IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Zimbabwe]]> 1942]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Zimbabwe]]> 1942]]> The reverse reads: "Back row 3rd right Alfred Stanley Pring". ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Audrey was 23 when the war started and was conscripted on 15 December 1942 electing to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. After her kitting out at RAF Innesworth she did some basic training at RAF Morecambe, then posted to RAF Lindholme and eventually to RAF Waddington where she worked as an administrator in the officer's mess. At that time there were four squadrons on the station: 9, 44, 463 and 467 Squadrons.
Audrey's duties in the officer's mess included checking the crews against the battle orders to ensure only crews flying that night got the special pre-flight meal and waiting on tables for VIP dinners, including Wing Commander Nettleton VC. She describes her friendships with the other staff and especially with bomber crews, mostly nice and respectful. Audrey and others would gather on the perimeter track to see them off. She and many others were billeted in a beautiful old building, known as "The Waafery”. Audrey describes her busy social life, dancing at many venues and winning jitterbug competitions. Remembers being called ‘belle gambe’ [beautiful legs] by Italian prisoners of war.
Audrey also describes the events of one night when an enemy fighter followed the aircraft home and strafed the airfield, hitting the incendiary dump, which exploded.
After the war, Audrey eventually worked for the local authority’s adoption service after the tragic death of her husband at a young age.]]>
Brian Wright]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Andy Fitter]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1942-12-15]]> 1945-08]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available. ]]>
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]]> The second page has Wing Commander Townsend, wearing dark glasses with a colleague and his mascot dog, Kim; a sketch of Wing Commander Townsend drawn by Capitan Cuthbert Orde and Wing Commander Guy Gibson and 18 fellow Dam Buster colleagues having collected their honours from the Queen Consort.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> 1941-09]]> 1943-05-16]]> 1943-05-17]]> The second photograph is annotated 'Flight Officer Palmer' and is a full length portrait of him in uniform wearing his officers hat, displaying his half brevet and with a pipe.
The third is annotated 'Fight Officer Mellerch' who is bareheaded in uniform has his hands in his pockets with a dog at his side.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending OH transcription]]> Exton Wallace, Joyce. Interview]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Balloon Command]]> Great Britain]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Wales--Barry]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Wright]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Bari]]> 1943-09]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Two slightly different poses of the same group photo.

Nine trainee airmen wearing battledress and forage caps with trainee bands and one sergeant navigator. Five are sitting and five are standing. Behind them is a corrugated iron wall or fence. The sergeant, centre-front, has a dog standing in front of him.  Bernard Ross is seated front row, second from the right. Two prints of the same image.

Ten trainees airmen wearing battledress and forage caps with trainee bands. Five are sitting and five are standing. Behind them is a corrugated iron fence or wall. A dog is lying down at the feet of the middle man, front row.

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Five photographs. From top to bottom, left to right:

#1: Three airmen in tunics, two with brevets, sitting on a couch. Captioned: 'FRIEND'.

#2: A group of army and RAF servicemen, all wearing battledress, sitting and standing in two rows. Most have army or RAF brevet. In the background a single story hut with trees behind. It is captioned: 'BEFORE ARNHEM GLIDER PILOTS AND AIRBORNE TROOP'.

#3: Five sergeant aircrew in tunics with brevets. Seated in front, from left to right, a bomb aimer, pilot and air gunner, standing behind, left to right, a navigator and air gunner Bernard Ross. It is captioned: 'CREW'.

#4: Nine trainee airmen wearing battledress and forage caps with trainee bands and one sergeant navigator. Five are sitting and five are standing. Behind them is a corrugated iron wall or fence. The sergeant, centre-front, has a dog standing in front of him.  Bernard Ross is seated front row, second from the right. It is captioned: 'PASSING OUT WITH BOB'.

#5: Six aircrew in Sidcot flying suits, two wearing flying helmets. Bernard Ross is second from the left. Behind them is a large building. It is captioned: 'NEWLY KITTED OUT IN FLYING KIT'.

On the reverse is a handwritten list of RAF ranks and their rank badge descriptions.

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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> British Army]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Wickham, Harry William. Album]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Royal Air Force ex-Prisoner of War Association. Charlie Warner]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1943-07]]> A formal photograph of 46 trainee airmen, a corporal and a sergeant. All are seated or standing, in four rows, in front of a building and are wearing tunics. The trainee aircrew have a white stripe on their forage caps and are wearing white belts. The corporal and one trainee seated in the front row appear to be holding a cat each. The photograph is mounted on a presentation card and is captioned: No. 9 INITIAL TRAINING WING' above and 'A FLIGHT. No. 2 SQUADRON' below.

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Thos. F. Holte.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Stratford-upon-Avon]]>
Top right: Goats. On reverse' 'goats at play'.
Centre: Herdsman and boy grazing goats on hillside.
Bottom right: Srirangapatna Fort. On reverse, 'Fort gate to Sri Rangapatan Mysore Dist'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> India]]> India--Bangalore]]> 1946]]>
Top right: Hay cart pulled by two bullocks.
Centre: Two sailing boats moored on a beach.
Bottom left: Wheeled carts with a bullock.
Bottom right: Hay cart with driver, pulled by a bullock.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> India]]> 1946]]>
Book includes:
Handwritten note on front 'In memory of Fred Dunn, killed Nov 22/23 1943'.
Telegram to Mr A C Dunn regretting to inform him that his son Sgt Dunn F T lost his life as a result of air operations on 22/23 Nov 1943.
B/W photograph of an airman wearing tunic and side cap. Handwritten note that he had many flying hours to his name in Halifax.
Title page with handwritten note by Alfred Dunn that his brother had been on this raid (page 40). Goes on to describe that Fred was killed in mid-air collision with another Halifax at Pocklington.
Next page - handwritten note about Fred Dunn's last operation on 1000 bomber raid to Berlin and his death in a mid-air collision on return. mentioned that although he was a bomb aimer for 13 operations, he had his wings and was probably considered a pilot.
Page with list of crews participating including from 4 Group, 102 Squadron with Dunn's crew highlighted.
Page with other crews and b/w photograph of five aircrew, four wearing tunics, one holding dog and a fifth aircrew squatting down with tunic off.
Page - extract from operational night raid report 388 27/28.7.43 and night raid report 387 28/29.7.43
Page - Appendix 1 Peenemunde entry in flight log.
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J Searby]]> A C Dunn]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-07-29]]>