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#1 and 2 are of the village sign outside the Skellingthorpe Village Hall.
#3 is a view of the memorial with the wreaths left at the ceremony.
#4 and 5 are the standards and attendees at the unveiling.
#6 and 7 are during the ceremony with an RAF officer and and the Bishop of Lincoln speaking in turn.
#8 is the memorial being unveiled.
#9 is a close up of the 50 squadron crest.
#10 is a close up of the 61 squadron crest.
#11 is a close up of 61 squadron motto and bases.
#12 is a close up of 50 squadron motto and bases.
#13 is taken during the ceremony.
#14 is the text on the memorial obelisk.
#15 is the text on the reverse of the obelisk.

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50 and 61 Squadron Memorial Committee]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Lincoln]]> 1989-06-03]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Saskatchewan--Prince Albert]]> Saskatchewan--Saskatoon]]> Wales--Glamorgan]]> Saskatchewan]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> Peter Andrew Hopgood]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Claire Monk]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--Warrington]]> England--London]]> England--Torquay]]> England--Manchester]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> Saskatchewan--Prince Albert]]> Saskatchewan--Saskatoon]]> England--Harrogate]]> England--Wheaton Aston]]> England--Catterick]]> England--Knutsford]]> England--Chester]]> England--Warton]]> New Brunswick]]> Saskatchewan]]> England--Devon]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Royal Wootton Bassett]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Rutland]]> France--Aisne]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Netherlands--Hague]]> Netherlands--Rotterdam]]> Ontario--Malton]]> Ontario]]> France--Juvincourt-et-Damary]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-30]]> 1945-05-03]]> 1945-05-21]]> 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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W R P Perry]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Kent]]> England--Tunbridge Wells]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Devon]]> England--Plymouth]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Oxford]]> England--London]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Scarborough]]> England--Warwickshire]]> Canada]]> Alberta--Calgary]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> Germany]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Alberta]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941-03-26]]> 1941-04]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-03]]> 1957-01]]> This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]> Great Britain. 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Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> France--Laon Region]]> Germany--Bad Oldesloe]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Kamen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Ravensburg]]> Germany--Recklinghausen (Münster)]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Netherlands--Hague]]> Northern Ireland--Downpatrick]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Juvincourt-et-Damary]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-02-18]]> 1945-02-19]]> 1945-02-22]]> 1945-02-25]]> 1945-02-27]]> 1945-02-28]]> 1945-03-02]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-09]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-14]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-18]]> 1945-04-20]]> 1945-04-22]]> 1945-04-24]]> 1945-05-07]]> 1945-05-10]]> 1945-05-12]]> 1945-05-14]]> 1945-05-17]]> 1945-06-18]]> 1945-06-25]]> 1945-06-29]]> 1945-07-05]]> Operational duties included up to 14 bombing operations over Germany, three trips on Operation Mana and a number of flights bringing prisoners of war back from France and Italy. Reg also describes the typical duties of aircrew wireless operator -staying in contact with base operations and keeping the crew informed of any operational changes. When the war ended Reg re-mustered to work in Motor Transport and was posted to the MOD Maintenance Unit at White City and then on to the Maintenance Unit at Bicester. He finished his National Service at Kirkham near Blackpool. Reg married in 1945. At the time of the interview they were approaching their 70th wedding anniversary.
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David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Chris Cann]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Mike Connock]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Devon]]> England--Harrogate]]> England--London]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Scotland]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> New Brunswick]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> North America--Niagara Falls]]> 1943]]> 1945]]> Philip Hopgood lived in Liverpool and after matriculation he registered for the Royal Air force as he was a member of the Air Training Corps. Too young to be enlisted, he worked as a clerk in the Ministry of Supply.
Called up at the age of 18 in March 1943, he was given pilot aptitude testing and basic training in England before travelling to Canada as part of the Empire Training Scheme. There he completed his pilot training at 6 Elementary Flying School at Prince Albert and 4 Secondary Flying Training School in Saskatoon, flying Ansons. Leave was spent being entertained in the homes of local Canadians.
He became a pilot in October 1944 and returned to England. Phillip spent time in hospital and on discharge was sent to 4 School of Technical Training at RAF St Athans where he was trained on Lancaster aircraft as a flight engineer. Phillip was posted to various stations before being sent to 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Woolfox Lodge flying as a flight engineer on Lancasters.
The war ended and he spent time at various stations, then 29 Elementary Flying Training school at Cliff Pypard flying Tiger Moths. Here he made a forced landing after running out of fuel.
After various aircrew allocation centres, he spent time at 1 Gliding Training School at RAF Croughton before being sent to a number of maintenance units.
Finally in February 1947, he was discharged and worked for Dunlop at Speak Airport in the laboratories, and then as a salesman for Avery Scales.
Phillip Hopgood died in 1999.
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Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> T Holmes]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Second generation]]> Canada]]> Saskatchewan]]> Saskatchewan--Saskatoon]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1943-03-18]]> 1944-10]]> 1947-02]]>
Len was then posted to various locations abroad, did a code and cipher course and was demobilised. He went back to his plumbing apprenticeship, got married, settled in Bath but wanted to get back to service life. He started back as an airman and went into the air traffic control branch serving at different stations in Great Britain and Germany until he retired in 1971. Len was into post war meetings and memorial visits.]]> Annie Moody]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Rutland]]> Sri Lanka]]> Singapore]]> 1945]]> Denise Boneham]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Singapore]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Lichfield]]> Pakistan]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> 1945]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> India]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> India--Kolkata]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Gemma Clapton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> Harry Bartlett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Gibraltar]]> Singapore]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Rutland]]> Germany--Dresden]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1952]]> 1956]]> 1963]]> Tom Ozel]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Netherlands]]> 1945-04]]> 1945-05]]>