Black & white photograph of a group of 35 airmen, including Alan George French, who served with 518 Squadron, RAF Tiree, during WWII. The photo was taken by RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown).
2021.45.13
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Dates: 1930s
2021.45.12
Black & white photograph of a group of 18 airmen, including Alan George French, who served with 518 Squadron, RAF Tiree, during WWII. The photo was taken by RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown).
2021.45.11
Black & white photograph of a group of seven airmen, including Alan George French, who served with 518 Squadron, RAF Tiree, during WWII. The photo was taken by RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown).
2021.45.10
Black & white photograph of the Skerryvore Lighthouse complex of buildings at Hynish during WWII, taken from a vantage point looking northwest. The photographer was RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown), who served with 518 Squadron, RAF Tiree.
2021.45.9
Black & white photograph of the walled gardens and fields, barns and stackyards, and Hynish House, with Happy Valley beyond. The photo was taken by RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown), while serving with 518 Squadron, RAF Tiree.
2021.45.8
Black & white photograph of RAF serviceman Alan George French standing at the east end of Soroby beach during WWII. Hynish, Mannal and Balemartine are visible in the background. The photo was taken by RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown), while both men were serving with 518 Squadron, RAF Tiree.
2021.45.7
Black & white photograph of a Nissen hut on the airfield during a blizzard in WWII, with houses of Crossapol just visible in the background. The photo was taken by RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown), while serving with 518 Squadron, RAF Tiree.
2021.45.6
Black & white photograph of waves crashing onto rocks at Happy Valley, East Hynish, during WWII. The photo was taken by RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown), while serving with 518 Squadron, RAF Tiree. The man climbing over the rocks on the left is probably RAF serviceman Alan George French.
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Black & white photograph of a card from RAF Service Photographer, ‘Peru’ (real name unknown), to Alan George French. They both served with 518 Squadron on Tiree during WWII. ‘Peru’ took all the photographs in this collection (2021.45.1-13).
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Black & white photograph of RAF serviceman Alan George French (2nd from left) and three fellow servicemen of 518 Squadron, on the airfield at Tiree during WWII.
