Audio recording of talks at the Halifax memorial event, 2014
Talks by various participants, including Mike Hughes and Ken Organ, of the commemoration event at An Talla on 16th August 2014 on the 70th anniversary of the fatal collision of two RAF Halifax aircraft over Tiree.
Information about photographs in book `Tiree – War among the Barley and Brine`, 2013
Printed email from Wing Commander Bryn Lewis of RAF 518 Squadron giving information about the people in some of the photographs published in the book `Tiree – War among the Barley and Brine` by Mike Hughes & John Holliday, 2012. Names include: Harry Smith, Joy Sturdy, Fred Parrot, Jim Worthington, Sheila Greig, Fred MacKeown, Eddie Chapman, Georgie Porazka (nee Pickering), Bert Hopkins, Bob Bateson, Jack May, Bob Hill, Les Moorhouse, Kitty Reid, Arthur Kemsley, Leon Newman, Kay Western, Bryn Lewis, Peter Clark, Babs Hockin, Nan Hogwarth, Jean Hind, Snook Williams, Grace MacArthur, Ann MacArthur, May MacArthur. (none of the photos are held by An Iodhlann)
Information about three Australian RAAF servicemen serving on Tiree during WWII
Information about three Australian RAAF servicemen who died in 1944, along with 13 others, when the Halifax aircraft they were flying in collided with another during training over Tiree: William Arthur Graham, Thomas Stephens and John Alexander Peterson.
Information about some of the photos in book `Tiree – War among the Barley and Brine`, 2013
Printed email from Wing Cdr Bryn Lewis, formerly of RAF Tiree, with the names of people he served with from some of the photos in the book `Tiree – War among the Barley and Brine`. Names included: Smith, Sturdy, Parrot, Worthington, Greig, McKeown, Chapman, Porazka, Pickering, Hopkins, Bateson, May, Hill, Moorhouse, Reid, Kemsley, Newman, Western, Lewis, Hogarth, Hind, Hockin, Clark, Williams, Grace MacArthur, Ann MacArthur, May MacArthur. (individual photos held by An Iodhlann updated accordingly)
Information about Australian Flight Officer Thomas Stephens who died in an air collision on Tiree in 1944.
Notices from Australian newspaper `The Argus` in September 1944, about the death of FO. Thomas Stephens who was killed in the mid-air collision between to Halifax aircraft over Tiree in 1944; information about Stephens from the Commonwealth War Graves website; photocopy of a notice in `Vetaffairs` 2012 seeking relatives and friends of Thomas Stephens and the crew of HMS Sturdy.
Papers about mid-air collision of RAF planes over Tiree in 1944
Photocopied collection of various letters, documents, articles and telegrams, regarding Flying Officer Kenneth William Organ, who was one of 16 RAF flight crew who died when two Halifax aircraft of 518 Squadron (Met Obs) collided over Tiree in August 1944. Collection includes: (1) photograph of aircraft (same as photo R153), (2) telegram from 518 Sqn to Dora Organ (wife) informing of death, (3) telegram to wife re funeral arrangements, (4) letter to wife re death, (5) notice of sympathy to wife from Buckingham Palace, (6) commemorative scroll `FO K W Organ RAF`, (7) memorial page for KW Organ from Common Wealth Graves Commission website, (8) `An Investigation of the Air Tests which terminated in a mid-air collision between Halifax M/518 (LL186) and Halifax S/518 (LL296) RAF Tiree – 16 August 1944` by PG Rackliffe, (9) article about 518 Squadron compiled by Geoff Pringle in 2003, (10) extract titled `Of Sea and Sky` from unknamed book about Halifax aircraft and the Meterological Observers. (given to Dr Holliday by the deceased`s don – Ken Organ)
Extracts from RAF Tiree operations diary 1944-45
Photocopied extracts from the Operations Record Book of RAF 518 Squadron Meteorological Observers from 29th November 1944 to 25th May 1945. Includes `Date`, Aircraft Type & Number`, `Crew`, `Duty`, `Time Up`, Time Down`, `Details of Sortie or Flight` and `Summary of Events`. Greater detail is provided for February 10th 1945 when the aircraft got into difficulties after being struck by lightning around midnight. The crew are named as Willis, Mackie, Isabel, Gates, Uckton, Miles, Clark and Clark.
Click here for extract 2013.26.1
Booklet `A Guide to RAF Tiree` 1999
Booklet of annotated maps of the buildings and infrastructure of RAF operations on Tiree during WWII.
Booklet `Winds of Change` 2004
Booklet tracing the history of Tiree`s weather station and early flights to the island, the RAF, traditional methods of forecasting the weather and weather extremes. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
Two photographs of one of the aircraft involved in the mid-air collision in 1944.
Two prints of a photograph of Halifax `S` of RAF Tiree 518 Squadron flying over Loch Linnhe in 1944. This was one of two aircraft involved in the fatal mid-air collision over Tiree in August 1944 with the loss of all 16 crew. Given to Dr Holliday by DJ Macfarlane of Oban during war-book launch 2012. (same photo as R153)
