Top right - newspaper cutting - he gave up rank to bomb again, Cheshire: 3rd DSO. Reports that Wing Commander Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, awarded third DSO, youngest RAF group captain gave up rank to fly on operations again. Adds some other service history details.
Bottom left - half length image of an RAF officer wearing tunic and peaked cap standing on an airfield with hands on hips. Captioned ' Maurice Moon of 58 Squadron'.
Bottom middle - colour players cigarette card with 35 Squadron crest, winged horse head, moto - 'uno animo agimus'.]]>
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Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> France]]> France--Brest]]> France--Gosnay]]> Norway]]> Norway--Oslo]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Lübeck]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Poland]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> France--Clermont-Ferrand]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Poitiers]]> France--Nantes]]> France--Nevers]]> France--Vitry-le-François]]> France--Caen]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Czech Republic]]> Germany--Neubrandenburg]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Czech Republic--Most]]> 1917]]> 1918]]> 1938]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Daily Sketch]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1946-02-13]]> Daily Express]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1944-07-11]]> JK Forrest]]> JW Musselman]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany--Gladbeck]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-12-29]]> 1945-03-11]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1945-03-11]]> A second document contains the text only of the biography.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> There are five similar images of the event. In the second photo there are more operations added to the nose and R2 has been painted on. The last has some text explaining the unusual award.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1945-03-11]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1945-03-11]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jayne L Bailey]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--London]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> France]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Sainte-Mère-Eglise]]> 1943-11]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-05-06]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1945-06-24]]> 1945-06-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Bielefeld]]> M Usherwood]]> The Daily Telegraph]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Le Havre]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Poland]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> France--Brest]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Le Creusot]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Munich]]> France--Calais]]> France--Caen]]> France--Falaise]]> Netherlands--Walcheren]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Goch]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Potsdam]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942-08]]> 1940-11-20]]> 1941-03-11]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1943-08]]> 1946-07]]> 1946-08]]> 1943]]> J D Cotter]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Truro]]> England--Leicestershire]]> France]]> France--Rouen]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Italy]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> France--Soligny-la-Trappe]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Paris]]> France--Tergnier (Canton)]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 2018-08-28]]> 1942-08]]> 1943-02-23]]> 1943-03]]> 1943-05-05]]> 1943-05-14]]> 1943-08]]> 1943-12-03]]> 1943-06-27]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-09-16]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-29]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-10-23]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-12-03]]> 1944-01-30]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-04-09]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-17]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-08-24]]> 1943-10-08]]> Bottom - half length image of an airman wearing flying helmet standing up in cockpit of a Hurricane. Submitted with description 'Photo of F/O Edgar James "Cobber" Kain DFC, standing in the cockpit of a Hurricane. Kain shot down 17 German aircraft before dying in a flying accident in June 1940'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> 1940]]> On the reverse are news stories.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Daily Telegraph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Diss]]> 1986-01-16]]> 1986-01-14]]> 1943-03-14]]> 1943-05-09]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Callum Davies]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Greece]]> Italy]]> Libya]]> Malta]]> United States]]> Zimbabwe]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Cyprus--Famagusta]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Florida--Clewiston]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Greece--Crete]]> Greece--Ērakleion]]> Greece--Maleme]]> Greece--Piraeus]]> Italy--Comiso]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> Italy--Milan]]> Italy--Turin]]> Libya--Ajdābiya]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Libya--Darnah]]> Libya--Tobruk]]> Wales--Flintshire]]> Zimbabwe--Bulawayo]]> Florida]]> Cyprus]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Washington (D.C.)]]> 1940-05-28]]> 1940-06-05]]> 1940-06-15]]> 1941-06-21]]> 1941-10-25]]> 1941-11-26]]> 1941-12-07]]> 1941-12-12]]> 1941-12-18]]> 1941-12-28]]> 1941-12-30]]> 1942-01-05]]> 1942-01-16]]> 1942-01-20]]> 1942-01-30]]> 1942-02-05]]> 1942-02-08]]> 1942-02-09]]> 1942-02-12]]> 1942-02-16]]> 1942-03-05]]> 1942-03-11]]> 1942-03-13]]> 1942-03-23]]> 1942-03-24]]> 1942-03-30]]> 1942-04-01]]> 1942-04-07]]> 1942-04-22]]> 1942-05-27]]> 1942-05-29]]> 1942-06-13]]> 1942-06-25]]> 1942-06-29]]> 1942-07-04]]> 1942-07-13]]> 1943-04-13]]> 1943-04-18]]> 1943-04-26]]> 1943-04-30]]> 1943-05-04]]> 1943-05-23]]> 1943-05-25]]> 1943-05-29]]> 1943-06-21]]> 1943-07-03]]> 1943-07-08]]> 1943-07-12]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-07-25]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-15]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1944]]> Command Officer 103 Squadron]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943-04-08]]> 1943-08-31]]> On the reverse -
'10May ?
F/O Mills, D'Day, F/Lt Nugent
Dad painted the board at the back of photo. I remember him doing it'.
In the second photograph they have their thumbs up. On the reverse 'Skellingthorpe 1944 61 Sqdn. Dad's Aus. Flying Friends. W/Cdr Dbleday [sic] in middle. The board on the door was painted by Dad. He came home on a motor bike to collect his signwriting brushes'.]]>
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