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  • Tags: Women’s Auxiliary Air Force

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Left page: images of young children with Bob identified in top left, sat on a table.
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.

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A full length portrait of Edith in uniform.

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Eight WAAFs arranged in two rows.
Each woman is named in a handwritten caption. 'Phyllis Cadman/Hosier on sick leave'.

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Eight Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers wearing greatcoats and gloves arranged in two rows. Five are seated on chairs and three are standing behind. Kathleen Croft is in the middle, front row. In the distance are trees.

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Corporal Elizabeth Mary "Bunty" Brown (Later E M Ward).

Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.

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A notebook used by Elizabeth Humphrey during her training as an instrument technician.

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Four embarkation cards for the ferry to Fleetwood.

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Four photographs from an album. Photo 1 is a target photograph of Emmerich. The river Rhine is visible but no ground detail. Photo 2 and 3 are Terry and Eddy at the controls on the way home from the Emmerich operation. Photo 4 is six airmen and a…

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A receipt issued to Jose for the return of her service clothing.

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A census form for Educational and Vocational training filled in by Jose.

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Left page:
Top left - woman holding a baby with pram to the right outside a house.
Top centre - a woman holding a child with house in the background.
Top right - woman holding a baby,
Middle left - a young toddler sitting on sand.
Middle centre…

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A cartoon of two women fencing, captioned 'We die a thousand deaths'.

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A cartoon of two women dripping in sweat and wobbly at the knees captioned 'How we feel after 30 minutes of it'.

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Four airmen standing and one sitting on grass with a WAAF. At least two of the airmen are pilots. Behind is a Nissen hut.

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A group of six in the long grass outside Nissen huts.

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Five WAAFs sitting on the grass. one is wearing a white coat.

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Five WAAFs, Beattie Hayman, Kathleen Selby, Kath Lewin, Vi Dodd, Jean Murdoch standing in a row, full length, trees fields and hedges in the background.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

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Margaret is kneeling at the front of a group of five WAAFs. Behind are Nissen huts and flowers.

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Five Women’s Auxiliary Air Force personnel, no rank insignia visible, are arranged in a single file in front of a structure with a barbed wire fence extending from one side. The uppermost of the two copies has been defaced, the lower appears to…

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Metal flat iron WAAF issue. Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor

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On the left an RAF pilot wearing tunic with pilot's brevet and medal ribbons sitting alongside and woman wearing uniform tunic. Submitted with description 'F/Lt Graham Martin, RAFVR, and a WAAF officer sitting in front of building, RAF Heston,…

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Flight Lieutenant Mercer and crew and ground personnel in front of their Lancaster. On the reverse:
'March 1944 X for Xray
Dunholme Lodge
Bomber Command
Left to right
Isot Pratt. (mid upper) F/lt Mercer D.F.C. (pilot) Sgt Fallan (fit.…

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The four are standing under a Lancastrian wing. On the reverse 'Orly Airport - Paris - Mum enroute from Singapore with our RAF crew to UK'.
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