Description
Object description
Photograph album and affixed prints relating the service of Squadron Leader Dennis Henry Allen Moore in the Royal Air Force in the interwar and Second World War periods. Moore, as a Sergeant-Pilot was featured along with his Whitley crew in the famous wartime poster commonly referred to as 'The Few'.
The album mostly covers Moore's pre-war service training as a bomber pilot and starts of with images depicting his time at RAF Halton as an apprentice (1928-1931) and includes an aerial photograph of Bulback Barracks and his class - 18th entry - passing out parade. Coverage then moves on to his service on aircraft at various institutions such as RAF Catfoss, on Vickers Virginias of No 7 (Bomber) Squadron at RAF Worthy Down (1931-1934), the RAF Worthy Down station band (1932) and on Vickers Vildebeest night bombers. Fairey Gordons are seen at 3 Armament Training Camp. RAF Sutton Bridge (1934), and other images from this posting include an interior view of a full hangar of Fairey Gordons, view of one of the seats inside a Fairey Gordon. The album continues with scenes at RAF Eastchurch (1935) home of Air Armament School and HQ Armament Group; a class photograph of 30th Course at No 2 Flying Training School at Digby (1935); group photograph of personnel of No 216 Bomber Transport Squadron, Heliopolis, Egypt (1936) in front of a unit Vickers Valentia; journey on board a troopship to Heliopolis via Gibraltar, Malta, Suez, Port Said and Cairo; aerial view of the accommodation and HQ buildings at RAF Heliopolis; Vickers Valentia at the airfield; intervior view of the cabin of a Valentia looking forward to the cockpit; Christmas day 1936 in Egypt; interservice sports, Egypt; scenes on a troop ship back to Britain from Alexandria. Service at RAF Aldergrove, Northern Ireland, on Handley Heyfords.
Aerial photographs of Heligoland, Kiel and dock area and Hamburg centre and U-Boat pens taken from a Halifax MK VI on 1 June 1945 during a post-bombing reconnaisance mission.
Moore as a Flight Sergeant (Pilot) featured in the famous wartime poster 'The Few' and the album contains a copy of the photograph used to create this iconic poster along with a series of other images taken at Linton-on-Ouse that day, c August 1940, prior to the crew taking part in a raid their Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley Mark IV. At the end of the album are a series of newspaper clippings reporting Moore's awarding of the DFM and the DFC and tickets to the investiture at Buckingham Palace.