Photograph of one of the Halifax aircraft involved in the mid-air collision over Tiree in 1944
Black & white photograph of one of the Halifax aircraft that was involved in the mid-air collision with another Halifax over Tiree on 16 Aug 1944 with the loss of all 16 airmen (8 in each plane). This is thought to be the one in which Leonard Revilliod (grandson of the first President of Czecheslovakia) was part of the crew when it crashed. (a print of the same photograph is filed 2012.135.6 filing cabinet 9 drawer 4)
Printed internet content about a flight officer`s experiences of service in 518 Squardon, RAF Tiree, during WWII, and how their operations were critical to finding the weather window for the D Day landings (copyright www.oldnautibits.com).
Information about the flight crew of one of the mid-air collision Halifaxes
Printed email from Ken Organ about the flight crew of one of the RAF Halifax aircraft that crashed in mid-air over Tiree in 1944 with the loss of all crew`s lives. Ken` father was one of them.
15 August 2012: “I said I would inform you of the identity of the airmen on the photograph we looked at last week. From the original my father noted the airmen thus:- front row left to right: F/O “Harry” Oates, F/Lt “Bill” Kemp, F/O K W Organ, F/O “Johnny” Peterson; back row left to right: Sgt “Bill” Graham, Arthur Marshall, “Norm” Power, “Warny” Creswell.
I understand that my father’s crew in the accident on 16/8/1944 included six of the above, but not Kemp and Power. Instead of Kemp and Power there was P/O B W Smith and Sgt P G Smith. I do not know when or where the photograph was taken, but his diary notes he was posted to Tiree on 10th August 1944 (and the accident was six days later); prior to Tiree his diary notes he was at RAF Brawdy (in Pembrokeshire). Maybe the photograph was taken there and that he went with most of his crew to Tiree. I guess we’ll never know.”
Transcript of telephone message about the `Oceana`
Handwritten notes and typed transcript from a telephone conversation with John Campbell, owner of the schooner `Oceana` that ran aground on Crossapol beach in 1949.
Photograph of the MacNeill family of Barrapol/Balemartine ca. 1940
Sepia photograph of a group of MacNeills on the Barrapol machair around 1940. L-R: Donald MacNeill (An Tàillear), Mrs Donald MacNeill (Jane Stewart from Lanakshire), Donald MacNeill Jnr (Dòmhnall an Tàilleur), Hector MacNeill (Eachann an Tàilleur), Margaret MacNeill (Peigi `n Tàilleur), Angus MacArthur (Aonghas Theonaidh, Baile Phuill).
Book in Gaelic “Oideas na Cloinne” by Alasdair Mac Neacail
Softback book of Gaelic prose `Oideas na Cloinne`, with handwritten notes and pull-out chart of “The Gaelic Verb”. Signed as belonging to A Ernest Glen, Glasgow, Oct. 1951. Found amongst the belongings of Annine Black.
Cream-coloured ceramic bed pan with a handle and marked “Boots the Chemist”. Known as an `old man`s slipper`, it was the precursor to the modern-day bottle. Found in a garden at Heanish and possibly from the old Fever Hospital at Heanish. Mairi Campbell`s (Cornaig) sister- in-law remembered seeing on at the Western General Hospital, Glasgow, when she was a trainee nurse in the early 1950s. However, she never had to use one as they were outdated by the time she was a practising nurse. Probable date of manufacture/use 1930s-40s.
British Legion membership card, 1929, belonging to Archie MacLean, Scarinish.
Original membership card of the British Legion (Scotland) – Tiree branch, and subscription receipts (1930-1946), signed by Branch Secretaries Robert MacLeod (1930-1936) and Hector MacPhail (1937-1946).
