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Greetings Telegram from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war
Gresse Church Chronicle Extract
In the second part he describes damage to the cemetery during a bombardment from the other…
Groups of prisoners
Photo 2 is a large group surrounding a couple of men.
Photo 3 is soldiers walking round in a circle, taken through a barbed wire fence.
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 1
H Bartlett
Tags: prisoner of war
H E C Scott and Jay Lynch
Tags: prisoner of war
H T Hathaway, J R Perkins, and E W Perkins
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; observer; pilot; prisoner of war
H W Bratley - observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 11 OTU; 1678 HCU; 7 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; escaping; evading; forced landing; Harrow; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honington; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; Wellington
Halifax DT546 damaged by flak, returned to Melbourne airfield
Handcart and Three Germans
Tags: escaping; prisoner of war
Handle with Care
Harold Dryhurst RAF pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 26 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Flying Training School; Halifax; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bramcote; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Driffield; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Peterborough; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Wing; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Harold Dryhurst Service biography
Harold Dryhurst's personal record
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Harry William Wickham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 462 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; B-17; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; mine laying; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Finningley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Torquay; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Henry Bartlett prisoner of war photograph
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 4
Henry Wagner's life story. Part one
Tags: 1652 HCU; 51 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; briefing; C-47; Caterpillar Club; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Dulag Luft; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; killed in action; Master Bomber; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; padre; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; target indicator; target photograph; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley; Window
Henry Wagner's prisoner of war Record Card
Tags: aircrew; navigator; prisoner of war
Herbert O'Hara's South African Air Force observers or air gunners log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 26 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); C-47; Dominie; evading; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Penrhos; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wing; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington
Hermann Brandt
Tags: prisoner of war
Hoffnungsthal Cemetery
Middle - view of grave cross with 'Englander' and wreaths.
Right - view of part of cemetery with grave crosses and open landscape beyond with trees, hills and houses in distance. Captioned…
How we took the good news from Grosse Tychow to Fallingbostel
Tags: animal; fear; padre; prisoner of war; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 4; the long march
Ice hockey at Stalag Luft 1
Top middle - the backs of men playing ice hockey. In the…
Tags: prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 1
Ice Hockey in prisoner of war camp
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…
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; sport; Stalag Luft 1
If you are captured
Tags: prisoner of war