Photocopied photograph of a funeral cortege at Soroby graveyard in 1944.
Funeral cortege at Soroby graveyard in 1944.
1999.113.9
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1999.113.14
Black and white photograph of war graves at Soroby graveyard.
World War II graves at Soroby.
1999.113.15
Black & white photograph of Mrs Revilliod and Grace Campbell of Tullymet, Gott, at the graveside of Flt. Lt. Leonard Revilliod who was killed in a mid-air collision over Island House in August 1944.
Courtesy of Mrs Grace Campbell
On the 16th August 1944, two Halifax aircraft from 518 Squadron took off for air tests before their usual nightly weather reconnaissance flights. They lost sight of each other in patchy cloud and collided, killing all on board.
An eyewitness on the top of Ben Hynish reported seeing one plane taking off while the other was coming in. ‘They appeared to come so close to each other that they tipped wings…and the next thing the two of them went up in flames and you could see the wheels with the tyres burning and falling right to the ground…’
One of those killed was Flight Lieutenant Leonard Revilliod, a grandson of the Czechoslovakian Prime Minister, Jan Masyrak, who flew with his daughter-in-law to Tiree for the funeral. The photograph shows Grace Campbell and Mrs Revilliod at her son’s graveside at Soroby in Balemartine.
1998.129.1
Photocopied programmes of events held in Tiree during WWII.
Photocopied programmes of events held in Tiree during WWII including plays, revues, church services and sports.
1998.76.1
Photocopied magazine article about Tiree during WWII.
Article about RAF Tiree and weather reconnaisance flights by 518 Squadron.
1999.228.1
Colour scan of programme for wartime revue.
Programme for WWII revue `Bon Voyage` held in the RAF Station Theatre in September 1945.
1999.228.2
Black and white photograph of WAAF Jean Hynd and `Mrs Mac` in Hynish.
`Mrs Mac` and WAAF Jean Hynd in Hynish during WWII.
1999.228.3
WAAFs on the steamer ‘Lochearn’ in 1945
Photograph of WAAFs on the steamer ‘Lochearn’ in 1945.
Courtesy of Mrs Jean Inglis
The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was created in 1939. Although WAAFs did not serve as aircrew, they played a vital role in transport, communications, meteorology, aircraft control and intelligence.
The group of WAAFs in this photo were leaving Tiree on the steamer ‘Lochearn’. Jean Inglis née Davies from Edinburgh (back row, extreme right) spent two years underground at 18 Group HQ, Coastal Command at Rosyth before being posted to Tiree in May 1945.
Jean was a wireless operator and, with her team, made contact with aircraft in the area, on one occasion helping to guide a damaged plane to a safe landing on the island.
Black and white photograph of WAAFs on `Lochearn` during WWII.
WAAFs on the `Lochearn` during WWII. L-R: (back) Joy Pearce, London; Nan Hogarth, Whitby; unknown; Jean Inglis nee Davies, Edinburgh; (front) Flora Semple, Aberdeen; Marjorie Pollard, Burnley; Jean Hind, England. Jean Inglis spent two years underground at 18 Group HQ, Coastal Command at Rosyth before being posted to Tiree on 27/5/1945. LACW (leading aircraft woman) Jean Hind was a Wireless Operator who met Wing Commander Bryn Lewis while both serving on Tiree on 8 July 1944). They married on 9 July 1950. Nan Hogarth was also a LACW Wireless Operator.
1998.44.7
Township history for Heanish researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about the MacKinnons in Heanish.
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2003.27.1
Scots Magazine, September 1999.
Letter to the Editor of the Scots Magazine, September 1999, from Malcolm Till, about a visit he made to Tiree in 1993, where he met ex-serviceman George Hambling, a New Zealander posted to the RAF station on Tiree during World War II.
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