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JF Neilson's memoir
He joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool,…
Tags: 4 Group; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; civil defence; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Tom Payne
Tags: bombing; civil defence; evacuation; firefighting; home front; recruitment
My recollections of the War
Release from National Fire Service Letter
Tags: civil defence; firefighting
Air raid precautions album
Fire guard's pocket book pictures, diagrams and tables
Letter to Douglas Hudson
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Tags: faith; firefighting; prisoner of war; Red Cross; Stalag Luft 3
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Interview with Honor Saunders
Interview with Iris McClements. Two
Malcolm Staves' Fire Fighting Card
Tags: civil defence; firefighting; home front
Fred Whybrow draft Obituary
A fire service memoir
Tags: bombing; final resting place; firefighting; heirloom