Photograph of RAF crew at Tiree. From a selection belonging to Chrissie Murray 1924-2023, of Tiree NAAFI.
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2024.6.5
Photograph of airmen at RAF Tiree from a selection belonging to Chrissie Murray 1924-2023, of Tiree NAAFI.
Whilst some of the collection have names on the back, this photograph does not.
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2024.6.4
Photograph of Tiree RAF & NAAFI taken 18 May 1944, from a selection belonging to Chrissie Murray 1924-2023, of Tiree NAAFI
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signed back of photo
2024.6.3
Photograph of RAF Tiree Airmen from a selection belonging to Chrissie Murray 1924-2023, of Tiree NAAFI
Back of photo signed “Sparks Flight” L-R: Alex. McFarlane (Algy), Freddie Letham, Ray Thornton (Sparks), Eddie Gent, Jimmy Fraser.
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2024.6.2
Photograph of Chrissie Murray 1924-2023, from Point, Lewis who came to work at Tiree NAAFI
2024.6.1
Chrissie Murray’s niece donated a number of photos, showing Chrissie, of the Tiree NAAFI and airmen, etc at RAF Tiree.
Below is the summary by the donor, Christine Macsween.
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2021.18.1
White dinner plate marked with ‘RAF’ under a blue crown, made by W Adams and Sons, England. Used in NAAFI canteens on Tiree during WWII.
2020.3.3
Dainty, brass, lady’s cigarette lighter from WWII.
2016.45.1
Photocopy of a typed transcript of a taped interview with sisters Margaret MacKinnon and Katie MacKinnon, Heanish, by Calum MacKinnon of Seattle (and Balinoe), in 1991 at Braeside, Heanish.
Extract: “Auntie Maggie and Auntie Katie agreed to do this tape interview with me on a cold April’s day in 1991. I had dropped by Braeside on the way back from a buisness trip in Europe. It was mostly Auntie Maggie who did the talking with Katie chipping in with the odd comment. They talked about their childhood living on the island and life during the war years.”
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2016.36.1
Metal dessert spoon engraved with ‘NAAFI’ on the handle and encrusted with dark substance. Found in the ground in a stackyard in Barrapol in 2016, it would originally have been part of the cutlery stock of one of the RAF NAAFIs on Tiree (probably Hough) during WWII, but has since been used for mixing paint/varnish/glue on the croft.
