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- Tags: Red Cross
JF Neilson's memoir
He joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool,…
Tags: 4 Group; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; civil defence; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RCAF Rivers; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
John Martin's memoir
Tags: 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-29; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; demobilisation; Do 217; Dulag Luft; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; Lancastrian; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Wing; Red Cross; Resistance; sport; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Royal Air Force School for Prisoners of War
There is an illuminated section listing the tutors and lecturers and the subjects that were taught.
Robert Charles Stephenson Hancock
Life in Stalag Luft III
The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III
Carpenter's Shop
Letter to Mrs E Burns from RAF director of personal services
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Wing Commander 50 Squadron to Eric Coling's mother
Tags: 50 Squadron; missing in action; Red Cross
Letter to James Foulsham's Father
Letter to Reg MacArthur's Father
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Interview with Joyce Exton Wallace. Five
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; Red Cross
Letter to Arthur Hope's Father
War Widow
Telegram to Mrs Mabel Pexman
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Missing believed killed
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Letter to Les Pickford's Mother from Mrs EW Pepper
Tags: aircrew; pilot; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Les Pickford's Mother from Mrs EW Pepper
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter to Les Pickford's Mother from Mrs EW Pepper
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; pilot; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Lettercard from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Lettercard from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Lettercard from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Red Cross; sport
Lettercard from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Red Cross; sport
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross