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PValentineJRM18040002-0014.jpg
Top left: group of men sitting and standing round a table with a hut in the background. 'Captioned 'C39 Sports Day. Stalag Luft 3. Aug 42'. Top right: group of men playing basketball. In the background huts. 'Captioned 'C40 Sports Day. Stalag Luft…

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PValentineJRM18040004-0005.jpg
Top left: a group of men sitting on side of a square pool. On the left a man is launching a model steam boat. Captioned 'D41 W O Bristow's Steam Boat, Stalag Luft 3, 42'. Top right: a man squatting down on the edge of a pool launching a model steam…

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MShipmanJ1694683-181126-020001.jpg
A programme for a boxing competition.

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MShipmanJ1694683-181126-06.pdf
The first edition of a magazine produced by RAF Mauripur. Articles about station life, sports reports, a film review and adverts.

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MShipmanJ1694683-181126-12.pdf
Details of football, boxing, cricket and hockey events.

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PShipmanJ18010020.jpg
Seven photographs from an album.
Photos 1, 2 and 3 are a man in shorts doing boxing practice, captioned 'Doug (Bully) Walker'.
Photos 4, 5, 6 and 7 are men and donkeys captioned 'Donkey Races Christmas 1944'.

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PShipmanJ18010021.jpg
Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is three footballers.
Photo 2 is 11 footballers.
Both are captioned Flight Mechs XI.
Photo 3 is 14 men, captioned '23 Billet and Bearers'.
Photo 4 is Lord Mountbatten, captioned 'Lord Louis Mountbatten at…

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PShipmanJ18010023.jpg
Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is two men sitting on a fence, captioned 'Alf & Bob Simla/45'.
Photo 2 is a group of nine men and women, captioned 'Group at "Walterton", Simla/45'.
Photo 3 and 4 are five men ready to play tennis, captioned…

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PShipmanJ18010035.jpg
Nine photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is seven men, captioned 'Gang at R&I Mauripur'.
Photo 2 five men, a camel and a boy, captioned 'At Hawks Bay'.
Photo 3 is three airmen in khaki uniform and broad brimmed hats, captioned 'Off to town.…

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YShipmanJ1694683v1.pdf
John's day by day record of his work at RAF Maipur. It covers the RAF 'strike' and his return to the UK

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YShipmanJ1694683v2.pdf
Intermittent record of John's time at RAF West Kirby then Blackpool for training. He covers the sail from Liverpool to Durban, then India, first Bombay then train to Karachi. Once established at RAF Mauripur he records his daily work and…

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PCulkinJ17010046.jpg
Page captioned 'Brindisi Italy 1944 'Drop Tank' boat race, Jimmy Green and I win!!'. Six photographs, first drop tank race competitors gather on the water, reverse captioned '16/7/44 Darling xx, Just a little chatter before the race Love Jack'.…

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PTyrieJSB19010007.jpg
Photo 1, 3 and 5 are a rugby match in progress. Huts and the wire are in the background.
Photo 2 is two men in the compound.
Photo 4 is the barb wire between the double fence.

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PTyrieJSB19010009.jpg
Photo 1 is a group of men captioned 'Rugby'
Photo 2 is two men wearing skates.
Photo 3 is one man wearing skates, captioned 'Ice Hockey'.
Photo 4 is ten men dressed in thick coats. One man is carrying towels, captioned 'Jim in the centre'. Huts…

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PTyrieJSB19010010.jpg
Each photograph is annotated with the names of the team members.
Photo 1 - 'Tams Blicharz Stone'.
Photo 2 - 'Self Stone Barralet Kelly Dave Effie Tams'.
Photo 3 - 'Tams Effie Blicharz Stone'.
Photo 4 - 'Stone Tams Effie Blicharz (Whites)'
Photo…

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PTyrieJSB19010020.jpg
Photo 1 is a half length portrait of a man in a sweater.
Photo 2 is eight airmen captioned '+20/8/43'.
Photo 3 is two men with their hands in the air, one soldier beside them. Two men with rifles are on the right, captioned 'Two Polish prisoners…

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STyrieJSB87636v2.2.pdf
A wartime log kept by Jim Tyrie. He lists his crew on the night they were shot down over Berlin, the construction of tin trays, addresses of co-prisoners, cartoons, London restaurants, newspaper cuttings in German and English and finally more…

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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-065.pdf
Narborough Road Senior Boys' School No 1 July 1937 school magazine. Articles about school visits, a short story, school sports and activities.

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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-0690001.jpg
A programme for a race meeting at Helmieh. There are four races with six horses in each race. On the front are a cartoon of two horses and riders, one carrying a mace and the second has a shirt with the caption 'Another shirt gone?'.

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PBanksP15020009.jpg
Main headline: no change in official views on racing. present intention not to cancel Newmarket and Ascot meetings: Scots rugby star is prisoner. Round up of other sports news.

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PBanksP15020017.jpg
Many short sports articles. Horse racing, boxing, golf. cricket and dog racing all mentioned.

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BCurnockRMCurnockRMv1.pdf
A memoir written by Dick Curnock. It covers his wartime service and also his service after the war for the RAF. It covers his brother Sam and his accident as a pilot. Dick started his training at Lords in London, RAF Bridlington then RAF Bridgnorth…

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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE401003-010001.jpg
Writes that he was pleased to get a letter from Red Cross at Geneva informing him that his name had been forwarded to the prisoner of war information bureau in London and that they would inform his parents of his address. Mentions he has written…

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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-003.pdf
News-sheet of the ex-POW Association. Articles detail the Warwick Reunion in 1991, a Barbecue for ex-POWs in Hampshire, stories about individuals and obituaries.

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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-004.pdf
News Sheet of the RAF ex-POW Association. Articles describe The Great Escape Memorial Service, held in London, the Memorial to Sir Arthur Harris and the aircrews of Bomber Command, an account of a visit to Sagan, March 1994, obituaries, a visit to…

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