IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending identification. Things]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> #2 is 12 men and women from the SSQ staff.
#3 is 12 men and women in front of trucks, captioned 'Staff'.
#4 is a red and white control caravan.
#5 is an ambulance.
#6 is a Nissen hut and ambulance, captioned 'SSQ Wigsley'.
#7 is the control tower
#8 is a Manchester on a stand used for instruction.
#9 is a Stirling with a burst tyre.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending OH transcription]]> Exton Wallace, Joyce. Interview]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Balloon Command]]> Great Britain]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Centre: Three servicemen sat outside a Nissen hut. On reverse. 'Three oppo's'.
Bottom left: Inside Nissen hut bar. On reverse: 'The transit mess'.
Bottom right: Man sat on wicker chair, at a desk, holding a telephone. On reverse, 'Hello! Who dat there?'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]>

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> #1. Four men seated at a table in a Nissen hut. Bedding, washing and other paraphernalia of living can be seen. It is captioned: 'STURGATE '45'
#2. Six airmen in uniform, seated on bicycles with their arms around each other's shoulders. In the background are Nissen huts and the entrance to an air raid shelter.
#3. Robert Wilfred Hawkes wearing flying clothing and a life preserver jacket, standing in front of an aircraft's propeller.
#4. Two airmen wearing flying clothing and Mae Wests in front of an aircraft. It is captioned: '(RIGHT) JIMMIE/BOB DAY (LEFT) DESBORO'.
#5. Robert Wilfred Hawkes wearing battledress and flying boots, standing in a doorway.
#6. A formal portrait of group of 26 trainee airmen and three officers, arranged in three rows in front of an Oxford aircraft. R W Hawkes is seated third from the left. It is annotated: 'G.M.6-118 NOV.16.43 COURSE '89'' and is captioned: 'COURSE 89. NO1.AIR OBSERVER SCHOOL. CHATHAM NEW BRUNSWICK. (SIGNED AT REAR)'.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick]]> New Brunswick--Chatham]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943-11-16]]> 1945]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Great Britain]]> England--Shropshire]]> 1945-03]]> L to R Navigator, Bomb- Aimer'.
Information supplied with the collection states 'The Guinane crew, 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron, Chedborough, 1945
Back Row L-R: Geoff Ginn (Rear Gunner), “Guy” Guinane (Pilot), Jack Jarmy (Navigator), Jock Lees (Mid-Upper Gunner)
Front Row L-R: Len Gillies (Bomb Aimer), Clarrie Ormisher (Engineer), Kevin Roberts (Wireless Op.)'.

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


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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1945]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Physical object]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> There is a second slightly cropped version.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Top right - and airman wearing battledress with half brevet sitting in wooden chair in long grass with trees and huts in the background. Captioned 'Doug at ease, Woollfox Lodge 43'.
Bottom left - a man wearing swimming trunks standing in long grass and holding a peeled banana with a hut and trees in the background. Captioned '"Shorty" shoots a line!'.
Bottom right - four airmen, three sitting and one standing behind all wearing battledress and side caps. Behind is a Nissen hut with open door and two bicycles leaning against side. Captioned 'ground crew on "Z" Zebra 106 Sqdn, 45'.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Rutland]]> 1943]]> 1945]]>
Top right - seven aircrew wearing a variety of uniform or flying clothes standing in line under the nose of a Lancaster. Captioned 'Lancaster III, 1943, (self, Alfie, Doug, "Shorty", Dickie, "Mo", "Bloody"), Metheringham, 106 Squadron, Bomber Command, 1st tour'.
Bottom left - eleven airmen (air and ground crew) sitting and standing in two rows with one man in rear turret of a Lancaster ZN-Z. Captioned 'Lancaster III 1945, (Doug, "Bloody", self, "Shorty", Bill, Syd, Jack, Pete, "Sport", "Taff", "Dixie"), Metheringham 106 Squadron, 2nd tour'.
Bottom right - seven airmen all wearing battledress with brevet sitting and standing in two rows in front of a Nissen hut. Captioned 'Doug, "Sport", "Bloody", Pete, "Dixie", self, "Shorty", 106 Squadron Metheringham, 1945. 2nd tour, (F/O Cunnison, F/O Sandford DFC, F/O Blood DFM, F/O Lynch DFM, F/O Dean DFC, Self, F/O Groombridge DFM)'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943]]> 1945]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]>