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Harry Binns
Head and shoulders portrait of a navigator wearing tunic with navigator brevet and sergeants rank. Captioned 'Harry Binns, killed when the plane they were in crashed returning from a raid on Nuremburg, Halifax JD151, crashed at Bowthorpe HallSouth…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crash; flight engineer; Halifax; killed in action
Harry Binns
Head and shoulder portrait of an airman wearing tunic with navigator brevet and sergeant rank. On the reverse 'Aug 11/1943, Harry Binns, navigator, killed in crash, 78 Sq'.
Tags: 78 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; navigator
A J Dickerson's Headstone
White Commonwealth war graves headstone for Sergeant A J Dickerson wireless operator air gunner, 28 January 1942. Submitted with caption 'Grave marker Rechswald Cemetery'.
Grave marker
Cross with 930296 Sgt A J Dickerson RAF, 28.1.42. Submitted with caption 'First grave marker Reichswald Cemetery'. On the reverse 'Re-interred Reichswald Forest Mil Cem, plot XI, Row B, Gr No 18'.
Commemorative scroll
Commemorates Sergeant A J Dickerson.
Alfred Dickerson's death certificate
Notes of 106 Squadron presumed date of death 28 January 1942 over Germany.
Tags: 106 Squadron; killed in action
Alfred Dickerson personnel document
RAF personnel document for Alfred James Dickerson with some details and notes killed in action 28/12/42. List of postings eventually to 106 Squadron. Notes alongside explains units posted to and some acronyms.
Commemorative Scroll awarded to JT Jones
A scroll and envelope sent to Mrs JT Jones
Note on crew
Mentions tracing the crew who were all buried together. Did not find pilot, so assumed survived the war. Pilot survived because he happened to be wearing a parachute.
Tags: aircrew; bale out; killed in action; pilot
Alec Pyle's Operational Flight Records
The records were extracted from those kept at Kew.
Two Casualty Lists
Two lists of casualties from 'Flight' relating to March 1945. The first is captioned 'Casualty list showing names of our hut mates killed over Hamburg 7/8th March 1945' and the second 'Casualty list showing names of some of our friends, who were…
Tags: aircrew; killed in action
142 Squadron North Africa June 1943
Top left - four men wearing shorts, two with no shirts and one with sombrero, three standing and one sitting in front of an earn with round object on top. In the background a tent. Captioned 'Ted with J Prentice & two crew, killed over Naples July…
Tags: 142 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; Wellington
Flying Officer Albert Evans
A framed memento of Albert with a colourised head and shoulders portrait of Albert, an embroidered RAF crest and a 1939 to 1945 Star and Bomber Command Clasp. There is a caption 'Flying Officer Albert Evans 157299, 44 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer…
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; pilot
Graves
Three photographs. Left - a white cross with 'J M CORMICK RAF'. flowers to right and other crosses in the background. Middle - front row of two stone crosses with indistinct wording. Behind another row of stone crosses and behind a hedge other…
Halifax crash at Nederweert
Three photographs and accompanying text. Top left - four German servicemen crouch alongside partly visible body in a woods. Captioned 'Sgt Webb (wounded) later died in hospital (Weert). Laid wounded in this wood all night (from midnight) until found…
Tags: crash; Halifax; killed in action
War graves and anti-aircraft fire Tower, Germany
Photos 1 and 3 are Second World War graves, Hamburg.
Photos 2 and 6 are anti-aircraft fire towers.
Photos 4 and 5 are 1914-1918 Great War Graves, Germany.
Photo 7 is a boat annotated 'The Mess Launch "Hazel" '.
Photo 8 is a passenger engine…
Photos 2 and 6 are anti-aircraft fire towers.
Photos 4 and 5 are 1914-1918 Great War Graves, Germany.
Photo 7 is a boat annotated 'The Mess Launch "Hazel" '.
Photo 8 is a passenger engine…
Middleton VC
Headline 'VC pilot died to save his crew after Turin raid'. Account of award of Victoria cross to Flt Sgt Rawson Hume Middleton RAAF who sacrificed his life to save his crew. Annotated 'John Reece attended Sgt Middleton's funeral after his body had…
Tags: killed in action; Stirling; Victoria Cross
J M Parsons
Name AUS 409274 Sgt pilot Parsons J M, Henty St, Casterton, Vic, Australia'.
Bottom left - full length image of three airmen, wearing tunics and side caps standing in a row with trees in the background. Centre man has pilot's brevet.
Right -…
Bottom left - full length image of three airmen, wearing tunics and side caps standing in a row with trees in the background. Centre man has pilot's brevet.
Right -…
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; pilot
Airman in a boat
An airman wearing tunic with half brevet sitting in the bow of a boat in reeds on the edge of a river. Captioned 'Jim, killed with Simon in April 1944'.
Tags: aircrew; killed in action
D'O Barnett, Simon G Emery and J N K Cameron
Three names. AUS 406088 F. D'O Barnett F/O. AUS415366 Simon G Emery. Note 'Simon killed April 1944'. AUS 422423 J N K Cameron F/O. Note 'Ron killed February 21st 1944'.
Newspaper cutting concerning Flying Officer R K McIntyre description of an…
Newspaper cutting concerning Flying Officer R K McIntyre description of an…
Tags: aircrew; bombing; killed in action; Lancaster; pilot; wireless operator
Four pilots and children
Top - four pilots wearing battledress with pilot's brevet standing in a street with houses in the background. Annotated 'Dermot won DFC then killed in England 16 July 1944'.
Bottom left - A pilot wearing battledress with plot's brevet standing…
Bottom left - A pilot wearing battledress with plot's brevet standing…
D J Hegarty - grave
Cross with wreath in graveyard for Flying Officer D J Hegarty, Royal Australian Air Force.
Crew grave
Rows of white crosses marking graves. Centre front row cross has Tom Wadeson's crew with names, two RNZAF and two RAF. Dated '2-8-43'. On the reverse 'Ohlsdorf British Cementery, Hamburg. GSGS4410 [.......] Sh MR 550615 Germany,Plot IV Row D Grave…
T E Wadeson's grave
Headstone for 1439406 Sergeant T E Wadeson, air gunner, Royal Air Force, 3 August 1943, age 21. To the left headstone for Sergeant Sneddon. On the reverse 'July 1959, Ohlsdorf'.