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Notification of final payment of allowances and amount due for war gratuity and post war credit
To Flying Officer L Hadfield stating final payment of £7:6:11. Includes payment arrangements and war gratuity payment totalling £84:9:0.
Payslip - L Hadfield
Payslip for December 1945
Peter Field - a memoir
Starts with account of life at school (Rendcomb College) from 1931 to 1937. Continues with decade 1938-1948 starting with time at Cheltenham Art School in 1938 and 1939. Continues with account of wartime activity including enlistment, training at RAF…
Christmas card 1945
Christmas card: on the front a 1946 calendar on the left and seasons greetings from air division control commission, Germany 1945, on the right. Inside a cartoon map of part of England and northwest Europe with RAF figures traveling to Detmold and…
Jose Hayhurst's Leave Pass
A pass issued to Jose to allow her to travel home.
Military Personnel Railway Ticket
A ticket issued to Jose.
Leave Pass
Army Form W4098 issued to Jose
Army Railway Ticket
A ticket issued by the Army for travel between Bexhill and Preston.
Leave or Duty Ration Card
A card allowing Jose to buy food.
Life as a prisoner of war
After baling out on 12 September 1944 and evading with the flight engineer for 8 days was captured. Describes move to Dulag Luft and journey to Stalag Luft VII. Gives detailed description of camp and activities. At the end quotes some extracts from…
Trip to India
Top left - view on landing from aircraft window of airport buildings including control tower. Runway in foreground. Captioned 'Taken just as we landed at Dum-Dum aerodrome, Calcutta, March 46'.
Top right - snake charmer with snake in basket.…
Top right - snake charmer with snake in basket.…
Christmas show programme
For show "Fastair' with programme of acts and other events. Christmas 1945 RAF Mauripur.
RAF Station Maripur Christmas 1945 sergeants' mess
Christmas greetings and Christmas dinner menu.
Christmas eve 1945 menu
Menu for Christmas eve dinner 24 December 1945. On the reverse signatures and location: RAF officers' mess Mauripur, Karachi, Sind, India.
No 2 officers' mess - Christmas dinner menu
For mess at Mauripur Sind, SEAAF Christmas 1945. Includes wine list, list of toasts and Christmas day dinner menu. On the back are signatures.
Letter to officer commanding no 8 school of training
From RAF records office noting that it was planned that Bill Eyles attend investiture at Buckingham palace for award of Distinguished Flying Medal on 4 December 1945. Asks that he be supplied with railway warrant and details when the actual…
Bill Eyles invitation to investiture
Invitation to investiture at Buckingham Palace for award of Distinguished Flying Medal on 4 December 1944.
RAF personnel documentation - C W Eyles
Gives personal details. Notes awarded DFM (presented by the King) and Pathfinder badge. Lists postings to 78 and 35 Squadrons, mustering, promotions and qualifications.
Ernest Probyn's Warrant
A warrant appointing Ernest as a Warrant Officer. It is captioned 'Received from RAF Records in October 1984, 39 years late'.
Patrick Joseph Hogan's personal record of service
Personal details. Rank Flying Officer, 466 Squadron flying. List courses.
I drift within
Three verse poem about death, despair.
From Telok Pisang
Three verse poem. Malayan landscapes spur a reflection on human condition.
Ian Henderson's diary 1944
Gives accounts of operations including target, opposition, anti-aircraft fire, success of bombing, day or night, weather conditions. From September 1944 through to April 1945. Last page has list of losses.
Letter to I R Jenkinson from RAF records office
Forwards citation from London Gazette on the award of a Distinguished Flying Medal to his son Peter. Would be presented to his legal next of kin by the King.
Family at Buckingham Palace for award of Peter Jenkinson's Distinguished Flying Medal
Top - newspaper cutting noting that Warrant Officer L P Jenkinson received DFM awarded to his brother Peter.
Middle - photograph with full length image of two men either side of two women. Man on the right is wearing uniform tunic with brevet and…
Middle - photograph with full length image of two men either side of two women. Man on the right is wearing uniform tunic with brevet and…