Photo 3 is a postcard of the Marseilles Stock Exchange.
Photo 4 is F/O TC Walsh with Lancasters in the background.
Photo 5 is an airmen sitting on a wall by the sea. He is identified as F/Lt Ken Strang.
Photo 6 is a postcard of the Arc de Triomphe, Marseilles.
Photo 7 is a postcard of Marseilles cathedral.
Photo 8 is a man identified as W/O Ted Ward on a beach at Fosse, Istres.
Photo 9 is a Lancaster on the ground with the shadow of a second Lancaster flying over it.
Photo 10 is an airman standing in front of Lancasters at Istres.
Photo 11 is airmen sitting outside huts at Istres.
Photo 12 is a parked Lancaster taken from a second Lancaster.
Photo 13 is two airmen at the door and identified as F/Lt Jack Goodrum and F/O Arthur Thomas]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PThomasAF20020007]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> France--Istres]]> France--Marseille]]> 1946-08-19]]>
Photo 2 is an aircraft identified as a Junkers with a very distant Lancaster.
Photo 3 is a postcard of Via Partenope and Caste Dell'Ovo, Naples.
Photo 4 is two airmen, identified as F/Lt Alec Gilbert DFC and F/Lt Derek Bidwell. They are standing on a jetty at the sea.
Photo 5 is six men in a boat. Arthur is identified with F/Lt Jack Goodrum in the bows of the boat.
Photo 6 is an airman standing in a park, identified as F/Lt Strang.
Photo 7 is a postcard of Nisida, Naples.
Photo 8 is an airman standing in a park, identified as Warrant Officer Ted Ward and annotated 'Died 1994'.
Photo 9 is a postcard of Santa Lucia col Vesuvio.
Photo 10 is a postcard of a panorama of Naples.
Photo 11 is five airmen and a woman. They are sitting on a balustrade.
Photo 12 is four airman and the same woman leaning on the balustrade.
Photo 13 is the same group of airmen and the woman leaning on the balustrade.
Photo 14 is a postcard of a slightly different panorama of Naples.
Photo 14 is a group of ten airmen including Arthur.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PThomasAF20020004,
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Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Italy]]> Italy--Naples]]> 1946]]>
Photo 2 is three airmen outside the terminal of RAF Pomigliano. One airman is identified as F/Lt Ken Strang.
Photo 3 is an airman outside the terminal, identified as F/O G Alexamder.
Photo 4 is a postcard of the Piazzo Municipio, Naples.
Photo 5 is a panorama of San Martino with Mt Etna smoking in the distance.
Photo 6 is six airmen outside the terminal. The central three are identified as F/O AF Thomas, DFM, F/O TC Walsh and F/O G Alexander.
Photo 7 is an airman standing with his luggage, identified as F/O TC Walsh.
Photo 8 is a postcard of Stazione Centrale, Naples.


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IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Naples]]> Italy--Pomigliano d'Arco]]> 1946-08]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1947]]> Photo 2 is Arthur in uniform sitting on a wall, captioned 'Flying Officer AF Thomas DFM 149 Squadron RAF Methwold'.
Photo 4 is christmas dinner with Athur's parents and Ted.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Banwell]]> 1946-12]]>

On the reverse '149 Squadron Bomber Command, P/O Charlie Watson F/Eng, F/Sgt Tom Smith DFM Wireless Op, Sgt Doug Bacon gunner, Sgt Cyril Marjoram gunner, Sgt Chalky White navigator, Sgt Bill Holmes DFC pilot "Skipper", F/O Harry Stannus bomb aimer'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Roger Guernon]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Coventry]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Claire Monk]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Kiel]]> England--Canterbury]]> England--Kent]]> 1942]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]>
Left inside page is blank, right inside page has images of seven aircrew, two at the top, 3 in the middle and two at the bottom. All are in uniform and Ellis Edwards is marked with 'X'.

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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> 1943-03]]>
The RAF ex-POW Association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Stafford]]> England--Leeds]]> Australia]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> Belgium]]> Queensland--Gold Coast]]> England--Leicester]]> United States]]> Georgia--Andersonville]]> England--Northampton]]> England--Snettisham]]> England--Letchworth]]> Ontario--Trenton]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Ontario--Ottawa]]> North Africa]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Québec--Montréal]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Victoria]]> France]]> Georgia]]> New South Wales]]> Queensland]]> Libya]]> Ontario]]> Québec]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> Susanne Pescott]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jackie Simpson]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary. Allocated T Holmes]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1945-04]]> 1945-05]]> At the end there is a biography of the officer in charge of Arnhem, Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Browning and his wife Daphne du Maurier.]]> Roger Millington]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> British Army]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Free French Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Letchworth]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Wales--Penrhos]]> Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]> Singapore]]> France--Cherbourg]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> France--Brest]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> France--Brest]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Quiberon]]> France--Boulogne-Billancourt]]> Germany--Essen]]> France--Le Creusot]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> France--Caen]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Norway]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> England--Rochester (Kent)]]> Northern Ireland--Belfast]]> England--Longbridge]]> France--Arras]]> England--Darlington]]> Italy--Genoa]]> England--Longbridge]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy--Sicily]]> France--Normandy]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Wales--Pwllheli]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leicester]]> England--Sunderland (Tyne and Wear)]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> England--Rochford]]> England--London]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Scotland--Ayr]]> England--Friston (East Sussex)]]> England--Gravesend (Kent)]]> England--West Malling]]> England--Hailsham]]> England--Yelverton (Devon)]]> England--Bentwaters NATO Air Base]]> England--Great Dunmow]]> England--Heacham]]> England--Weybridge]]> Wales--Hawarden]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Old Sarum (Extinct city)]]> England--Kent]]> England--Folkestone]]> England--Hambleton (North Yorkshire)]]> England--York]]> Scotland--Scottish Borders]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Thurleigh]]> England--Darlington]]> England--Hitchin]]> England--Lancashire]]> Italy]]> France]]> Egypt]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Netherlands]]> Great Britain]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Devon]]> England--Durham (County)]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Essex]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Swindon (Wiltshire)]]> P Bishop - book author]]> J Doxsey handwritten note]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Germany]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1939-09]]> 1940-09]]> 1939-12-03]]> 1939-12-18]]> 1940-01-01]]> 1940-01-02]]> Nigel Moore]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> South Africa]]> England--Norfolk]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> Bob volunteered for Bomber Command which had lost a lot of crews. After one air test for Number 9 Bomber Squadron, he went to 149 Squadron at RAF Mildenhall and flew in Wellingtons. He describes the difficulty of targeting well-defended Essen and bombing cruisers in coastal areas, such as Wilhelmshaven.
Bob then transferred to 70 Squadron in RAF Kabrit, Egypt and the Middle East. Water rationing was an issue. They would carry out raids on transport and railway sidings in response to Field Marshal Erich Rommel bringing German forces into the desert via Benghazi.
Bob had instructor stints at the Operational Training Unit at RAF Pershore and Advanced Flying Unit. He went on operational liaison duties to 950 Squadron. Other aircraft in which Bob flew included: Battle, Defiant, Lancasters, Lysanders and Bothas. Bob undertook 73 operations and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 12th March 1943.
He describes the evolution in air gunnery during the war. He also praises Barnes Wallis’s geodetic construction.

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In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this item is available only at the University of Lincoln.]]>
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H Stannus]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Claire Monk]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> France--Brest]]> 1944-06-17]]>