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  • Temporal Coverage starts with "1946-11"

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Receipt for £8.00 for Cox & Kings (Agents) Limited.

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Sends thanks for nice postcard and discusses family health issues. Mentions he is flying to Paris in a Lancastrian. Catches up with news and mentions they are sending apples.

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Aplogises for letter and says he was not well. Writes of film he had seen and describes plot. Follows rambling section on his feelings, thoughts and memories. Mentions activities and expresses his feeling for her. After break in letter describes his…

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An airman dressed in khaki and shorts. He is standing on a slightly raided path leading to tents. On the reverse 'Taken at Tengah Singapore 18 November 1946. From "Gordie" to F/O Cole'.

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Ivor, wearing shorts, socks and shoes, standing with his hands on his hips. On the reverse 'RAF Tengah. Singapore Nov. 1946. To F/O Cole With best wishes From Cpl Davidson.'

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Top left - view of sun over sea with building bottom left. Captioned 'Sun rising over sea at Beaulieu, Nice, French Riviera, Oct 46'.
Bottom left - view inside Eifel tower leg. Captioned 'Looking down pylon of Eifel tower, Paris, Nov 46'.
Bottom…

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Top left -view from the air over snow covered mountains. Captioned 'Snow plateau 12,000ft high on French Italian border near Bardonecchia'.
Top right - looking down at ground from the Eifel tower. Captioned 'Looking down from 2nd platform of Eifel…

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Top left - front quarter view of a York parked on hardstanding. Captioned 'Our York at Almaza, Cairo'.
Top right - view down onto the entrance of a hotel with driveway surrounded by palm trees. Captioned 'Heliopolis Palace hotel, Cairo Feb…

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Pay slip for Flight Lieutenant Harold Wakefield from Glyn Mills & Co for final pay.

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Contains some personal details. Last day of service 6 January 1947.

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Service at St John's Church, parish of Murton for memorial of local personnel killed in World War 2 including Thomas E Wadeson.

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Invitation to Buckingham Palace to receive his late brother's Distinguished Flying Medal.

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Full face portrait of an officer wearing tunic with pilot's brevet and peaked cap. Captioned with details and that he was pilot of Peter Jenkinson's Lancaster shot down 28 January 1945 all crew killed.
Two notes giving biographic details and record…

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Invitation to Buckingham Palace to receive Distinguished Flying Medal awarded to his brother Peter.

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On the left a young man wearing civilian overcoat, in the centre two women wearing coat , suit and hats. On the right a warrant officer wearing uniform tunic, with brevet and medal ribbons, and side cap holding a medal. In the background the gates of…

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The letter refers to her husband being buried at Daleiden. In time his body will be reinterred at Rheinberg Military Cemetery.

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Contains personal details and shows service from 29 September 1942 until 15 November 1946. Includes service particulars and assessment of aptitude and qualities.

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The letter advises Peter that he is detailed to act as Defending Officer at a Court Martial. Also attached are supplementary items of evidence, the charge sheet, Officers making up the Court Martial and details of Thomas' weapon.

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A rocky headland and a sandy beach. On the reverse 'Part of the beach at Conquest Bay. Aden. Nov. 1946'.

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Five men in swimming trunks standing knee deep in water. On the reverse 'Greg, Don, Geordie, Junior & Jack at Conquest Bay. Aden Nov. 1946'.

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A blurred image of a cyclist crossing the finishing line, watched by several men. On the reverse 'The "Kiddie" crossing the line to win the mile track event at the Command Sports. Aden Nov. 1946'.

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Cover letter and certificate for mentioned in dispatches award announced in London Gazette to Leading Aircraftwoman J E K Nicholls.

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Several ships docked on the far side of water in foreground. One has two funnels with cranes alongside. Captioned '"Queen Elizabeth " Southampton 30.11.46'

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Two pilots wearing flying helmets are at the front of cockpit looking back at a man on the left with earphones and Roy Chadwick on the right wearing a coat. On the reverse 'Please keep very safely. Roy Chadwick in cockpit of 1st Nene Lancastrian our…

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Three quarter length portrait of four men wearing suits and academic robes standing behind a table covered with documents. Roy Chadwick second from right wearing CBE. On the reverse 'November 30 1946, L-R Chancellor of Manchester University Sir John…
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