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WARDMAN, Gp Capt Reginald ('Rex') Bryson (1911-1985)

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Title WARDMAN, Gp Capt Reginald ('Rex') Bryson (1911-1985)
 
Creator Wardman | Reginald Bryson | 1911-1985 | Group Captain
 
Subject Military personnel
State security
Armed forces
Visual materials
Photographs
Aerial photographs
International conflicts
War
World War Two (1939-1945)
Heraldry
Flags
Transport
Vehicles
Aircraft
Military aircraft
Organizations
Military organizations
Wars (events)
World wars (events)
World War One (1914-1918)
People
People by occupation
Personnel
International relations
 
Description

One hundred and three photographs relating to Wardman's RAF service, [1932-1944], including eighty three, mostly captioned, aerial photographs of North West Frontier Province, India [1932]-1934; photographs of RAF aircraft including Westland Wapiti Mk IIA, Avro Tutor, Hawker Hector [1932-1939]; three photographs of Wardman in No 3 (Indian) Wing RAF sports teams, Quetta, India, 1934; group photograph with Wardman and RAF pilots '46th Flying Instructors Course, Central Flying School, September-December 1935'; group photograph captioned 'No 612 (County of Aberdeen) (AC) (Army Co-operation) Squadron, Auxiliary Air Force, July 1938'; group photograph captioned '1935 600 City of London Fighter Squadron', group photograph captioned 'Brough [Yorkshire], January 1939', group photograph in front of Bristol Blenheim bomber [1940], Airspeed Horsa upon Salisbury plain [1944], group photograph captioned '296 Sqn Airborne Forces Headquarters', photograph of 296 Sqn badge, group photograph of RAF officers 1944, group photo of RAF Officers with Italian badge captioned 'East Colne 1945', two photographs of Handley Page Halifax bombers from towing gliders on crossing of Rhine March 24 1945, group photo of Norway visit, photo of Halifax taking off captioned ''R' for Mo, Joe' [1945], group photo captioned 'Celebration! promotion to Wg Cdr'.
Also small Union flag displayed on the first British truck taken to France, and later used by the French Army, Aug 1914, (the flag originally belonged to a relative of Wardman who worked for Vulcan Motor and Engineering Company, Crossens, Southport, Lancashire).


 
Publisher Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
 
Date 2008-05-23
 
Type text
 
Format text/html
 
Identifier http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=223&inst_id=21
 
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