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- Tags: childhood in wartime
The Prisoner of War, April 1945
Interview with Frederick James Bark
Jill Carter
Photo 1 is a young girl standing in a garden. Additional information supplied with the collection states 'aged 1 year 9 months, taken 2-8-38'.
Photo 2 is a young girl in a photographer's studio 'aged 3 years 5…
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Jill Carter
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The Evacuee
The first to Isleham and he was accompanied by his maternal grandparents and Alan from next door. There was no electricity, water or sewerage in the farmhouse. Gas was installed but never used. Lighting was by paraffin…
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; faith; home front; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
My Maternal Grandparents
After the war John, possibly her brother, became a…
Letter from C L Fackrell to his daughter Margaret
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Letter from C L Fackrell to his daughter Margaret
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Letter from C L Fackrell to his daughter Margaret
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Letter from C L Fackrell to his daughter Margaret
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Two Airmen
Jack Marsden, Paul and Gaston Charruet
Two Days in May
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 29 OTU; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); childhood in wartime; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; final resting place; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Wigsley; training; wireless operator
Two newspaper cuttings
Photographs of children killed in Ken's Stirling crash
A child inspects the wreckage of Pilot Officer Tansley's Lancaster
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; Lancaster; shot down
A child inspects the wreckage of Pilot Officer Tansley's Lancaster
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; Lancaster; shot down
Newspaper cutting reporting the Stirling crash
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; Stirling
Fragments from crashed Stirling
Family portrait
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