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Mounted full length studio portrait of Kathleen together with her Royal Air Force cap badge, eagle badge, identity tags and decorations. Defence Medal and War Medal 1939-45. Labelled 'Corporal Kathleen Norris nee Cross 1940-1945'.

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Full length studio portrait of Corporal Kathleen Cross in uniform.

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Bareheaded head and shoulder portrait of Kathleen in uniform showing her corporal stripes.

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A group of seven Women's Royal Auxiliary Force and three Royal Air Force personnel. One woman is in the arms of one of the men with the others crouching in front of the other women. The group is standing outside a corrugated and a wooden building. On…

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Photograph of two men in uniform standing together in front of a corrugated and a wooden building. Annotated 'Frank Davies' and 'Henry'. The second page has a photograph depicting seven women in skirts, shirts and ties. Some are wearing work coats.…

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Annotated 'West Malling' 'Lena Smith' a photograph of her in uniform, with corporal stripes, sitting on steps with metal railings leading to the open door of a brick building. On the second page, annotated ' Edna Evans (Sutton Bridge) and Leslie…

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On a page annotated 'West Malling', eight head and shoulder portraits of Beryl Day, Pat Wilson, Kitty Argent, Joyce Donnelly, Iris Perks, Kitty (Yttie) Hanbrick, Pat Mead and Hilda Sladdin, seven of whom are in uniform. A second page annotated 'West…

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Six head and shoulder portraits of uniformed personnel annotated 'Hilda Jaquest, Betty Davies, Grace Allen, Betty Gay, Ivy King and Marjorie Crust'. On the second page is a full length photograph annotated ' Pat Dickens'. She is bare footed, wearing…

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Ten head and shoulder portraits, eight in uniform. Annotated on page one Kay Clarke, Sybil Orman, Edie Nash, Pat (Eve) McKenzie and Dorothy Tidpory. On page two, Pauline Leach, Irene Hill, Pat Dickens, Peggy Hammond and Connie Conzina. Both pages…

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Reporting on the ditching of Flight Lieutenant Frank Butterfield and the plotting of the course of his return by his wife and him collecting his honours at Buckingham Palace. A photograph of 21 airmen in three rows; four seated on the ground, four in…

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A photograph of 24 members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in three rows; the first row of eight sat either side of a member of the Royal Air Force wearing a side cap. The second and third rows, each of eight women, are standing. All personnel…

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Viscount Clive with his daughter Davinia Herbert; acting Squadron Leader F D Hughes who was killed in action and an annotated picture of 'Flight Lieutenant Tony Stuart' in evening dress.
The second page shows Flight Lieutenant Anthony Stuart…

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Two photographs, the first of uniformed Royal Air Force personnel seated on wicker chairs in an open lorry. A man in civilian clothes stands near the lorry's cab. There is a crowd of people watching, standing between a row of shops and the road.…

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Telegram and envelope addressed to ACW Butler c/o sergeants mess RAF Wing ,Leighton Buzzard.

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Joyce in WAAF uniform with two colleagues.
The second shows Joyce together with a small child, on the reverse a date '1 Feb 19??'

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#1 is five ground crew standing in front of two crash trucks.
#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…

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#1 is Margaret and Snowy, Harby 1944.
#2 is Snowy and a man in dressing gown and pyjamas, 1944.
#3 is three airmen and two women with a horse and buggy at Eagle, 1943.
#4 is two airmen leaning on an ambulance, captioned 'Snowy & Sgt Thompson,…

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#1 is a woman in a dress, captioned 'Auntie Gwlad'.
#2 is a an airman and a woman on a street, captioned 'Margaret & Snowy'.
#3 and 7 are airmen shooting in a frosty landscape, captioned '1945 [indecipherable]' and 'F/O TI Body 1945'.
#4 is a man…

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#1 is a portrait of a woman sitting on a tree stump, captioned 'Margaret Agnew Benoni'.
#2 is Station Sick Quarters staff at RAF Wigsley. Captioned 'Berry, Duncan, Gibbs, Williams, Corthine, Hobbley, Smith, Crowther, Sinclair, Green, Rattie'. Robert…

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A head and shoulders portrait of Richard's wife, in uniform. On the reverse 'Group Captain R Kellett 738 St Luft III'.

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A head and shoulders portrait. She has a shoulder flash and corporal stripes on her uniform and is wearing a crenelated tie pin. On the reverse 'Me aged 18yrs 1940' and the reference B26 941.

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Joyce Exton Wallace recalls a conversation with an elderly man who expressed his disgust at women wearing trousers. He had seen her tying a barrage balloon's wing down whilst up a 14 foot ladder in the playing field of St. Edward's school.

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Joyce Exton Wallace recalls being put on a charge for insolence to a non commissioned officer. Joyce and her colleagues had missed the last train back to camp at Stanmore after attending a dance. She was reprimanded for reacting inappropriately to…

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Joyce Exton Wallace recalls a time when she was with barrage balloons protecting an army barracks in Barry when a dog stole their meat ration. It was subsequently replaced by locals pooling their own meat rations.

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Joyce Exton Wallace recalls a misunderstanding whist giving orders to inspect the barrage balloon bed wires which was misinterpreted as an order to inspect the wires of the 16 beds in the Nissen hut.
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