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- Tags: Royal Observer Corps
Interview with Frances Anne Cooper
Interview with Iris McClements. One
Interview with Doris Reddish
Interview with Ray Hooley
Letter from Headquarters No.9 Group, Royal Observer Corps to all volunteer observers
Tags: Royal Observer Corps; training
Royal Observer Corps
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
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Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Betty Greenwood
Interview with Iris McClements. Two
Interview with Merv Owen
Interview with William Albert Warwick
Royal Observer Corps personnel
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Geoff Paine with wife Evelyn
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; pilot; Royal Observer Corps
Geoff Paine next to Spitfire
Tags: aircrew; pilot; Royal Observer Corps; Spitfire
Geoff Paine's time in the RAF
Tags: 100 Squadron; 105 Squadron; Anson; Cornell; Flying Training School; Harvard; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oxford; RAF Ansty; RAF Bourn; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Topcliffe; Royal Observer Corps; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; York
Peter Hazeldene's Invitation to a Royal Garden Party
Peter Hazeldene's Biography
Peter Hazeldene's decorations
Distinguished Flying Cross;
1939-1945 Star;
Air Crew Europe Star;
Defence Medal;
War Medal 1939-1945;
Queen's Jubilee Medal;
Royal Observer Corps Medal.
Doris Reddish's Royal Observer Corps Badges
Item 1 is the two badges on her cap.
Item 2 and 3 are Doris' cap.
Item 4 and 5 are both sides of an enamel badge.
Item 6 is a cloth Royal Observer Corps badge.
Item 7 is a cloth rank…
My Work in the Royal Observer Corps
Doris Reddish
On the reverse 'Doris Edith Reddish ROC 12/10/25 -17/05/17'.
National Association of Spotters Clubs Notebook
Tags: Royal Observer Corps
Parade, Royal Observer Corps and Spitfires
Right - troops on parade with standard in front.
Bottom left - two members of Royal Observer Corps standing leaning on the propeller of a twin engine aircraft.
Bottom middle…
Tags: Royal Observer Corps; Spitfire
Royal Observer Corps badge
Tags: Royal Observer Corps