Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frank Schilder]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> 1943]]> #1. Six airmen, Hawkes, Robert Wilfred is front left. It is captioned: ' THE CREW' -(SIGNED ON BACK)' and is a copy of item #39143 in the collection.
#2. A view of the pilot's station in a Lancaster. Seat, control yoke, gauges and levers are visible. It is captioned 'INSIDE 'UNCLE' '.
#3. Three ground crew standing in front of a Lancaster. It is captioned: 'JOE/BRUM/ALLAN. GROUND STAFF'.
#4. Six men posing on and in front of an Oxford. Two are seated on a tractor, three are standing at the rear of the tractor and one is standing on the aircraft's port engine. It is captioned: 'TOM EARL (EXT LEFT) CANADA.'
#5. Two members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force seated in a tree. Both are in uniform and wearing greatcoats.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]>
Top right - entranceway of a large columned building with 'RAF' inscribed above with pedestrian and cyclist in the foreground. Captioned 'Landestheatre Detmold [RAF Casino], 1945'.
Bottom left - three story house surrounded by trees.
Bottom right - street view with tractor on left and pedestrians on sidewalk.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Germany]]> Germany--Detmold]]> 1945]]>
Bottom - photograph - view from above of a Lancaster with Spitfire and Hurricane on either wing over sea. Captioned 'Memorial in Flight, from original photograph by Arthur Gibson'.]]> David Shepherd]]> Arthur Gibson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1943-06-23]]> left is Leo Groark.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943-12-23]]> From information kindly provided by the donor. '115 Sqd Lanc Bombing up. Bomb trolleys & Lanc'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]>
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
#1 is 11 airmen and ground crew under the front of a Lancaster.
#2 is a group of 12 trainees standing in the snow in front of a wooden hut.
#3 is an Oxford being towed by a tractor. This photo is repeated on a separate sheet.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> PStimpsonMC19050012]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> In the second three Lancasters are taxying for take off.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending identification. Things]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Photo 2 is three ground crew on a tractor, annotated 'Ground Crew Gatwick'.
Photo 3 is two airmen annotated 'Paddy & Geordie'.
Photo 4 is Ray topless at an outside table, annotated 'Letters Home'.
Photo 5 is aside view of an Anson G-AGWE, annotated 'Civvy Anson Take Off'.
Photo 6 is two men in swimming shorts on a diving frame, annotated 'Red Hill'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Gatwick]]> England--Redhill (Surrey)]]> England--Surrey]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]>
Part 2, "No Problem Sport".Covers Alan Gamble's short flying history over France in 1945 before being shot down, and his experiences as a POW in southern Germany and subsequent liberation. The manuscript of Part 2 appears to be complete except for one or more pages missing about two thirds of the way through. This is at the beginning or the end of a fragment bound by metal clips, and could easily have become detached as the outside pages of some fragments' in Part 3 were also lost. It is therefore possible that only one page is missing.

Part 3. "Nil Desperandum".Covers Alan Gamble's post war experiences up to about 1963. This has not been read.

The manuscript of Part 3 is missing pages 24-86, 120 and 170, the latter two being the outside pages of bound fragments. (Page numbering here has assisted in reconstruction).

Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.





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A T Gamble]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Skegness]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> Wales--Porthmadog]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Barrow-in-Furness]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--North Friesland Region]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> France]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Jordan]]> Jordan--Amman]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-06-17]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-07-03]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-07]]>
Daily Sketch]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> EHoadNEGarnerKM701207-0004]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending identification. Things]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> 1947-01]]> JEK Nicholls]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1942-06]]> 1942-11]]> 1945-01]]> 1944]]> 1945-10]]> Photo 2 is a close up of the bombs being loaded into the Wellington. Two armourers are steadying the bomb and a third is winding a winch to load the bomb.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> 1940-09]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]>