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Left - messages from Bob Wareing. He was now in Germany and in good health. Mention bailing out, aircraft on fire, after operation to Le Havre. Continues with description of how news of him reached his wife.
Right - Army and RAF pay changes, Table…

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Rows of bunkbeds in a dormitory for airmen.

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Three men standing on a wooden walkway outside their hut.

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A training camp in Canada. In the foreground are three cars and in the background three large huts.

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Several airmen at work cleaning windows.

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Six airmen eating round a table. There are thermos flasks and a torch on the table.

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Seven aircrew wearing battledress and side or peaked caps. Three squat in front and four stand behind. In the background Nissen huts. On the reverse 'Pilot Officer Williams and crew, JB 372 - DXR'.

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Seven aircrew wearing battledress and side or peaked caps. Three squat in front and four stand behind. In the background Nissen huts. On the reverse 'Flying Officer Williams and crew of DX-R, Ted Graves bottom middle'. Two versions.

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A three quarter length image of Fred in a khaki uniform. Behind are several tents.

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Jack, lying on a bunk, reading a booklet.

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A view across a snowy landscape with wooden huts.

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Jack wearing his bomb aimer brevet, standing in the snow outside the wooden huts at his base. On the reverse 'Canada'.

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A camp scene of a road with wooden huts and in the distance a bunch of airmen. On the reverse 'Piccadilly Moncton'.

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A bunk bed with shoes and uniforms ready for inspection. Sheets and blankets are folded up with pillows on top.

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Menu for Christmas meal at RAF Abu Sueir in 1944. Decorated border and artwork top and bottom.

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From RAF Kelstern Christmas 1944.

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Two photographs of Halton Camp.
The first is of Groves Barracks, the second is the Officer's Mess, North Side.

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List of personal effects of No 130598 A/F/Lt Fry H L.

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A man wearing pyjamas sitting on a bed. In the background a door and kitbag and holdall on a shelf.

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Mess bill is from the Officers Mess at RAF Hemswell for May 1944.

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From information provided by the donor. Photograph of Peter standing in the doorway of Hut 13, his accommodation as a sergeant at RAF Wickenby.

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Two versions of the same strip with enlargements of all slides. Slide 1 - captioned 'Joyce and her MT divers "joined in" on sports day GD 45/6?'. Six women, one on left in uniform, the others in civilian dress, four standing two sitting by the cab of…

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From information provided by the donor. Three photographs
First is of the accommodation huts.
The second is of the interior of Peter's hut.
The third is of Peter standing outside his hut.

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From information provided by the donor. Three photographs of Peter Baxter's time at RAF Halton.
First is of the three story brick accommodation blocks arranged around a square with some apprentices running, caption '10 times round the square'.
The…
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