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PMonksMA17010025.jpg
Top - town street scene with buildings either side. Captioned 'Bowden'.
Bottom - view of town in snow from airborne aircraft. Captioned 'Bowden from a Tiger'.

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PStewartEC17120017.jpg
An airman standing at the wing of a Tiger Moth, AX782. The photograph is damaged and torn.

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MYeomanHT104405-190417-02.pdf
Covers education, playing rugby and RAF career. After training as pilot in England and Canada, posted to 12 Squadron at RAF Binbrook flying Wellington. Mentions some of his 14 night operations before he was medically grounded. Continues with postings…

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MMillsGA1445361-201003-040001.jpg
Shows Gordon Mills nineteen trips as passenger or second pilot in Tiger Moth in 1941, 1942 and 1943.

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PMilesRJ16050005.jpg
Five photographs of the training of air cadets.
Photo 1 and 3 are the same. A sergeant is explaining parts of an engine.
Photo 2 is a civilian explaining parts of an engine to two boys and a sergeant.
Photo 4 is of the civilian explaining parts of…

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PEleyNJ1638.jpg
Jim Eley in front of DH82 Tiger Moth, submitted with caption; “Self at Rochester. Still flying the Tiger Moth.”)

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PEleyNJ1637.jpg
Avro Anson V5584 FD-YF flying low past five stationary DH82 Tiger Moths, submitted with caption; “No. 24 RFS, Rochester.”

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PEleyNJ1629.jpg
Cartoon of a landed Tiger Moth with pilots standing to the side, surrounded by kittens with the caption; “Don’t ever land like that again Sutton!!” Submitted with caption; “Comical”.

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BDowardATansleyEHv3.pdf
Covers background, marriage, civilian occupation and family. Followed by service history including basic and flying training in England and the United States and then advanced flying training and operational conversion back home. Posted to 57…

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MLancasterJO103509-170308-010001.jpg
A summary of the aircraft that John has flown and a list of his flying awards.

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PMcBeanLW16010006.jpg
Man wearing flying boots, helmet and parachute standing with his left leg on lower port wing of a two seat, single engine bi-plane. Captioned 'Geoff Maitland, Clyffe Pypard - Wiltshire'.

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MPickeringE483863-160531-010013.jpg
On the front holly surround with RAF eagle badge top left, below this '4M3, then a hand holding lightning bolts below that '44th' then at the bottom left a propeller in ring. On the right under Seasons Greetings a colour air-to-ground photograph of…

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NBurkeJC170308-07.jpg
Two cuttings referring to RAF Neepawa.
Item 1 shows a Tiger Moth, a ground crew woman and two airmen.
Item 2 is an article about local businesses supporting the RAF. It also describes Commonwealth and British pilots.

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PFordTA17110038.pdf
Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a Tiger Moth and a Harvard, captioned 'A Tiger Moth visits us'.
Photo 2 is an air-to-air view of two Harvards in the air, captioned 'Cookie's aircraft from mine. Frank in the distance'.
Photo 3 is a…

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PFordTA17110019.pdf
Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a front view of a Tiger Moth flying just above a railway line. A second Tiger is banking behind. It is captioned 'Shoot up'.
Photo 2 is a half length portrait of an airmen, captioned 'Bob'.
Photo 3 is a…

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PFordTA17110018.pdf
32 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a Tiger Moth. Underneath is a caption 'Graduated from EFTS. 23.12.42'.

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PFordTA17110017.pdf
Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a view of huts, captioned 'Station from Cookhouse'.
Photo 2 is Terry Ford at a window, standing inside a hut, captioned 'Moi'.
Photo 3 is a Tiger Moth on the ground, viewed through another biplane's…

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PFordTA17110015.pdf
Three photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is Alan Farrar in flying kit, standing in front of a Tiger Moth.
Photo 2 is Leo Harris in flying kit, standing in front of a Tiger Moth.
Photo 3 is an aerial photgraph of several Tiger Moths parked on a…

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PThomasAF20080026.jpg
Photo 1 is a port side ground view of a civilian Dragon Rapide.
Photo 2 is a starboard side view of a flying Tiger Moth.

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BTyrieJSBTyrieJSBv1.pdf
A biography of Jim Tyrie. He was called up on 1st September 1939 and learned to fly on Tiger Moths. He was shot down on his 7th operation over Berlin. In POW camp he was described as a dedicated tunneller. There is a list of the camps he was kept in…

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PHopgoodPD16010023.jpg
14 photographs on five album pages (p 17-21).
Page 17:
Photo 1 - two Tiger Moths parked in the snow, captioned 'Tiger Moths "on the line"'.
Photo 2 - a side view of a Cornell.
Photo 3 and 4 - two different Cornells in the air, FH863 and FH872,…

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PHopgoodPD16010022.jpg
Five photographs of Tiger Moths in the snow, captioned 'Just a few Tiger Moths'. They are fitted with canopies for use in cold climates.

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PHopgoodPD16010020.jpg
29 airmen (all but one trainees) arranged in three rows in front of a Tiger Moth. The ground is snow covered. Underneath all 29 are named.

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PMadgettHR19030019.jpg
Top - a group of airmen in various uniform or overalls standing and sitting in front of a line of Tiger Moths. Captioned 'The flight "Mechs"'. Bottom - a row of Tiger Moths in front of two hangars. The aircraft on the left has a group on men in front…

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PMadgettHR19030018.jpg
Top - a line of 7 Tiger Moths parked on grass. On the left hangars. Bottom left - a pilot wearing flying suit and carrying parachute walking away from a Tiger Moth. Captioned Sgt Smith. Bottom right - nine pilots wearing flying suits and one man in…

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