Photographs 2 and 3 are of a group of airmen watching a 4000 lb bomb being lifted on slings. Captioned '1000 lb bomb.'
Photograph 4 is of four Naval officers looking at the rear gun turret of a Halifax.
Photograph 5 is of three airmen handling bombs on a crane, watched by Naval officers.
Photograph 6 is a discussion between Naval officers and airmen beside bombs stored on the ground.
Captioned 'Visit of the Royal Navy, R.A.F. Middleton St George. 14th July 1942.'
Photograph 7 is of three Halifaxes, one coded 'Z-ZA', another 'T', a hangar, a truck and two trailers. Captioned 'View from Photo Section window.'
Photograph 8 is of four airmen sitting on top of a Halifax.
Photograph 9 is of Reginald George Cavalier in the cockpit of a Halifax. Captioned 'R.G.C. in cockpit of Halifax A/C.'
Photographs 10 and 11 are of a Halifax, one coded 'H-MP'. Captioned 'Halifax A/C. 78 Sqd.' [Squadron code MP is for 76 Squadron.]]]>
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Photograph 3 is a three quarters portrait of Air Vice Marshal Basil Embry. Captioned 'A.V.M. Basil Embury [sic]'.

Photograph 4 is of two officers in front of a tent. Captioned 'G/C. McDonald, W/C Maher.']]>
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Photograph 2 is of the inside the trailer captioned: 'Inside Photographic Trailer, Chalky White, Frank Watson, Les Seymour.'

Photograph 3 is of six airmen at the back of the trailer drinking tea. Captioned: 'Photo Sec S.H.Q. 137 Wing. Tea Break. Jock Sadler, John Vassell, Hal Ashley, R.G.C., Les Seymour, Chalky White.'

Photograph 4 is an airman in a tin bath. A leather flying jacket is draped over his shoulders although he wears no other clothes. Behind on the wall is a cartoon of Hitler with the message 'To hell with Hitler'. There is a funnel arrangement and cans labelled 'Fuel Oil' and 'H2O' on a shelf behind him. Captioned: 'Friday night, Bath Night, Harold Pyatt.'

Photographs 5 and 6 are of 12 airmen including Reginald George Cavalier, arranged in a group at the back of a trailer/tent arrangement. Captioned: 'Photo Sec, S.H.Q. 137 Wing, 88 Sqd Photographers, April 1944. John Johnstone, Chalky White, Jock Sadler, Sid Burton, Harold Pyatt, Joe Bazin, Ted Butterworth, Les Seymour, Frank Watson, R.G.C., Ton Thomas.'

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Photograph 2 is of Reginald George Cavalier painting a partially-clad woman on the canvas of a tent. Captioned 'R.G.C. painting a "Lady". '

Photograph 3 is of airmen outside bell and ridge tents, captioned 'Tent Site. 137 Wing.'

Photograph 4 and 5 are of groups of airmen and airwomen dancing on a wooden platform set on the edge of a coniferous forest. Captioned 'Open Air Dance, R.A.F. Hartford Bridge.'
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Photographs 3 and 4 are street scenes in deep snow captioned 'Photo Sec Billet, Rue de Pont.'

Photographs 5 and 6 are of a house with a large church behind captioned 'Madam Mathia House, Jan 1945.'

Photograph 7 is Reginald George Cavalier with two women captioned 'Marie, Me, Madam, 11th Dec 1944.'

Photograph 8 is a street scene from an upstairs window of a horse, cart, man and dog.
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Photograph 2 is of a group of airmen around steaming drums. Captioned 'Jan 12th 1945. Washing Up.'

Photograph 3 is of a group of 12 airmen including Reginald George Cavalier standing in deep snow in front of a tent. Captioned 'Dec 24th 1944, 137 Wing, S.H.Q. Photographers.'

Photographs 4, 6 and 8 are of a crashed B-17. On the tail is 'L', 'O', 'MS' and '48593', the rest of the aircraft has been completely destroyed. Captioned 'Feb 1945, Crashed Flying Fortress A/C U.S.A. on Aerodrome, Vitroy (sic) en Artois. R.A.F. Vitroy [sic] en Artois'

Photograph 5 is four airmen standing outside a tent in heavy frost. Reginald George Cavalier is second on the left. Captioned 'Jan 1st 1945, Jock Sadler, Les Seymour, Hal Ashley.'

Photograph 7 is of a lorry with an airman standing beside it. There is snow on the ground and icicles on the lorry. Captioned 'Jan 1st 1945, Mitch Mitchell, Frozen Photographic Section lorry.'
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Photograph 2 is of four airmen including Reginald George Cavalier at work outside their trailer. Captioned 'Sid Burton, Les Seymour, John Vassell.'
Photographs 3, 4, 5 and 6 are of groups of airmen working on the foundations, captioned 'Laying the foundations.'
They are captioned 'R.A.F. Vitroy [sic] en Artois, France. Construction of Photographic Section Hut by 137 Wing S.H.Q. Oct 1944.'
Photographs 7 to 24 are of groups of airmen working on the assembly of the wooden hut.
Photograph 16 is captioned 'Jock Sadler, John Vassell, Les Seymour, Hal Ashley, Chalky White, Sid Burton'. John Vassell is marked with a cross and is further captioned 'John Vassell working at the Foreign office as a junior clerk in Moscow Russia after the war, was convicted of spying for the Russians, sentenced to six years.'
Photograph 24 is captioned 'The final piece'.
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Photograph 2 to 5 are of trailers in the woods, captioned '137 Wing, Photographic Units.'
Photograph 6 is a three quarters portrait of Reginald George Cavalier leaning on the front of a lorry.
Photograph 7 is three quarters portrait of two airmen, Reginald George Cavalier is on the right. Captioned 'Chalky White, R.G.C.'
Photograph 8 is of three airmen standing in front of a wooded area. Reginald Cavalier is on the left.
They are captioned 'R.A.F. Gilze Reijen, Holland. April 1945.'
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Photograph 2 is of a patient on a stretcher being carried between the building and a military ambulance. There is a sign 'Officer's Entrance'.
Photograph 4 is of doctor talking to an airman.]]>
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Photograph 2 is of a group of airmen.
Photograph 3 is of a group of airmen and a woman.
Photograph 4 is of a pilot standing beside a car.
Photograph 5 is of a four airmen, two airwomen and two nurses leaning and sitting on a military ambulance.
Photograph 6 is of a military ambulance being driven by an airwoman. ]]>
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Photograph 2 is of 460 Squadron's crest.
Photograph 3 is of a Lancaster in the air, close to the ground.
Photograph 4 is of the pilot in the cockpit of a Lancaster, captioned 'Lancaster waiting for take off 2nd aircraft in view through windscreen'.
Photograph 5 is of six airmen in a bar with beer glasses in their hands.
Photograph 6 is of an airman inside an aircraft.
Photograph 7 is of nine airmen marching, viewed from the side.
Photograph 8 is of a Lancaster in the air, close to the ground.
Photograph 9 is of six airmen walking, viewed from the side. Behind is a small building.
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Gemma Clapton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Dawn Studd]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Australia]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Dorricott, Leonard William. Folder PDorricottLW1509]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]>
A Lincoln with an experimental nose. In the foreground a man is sitting with his back to the camera, on his left is an Alsatian dog. Behind him is a VW Beetle and a bicycle. Behind the aircraft is a hangar identified with an 'E'.

A 4000lb bomb on a trolley. Three ground crew are preparing to load it into bomb bay of a Lancaster. The Lancaster has a cover over its nose.

A Lincoln and a Varsity taken from the starboard side, looking across a barbed wire fence.]]>
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D W Raettig]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> David Bloomfield]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1941]]> 1941-01]]> 1941-08]]> 1942-02]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1943]]>
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Pam Locker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Carmel Dammes]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Balloon Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943]]> 1945]]> Annie Moody]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Hugh Donnelly]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Balloon Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> Wales--Pwllheli]]> 1942]]> He tells of his training at Halton, and describes the different trades and his exams to become an Leading Aircraftsman 1st Class, where he was then transferred to a Repair and Inspection Unit (R&I) working on Spitfire engines.
Charles then went to India via the Suez Canal and then on to Ceylon to 121 Repair and Salvage Unit, looking after 2 squadrons of Beaufighters and 1 squadron of Spitfires, but he says that because he was an apprentice, he could turn his hand to anything.
He was posted to instruct at a Motor Transport Unit, and spent time learning about the maintenance of other equipment including diesel engines.
Charles was posted to 109 Maintenance Unit, repairing Merlin engines, however at this time the V Bombers were coming into service. He trained as a Crew Chief and after passing these exams he was assigned to the Avro Vulcan XA908, at RAF Waddington.
Charles related the stories of the work he did when the Vulcan had hydraulic failure at Goose Green, the bombing competition in Florida where the aircraft suffered broken bomb bay doors and a cracked bomb aimers window, and the trip home from Bermuda with no fuel in one tank and a broken bogie beam.
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Mick Jeffery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]>
]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Gemma Clapton]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Great Britain]]> Israel]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> Israel--ʻEn Shemer]]> Israel--Ramat Daṿid]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Rutland]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 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 tunics and four have side caps. In the background wooden buildings.
Middle left, a man wearing civilian jacket and tie standing on a path in front of a wooden building. There is a large bin to his right.
Middle centre, three men, one a pilot in flying suit and Mae West, the others wearing tunic and side caps. They are standing on an airfield with the wingtip of an aircraft visible on the left. In the background left side, part of a hangar and a lorry.
Middle right, Two airmen in tunic and side hat conferring in front of and between two lorries. In the background, buildings.
Bottom left, a compound surrounded by a tall wire fence. In the background, buildings, hangars and a tall tower.
Bottom centre, a DH.82B Queen Bee floating on sea alongside a ship. There is a man standing in the cockpit with a rope attached to a grappling line. Three men standing by the ships rail, two watching and one releasing the grappling line.
Bottom right a brick built officers mess with several cars parked in front.]]>
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He trained as an engineer after he was unable to fly due to eye problems, and worked on a variety of engines, including the Bristol Hercules, Packard Merlin and the Rolls Royce Merlin engines.
He tells of his time on base, the explosion that took the life of his friend, and the work he completed on the Avro Lancasters and worked on the Mark 1, 2 and 3’s.
Kenneth joined 61 Squadron, and served at Skellingthorpe and Bottesford, before working with the Royal Navy where he worked on single engine aircraft.
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Vera Willis volunteered for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force because she wanted to be a driver. Her driving career in the RAF involved driving driving aircrew to dispersal. 

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