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A large group of airmen sitting and standing in three rows in front of a Lancaster. All are wearing tunic and side cap. An officer in centre of front row is wearing peaked cap. On the reverse '5 Group Servicing Section taken at RAF Swinderby on…

Eight adults, three in civilian dress sitting in front of a large group of Air Training Corps cadets. Six more cadets in groups of three kneel either side of front row adults, In the background a doorway with large porch above which is a sign 'Branch…

Head and shoulders portrait of an airman in tunic and side cap.

List of locations and jobs from 1941 ATC summer camp, and from joining Royal Air Force in May 1943 until demobilisation in March 1946. Includes transfer to Navy in June 1945, where he worked on Barracuda, Firefly and Oxford aircraft.

Personal details and dates of wartime and postwar service. Calculation of gratuity and wages amounting to £43 9s 6d (£43.47).

For use at HMS Godwit

Pass for use at HMS Gosling

Daily activities from 25 January 1945 to 31 January 1945. Notes writing to family and friends, working and going out.

Robert Holman's personal details. promotions to A.C.1, trade qualification, medical classification, inoculations etc.

Service in Fleet Air Arm from 19 July 1945 to 13 May 1946. Dates of posting to Gosling and Godwit, as well as personal details and conduct.

Details of enlistment 31 May 1943 and discharge on transfer to Navy 18 June 1945. Dated at Lee-on-Solent 7 July 1945

Gives personal details (home address and description) and grade '1 one'.

Covers November 1944 to May 1945.

Robert Holman was born and brought up in Leeds. He joined the Air Training Corps, enjoying camps at RAF Pocklington. On leaving school at fourteen he went to work in the shoe industry. He then joined the Royal Air Force as an engineer on ground…