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.
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).
Black & white photograph of a card from RAF serviceman, ‘Taffy’, to Alan George French. They both served with 518 Squadron on Tiree during WWII.
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.
Black & white photograph of RAF serviceman Alan George French who served with 518 Squadron on Tiree during WWII.
Black & white portrait photograph of RAF serviceman Alan George French who served with 518 Squadron on Tiree during WWII.
Softback book ‘Virtue Mine Honour – Charles McLean’s War’, by John Holliday and Fiona Wilson, 2021. An account of a young RAF Pilot Officer’s life and death during WWII, based on letters home to family and friends. Charles McLean was the son of Donald Archibald McLean of Kenovay and Linlithgow.
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.
Copy of the Swiss magazine Passé Simple containing an article (in French) about RAF airman Léonard Revilliod, one of the 16 flight crew who lost their lives in a mid-air collision over Island House in 1944. Léonard was the grandson of the first President of Czechoslovakia, and served with 518 Squadron based on Tiree. Written by Denis Dumoulin in 2020.
Click here to view extract (copyright Magazine Passé simple Sàrl, Switzerland)
Hardback book ‘An Expendable Squadron’ by Roy Conyers Nesbit, 2014. A history of Coastal Command’s 217 Squadron which flew bombing raids out of St Eval, Cornwall, into France during WWII. Relates to archive item 2020.1.70 about RAF Pilot Officer Charles MacLean, grandson of Lachlan MacLean, Kenovay.
