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Medal Bar of 6, Squadron Leader Walter Henry Park

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Three/Four, 79/D/2131

Walter Henry Park joined the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, earning the Military Cross in 1917. His Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded for operations in North Russia in 1919 and the Bar for operations in Kurdistan in 1922.

6 metal medals suspended on a bar by coloured silk ribbons, RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAFM/Iain Duncan

Bristol Blenheim Mk. I of 25 Squadron, being refuelled at RAF Hornchurch, 11 August 1939

Photographs, In Storage, PC98/173/5876/9

This photograph is from the last major British peacetime exercise held by the RAF. Between 8 and 11 August 1939 over 1,300 aircraft had taken part in drills in the skies of south-east England. At the end of the exercise a civilian ‘blackout’ had been ordered.

Black and white photograph of RAF Groundcrew in a gas mask working in front of a Bristol Blenheim aircraft, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection / u00a9 RAF Museum, Charles Brown Collection