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Turner Field Georgia
Top left - men on parade in front of two story barrack blocks. Captioned 'Guard of Honour'.
Top middle - an airman wearing tunic sitting on bed in barracks. Captioned 'Stan'.
Top right - an airman in shirtsleeves sitting on chair by bed in…
Top middle - an airman wearing tunic sitting on bed in barracks. Captioned 'Stan'.
Top right - an airman in shirtsleeves sitting on chair by bed in…
Georgia
Top left - a formation of men marching in front of single story barrack blocks.
Top middle - one single story house with cars parked in the drive.
Top right - a women wearing striped dress standing on open ground with trees to the left.
Bottom…
Top middle - one single story house with cars parked in the drive.
Top right - a women wearing striped dress standing on open ground with trees to the left.
Bottom…
Georgia
Left - two two story white barrack blocks on far side of road. Captioned 'The Barrack Hut, 9 February 1942'.
Right - view over a river with trees on banks. Captioned 'The River Flint. 9 February 1942'.
Right - view over a river with trees on banks. Captioned 'The River Flint. 9 February 1942'.
Turner Field
Left - a two story white barrack block on the far side of a road. Other buildings to the right in trees. Captioned 'Our Barrack Hut'.
Right - a group of men marching with instruments down a street with single story barrack huts behind. To the left…
Right - a group of men marching with instruments down a street with single story barrack huts behind. To the left…
Ernest Probyn and Letter from Sir Arthur Harris
Two photographs of Ernest, the first as a cadet, the second captioned 'Self as Sgt A/G at No 17 OTU RAF Silverstone'.
The letter is a morale booster to encourage his airmen.
The letter is a morale booster to encourage his airmen.
RAF Binbrook, barrack room
Shows the interior of a barrack room, some of the beds made up
some broken down showing the mattress biscuits and blankets. Note the coal stove, and the clothing on hangers and the lino floor with small bedside mats. Captioned 'Binbrook Lanc Hut…
some broken down showing the mattress biscuits and blankets. Note the coal stove, and the clothing on hangers and the lino floor with small bedside mats. Captioned 'Binbrook Lanc Hut…
RAF Binbrook barrack room
Shows a WAAF barrack hut with women sitting on their beds reading or sewing. Captioned 'R.A.F. Binbrook Lanc hut 2'.
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Babs Howes
Babs Howes hanging out some washing. Large tree and a building in the background.
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter with explanatory note. Writes of recent posting to Scarborough and complains about training activities undertaken. Catches up with family news. States that food is good but not enough of it and comments on weather and his accommodation. Asks…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Catches up with news of friends. Writes of visit by his parents to Scarborough and describes activities including dinner at the Victoria hotel. Mentions receiving inoculation and being confined to barracks. Writes of…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Comments on Alex's new course and news. Mentions exams he had taken and provided results. Mentions his sister visiting with friend previous Sunday and possible future visits. Mentions recent invasion exercises and…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Congratulates him on exams and promotion. Comments on his posting to Brough East Yorkshire and was enjoying flying. Mentions journey and short visit home. Describes discipline, daily routine as well as his flying so far.
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Writes of life at his new posting at RAF Bridgnorth. Describes typical days activities and mentions that they did not get late passes except Saturdays and no rail travel allowed so 48 hours leaves. Writes that town has 58…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Writes of arriving at home and missing seeing his brother due to travel difficulties. Describes quiet evening with Mary and Sunday dinner. Comments of difficult journey back to base and finding out exam results on his…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his family
Letter and explanatory note. Thanks him for parcel and was pleased with contents. Thanks his father for lending him his knife. Describes some activities and conditions but says he is behind in his correspondence. Catches up with news of friends and…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Writes from hospital after reporting sick the previous day and describes experiences. Enjoying the facility of having radio which was not available in the NAAFI on base. Mentions he had been at RAF Millom for a week but…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Writes of plan to go to cinema later that evening and then go night flying. Mentions exploring the local glorious countryside including visit to Coniston. Describes a football match he took part in and low level flying in…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Written from RAF Bruntingthorpe letting Alex know that he would be home on leave next week. Mentions previous visit home and plans to take time off with Mary in Scarborough. Comments on lack of mail and news from home and…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Remarks that it had been eight week since he had leave and he could use some now. Mentions that he expected to go to a squadron later that week. States that previous night was first night free for a week due to weather…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter and explanatory note. Writes while playing housey-housey (bingo) in the mess. Describes some events over Christmas including cycling 40 miles to meet Mary, going for walk and going to see a film. Describes life at his station, mentioning…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his father
Letter and explanatory note. Catches up with news of father's activities. Mentions he had done quite a few operations recently including Augsburg, Schweinfurt and Stuttgart. Writes that they had to divert to a fighter base on the south coast and had…
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his family
Letter and explanatory note. Reports arrival of family mail. mentions operations to Augsburg and Schweinfurt getting good photographs of the latter. Mentions an electrics failure on return from Augsburg and had to divert to airfield on the south…
Mervyn Adder diary 1941 and 1942
Day by day description of events and activities for 1941 and 1942. Records films seen, war news including RAF operations, football matches played, weather, going to cadets, air raids, dates with Mary, social events, meeting friends, fire watching…
Mervyn Adder diary 1943
Daily entries for activities in 1943. Covers, films seen, weather, training and exams, leaves, training at Bridgnorth, medical issues, war news. Posted to RAF Millom, mentions activities, leave, aircrew flying training, navigation training routes,…
Meals at the Hostel
A cartoon of four meals, all toast and cocoa. On the right are faces which start happy but become sad then angry as the food does not vary.