Edmondson, Kenneth Driver

Title

Edmondson, Kenneth Driver

Description

16 items. The collection concerns Kenneth Driver Edmondson (b. 1903, Royal Air Force) and contains photographs and ac document.
He served as Military Police at RAF Driffield.

The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by John Edmondson and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

Date

2023-04-21

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Edmondson, KD

Collection Items

Ten RAF officers and three members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Thirteen servicemen and woman sitting and standing in two rows in front of brick building with windows. All wear tunics. Signatures at the bottom. Some service men have flying brevet and or medal ribbons. On the reverse '"M" syndicate No 96 senior…

RAF Driffield
Inclined aerial photograph of station buildings with hangars on left with airfield out of shot to left. On the reverse 'RAF Driffield 12 Sep 1945'.

Airmen and air training corps cadets
Front and rear row are cadets. Centre row contains one cadet sergeant on left and eight RAF officers, some with flying brevet and medal ribbons, and one army captain. On the reverse 'with the compliments of the officer commanding No 313…

Cologne
Inclined aerial photograph of part of city with railway lines bottom centre to top right. On the reverse 'Cologne'.

Amsterdam
Inclined aerial photograph of part of city with canals centre top to bottom and off to the left. On the reverse 'Amsterdam'.

Krupps Essen
Inclined aerial photograph of industrial area. On the reverse 'Krupps Essen'.

Krupps Essen
Inclined aerial photograph of industrial area and housing. shows damaged buildings. Part of aircraft engine bottom right On the reverse 'Krupps, Essen'.

Kromhout factory
Inclined aerial photograph of Kromhout factory. Noordhollandsch Kanaal visible. On the reverse 'Amsterdam'.

Identification kindly provided by Tommy Hmlnk of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.

Amsterdam
Inclined aerial photograph of a city with rows of buildings and a canal upper left to right. On the reverse 'Amsterdam'.

Duisburg
Inclined aerial photograph of part of a city with part of river bottom left.

Düsseldorf
Inclined aerial photograph of part of city with river and the damaged Oberkasseler Bridge at bottom. Some damaged buildings visible. On the reverse 'Duisburg'.

Cologne
Inclined aerial photograph of Cologne with river running left to top right. The destroyed Sudbrucke Bridge in the centre. On the reverse 'Duisburg'.

Three RAF officers
Three officers, left and right wearing battledress and the one in the centre a tunic, all standing at the entrance of an officers' mess. On the reverse 'RAF Station Driffield, S/Ldr G W A Webb, F/Lt J Judd, June 22/45'. Note 'Subject right'.

Seven members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Two versions of the same image. First - Seven airwomen wearing tunics sitting and standing in two rows. On the reverse 'Sgt M E McMaster MID, front row right would marry K D Edmondson'.
Second - same image with back row left annotated 'Nancy' and…

Station Police
Fourteen airmen wearing tunics and side caps sitting and standing in three rows inside a room with notice board on wall behind. Centre front row a police dog. Title 'RAF Station Police, RAF Base Station Driffield, April 1944'. On the bottom…

Au pays qui nous a donné « La Liberté », nous rendrons la liberté
Au pays qui nous a donné « La Liberté », nous rendrons la liberté [to the country which gave us the ‘Statue of Liberty’, we will bring back liberty]

The first page shows the Statue of Liberty in New York, noting that the Americans would bring…
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