Description
Object description
Black and white photographs relating to the Royal Air Force service of Air Vice Marshal Allen Hesketh and his service in the Royal Air Force. The photographs include: the RAF rugby team 1920-21 (back row l to r: Wing Commander Warrington-Morris, Flight Lieutenants J M Robb, L C Little, O C Bryson, Flight Cadet Drabble, Flight Lieutenants E R Turner, S P Simpson, A Lees, T W Elmhurst, (front row l to r): Flight Lieutenants A W Milne, R H C Usher, C N Lowe, Flying Officer W W Wakefield, Squadron Leader W C Hicks, Sergeant T Smith, Flying Officer W Jones; Parade at an RAF training squadron near Lincoln during the 1930s Avro Tutor and Hawker Hart aircraft included; formal group of RAF officers at a station near Lincoln during the 1930s; presentation group photograph of No. 463 Squadron (Royal Australian Air Force) with Avro Lancaster; group photographs of personnel of Nos. 50 and 61 Squadrons (RAF) in March 1945; Presentation group photograph of personnel of No.115 Squadron (RAF) infront of a Boeing Washington aircraft, 9 August 1951; English Electric Canberra in flight. Also aerial photographs showing a bombing raid on the steelworks at Caen on 22 June 1944; an aerial photograph of a bombing attack on the Sorpe dam on 15 October 1944 and the air and ground crews of the Avro Lancaster 'Still Going Strong' - aircrew named: Pilot: Flight Lieutenant Melrose, Bomb Aimer: Flying Officer Morris, Engineer: Sergeant Selfe, Navigator: Flying Officer Moore, Rear Gunner: Sergant Stalley, Mid Upper Gunner: Sergeant Hoyel, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Flying Officer Woolf.
Physical description
Three framed and glazed photographs (glass cracked in one frame). Labels from Harrison studio in Lincoln attached to reverse of two of the frames. Two rolled photographic prints, a number of loose prints, mostly printed on Air Ministry photo paper. One group photograph mounted on board with handwritten caption and list of names below print, a second print (squadron group photograph) mounted on card with handwritten annotations below print and a third print mounted on paper with no annotations.