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PStewartEC17090013.jpg
A full length portrait of a couple in uniform. The image has been damaged by light.

PStewartEC17090010.jpg
Four photographs of groups of airmen.
Photo 1 has nine airmen grouped in front of a statue of Mercury on a plinth.
Photo 2 has the same nine airmen arranged in front of the statue.
Photo 3 has seven airman and one WAAF in front of the…

PStewartEC17090008.jpg
Four photographs of women in a rowing boat.
Photo 1 is a woman rowing.
Photo 2 and 3 are a different woman rowing. She is wearing a jersey with an RAF crest with 'Per Ardua Adastra'.
Photo 4 is a third woman wearing battledress, rowing.

PStewartEC17090006.jpg
A group of seven comprising four WAAFs and three airmen. One WAAF is about to get a piggy back from a second WAAF.

PStewartEC17090005.jpg
An airman and a WAAF sitting on a stone wall. Behind is the bottom half of another airman. The photograph is double exposed.

PStewartEC17090001.jpg
A note explaining a photo collection 'Photos non-captionned [sic] of my mother's days in the WRAF, mainly in the Far East - Singapore, (Malta)'.

PCooperFA1701.jpg
Head and shoulders portrait of a female officer wearing tunic and peaked cap with trees in the background. Submitted with caption 'Frances Cooper 1950'.

PCameronD2138.jpg
A Woman's Auxiliary Air Force and an RAF officer both wearing tunics standing either side of a woman wearing civilian jacket and skirt. They are standing line abreast on a path with low railings and shrubbery on the left and a building in the…

PCameronD2120.jpg
An RAF pilot and a Women's Auxiliary Air Force officer both wearing tunics and peaked caps sitting side by side on a fence in front of a river. They are both holding overcoats. Submitted with caption 'Don Cameron and sister, Miriam Cameron, London…

PCameronD2117.jpg
Two versions of the same image. An RAF officer wearing tunic with pilot's wings and peaked cap standing alongside an officer of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force wearing tunics and peaked cap. Both standing by the railing of a bridge over river with…

PFOMetheringhamAF19040044.jpg
A crown of airmen and members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, several with bicycles, waving to a Lancaster taxiing past. Submitted with description 'Imperial War Museum photo No. CH10046. Annotated "Waving the boys off at Syerston." A group of…

PFOMetheringhamAF19040020.jpg
Eleven people most in uniform including one woman and another woman in civilian dress standing in a group in front of the porch of a church. Submitted with description 'A group photograph at the porch of a church. The parish name on the sign above…

PFOMetheringhamAF19040017.jpg
Top rear quarter view of a parked Lancaster PB437 J9-L , with buildings in the background.
Bottom - four members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force in shirtsleeves out side a Nissen hut with a Union flag above and behind. Submitted with description…

PFOMetheringhamAF19040014.jpg
Eleven people most in uniform including one woman and another woman in civilian dress standing in a group in front of the porch of a church. Submitted with description 'A group photograph at the porch of a church. The parish name on the sign above…

PFOMetheringhamAF19040011.jpg
Left - three-quarter length portrait of an airwoman wearing tunic and holding a black dog with window in the background. Captioned 'Betty Swindells' Submitted with description 'WAAF Cpl Betty Swindells in uniform, standing outside a civilian property…

PFOMetheringhamAF19040005.jpg
Top- half length image of a woman in military uniform standing next to an RAF Officer. Both are wearing greatcoats. Part of a third figure on the left. Submitted with description 'Unknown male RAF officer with unidentified woman in military…

PFOMetheringhamAF19040001.jpg
A group of RAF officers and members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force all standing apart from two who are kneeling in front. All are wearing uniform tunics. In the background trees. Captioned in white ink. Submitted with description 'Lunch at WAAF…

PFOMetheringhamAF19030008.jpg
Top - a member of Women's Auxiliary Air Force standing on a bicycle wheel stand with rolls of paper under her arms. In the background a brick wall. Submitted with description 'Unidentified WAAF LACW holding rolls of maps at RAF Metheringham. Date…

PFOMetheringhamAF19030006.jpg
Top - five men in uniform standing in a group on steps in front of a building. The man in the centre holds a tankard. Submitted with description 'Five officers standing on steps in front of building at RAF Syerston. Date unknown. Left-right: Lt…

PFOMetheringhamAF19030004.jpg
Top - six airmen, four standing an two sitting on steps. All are wearing battledress with brevet. In the background a door to a building. To the left a sign with Maltese cross. Submitted with description 'Duplicate of MAVCP:2019/M08/35 and MAVC37-15…

PFOMetheringhamAF19010017.jpg
Top - a group of servicemen and Women's Auxiliary Air Force members all wearing uniform tunic, two kneeling in front and the other standing with trees in the background. Submitted with description 'Duplicate of MAVCP:2019/M08/13. Group of RAF and…

PFOMetheringhamAF19010007.jpg
Top - a group of servicemen and Women's Auxiliary Air Force members all wearing uniform tunic, two kneeling in front and the other standing with trees in the background. Submitted with description 'Lunch at WAAF Officers' Mess Syerston Sep 1943. Left…

PFOMetheringhamAF19010003.jpg
On the left an RAF pilot wearing tunic with pilot's brevet and medal ribbons sitting alongside and woman wearing uniform tunic. Submitted with description 'F/Lt Graham Martin, RAFVR, and a WAAF officer sitting in front of building, RAF Heston,…

MCleggPV[DoB]-150819-03.pdf
Introduces the visitors book started on 30 December 1931 to 13 September 1959. The World War 2 part has 46 pages have a large number of signatures of Canadian airmen. Next a sketch map of RCAF and RAF airfields in North Yorkshire. Account of a visit…
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