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  • Tags: African heritage

AFantiniC181218.mp3
After leaving school, Carla Fantini started working as telegraph operator, which she found a gratifying and thoroughly enjoyable occupation. She describes the bombing war in Milan, stressing widespread destruction and ravaging fires. Reminisces…

LPhillipsCH161493v1.pdf
Pilot’s flying log book for Flight Lieutenant Cecil H Phillips from 11 July 1942 to 20 August 1950. Detailing training schedule, instructional duties and operations flown. Served at RAF Cranwell, RAF Finningley, RAF Lindholme, RAF Faldingworth, RAF…

PRossB19010038.jpg
Team photograph of twelve men wearing cricket whites sitting and standing in two rows in front of a pavilion. Two men have striped blazers. Bernard Ross is seated front row, far right.

AJonesD[Date].mp3
D Jones was born in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica. He volunteered for the RAF and went on the SS Cuba to the United States, crossing the Atlantic to Liverpool in June 1944. He went to a former Butlins holiday camp in Filey - there, as ground…

AEbanksJ[Date].mp3
J Ebanks was from Jamaica and was a navigator in 571 Squadron at RAF Oakington. They carried out a number of operations to Berlin. He also refers to RAF Benson and time spent in Malaya. J Ebanks recounts, with humour, a number of anecdotes from his…

PFreemanW1607.jpg
12 airmen arranged in two rows in front of wooden huts.

PStimpsonMC19010091.jpg
Maurice and Pete seated in a barbers with two assistants posing for their photographs. On the reverse 'Haircut time for Pete and Maurice in Albany'.

PJamesEC1604.jpg
35 men and two women arranged in four rows. On the front each man is captioned with name and rank.

PScottEW17020019.jpg
Top left - a formation of men marching in front of single story barrack blocks.
Top middle - one single story house with cars parked in the drive.
Top right - a women wearing striped dress standing on open ground with trees to the left.
Bottom…

PCarbyHV2101.jpg
Hazel Carby discusses her father Carl's early life in Jamaica, his experiences training in Canada and serving as aircrew in the RAF, and how he and his family were treated in London in the post war period.

She also discusses her research into her…

PPhillipsD18010016.jpg
Three airmen wearing khaki uniform with half brevet, shorts and side cap sitting on a stand with an African man alongside.

POtteyRA2001.jpg
Ralph Ottey was born in Jamaica in 1924. Brought up by his grandparents, he describes his education and family hopes that he would become a teacher. He left school at 16 and a half but was too young to attend teaching college so worked for his uncle…

PNortonNP1705 copy.jpg
11 airmen arranged in two rows. One man is in civilian clothes. Pat Norton is in the second row, second from the right.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

PNortonNP1703 copy.jpg
Two half-length portraits of Pat Norton in uniform with Trinidad flash. One with bomb aimer's brevet the other with an observer brevet.

These items were sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are…

PNortonNP1701 copy.jpg
Pat Norton seated holding a portrait of himself in uniform with observers brevet.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

MSaundersA[DoB]-171003-01.pdf
A document written as a Summer Project whilst Aidan was at school. She discusses their early years after her grandparents got married in London. During the war the family moved to Wales for safety.
After the war John, possibly her brother, became a…

PShawSR16010001.jpg
A group of 12 men arranged in two rows in front of an aircraft. On the reverse each man is named.

PWalkerWE1701.jpg
Group of airmen with nine NCOs and a single officer in the second row. Submitted with caption 'Caribbean airman at an RAF base'.

PEllamsG16030007.jpg
First of George Ellams wearing topee with palm trees in the background, captioned 'First tour May 1942'.
Second is of George Ellams and with Abu Kamara, captioned 'No 95 Squadron R.A.F. Station Jui, Freetown, B.W. Africa, Abu Kamara and self'.…

PThompsonKG15010092.jpg
Colour post card of Sennen Cove annotated with 'The School' and 'Station Headquarters'.
Three small photographs of 20 service personnel informally posed in front of a blast wall, wooden hut and base of an aerial tower in background.
Small head…

BCuthillMSFHCuthillMSFHv1.pdf
Margaret Cuthill's account of her time in the WAAF. At the age of 17 she volunteered for the WAAF and was enrolled as a teleprinter operator. She was sent to Wilmslow for training. After four weeks of drill and physical exercise she was posted to…

PPearceAT16030022.jpg
Top left - three airmen in khaki uniform with side caps standing in line with trees in the background.
Top right - air-to-ground view of landscape with many bomb craters.
Middle left - an airman on bed in barrack room.
Bottom left - air to…

POpenshawB1803-0028.jpg
Group of airmen sitting both sides of a long dining table on a veranda. Front left man has his arm round a locally employed steward. Several other stewards stand behind diners.

PShenbanjoA1715.jpg
Akin Shenbanjo in uniform seated on the steps at the entrance to a house. He has a young child on his knee.

PShenbanjoA1711.jpg
31 airmen arranged in three rows.. Underneath are captioned the names of the individuals including Akin Shenbanjo DFC.
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