RECENT ADDITIONS TO COLLECTION ...SEPT 2010. (click on photos to link to full description ).
Albums which belonged to a young Lieutenant John Shorter . He served with Essex Regiment and later Royal Flying Corps . He was killed in action 23.03.1918 while Flying his Sopwith camel over German lines . Albums contain some very nice photos of his training with the Essex and a few good photos of RFC planes . ......................................
WW2 album containing photos of Landing craft tanks ( LCTs) .Photos taken around the Southampton area in the weeks prior to the D-Day landings . ......................................................
Royal Navy album ..which belonged to long serving Edwin Whittle who eventually rose to rank of Commodore . Album cover a period from late 1920s to 1950s . During the early 1930s he served on HMS Sussex , Mid 1930s served on the ill-fated aircraft carrier HMS .Courageous ( approx 25 photos of this ship and her planes / crashes ) .
During ww2 he was on HMS . Arethusa ..photos include 4 of severe damage caused to the ship after an Italian attack in the Med ..and a great photo of King George VI aboard HMS Arethusa 16th june 1944.
The album has many interesting photos including some taken in the workshops of Royal naval engineering college devonport .
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..and finally , a collection of photos taken of merchant ships during the 1950s
