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Object description
Three beautifully illustrated picture books (one in booklet form, two dismantled and in a folder) drawn in a charming, cartoon style, in pen and coloured pencils, acting as journals partly covering his service as a Royal Air Force Warrant Officer gunnery instructor specialising in Aircraft Recognition, but mostly focussing on his relationship with his girlfriend, later wife, and their day to day life during wartime: the first (29pp) in booklet form and entitled 'A day at Thorn'ick Bay' (Thursday 10 July 1941) showing a day out while he was on leave, with his girlfriend who he had originally met at Hull Art College, Cicely Jackson, starting with an air raid over Hull, taking the train to Bridlington, buying Cice a brooch in Bridlington, eating in a café, a bus drive to Thornwick Bay passing a wedding at St Oswald's church, swimming, returning to Bridlington, tea at the café in the 'Regal' cinema, watching cadets on the promenade, waiting for a train, the return journey, listening to music at her house in Beverley, and their romantic parting as he returns to duty; the second (39pp, loose pages, and some pages are stuck in out of date) covering his time at No 11 Air Gunnery School, RAF Andreas, Isle of Man (24 February – mid-June 1944), from his posting, crossing to the IOM with his now wife, Cice, his colleague John Ness and his wife Mabel, and mostly covering their leisure time together when he was on leave, showing them shopping, going to shows and the cinema, hiking, picnics, swimming and rowing, a mess dance, but also showing him flying in Avro Ansons with cine guns and shooting at a drogue target being towed by a Miles Martinet (March 1944), and in a Lancaster bomber at RAF Fiskerton, Lincolnshire; the third (17pp, loose pages) written and drawn while stationed at No. 5 Air Navigation School, RAF Jurby, IOM, (20 January – 14 February 1945), again mainly focussing on his relationship with his wife, snowball fights, playing cards with their landlady, Mrs Sillers, visiting friends, gang shows, and an aircraft recognition lecture. Together with photocopies of five photographs of Bernard and Cicely (December 1940), and with friends and family at their wedding (August 1942).
Content description
Three beautifully illustrated picture books (one in booklet form, two dismantled and in a folder) drawn in a charming, cartoon style, in pen and coloured pencils, acting as journals partly covering his service as a Royal Air Force Warrant Officer gunnery instructor specialising in Aircraft Recognition, but mostly focussing on his relationship with his girlfriend, later wife, and their day to day life during wartime: the first (29pp) in booklet form and entitled 'A day at Thorn'ick Bay' (Thursday 10 July 1941) showing a day out while he was on leave, with his girlfriend who he had originally met at Hull Art College, Cicely Jackson, starting with an air raid over Hull, taking the train to Bridlington, buying Cice a brooch in Bridlington, eating in a café, a bus drive to Thornwick Bay passing a wedding at St Oswald's church, swimming, returning to Bridlington, tea at the café in the 'Regal' cinema, watching cadets on the promenade, waiting for a train, the return journey, listening to music at her house in Beverley, and their romantic parting as he returns to duty; the second (39pp, loose pages, and some pages are stuck in out of date) covering his time at No 11 Air Gunnery School, RAF Andreas, Isle of Man (24 February – mid-June 1944), from his posting, crossing to the IOM with his now wife, Cice, his colleague John Ness and his wife Mabel, and mostly covering their leisure time together when he was on leave, showing them shopping, going to shows and the cinema, hiking, picnics, swimming and rowing, a mess dance, but also showing him flying in Avro Ansons with cine guns and shooting at a drogue target being towed by a Miles Martinet (March 1944), and in a Lancaster bomber at RAF Fiskerton, Lincolnshire; the third (17pp, loose pages) written and drawn while stationed at No. 5 Air Navigation School, RAF Jurby, IOM, (20 January – 14 February 1945), again mainly focussing on his relationship with his wife, snowball fights, playing cards with their landlady, Mrs Sillers, visiting friends, gang shows, and an aircraft recognition lecture. Together with photocopies of five photographs of Bernard and Cicely (December 1940), and with friends and family at their wedding (August 1942).
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