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Painting of Stalag IVB
Painting of a hut, the warning wire, and fence at Stalag IVB. watch towers and power lines are the other side of the fence and in the distance trees.
RAF Chedburgh token ration card
For confectionery to be handed in to NAAFI when confectionary available.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Reminiscences of service in the Royal Air Force - 1937 to 1945
Starts with joining on short service commission and covers in great detail his pilot training activities including a crash landing during a cross country. After wings award moves to trials work, target towing and aircraft ferrying. After a short…
Two airmen and a dog
One airman is in bed, smoking, with his dog. The second is sitting drinking tea with him.
To war in a Wimpy - the life and times of Flight Sergeant Ron Williams RAF
Biography of Ron Williams. Contains photographs and scans of documents.
Chapter 1 - early life, enlistment and training.
Chapter 2 - operational training. Describes activities during training OTU including naming his crew and flying out to…
Chapter 1 - early life, enlistment and training.
Chapter 2 - operational training. Describes activities during training OTU including naming his crew and flying out to…
Officers Mess bill
Mess bill for £1.6.6 made out to Cadet Vandervord for September 1940 at No 12 FTS RAF Grantham.
Airman's camp and a swimmer
Two photographs.
#1 is the airmen's camp with rows of wooden buildings.
#2 is a man in swimming trunks.
#1 is the airmen's camp with rows of wooden buildings.
#2 is a man in swimming trunks.
The letters of Eric Lloyd during World War Two
Document with copies of all his letters to his family. Starts with six letters while he was training in New Zealand. Gives very details description of activities and colleagues. Includes period of illness and hospitalization. Follows two letters…
Interview with Peter Greenwood
Peter Greenwood was born February 2, 1926, in Halifax, and grew up in the Yorkshire countryside, where his father ran a dairy business. He studied at Sowerby Bridge Grammar School with a particular interest in physics and chemistry. He was later…
John Mansell's prisoner of war notes
A book kept by John during his internment as a POW. It has a comment made by Churchill when he was a POW, a poem to Bomber Command by Noel Coward, signatures of fellow POWs, notes on his early days as a POW, rations (not always received) and a list…
Monotony is worst burden of men in Stalag Luft 3
A newspaper cutting with an article about life in prison of war camps.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Interview with John Elliot
John describes an operation where all crew of his aircraft had to bale out, after all airfields in England were fog bound they were running out of fuel. He goes on to describe an incident on an operation when he looked up out of astrodome to see a…
A group of airmen in barrack block
A group of airmen behind a table in a barrack block room with Christmas decorations. Submitted with caption 'Barrack room Christmas '44 Habbaniya [Norman Didwell]'.
Eleven airmen
Eleven airmen wearing uniform tunics standing and sitting at the entrance to a brick built barrack block. Three men are annotated with first names. Submitted with caption '99 Sqn ground crew at Mildenhall spring 1939 standing L to R Ken Ryman, Tony…
The mess at Digri
Distant view of a building with archwayed veranda. Cows in the foreground. Submitted with caption 'The Mess, Digri '42 [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
Two story billets
Two story white building with trees in front. Submitted with caption 'St. Thomas Mount billets, Madras [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
Tented camp
View across water of tented camp. Submitted with caption 'Our 2nd home at Pandeveswar '42 [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
New year menu
99 Squadron cooks and MT section, meal menu for new year 1945.
Mess staff
A large group of mess staff wearing Indian staff uniform lines up in front of single story building. Submitted with caption 'Mess staff, Digri Christmas '42 [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
RAF Manual of Cooking and Dietary
A paperback copy of Air Publication 87 with the name of Cpl Parsons written on the front cover. Contains some 230 recipes for soups, meat, fish, vegetables and puddings along with quantities of various foodstuffs for 100 men and methods for…
Transcript of conversations with Jack Bromfield
Talks in detail about joining up in the RAF and initial induction and training as a wireless operator and air gunner. Crewed up with otherwise Canadian crew (pilot, navigator, bomb aimer and air gunners) at OTU and describes some of them as well as…
Flight Sergeant Bromfield JJ - Stalag Luft 1 prisoner of war book
Includes many of his drawings including train locomotive, Halifax bomber, many caricatures and cartoon as well as abstracts of crew operations. Poem by William Blake. Article on the origination and function of the "food Acco". Note that he was shot…
Dan Nash memoir
Born in 1916, Dan spent his early childhood in Kent with his grandmother before moving back to his parents in Fulham. He left school at 16 for a job with the Hudson's Bay Fur Company and met Joyce, his future wife. With the outbreak of war, the…
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his sister
Comments on her medical issues. Continues with family and friends news and gossip. Wishes he had his little car on the station like some others. Continues to describe being lonely as there was only one other person in his hut and very few on camp.…
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his sister
Thanks her for something sent that arrived on his birthday, his first away from home. Discusses what else she might get him. Mentions his plans for celebration entertainment. Discusses radio programmes he had heard which made comment about the RAF.…