IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
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some broken down showing the mattress biscuits and blankets. Note the coal stove, and the clothing on hangers and the lino floor with small bedside mats. Captioned 'Binbrook Lanc Hut 1'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]>

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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]>
Right top - seven aircrew, three squatting in front and four standing behind. In the background Nissen huts.
Bottom right - seven aircrew, three squatting in front and four standing behind. In the background Nissen huts. ]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> His crew dropped food for the starving Dutch as part of Operation Manna. After the war he served with Transport Command on Yorks. He continued moving around and spent time on B-29s then Canberras at Marham. Later he and his family were sent to Kuala Lumpur then Penang on Dakotas.
On his return he was posted to Abingdon on Beverleys. This included trips to Nairobi.
He transferred to Haydock as a radio controller, after which he left the RAF and became a teacher.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--Knowsley (District)]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--Aintree]]> England--Paignton]]> Canada]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> Saskatchewan--Moose Jaw]]> Manitoba--Brandon]]> Ontario]]> England--Harrogate]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dresden]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Lincoln]]> England--Bournemouth]]> India]]> Egypt]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]> Iraq]]> India--New Delhi]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> Singapore]]> India--Kolkata]]> Sri Lanka--Negombo]]> England--King's Lynn]]> England--Downham Market]]> Iceland]]> United States]]> Delaware--Dover]]> New York (State)--New York]]> Arizona--Davis-Monthan Air Force Base]]> Egypt--Suez Canal]]> Malaysia--Kuala Lumpur]]> South Africa--Durban]]> Kenya--Nairobi]]> Cameroon]]> Sahara Desert]]> Nigeria--Kano]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> England--Formby]]> England--Haydock]]> England--Ormskirk]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Québec]]> Québec--Montréal]]> Arizona]]> Delaware]]> New York (State)]]> Libya]]> Saskatchewan]]> Germany]]> Nova Scotia]]> Kenya]]> Malaysia]]> South Africa]]> Pakistan]]> Sri Lanka]]> Nigeria]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Malaysia--George Town (Pulau Pinang)]]> England--Devon]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Manitoba]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PStewartEC17130040]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Centre - two thumbnail head and shoulders portraits of an airman wearing tunic with flight engineer brevet and medal ribbons.
Bottom - a large group of aircrew wearing battledress or tunic and side or peaked caps sitting and standing on grass in front of a Nissen hut.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Bottom right - full length image of three airmen wearing khaki uniform bush jackets standing in line with trees and building in the background. Captioned 'Bari, Italy, 1945, W/O, self, Taffy'.
Right page - top left - three quarter length image of four aircrew wearing battledress and a civilian man and woman standing in line in front of a brick building. Captioned '13 May 1945, overshot and crashed Speke Liverpool'
Bottom left - three quarter length image of the same four aircrew wearing battledress and a civilian man and woman standing in line with trees in the background. Both these images have caption between 'Self, Taffy, Ken, Dell, airport manager (Taken at Urmston)'. Right - four aircrew all wearing battledress with brevet, three standing and on kneeling with a dog, all in front of a Nissen hut. Captioned 'RAF Spilsby, 44(Rhodesia) SQ, F/Sgt Jones Rear Gunner, F/O Smith skipper, W.O. Pugh wireless op, F/O David Long bomb aimer New Zealand'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Italy]]> Italy--Bari]]> England--Merseyside]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--Greater Manchester]]> England--Urmston]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1945]]> 1945-05-13]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Bottom - four members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force in shirtsleeves out side a Nissen hut with a Union flag above and behind. Submitted with description 'Four WAAF Sgt's at RAF Metheringham, May 1945. Left to right: Sgt Molly Lilley (Stores), Sgt Grace Bayley (Ops), Sgt Anne Walker (Admin), Sgt Peggy Haining (Ops). Taken Sunday after VE Day just before leaving Metheringham for Victory Parade to Lincoln Cathedral. Note the name of their Nissen hut: "The Sarjery"'.

Submitted with description 'Unidentified 1668 HCU Lancaster J9-L at RAF Metheringham May or June 1944. This aircraft may be either PB437 or PB487, both of which were known to have been operated by this Heavy Conversion Unit']]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Matt Lunn]]> Roger Brindley]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Lincoln]]> 1944-05]]> 1944-06]]> 1945-05]]>

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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Staffordshire]]> 1944]]>

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944]]>