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Orders for aircrew at Bari airport
Details instructions for aircrew arriving detailing transport, duties, meals, messing and water. On the reverse - hints on Bari detailing bathing beach, lack of entertainment in town apart from hotel and NAAFI. advice on eating local fruit.
Outside a hut
John, dressed in desert uniform with short and rolled up sleeves. He is leaning on an oil barrel outside a grassed walled building with a rolled up canvas doorway. On the reverse 'This was taken outside my old hut'.
Overseas life
Covering the period 7 April 1941 to 19 November 1941 when Jack was serving in the Middle East and North Africa. He describes his last night with his wife Eileen, preparations for the transfer, time spent in camp, sightseeing, films watched, receiving…
Page 17 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 1 - a view of a military hut with a truck.
Photo 2 - a man dressed in shorts standing outside a tent.
Photo 3 - Denis lying on a bed smoking a pipe.
Item 4 - One cent Malayan banknote, showing head of King George VI.
Photo 5 - a…
Photo 2 - a man dressed in shorts standing outside a tent.
Photo 3 - Denis lying on a bed smoking a pipe.
Item 4 - One cent Malayan banknote, showing head of King George VI.
Photo 5 - a…
Page from squadron routine orders
Orders for unclaimed baggage or kit, Lists airmen under discipline for fire piquet and airfield. Lists room orderlies for station fatigues. Provides information that transport on posting will not be provided.
Pages from diary
Daily activities from 25 January 1945 to 31 January 1945. Notes writing to family and friends, working and going out.
Part of letter from Ian Wynn
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Page 3 of a handwritten letter from Ian to his wife commenting on weather and where he is staying.
Part of letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
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Part of letter mentioning that he is not enthusiastic about a change. Writes he is browned off after returning from leave. Asks after his boys.
Part of letter from Reginald Weeden to his mother
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Speculates on future employment when finished navigator training in Canada. Describes flying activity and that he was hoping to get to New York on next 48 hour pass but it was too far. Describes social activities.
Part of letter to Kathy
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Catches up and reminisces over past good times. Mentions previous boy friends and current one.
Partial letter
Describes train journey through Egypt and Palestine/Transjordan. Detrains at Kantara (El Qantara) Mentions seeing Australians, Transjordan and Palestine police and that country is cleaner that Egypt. Leaves train at Lydda and describes activities…
Partial letter about leave in Palestine
Describes and evening out in Palestine including meeting prostitutes. Philosophises on Palestine being a wonderful country for broadening the mind. Mentions taking a dip before breakfast and leaving Tel Aviv by train back to Cairo. Mentions food…
Passing over
Poem describing the hardship of wartime service, stressing the emotional strain of operations and the longing for rest.
Pat Hogan's recollection of events on 3/4 March 1945 written to a relative of Flying Officer Alan Shelton
Recounts his attendance at an annual RAAF Air Crew Europe Dinner in September 1979 where the quest speaker was Donald Bennett. He then recounts his activities and training from July 1944 at Lichfield where he was crewed up and subsequently Church…
Pay & Allowances Paperwork
Three documents relating to the payment of pay and allowances.
The first advises that Kenneth's final payment of 10/7 has been paid into his bank.
The second advises that £13 and 2 shillings will be paid, dated July 1946.
The third advises that…
The first advises that Kenneth's final payment of 10/7 has been paid into his bank.
The second advises that £13 and 2 shillings will be paid, dated July 1946.
The third advises that…
People and activities at training school
Top left - in the foreground a man wearing white shorts and tee-shirt standing on the edge of a path. Behind him another man and behind right a dog. In the background a building. Captioned 'getting ready for P.T.'
Top right - ten men mostly wearing…
Top right - ten men mostly wearing…
People and bombing
Top left - three airmen in khaki uniform with side caps standing in line with trees in the background.
Top right - air-to-ground view of landscape with many bomb craters.
Middle left - an airman on bed in barrack room.
Bottom left - air to…
Top right - air-to-ground view of landscape with many bomb craters.
Middle left - an airman on bed in barrack room.
Bottom left - air to…
People and places
Top left - view down tree lined road. Captioned 'Avenue of oaks at side of hall, 18.5.44'.
Top right - An airman wearing short sleeved shirt and tie sitting on a bed in a barrack room with long shelve above his head and clothing hanging on racks…
Top right - An airman wearing short sleeved shirt and tie sitting on a bed in a barrack room with long shelve above his head and clothing hanging on racks…
People and places
Top left - four men, two writing at a desk and two standing behind, all inside a Nissen hut. Submitted with caption 'Nissen hut - Acaster Malbis, 4.3.44'.
Top right - a woman wearing jacket and skirt and holding a coat standing on a beach with…
Top right - a woman wearing jacket and skirt and holding a coat standing on a beach with…
People at training school
Top left - four men, all wearing khaki uniform with battledress tops, standing in line. In the background right bushes. Captioned 'Fred, Bill, Myself & Val'.
Top right - two men hanging upside down holding the supports to a porch roof over door to…
Top right - two men hanging upside down holding the supports to a porch roof over door to…
People at training school
Top left - a man wearing swimming trunks lays on a mat with another man sitting in a chair alongside to the right. In the middle a fence with road and another fence beyond with buildings in the background. Captioned 'Still warm'.
Top right - an man…
Top right - an man…
People, places and aircraft. Egypt and Sudan
Top left - group of five airmen, three wearing khaki uniform sitting in chairs in front of a building. Captioned 'Outside mess, Jan 1941, Heliopolis, Cairo'.
Top right - flying boat airborne above a river with trees on left bank. Captioned 'BOAC…
Top right - flying boat airborne above a river with trees on left bank. Captioned 'BOAC…
Permission to be absent from quarters
At RAF Abu Suier. Made out for Flight Sergeant Powell N. from April to December 1946. Two similar forms The second covers January and February 1946.
Permission to visit Capri
From No 2 RAF rest and leave camp. For Sergeant Powell. Permission to visit Capri as member of an organised party.
Personnel life
Top left: A F Nye astride a motorbike. On reverse, 'speed king MI*'.
Top right: Six men on a motorbike. On reverse, 'six men on a byke'.
Bottom left: Licensing star mounted on a building'. On reverse: 'What is it?'
Bottom right: Man standing…
Top right: Six men on a motorbike. On reverse, 'six men on a byke'.
Bottom left: Licensing star mounted on a building'. On reverse: 'What is it?'
Bottom right: Man standing…