Bottom - Notes with list of operations.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Babs Nichols]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> France]]> France--La Rochelle]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> William Homewood]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> South Africa]]> Germany]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Oppau]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Wanne-Eickel]]> Germany--Worms]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Heide (Schleswig-Holstein)]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Nijmegen]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Dülmen]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Poetry]]> Royal Air Force]]> Alan Edgar]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PEdgarAG19010099]]> 1943]]> 48 Air School, Woodbrook, East London. South Africa]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--East London]]> North Africa]]> Egypt]]> 1943-06]]> David Geach]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Joy Reynard]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Diary]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Carlisle]]> Scotland--Perth]]> England--Manchester]]> Scotland--Dumfries]]> England--Stourbridge]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man]]> England--Reading]]> England--London]]> England--Hastings]]> England--Harrogate]]> Scotland--Greenock]]> Canada]]> Scotland--St. Andrews]]> England--St. Leonards (East Sussex)]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1942-06]]> 1942-07]]> 1942-08]]> 1942-09]]> 1942-10]]> George Bubb]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Karl Williams]]> David Bloomfield]]> Trevor Hardcastle]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Training material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Melksham]]> England--Wiltshire]]> 1943-09]]> Top right - telegraph pole with open ground and trees on the left. There is a blemish on the photograph at the top right of telegraph wires. Captioned 'Gremlin on the wires'.
Bottom left - view over trees of a bay. Captioned 'and so on our way - '. Bottom right - three double story buildings on left, centre and right. Captioned 'to Monkton'. Includes individual scans of all four photographs.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick]]> New Brunswick--Saint John]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Robin Christian]]> David Bloomfield]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Canada]]> Saskatchewan]]> Saskatchewan--Dafoe]]> 1942-12]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike French]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Belgium--Charleroi]]> Belgium--Ostend]]> Belgium--Zeebrugge]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Hertfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Middlesex]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Wiltshire]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Béthune]]> France--Brest]]> France--Calais]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Le Croisic]]> France--Douai]]> France--Douarnenez]]> France--Dunkerque]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Honfleur]]> France--Lannion]]> France--Lille]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Charleville-Mézières]]> France--Morlaix]]> France--La Pallice]]> France--Poissy]]> France--Rouen]]> France--Toulouse]]> France--Ouessant Island]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Cuxhaven]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Heilbronn]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Lübeck]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Netherlands--Amsterdam]]> Netherlands--Den Helder]]> Netherlands--Groningen]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Netherlands--Weert]]> Norway--Altafjord]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> France--Saint-Malo]]> France--Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais)]]> Belgium--Liège]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Ouessant Island]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> France--Cap Gris Nez]]> 1938]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1940-05-13]]> 1940-05-14]]> 1940-07-10]]> 1940-07-11]]> 1940-07-12]]> 1940-07-23]]> 1940-07-24]]> 1940-07-29]]> 1940-07-30]]> 1940-08-02]]> 1940-08-03]]> 1940-08-06]]> 1940-08-07]]> 1940-08-10]]> 1940-08-11]]> 1940-08-14]]> 1940-08-15]]> 1940-08-18]]> 1940-08-19]]> 1940-09-11]]> 1940-09-13]]> 1940-09-18]]> 1941-08-10]]> 1941-08-17]]> 1941-08-18]]> 1941-08-19]]> 1941-08-21]]> 1941-08-22]]> 1941-08-26]]> 1941-08-27]]> 1941-08-31]]> 1941-09-02]]> 1941-09-04]]> 1941-09-16]]> 1941-09-21]]> 1941-09-22]]> 1941-09-23]]> 1941-09-26]]> 1941-09-28]]> 1941-10-02]]> 1941-10-06]]> 1941-10-13]]> 1941-10-20]]> 1941-10-23]]> 1941-11-01]]> 1941-11-03]]> 1941-11-06]]> 1941-11-12]]> 1941-11-14]]> 1941-11-18]]> 1941-11-20]]> 1941-11-24]]> 1941-11-25]]> 1941-12-01]]> 1941-12-05]]> 1941-12-07]]> 1941-12-11]]> 1941-12-13]]> 1941-12-15]]> 1941-12-19]]> 1942-01-02]]> 1942-01-04]]> 1942-01-06]]> 1942-01-09]]> 1942-01-11]]> 1942-01-12]]> 1942-01-15]]> 1942-01-16]]> 1942-01-24]]> 1942-01-26]]> 1942-01-28]]> 1942-02-02]]> 1942-02-03]]> 1942-02-05]]> 1942-02-07]]> 1942-02-08]]> 1942-02-10]]> 1942-02-11]]> 1942-02-18]]> 1942-02-19]]> 1942-02-27]]> 1942-03-05]]> 1942-03-09]]> 1942-03-24]]> 1942-03-26]]> 1942-03-27]]> 1942-03-29]]> 1942-04-02]]> 1942-04-06]]> 1942-04-12]]> 1942-04-14]]> 1942-04-16]]> 1942-04-25]]> 1942-04-30]]> 1942-05-03]]> 1942-05-06]]> 1942-05-16]]> 1942-05-18]]> 1942-05-24]]> 1942-05-28]]> 1942-06-06]]> 1942-06-17]]> 1942-06-21]]> 1942-06-22]]> 1942-07-08]]> 1942-07-18]]> 1942-07-30]]> 1942-08-06]]> 1942-08-17]]> 1942-08-18]]> 1942-08-19]]> 1942-08-23]]> 1942-08-28]]> 1942-09-11]]> 1942-09-18]]> 1942-10-04]]> 1942-11-09]]> 1942-11-10]]> 1943-01-18]]> 1943-06-25]]> 1943-09-03]]> 1943-09-05]]> 1943-09-09]]> 1943-09-13]]> 1943-09-14]]> 1943-09-19]]> 1943-09-24]]> 1943-09-26]]> 1943-09-29]]> 1943-10-09]]> 1943-10-16]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Zimbabwe]]> Zimbabwe--Bulawayo]]> 1943-06-04]]> W B Baker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> W B Baker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> W B Baker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> W B Baker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]>
1. Gremlin photoflash (Will Gremlin)
2. Gremlin crews for the convenience of Mark VIII (Georgie Gremlin)
3. Gremlin intercomm. Mark I B (Oswald Gremlin)
4. Gremlin meteorology Mark III C (Thor Gremlin)
5. Gremlin undercart Mark I C *** (Charlie Gremlin)
6. Gremlin compass Mark I (liquified) (Algenon Gremlin)
7. Gremlin navigator for distraction of (Douglas Gremlin)
8. Gremlin intercomm. Mark II* (Adolf Gremlin)
9. Gremlin computor Mark I (Cuthbert Gremlin)
10. Gremlin navigation Mark V (modified) (Popeye Gremlin)
11. Gremlin astro-nav Mark I (Professor Gremlin)
12. Gremlin turret Mark I (Dick Gremlin)
13. Gremlin astro-nav Mark II* (modified) (Stella Gremlin)
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William Akrill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1943-01]]>
William Akrill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Civilian]]> 1942-12-18]]> Alun talks of flying on the Anson and Whitley, and of being assigned to a Halifax crew. He describes a training flight accident at Garrowby Hill, Yorkshire in which his crewmates were killed. Alun, who was hospitalised at the time, was not on board the aircraft. He recalls his loneliness at being without a crew, and the unexplained animosity towards him from a senior officer. He talks of joining another aircrew and of adaptability being a part of the role of the bomb aimer, before reflecting on his feelings about the unjust dismissal of the crew’s pilot for lack of moral fibre.
Alun recalls his transfer to RAF Transport Command in 1945 and talks of organising the erection of a memorial to his crew at Garrowby Hill. He mentions his pride at the memorial, and his attendance at annual commemorations there for many years. He goes on to reflect on his preference for the Halifax over other aircraft, his enjoyment of flying, and on the great friendship and comradeship among aircrews, describing a closeness which continued after the war. He also mentions his affection for the animals that he kept in his billet during the war.
Alun relates that he first returned to his pre-war job after the war, but later joined the Welsh Council on Alcoholism to help others and in support of his sister, whom he describes affectionately.
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Anne Roberts]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Leah Warriner-Wood]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Wales]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Wales--Porthcawl]]> Wales--Newport]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--East London]]> Germany]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Japan]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales--Penarth]]> 1944]]> 1955]]>

Last night he went to the church fellowship in the village and then to his friends for supper. Has also had an invitation from their neighbours, so is getting to know lots of people.

Speculates about where he might be posted - hopes it will be somewhere close to home.

Talks of his drawings of gremlins which he has made up into a little booklet. Has been suggested he should send it to the RAF Journal.

Resuming the letter the following day, Bill thanks his mother for her parcel and replies to news from home.]]>
William Akrill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1943-01]]>
a crossword puzzle.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Bradley Froggatt]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Poetry]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943-08]]> W B Baker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Photo 2 is Ray sitting on a stone wall in flying kit, annotated 'Wot a Line !!'.
Photo 3 is three airmen sitting on the front of a Tempest, annotated 'Gatwick'.
Photo 4 is Ray and colleague standing in front of their huts, annotated 'Going on Leave'.
Photo 5 is four airmen standing in the grounds, annotated 'Drunk again'.
Photo 6 is a man in flying kit with his mask on, annotated 'The Frog'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Gatwick]]> England--Surrey]]>
Additionally there are two handwritten pages of radio notes.]]> 41 SFTS Weyburn]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Saskatchewan--Weyburn]]> Saskatchewan]]> 1943-01]]>