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RAF Leave Form
A form issued to Jose. It includes her rail ticket.
RAF Leave Book
A book issued to Jose with spaces to fill in her leave entitlement.
RAF Leave Book
Jose's leave book for 1945
RAF Grimsby Headquarters staff
Posed in two rows, two officers, a Warrant Officer and two NCOs seated, eight WAAFs standing. Wooden building with sign 'S.H.Q' is the background. Corporal Kathleen Selby is third from left.
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RAF Equipment Receipt
RAF Form 675 listing WAAF equipment. The form has not been completed.
RAF Elsham Wolds Association
A leaflet advertising Elsham Wolds' tenth annual reunion. It features a wartime advert for the WAAF and has the menu for the event.
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.
RAF and family photographs
Top left - a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force standing in front of a brick wall. Captioned 'Taken by Ian Hay during my telephonist training July 1940 at the Firs Worcester'.
Top centre - two members of the Women's' Auxiliary Air Force in…
Top centre - two members of the Women's' Auxiliary Air Force in…
Propaganda leaflets
Left page: top, the Luftpost, numbers 10 and 18.
Middle, left report of an aircraft landing on a car.
Middle centre, woman holding a baby, reports of engagements and births of babies.
Bottom left, report of the death of Lieutenant Geoffrey William…
Middle, left report of an aircraft landing on a car.
Middle centre, woman holding a baby, reports of engagements and births of babies.
Bottom left, report of the death of Lieutenant Geoffrey William…
Programme for revue 'Flying High'
Revue produced by RAF Graveley Entertainments Committee, programme number 463, 16 acts from combined Women's Auxiliary Air Force and Royal Air Force cast including Kay Burchell.
Programme for revue 'Flying High'
Revue produced by RAF Graveley Entertainments Committee, with combined Royal Air Force and Women's Auxiliary Air Force cast, including Kay Burchell. Includes some signatures.
Programme for 'Flying High' revue, third edition
Produced by RAF Graveley Entertainments Committee with a combined Women's Auxiliary Air Force and Royal Air Force cast.
Procedures and Life of an Air Gunner with a Lancaster Squadron
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William Brooker's service. His crew was transferred from Swinderby Heavy Conversion Unit to 463 Squadron at RAF Waddington.
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and…
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and…
Pilot to Navigator - Where are we?
Henry, volunteered for the RAF and learned to fly Tiger Moths at Brough. He then was transferred to South Africa on a troopship. His flying training came to an end after a poor solo flight. He was retrained as a navigator. On completion of his…
Pilot and WAAF
A pilot and a WAAF standing outside the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth. The image is double exposed with images of a flying aircraft and a group of airmen superimposed.
Pilot and Two WAAFs
A group of three standing in the gardens of the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth.
Phyllis
A woman in WAAF uniform identified as Phyllis.
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This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form: no better quality copies are available.
Photographs of servicewomen
Left page:
Top left - head an shoulder portrait of a woman in military uniform.
Top right - head an shoulder portrait of a woman in military uniform.
Bottom - head an shoulders portrait of a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in uniform.
Top left - head an shoulder portrait of a woman in military uniform.
Top right - head an shoulder portrait of a woman in military uniform.
Bottom - head an shoulders portrait of a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in uniform.
Photographs of people and aircraft and newspaper cutting
Left page. Top - Ground operations. Photograph of farm workers piling hay on a rick with a Halifax bomber behind.
Bottom - a large group of airmen, some with brevet standing in three rows wearing variety of uniform and caps.
Right page. Top left…
Bottom - a large group of airmen, some with brevet standing in three rows wearing variety of uniform and caps.
Right page. Top left…
Photograph of Fifteen personnel and identity card for Section Officer J Donaldson
Top - eight members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force and seven Royal Air Force officers in two rows. Seven sitting in front and eight standing behind. All are wearing tunics and peaked hats. Joyce Donaldson is third from the right back row. There is…
Photograph Isabel's WAAF training course
Formal photograph of 22 WAAFs in three rows, row of houses, hotel and larger building in background. Isabel Aitcheson fourth from right in front row. On the reverse all are named and 'Morecambe 5/10/42'.
Photo Collection Description
A note explaining a photo collection 'Photos non-captionned [sic] of my mother's days in the WRAF, mainly in the Far East - Singapore, (Malta)'.
Personnel at Penarth
24 Women's Auxiliary Air Force personnel with one Royal Air Force sergeant. He sits in between eight women on the front row with two rows, each of eight, standing behind. Annotated 'Ivor E Lewis' 'Penarth'.
The reverse has short messages and a…
The reverse has short messages and a…