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Twenty-three airmen wearing tunic with white belts and side caps sitting and standing in three rows with a two storey with two storey brick barrack building with windows behind. On the reverse several signatures.

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Nine airmen wearing dust coats over uniform in a workshop gathered round aircraft engines. On the wall behind blackboards with 'Pegasus' printed on them.
On the reverse '98 Entry B Class Halton 7.5.43' and 12 signatures.

MStandivanAR1717552-170629-02.pdf
Notes were written and drawn by Arthur during his Armament Mechanics course at RAF Hereford.

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Forty-four airmen, all wearing tunics and side caps, sitting and standing in four rows in front of a building with bay windows. One man in the centre of the photograph has a tunic but is not wearing a shirt or tie.

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Top: Arthur's basic training flight, posed in two ranks outside their civilian billets in Blackpool.
Bottom: Arthur with some of his fellow tradesmen in the Mobile Servicing Squadron somewhere in France, posed in three ranks on the steps to one of…

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A poem written about B Flight and set out in the form of a scroll.

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Four photographs from an album page
#1 and 4 are side views of a Bristol Bulldog.
#2 is a port side view of an Armstrong Whitworth Atlas J-9460.
#3 is a group of nine biplanes.
All captioned RAF Hornchurch.

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A group of airmen and civilians sitting and standing in three rows in front of the door to a building. Captioned 'ground instructors technique RASF Upwood for instructing at the college technology Cranwell'.

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Two photographs of the school's buildings. There is snow on the ground in the second photograph.

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Two identical photographs of 30 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a building. It is captioned 'Uxbridge 1930'.

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Top - note that at the end of war, Ned Sparkes crewed up with other instructors at 85 OTU to convert to Lancaster and train for Tiger Force.
Left - wedding photograph a full length image of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet and holding peaked…

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An account of operations at the time Arnold took over as Flight Commander. He describes the operation when Arnold Christian was lost.

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Top left - extract from Ned Sparkes's log book between 3 August 1944 and 25 August 1944 with operations to Foret de Nieppe, St Leu-d'Esserent and Brest.
Right - document titled "The Reckoning". Giving details of bomber commands sorties, aircraft and…

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Top - Title note Hamburg 1944 relates 431 squadron lost 48 aircraft between July 1943 and October 1944. Mentions that 5 aircraft were lost out of 17 dispatched to Hamburg om 29 July 1944.
Below - document listing all aircraft lost on squadron with…

PSparkesW17010004.jpg
Made out to William Sparkes on No 219 Sutton Cheam Squadron qualified as "Flt/Mech E".

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SChristianAL29160v10036-0007.jpg
Three photographs of various airmen.
#1 is three airmen standing behind a seated officer with a cane.
#2 is a single airman
#3 is a rugby team in two rows round a seated officer.

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13 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a Tomtit biplane.

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Two photographs of Arnold.
#1 Arnold is standing on a fence.
#2 Arnold in a sidcot suit standing in front of a row of Hawker Tomtit biplanes. One is K-1449. It is captioned 'Arnold Louis Christian Flying Training RAF Grantham, Lincolnshire 1931'.

LChristianAL29160v1.pdf
Pilot's Flying log book for Wing Commander A.L. Christian, covering the period from 1 December 1936 to 8 May 1941. Detailing his flying training, instructional duties and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Upavon, RAF…

MPerryWRP1317696-170719-02.pdf
Writes of his time on 106 Squadron at RAF Syerston. Mentions operation to the Ruhr and Italy and that they were two thirds of their way through tour. Writes of his last operation at Syerston and squadron's move to RAF Metheringham. Describes his new…
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