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- Tags: mess
Interview with Mary Ward. One
Tags: aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); control tower; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mess; military living conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melksham; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
North Coates chapel and Officers' Mess
Photograph 2 is of the bar of an empty Officers' Mess.
Captioned 'RAF North Coates Chapel (Researched)
Photograph 3 is of two barmen and two barwomen behind the bar at the Officers'…
Airfield views
Photograph 2 is of airmen eating at rows of tables in a mess hall.
Photograph 3 is a head and shoulders portrait of an aircrew member on an aircraft.
Photograph 4 is of a man sitting reading in an…
Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
Beach scenes, Royal Air Force scenes and DH.82B Queen Bee aircraft
Top centre, an man in shirt sleeves sitting on a beach.
Top right, five pilots standing in a row in front of a lorry. All are wearing…
Interview with John Ormerod
Tags: 101 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; entertainment; FIDO; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; training; wireless operator; York
Interview with F N Larard
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; control tower; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mess; perception of bombing war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Dalcross; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Peplow; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Frederick Limer
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Gee; guard room; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; mess; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Methwold; RAF Staverton; RCAF Fingal; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; training; Wellington
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Tags: aircrew; mess; RAF Scampton; training
Sergeants Mess Abingdon and Tripoli
Photograph 2 is the roofs of Tripoli, captioned 'Tripoli-Libya Old Town . 1955'
Tags: aircrew; mess; RAF Abingdon
Interview with Alice Wrigley
RAF North Luffenham - Christmas 1944 Sergeants Mess Menu
Tags: mess; RAF North Luffenham
Christmas menu RAF Chivenor, 1945
Frank Hobbs sergeants mess subscription card
Tags: mess; RAF East Kirkby
Frank Hobbs sergeants mess card RAF Skellingthorpe
Tags: mess; RAF Skellingthorpe
RAF Brawdy Officers Mess
Second, third and fourth photographs are all of two RAF officers, in uniform standing outside wooden structure…
Tags: 517 Squadron; aircrew; mess; military living conditions; pilot; RAF Brawdy
Mary Brown at RAF Shawbury
Top right, photograph of 24 aircrew in uniform, in three rows, in formal pose. Captioned…
Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks
Tags: love and romance; mess; RAF Syerston