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Service history of Sergeant Alfred Edward "Teddy" Cosgrove
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; crash; final resting place; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF Ringway; RAF Wickenby; sport; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Three WAAFs
#2 is Audrey sitting on a desk.
WAAFs and Airmen
#2 is the same photograph but the individuals are named 'Florence Dorothy Audrey Lil Elsie'.
#3 is seven WAAFs and one airman arranged in two rows.
#4 is seven WAAFs and a…
WAAFs
'Joyce Mildred Ruby Gwen
Nora Georgie
Audrey'
#2 is Audrey. On the reverse 'NAAFI HQ Gardens'.
WAAFs and Airman
Three WAAFs
On the reverse of one is 'Audrey Lily Doris'.
Five WAAFs
20 Airmen and Women
463 & 467 RAAF Squadrons servicing wing
Bawtry Hall 1942- Hut 7
WAAF personnel working
Four portraits of WAAF personnel
On the reverse of two of the portraits are hand written…
WAAF personnel
Jean Thompson with WAAF personnel
"1. Edith 2. Me [Jean Thompson] 3. Beryl" "J 6195"
12 Aircrew, ground crew and a WAAF and a Wellington
Two Airmen and a WAAF
Andover's Lancasters
Tags: 156 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Grand Slam; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; military discipline; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bardney; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; Spitfire; take-off crash; Tallboy; Tirpitz; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Airmen and airwomen
Four Men and Two Women
On the reverse 'Hampstead. April 1942. Embarkation Leave'.
Jack with aircrew and family
A group of 13 uniformed airmen arranged in two rows outside an open window in a tile fronted building. Seven standing all with half caps and six seated in front, including two officers. The individuals are annotated, from the top…
Crew in the last days
A group of 13 uniformed airmen arranged in two rows outside an open window in a tile fronted building. Seven are standing all with half caps with six seated in front, including two officers. The individuals are annotated, from…
Group of Airmen
On the reverse 'CH 12689 and A Dirkin'.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form.…
Eight WAAFS
Each woman is named in a handwritten caption. 'Phyllis Cadman/Hosier on sick leave'.
Fancy Dress at Elsham Wolds 1944
On the reverse -
'Fancy Dress at Elsham Wolds 1944
Taken on WAAF site
l to r
Gladys Keeling, Grace ? Joan Fletcher Betty Hassett, Win ?
Joan Rooke (Fletcher) [redacted]'.
Early days
Bob's father with his second wife, Gwen bottom left.
Right page: top left, head and should portrait of a woman in uniform and other family pictures.