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- Tags: childhood in wartime
Interview with Joyce Exton Wallace. Five
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; Red Cross
Margaret Dixon's account of her early life and service in the Women's' Auxiliary Air Force
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Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; entertainment; evacuation; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; home front; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF Hednesford; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Metheringham; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Frank Edwards
Frank talks of his evacuation to the countryside near Croxton Kerrial when he was nearly five. He was accompanied by his two brothers and initially…
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter; V-1; V-weapon
Letter from George Nixon to Ann
Tags: childhood in wartime
Letter from George Nixon to 'Little Anne'
Interview with Keith Toule
Interview with Jan Albone
Their farm was close to RAF Kirton in Lindsey which was used as a rest home for men from the Battle of Britain. They worked on…
Christmas - Waltham 1943
Sally Lancaster
Lancaster ND578 KM-Y
Young Girl and Crashed Aircraft Engine
The photograph is repeated in another album with the following handwritten on the reverse 'Therese del Sole devant le moteur d'avion env? 1945 a Notre Dame de Bliquetuit'.
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash
Interview with Roy Berrill
After the Air Training Corps, Roy was called up to be a…
Street party
Tags: childhood in wartime
Enschede
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18 children from Belsen
On the reverse, handwritten 'Belsen'.
Tags: childhood in wartime; Holocaust
Derek, June & Brian Christian
#1 the three are in swimming trunks and is captioned 'Cutteslowe Park, Oxford 1940'.
#2 the two boys are on bikes and the girl is standing on the wall at the front of their house. It is captioned '556 Banbury…
Tags: childhood in wartime
Popeye mascot
The mascot was recovered from the crash of Lancaster WS-O LM432. The aircraft was flying from Manston…
Interview with Arthur Hydes
Interview with Laura Hickey
Interview with Sidney and Una Ellis
Photographs of airman
Top right - an airman wearing tunic with half brevet and sergeant rank squatting down in…
Tags: aircrew; animal; childhood in wartime
Christmas party
Bottom - large group of children seated at 'u' shaped table…
Recollections by Hector Crawford
Tags: Blenheim; bombing; childhood in wartime; crash
Toddler on a tricycle
Tags: childhood in wartime