Rod Pickles]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Graham Emmet]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway]]> Gibraltar]]> Morocco]]> Tunisia]]> Tunisia--Tunis]]> Italy]]> Italy--Sicily]]> Italy--Salerno]]> North Africa]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10-01]]> Sheila Bibb]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> Egypt]]> Italy]]> South Africa]]> North Africa]]> Egypt--Sidi Barrani]]> 1945]]> Jack was posted to the Second Anti-Aircraft Workshop at Callington and then the 469 Searchlight Battery ‘A’ Troop headquarters at Clovelly. Jack also went to 335 Battery at South Molton. Describes a homing beam system to guide aircraft back to the airfield noting that many pilots came to thank the searchlight crew after the first thousand bomber raid. A searchlight detachment normally comprised 12 men with specific roles, but each could do the other’s job. The searchlights were 90cm or 150cm and the latter were normally mounted and mobile.
Jack was also stationed with the 470 Battery in Norfolk where he believes he was one of the first to see Window’s effect on radar. He was posted to East Walton and one site was on the Sandringham estate.
Jack was then stationed at Hemel Hepmstead, was posted back to Arminghall and subsequently Hucknall. He became part of a new unit, 469 Advanced Base Workshops, and went to India and Singapore. His return home was on the record breaking run on the Andes and was demobilised in 1947.
Jack then worked as a power station chemist in Nottingham. He recalls seeing the first jet propelled engine in 1941 in Hucknall where there was a test centre.]]>
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Cyril was chosen to move to 617 Squadron as an armourer when the squadron formed at RAF Scampton. He met Barnes Wallis and knew Guy Gibson, often taking his dog for a walk. Cyril flew in one of the Lancasters as they carried out a test run over the Derwent Water dam. Cyril's memory of the day of Eder, Möhne and Sorpe operation was marred by a tragic event at the base. His friend had a 'dear John' letter from his girlfriend and took his own life in front of Cyril. After the war Cyril moved to Canada and was involved with the destruction of war equipment not longer needed. He was saddened by the fact that along with armaments, they had to destroy clothing which would have been gratefully received by families in England. During his periods of leave he and fellow RAF colleagues went to New York. They were treated in his words like 'Royalty' and put up in hotels for free and were introduced to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Cyril also remembers going up the Empire State Building when later the same day a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into it in during thick fog. Cyril return by Ship to England in September 1946.
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Margaret was about eleven when an aerodrome was built a couple of fields away. When she heard the Lancasters take off she would run upstairs to watch from the open window and wave to the crew. She would write the aircraft number in a book and lie awake at night listening for them to return. She remembered a German aircraft flying low to take pictures of the station and then being shot down over Lincoln. Margaret’s parents took in an evacuee before the RAF Fiskerton was built. On a Saturday morning the village children would collect salvage in wheelbarrows and take it to a shed where it would be sorted by the adults. She recalled the time when there was an explosion which blew the house door in. When Margaret was fourteen she worked in Cherry Willingham Post Office and shop. Margaret’s father worked at the forge doing war work and was also in the Home Guard. She remembered he had once been shot at by a German plane but wasn’t injured as he dived into a barn. Margaret’s mother helped with the whist drives and dances in the village hall.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Welton (Lincolnshire)]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Birmingham]]> England--Warwickshire]]> 1940]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Georgie Donaldson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> 1940]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> Tailgunner]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Harderwijk]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1941-03-20]]> 1942-12-19]]> 1943-05-13]]> 1943-11]]> 1947-12]]> Daily Sketch]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Photos 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are ships forming up for a 1941 convoy from Boston. The photographer is Arthur's friend Cecil Reid.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Banwell]]> United States]]> Massachusetts]]> Massachusetts--Boston]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bristol]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> The first refers to Lt-Col Sheppard's retirement. He was in charge of the Southern Railway Home Guard.
The three other cuttings refer to three men who served in the same home guard unit.]]>
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Bottom head and shoulders portrait of a man and women both in uniform with caps and a mural in the background. Captioned 'Peter Jenkinson with his sister Penelope at Honiton in 1941, Penelope was in the A.T.S.'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bristol]]> England--Devon]]> England--Honiton]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> 1941]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Aylesbury]]> 1940]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Aylesbury]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]>