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- Tags: recruitment
Teddy's Career in the RAFVR 9th September 1939 - 11th October 1941
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Defiant; ditching; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; meteorological officer; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; operational training unit; pilot; propaganda; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Tain; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; sport; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Letter to Reg from the recruiting centre
Tags: aircrew; recruitment
Don Evans' Letter Considering his Acceptance into RAF and a Fitness Card
#1 is a letter which explains that the Air Ministry is deciding on whether he can join the RAF due to his civilian occupation.
#2 is RAF Form 1835A recording his physical fitness.
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Tags: aircrew; RAF St Athan; recruitment
Don Evans' Medical Grade Card and Postponement of Calling Up for Service
#1 is Don's Grade Card stating he is Grade One.
#2 is Don's postponement of calling up for the RAFVR.
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Tags: aircrew; recruitment
From Hackney lad to air bomber
Tags: 106 Squadron; 19 OTU; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; memorial; military living conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; observer; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Kinloss; RAF Syerston; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Newspaper cuttings
Tags: RAF Biggin Hill; recruitment
Leonard William Fairbanks' Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve notice paper
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H Jack Lazenby DFC
Tags: 1654 HCU; 20 OTU; 207 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); briefing; Catalina; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; flight engineer; flight mechanic; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 110; Me 262; mechanics engine; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Barkstone Heath; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Benson; RAF Bourn; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Colerne; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Elvington; RAF Fairford; RAF Halton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melton Mowbray; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF Pershore; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Swinderby; RAF Talbenny; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Valley; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wing; recruitment; Resistance; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Eric Coling memoir
Tags: 16 OTU; 1660 HCU; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crewing up; ditching; Dulag Luft; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; mine laying; observer; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Kirmington; RAF Padgate; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; recruitment; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Transcript of My life in the RAF
My life in the RAF - chapter 1,2 and 3
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve notice paper
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Postponement of calling up for service
Nominal role of recruits
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Letter concerning third batch of Ceylonese joining the RAF
Tags: aircrew; Asian heritage; C-47; ground personnel; Harvard; navigator; pilot; RAF Kenley; recruitment; Tiger Moth; training
Marching recruits and course photograph
Right - course photograph with a large group of airmen wearing a variety of uniforms, some with…
Tags: aircrew; RAF Hullavington; recruitment; training
National service grade card
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Frank Jolliffe Recruits Duty Notice
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