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An Aircraft Woman, Aston Down by William Rothenstein, sanguine chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA04390

This is one of over 200 portraits William Rothenstein made of RAF personnel between 1939 and 1941, independently of the Official War Artists’ scheme.

An Aircraft Woman, Aston Down by William Rothenstein, red chalk on paper, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Recorded account of RAF service by Aubrey Venables, circa 2000

Film & Sound, In Storage, X005-6779

Recorded account of RAF service by Aubrey Venables, who joined the RAF in 1934 as an apprentice clerk and served in various administrative and leadership roles until retirement in 1966.

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WAAF in air raids - Section Officer Hanbury

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6353

Recording in which Section Officer Felicity Hanbury (later Peake), a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) officer, describes air raids on RAF Biggin Hill.

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Service Dress Hat of Women's Auxiliary Air Force Other Ranks

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X003-3619

At its formation in 1939, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force adopted a cap which was reminiscent of the Women's Royal Air Force cap from the First World War.

Blue grey fabric cap with baggy soft crown, hard peak and decorative cloth band and strap with metal badge, © RAF Museum

Dining Knife

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 71/Z/258

On joining the RAF you would be issued with a number of essential items. This would have included set of eating irons consisting of a knife, fork and spoon.

Metal knife and silver plate spoon, © RAF Museum

Military Medal of Sergeant Helen Emily Turner

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 76/D/692

Helen Turner served as a switchboard operator at the busy RAF station at Biggin Hill, as a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. On 30 August 1940, during an air raid, she kept on working in order to maintain vital telephone contact with Group Headquarters. She and colleague Corporal Elizabeth Henderson only left when a 500lb bomb crashed through the roof and the building caught fire.

Round silver medal with the bust of King George VI in profile, on a red, white and blue striped ribbon, © RAF Museum

Medal Bar of Flight Sergeant Avis Hearn

Aircraft & Exhibits, Cosford, Hangar Two, X004-7220

The Military Medal was awarded to Avis Hearn for gallantry during the Battle of Britain when she was an Acting Corporal.

Three medals on individual ribbons with different stripe patterns in multiple colours, © RAF Museum

Recording in which Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie describes a bombing raid, circa 1970

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/70

Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie, a veteran of Bomber Command, describes the sequence of events that took place before, during and after an RAF bombing raid during the Second World War.

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Recorded interview with Leading Aircraftswoman Theo Moore, 17 February 2020

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-5638

Theo Moore (nee Acheson) was a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) plotter during the Second World War. She gives detail on her work, including the plotting of V-1 flying bombs.

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RAF air ambulance orderlies flying log book of LACW Lilian F. Eastman, 1944-1945

Archives, In Storage, DC75/60/42

This is a logbook which belonged to Leading Aircraftwoman Lilian Eastman of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. Following D-Day she served as a Nursing Orderly for Allied casualties.

RAF air ambulance orderlies flying log book of LACW Lilian F. Eastman, 1944-1945 | DC75/60/42