
PP: No wait a minute. No. 1943.
GR: Yes. You’d have been called up.
PP: Called up.
GR: Having a quick look in the logbook. Yes. You would have got called up towards the end of 1943.
PP: ’43. So that would have been —
GR: Yeah.
PP: I would have been in my — coming up to my nineteenth year. Eighteen.
GR: Yes. Yeah.
PR: Eighteen.
GR: And did you say to them, ‘I want to be a pilot.’?
PP: Well. That’s what we wanted to do but of course.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Before that you had that. The corporal. We had a corporal who was in charge. He was, we held him in awe really. He showed you how to polish your boots. Blacken the toes of your boots so that they shone like anything with a back handle of a knife.
GR: Yeah.
PP: The bone handle of a knife. And always wanted to please. I always. I think I had two left feet when it come to marching and it came natural for some people.
GR: Yeah.
PP: But it’s a matter of wanting to achieve and —
GR: And this was your initial training.
PP: Yes.
GR: Doing sort of six weeks of marching and —
PP: And then of course we went down to, we went to the West Country. Newquay. Did our training just from when we were kitted out at Lord’s Cricket ground eventually.
GR: Yeah.
PP: We went to different places. We went to Newquay.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And then I did do — just do your best.
GR: Yeah. Where did they send you to do your main training?
PP: After that we went to Canada.
GR: Oh yeah. Right.
PP: Yes, and we went off to Canada. I was just reading it in my book. Went to Canada in November ’43 I think.
GR: ’43. Yeah.
PP: ’43.
GR: How did you feel about being sent to Canada for your training?
PP: Well it was so exciting. It is exciting.
GR: Exciting. Yeah. Yeah.
PP: Because at that time you know it was eerie because we left wherever it was. I’m not so sure if it wasn’t Manchester or somewhere we left and travelled up to Glasgow. And it was black out because the war was, the war was on wasn’t it in then? In ‘43. And this train, there were no lights on the trains and we boarded this ship. It was, it was the HMS. My friend looked it up. Andes.
GR: Yeah.
PP: It was a luxury liner.
GR: Yes.
PP: And so we travelled to Canada but the great event for me. All of us actually. We were in bunks. No. It was hammocks. On there.
GR: Yeah.
PP: All gathered together. But there was, there was a boy amongst us, a boy, a man amongst us — he was a great pianist. And they had — because it had been a luxury liner there was still a grand piano in one of the places and we all gathered or — and he played to me the Warsaw Concerto. I may have seen the film.
GR: Yeah.
PP: I don’t know if you’ve seen the film.
GR: I have.
PP: With Anton Walbrook
GR: Yeah.
PP: And Sally Gray I think. And it shows the blitz of Warsaw.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And he plays that —
GR: Yeah. That’s right. Yeah.
PP: As I say, I’m no great musical lover but it just did something for all those people leaving —
GR: Yes. Yeah.
PP: Leaving home and the music.
GR: Leaving home. Probably all of you for the first time. Never been abroad before
PP: Music just — just did something.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And later on I asked my son if he could get the film. He got it on Ebay years later.
GR: Very good.
PP: Anton Walbrook. And I played it. So that was then. And then we went to Canada. And then such luxury of course. Even on the boat we had a bit better food. When we got to, we went to, across to Halifax. That’s Northern Canada.
GR: Yeah. Nova Scotia.
PP: Over to Newfoundland I think.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And then we had this delight of four or five days on the Trans, on the railway.
GR: Yeah.
PP: All across Canada. Beautiful white sheets to sleep in and how do I say this? That there were lovely people that looked after us were very happy American.
GR: People.
PP: People.
GR: Yeah. Plenty of food.
PP: Plenty of food.
GR: Yeah.
PP: White bread.
GR: White bread. And of course no rationing.
PP: No.
GR: So you were —
PP: In Canada we went right across to Saskatchewan and Moose Jaw. That’s right. And —
GR: Yeah.
PP: Moose Jaw and Mossbank I was stationed at.
GR: That’s right. I’m just looking through your logbook.
PP: I don’t — It wouldn’t show it there.
GR: Yeah. It does. Yeah. It says January, February.
PP: That would have been ’44 I should think.
GR: March ‘44. Completion of gunnery school training at Mossbank.
PP: That’s it. Mossbank. Oh I’m right.
GR: Saskatchewan. Yeah. 25th of Feb 1944 and then —
PP: That would have been the gunnery.
GR: Yeah. You did some air gunnery duties on Blenheims.
PP: Blenheims.
GR: Yeah. And that was at Mossbank as well.
PP: I remember writing, “Gosh what old aircraft.” To me. A Blenheim then.
GR: Then on to Ansons for air bombing course.
PP: That was for, yes, air bombing and gunnery. Firing at the drogues and I did the bombing in Canada too.
GR: Yes.
PP: That’s where. I remember seeing somewhere in the book. Five thousand I think. Is it? At the back? Is there a —
GR: Yeah.
PP: Piece of paper somewhere? I saw something on here. What does this mean? This is, this says height doesn’t it?
GR: We’re just looking so bombing characterisation chart showing height, distance and this was while you was at.
PP: Twenty thousand.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And then was it fifteen thousand feet I was —?
GR: Yeah. It was showing your accuracy from certain bombing heights.
PP: Yeah. I got a qualification — a B category was it?
GR: Yeah.
PP: That’s better than C I suppose but not as good as A.
GR: Yeah. Bombing record.
PP: And then when we —
GR: We’ve got to the end of April 1944 where I think you finished your training in Canada.
PP: That’s right. And just looking in my memories book there I wrote that there were twenty two of us on the course and we had the exams and well it seemed to go quite well and I said that the twenty two of — and seven of us and I was one of them fortunately — we went from LAC to sergeant to pilot officer.
GR: From sergeant to pilot officer.
PP: From — well.
GR: Yeah.
PP: That would be — the LAC, some became sergeants.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And others got commissioned.
GR: Right.
PP: I suppose they needed.
GR: Yeah.
PP: A percentage of officers amongst them dare I say it.
GR: Among the workers. Yeah.
PP: For a, for a Cockney boy I thought — mum thought I’d done pretty well.
GR: Good. So how did you get back to England?
PP: Ah. We came back to England. That was on another —
GR: Cruise liner.
PP: Another vessel.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And, yeah. That’s written down.
GR: How did you find England when you got back? So you’d been away five months.
PP: Yeah. But I think. I’m sure I saw it but my own life seemed to have changed so —
GR: Yeah.
PP: So much. And I remember when we got back it was getting chits and sent to Harrogate to get kitted out and being measured up as if I was not a Cockney but a Saville Row man.
GR: A Saville Row.
PP: That was. And then of course to come home to, you know, to be, to come home and then that was only briefly of course to come home.
GR: Yeah.
PP: That’s right. It was only briefly to come home but then we were.
GR: Operational Training Unit.
PP: Yes. That was. We was — I was — still individuals. I was classified as a air bomber and then we must, we must have got together and crewed up somewhere.
GR: Yeah. I think, again, just checking with the logbook it was RAF.
PP: Staverton.
GR: Staverton. Where you had various pilots.
PP: Yes. That’s right.
GR: And you was doing an air bombing course. And July, August and then really picking up from October. Well the main of November you went to what they called 12 Operational Training Unit.
PP: I see.
GR: And I think that is where you will have crewed up.
PP: Yeah.
GR: Can you remember anything about that?
PP: No.
GR: No.
PP: I just can’t remember. I think I was —
GR: Because you all —
PP: I don’t know.
GR: The way training went they put you in a room and you all talked to each other and sort of said I’ll be —
PP: I’ve always had really a thing about — I was pleased to have got commissioned but I wondered whether I’d have been any happier if I’d still been one of the boys.
GR: Still been one of the boys.
PP: Can I still say that? Please. That doesn’t.
GR: Of course you can. Yeah.
PP: Because all the other, all the crew were great, great friends.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And we messed in different.
GR: Yeah.
PP: I found it a bit of a —
GR: You moved up to the officer’s mess as opposed to the sergeant’s mess.
PP: Yeah.
GR: And I know plenty of people who have turned down promotion because they wanted to stay. Yeah.
PP: Well yeah. You didn’t, you didn’t know what it would amount to when you, when you finished your course.
GR: Yeah.
PP: You were classified one or the other.
GR: And your pilot was —
PP: Flight Sergeant Williams.
GR: Yeah.
PP: A great man. A lovely chap from Wales.
GR: Welsh. There we are.
PP: And there was two gunners. And a navigator who was an older person but a Jack the lad. For me being a young, oh a young nineteen year old.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Lad, you know. You were you had to move amongst the great big world with it’s —
GR: The worldly wise men of the world.
PP: Which wasn’t easy. In fact I was in, I think I was in, when we went to when we went on Operational Manna.
GR: Yeah.
PP: That was in there and I realise now that I was in, I was in, that was Operation Manna was in May ‘45.
GR: That’s right. Yes.
PP: And yet the 8th of May was —
GR: VE day.
PP: VE day and VE day and night I was in Lincoln. A hostel. A hostel.
GR: Right.
PP: Not a hostel. A pub as were so many other and it was a big
GR: Yeah.
PP: A big night and I don’t —
GR: I mean. Yeah. Just backtracking again I noticed you went to Heavy Conversion Unit where you —
PP: We went down to Hereford. Hereford somewhere.
GR: Yes 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit which is to get you used to the four engine bombers.
PP: Yeah.
GR: And then posted to 12 Squadron.
PP: 12 Squadron. That says I wasn’t, I was there only from the 9th of April it says here. Was it?
GR: Yes. You arrived at 12 Squadron 9th of April. You did a couple of cross country training flights. You went on a diversionary operation to Pemberg.
PP: What was that?
GR: Yeah. Again just checking with the logbook.
PP: Oh.
GR: Me and Peter are looking at the logbook and on the 20th of April —
PP: Yeah.
GR: It was a spam operation.
PP: What’s spam?
GR: A diversionary.
PP: Oh I see.
GR: Like a diversionary operation. So you was in the air for just over three hours. And then you started doing the food supplies to the Dutch so — and even though you was a bomb aimer you weren’t dropping bombs.
PP: No. No.
GR: You know, so —
PP: No. No. Had to — well to me the — because we had to agree. They’d called this, the Germans said there would be a truce.
GR: Yeah.
PP: If we kept down to, came down to five hundred feet. And because I’ve seen the photographs since of pictures of the the German guns on the ground but all I can recall when we came over were the guns, the guns that were looking at us from big buildings.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And well it was they were real and we were real.
GR: That’s right.
PP: But everybody were well behaved you see.
GR: The Germans had said they would not open fire.
PP: They said —
GR: Yeah.
PP: Not fire. And of course they did. A Flying Fortress got shot down.
GR: Yeah.
PP: In the process.
GR: Yeah. Yeah.
PP: So there were —
GR: ‘Cause that was the American Operation Chowhound. So the Americans were doing it at the same time.
PP: Yeah. They was.
GR: As Bomber Command.
PP: But to see the Dutch people, you know, running with prams trying to catch something.
GR: Yeah.
PP: It was just an unbelievable sight.
GR: Yeah.
PP: I don’t know as I felt like a great benefactor or something like that but it just seemed —
GR: Well it is the way that the Dutch people have always thought of Bomber Command and you speak to anybody from Holland and they were so grateful because I think the build up to it was that when the allies stalled in the Autumn of ’44 there was the Arnhem bridgehead which never happened so unfortunately Holland was really cut off.
PP: It was isolated.
GR: And it was quite a bad winter in 1944. And for literally you were getting on for eight months. They were literally being starved.
PP: And even the Germans were getting short of supplies I read.
GR: Yeah. So when you first flew over.
PP: That would have been the 7th of May.
GR: 1st of May. 1st of May. 1st, 3rd, and 5th of May — you did three operations. Noordwijk and two to Rotterdam.
PP: Yeah.
GR: So that was a very — yeah.
PP: Just to see them ‘cause it was quite, it was quite low for our, my pilot. I think. You know. He had a heavy load and it was, it was just a great big — it wasn’t a dead, dead weight type to the aircraft.
GR: Yeah.
PP: It gave. They were just loaded on to the bomb bays weren’t they? It was just a five thousand pounds.
GR: Five thousand pounds of food and supplies. Yeah. Yeah.
PP: In different sacks.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And they would come down at a —
GR: And then you celebrated as you just told me VE day in Lincoln. In a pub.
PP: Yeah. So where was I?
GR: Well the next day.
PP: I mean I can’t figure out where. I can’t figure out where I would have been. It must have been somewhere in Lincoln.
GR: Yes. Yeah.
PP: Because I thought I was at Staverton. Was there a place at Staverton?
GR: There was.
PP: Or Waddington. Because at —
GR: I’m trying to remember where 12 Squadron was flying from at the time.
PP: It can’t be far.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Because we got in to Lincoln city.
GR: Yes. Yeah.
PP: And the times when, I must have been stationed in Lincoln quite a bit because when we got a day off, time off, even in my officer’s uniform trying to get a lift on a builder’s lorry going down the A1 to London to get home.
GR: Well you celebrated VE day on the 8th of May and then the following day at half past four in the afternoon you were picking prisoners of wars, prisoners of war up from Brussels.
PP: Brussels. Yeah.
GR: In Operation Exodus.
PP: That was it. The truce.
GR: Yeah.
PP: The truce had been signed.
GR: Yeah. Yeah.
PP: And we just —
GR: No hangover from the night before.
PP: I don’t know. I don’t. Actually, in all fairness I don’t. As a young, I was a young lad I suppose but not, not as hard bitten as —
GR: Yeah. Well it wouldn’t be so bad the bomb aimer having a hangover because in theory —
PP: The pilot.
GR: You know as long as the pilot was —
PP: He was very well behaved.
GR: Yeah. As long as the pilot was well behaved.
PP: It was quite a big ordeal I think —
GR: Yeah.
PP: For the pilots.
GR: Yeah.
PP: There because you was as I say your trust in somebody wasn’t going to —
GR: Yeah.
PP: Upset you and five hundred feet not a lot of room.
GR: For manoeuvre.
PP: For manoeuvre.
GR: No.
PP: They were wonderful.
GR: Yeah.
PP: The pilots were.
GR: And then you did a couple, like I say, a couple of bringing prisoners of war back and then some more training and then some time in late May you were transferred from 12 Squadron to 156 Squadron at RAF Wyton.
PP: Yes. That’s in Cambridgeshire isn’t it?
GR: Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
PP: And I enquired the other day. It’s now housing centres. There’s no RAF unit.
GR: No.
PP: There at all now.
GR: No. No. There is. At RAF Wyton.
PP: Yeah.
GR: It is still a current RAF base.
PP: Is it?
GR: Yes.
PP: Oh.
GR: And 156 Squadron during the war was a Pathfinder squadron and the actual Pathfinder Museum is still there at RAF Wyton.
PP: It’s still at —
GR: Yes.
PP: I understood.
GR: Yeah. So they’re still there.
PP: That was quite a switch. We must have moved down from Lincoln. Not a great distance but —
GR: No. But can you remember was that probably getting ready to go out to India for —?
PP: It was a winding up because we were surplus to requirements.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And people with demob numbers which were much more beneficial than yours had to come home didn’t they?
GR: Yeah. They —
PP: So they, for me that was the fun part wasn’t it? All through the Suez Canal looking at olden times. Just like bible times alongside the canals.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And all the way to India through the gateway of India.
GR: And before you went out to India I can see you did a Cook’s Tour and I don’t know whether you took some ground crew with you but you flew over Antwerp, Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund, Osnabruck and Munster.
PP: Oh I didn’t know that.
GR: Yeah. You were, you were with Flight Sergeant Williams.
PP: Yeah.
GR: Yeah. Have a quick look at the Ruhr.
PP: Wonderful.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Yes. It must have been.
GR: Yeah. And obviously you made your way out to India.
PP: That’s right ‘cause —
GR: Yeah.
PP: Spoiled really having a —
GR: Yeah. Was India on board a ship? Or —
PP: Went through the Suez Canal.
GR: Yeah.
PP: By boat. And got to India. Was in first came to Bombay. Bombay. Gateway was India. Through there. And went to different places. First I went up to the headquarters in Delhi. New Delhi. Just had a bit of an office job. Oh it’s so silly isn’t it? Really. When you think.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Such a switch. Had an office, a desk.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And a pile of papers and a lovely —
GR: From Lancasters over Europe to sitting behind a desk in India.
PP: With a punkahwallah with a —
GR: Fanning you.
PP: It was tied to his toe. He dropped back on his foot keeping you.
GR: Oh gawd yeah.
PP: And then ‘cause that was in the flowing month wasn’t it? In August of [60 70 D-Day 48 48 wasn’t it? ‘48. ‘48 was VJ day.] August.
GR: Yeah.
PP: I was in Delhi then. And then I was sent to Calcutta. Dream of a job. I was put in charge of the RAF Cinema Unit for all the aerodromes in India.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And flight lieutenant dealing with 20th Century Fox and MGM films. Screening the films.
GR: Wonderful.
PP: And to my, dare I mention it, to my [laughs] I was able to film or distribute a very well known film by some people. Jane Russell in, “The Outlaw.” It’s well worth looking up.
GR: Oh right.
PP: Because it was a wonderful encouraging [laughs] film. It was a saucy film but a great cowboy film.
GR: Right.
PP: Very well known for people that day. And — but of course thinking back and then.
GR: When did demob come up?
PP: Demob. That was in ‘48. Early ’48.
GR: Yeah.
PP: ’48.
GR: Back to England on a boat again or —?
PP: I don’t —
GR: Yeah,
PP: You’ve got me beat.
GR: Well there was no flying hours. So I assume you got back.
PP: No. Yeah. Got back to England and that was the come down really although I thought on the basis of my in charge of cinemas in India I was given — got big entries by the film people there.
GR: Yeah.
PP: That came back. J Arthur Rank was in charge of big cinemas in India then.
GR: Yeah.
PP: In England.
GR: In England. Yeah. What did you end up doing?
PP: Well after I ended up assistant manager at The Regal, Gravesend. [laughs] Oh dear. What a come down. And that wasn’t hard. I came home and I didn’t find it easy.
GR: No.
PP: I didn’t. But then we settled. Settled in and life went on.
GR: Was you —
PP: Highlights.
GR: Was you, was you married by then?
PP: Yes. I [pause] yes I married home in ’48.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Was it ‘48? I was married in ‘48. A beautiful, a beautiful lady. A lovely wife.
GR: And so how many years did you spend as assistant cinema manager? Or did that not last long?
PP: Yes. Well, not, not too long.
GR: No.
PP: Because had difficulty in re-establishing my, I was — due to my circumstances I was one of the very early single parents —
GR: Right.
PP: In 1953.
GR: Ok right. Yeah. Yeah.
PP: But now I’m —
GR: So things moved on because I know you told me before this conversation started you ended up with a bible bookshop.
PP: Yes.
GR: Which I believe you are very proud of.
PP: More than that.
GR: And were very successful.
PP: Greatest event. A great upturn in my life. Converted to the Lord Jesus came into my heart and changed my life at that time.
GR: Yeah.
PP: Although I was still a single mum — single one.
GR: Yeah.
PP: And my son is now sixty and he has a lovely new mum. Has had for fifty odd years. And so out of the Billy Graham conversion changes come. You look back. Became very interested in Christian literature and the power of the printed page.
GR: Yeah.
PP: To change your life. Many of us take to the printed page for one thing or another.
GR: Yes. Yes. Yeah.
PP: A conversion experience in our life and [pause] but now we are — had a bible bookshop as I say if I repeated myself. I might have repeated myself.
GR: It doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter. No.
PP: We had a bible bookshop and for twenty odd years became a very popular —
GR: Yeah.
PP: And successful because it’s the printed page going into people’s hands.
GR: Yeah. Which is great. And then —
PP: Thank you for this opportunity.
GR: And then graceful retirement up in Spalding.
PP: Well being ninety one and rejuvenated by the input from Bomber Command and people like yourself and —
GR: Well, that is very good of you to say and obviously —
PP: Well it has been. The effect. The recent visit to Coningsby.
GR: Yes.
PP: And the ability to —
GR: And the interest shown.
PP: You realise there’s something special.
GR: Yes.
PP: About the RAF.
GR: Yeah. The RAF and what you gentlemen did at the time. So —
PP: It’s the different people I met there.
GR: Yeah.
PP: You’re all one. People that, we came together and we were just great friends.
GR: Yes.
PP: I was amazed.
GR: Peter’s referring to a —
PP: Visit to —
GR: A visit and a get together at RAF Coningsby approximately three to four weeks ago.
PP: Yeah.
GR: Where there was ten Bomber Command veterans and we all got the chance to go in a Lancaster again.
PP: Oh. Tried to get in.
GR: Did you get in? You got in.
PP: Yeah. I did get in.
GR: Good. Good. Good.
PP: I still can’t quite believe that there was a time I got right up to the front. They must have been a time. It is a fantastic.
GR: Yeah.
PP: I’d like to try again when there’s more.
GR: That can be arranged. I shall now finish this and say, thank you Peter.
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Canada
Nova Scotia
Saskatchewan
Great Britain
England--Gloucestershire
England--Lincolnshire
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India
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1943
1944
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1946
1947
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1945-05-08
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Peter joined the 74 Air Defence Cadet Corps at a unit at Crayford. He then volunteered to join the Royal Air Force. After a recruiting centre at Hither Green, he attended Lord’s Cricket Ground and was called up towards the end of 1943. He went to Newquay and then sailed to Nova Scotia in Canada. He completed air gunnery school training on Blenheims in Mossbank, Saskatchewan, followed by an air bombing course on Ansons. He was then commissioned.
Peter did an air bombing course at RAF Staverton and went to 12 Operational Training Unit. From 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit, he was posted to 12 Squadron near Lincoln, where he recalls spending VE Day. Peter was involved in Operation Manna, Operation Exodus and a Cook’s Tour over the Ruhr. He was transferred to 156 Squadron at RAF Wyton and spent some time in different Indian cities, ultimately in charge of the RAF cinema unit there. Peter was demobilised in early 1948.
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Sally Coulter
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Operation Exodus (1945)
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