Photocopied RAF Tiree newsletter `Tiree Cyclone`, No. 5, 27/5/1944.
Newsletter for RAF Tiree with cartoons, entertainment and sports bulletin and other articles.
2000.109.6
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2000.109.7
Photocopied RAF Tiree newsletter `Tiree Cyclone`, No. 6, 3/6/1944.
Newsletter for RAF Tiree with cartoons, entertainment and sports bulletin and other articles.
2003.114.1
Hardback book `Argyll Shipwrecks` by Peter Moir and Ian Crawford.
Illustrated account of nearly four hundred shipwrecks around the coast of Argyll by two sub aqua divers.
1999.304.1
Colour copy of 1944 Christmas Day menu from RAF Tiree.
1944 Christmas Day menu for the Airmen`s Mess, RAF Tiree with signatures and messages on the reverse. Original made from blue card
1999.311.5
Colour copy of a Certificate of Residence in a Protected Area dated 1/3/1942.
Certificate of Residence in a Protected Area dated 1/3/1942 for Lachlan MacKinnon of Brock (Alasdair Sinclair`s uncle).
1999.259.1
Photocopied letter dated 30/1/1945 from the Air Ministry to Mrs Theresa Bacon.
Letter dated 30/1/1945 from the Air Ministry to Mrs Theresa Bacon informing her that her husband, Flt. Lt. Max Bacon, was missing on a meteorological flight.
1999.244.15
Photocopied article about the vulnerability of the Merchant Navy during wartime.
Article and map showing the vulnerability of the Merchant Navy during wartime.
2003.109.1
Photocopied letter dated 25/2/2003 from the Director of Masarykuv Ustav in Prague, Czech Republic.
Letter dated 25/2/2003 from Marie Neudorflova, Director of Masarykuv Ustav in Prague, Czech Republic, thanking the donor for the photographs, newspaper cutting and other information about Leonard Revlliod, the grandson of Tomas Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslavakia, who was killed in air crash on Tiree on 16/8/1944.
2003.110.4
Black and white photograph of Lachie MacFadyen from Caoles.
Private Lachie MacFadyen, son of Neil MacFadyen of Ardeas in Caoles and brother of Archie (see A191). He was wounded and trapped in a ditch close to the German lines in Sicily before finally crawling back to the British lines with valuable information.
1999.172.1
Photocopied newspaper article about Malcolm Campbell, Balemartine, who survived four sinkings in the two World Wars.
Newspaper article ‘Survived Four Sinkings in Two Wars’ published in the Campeltown Courier, 8th May, 1943. The story of Malcolm Campbell, a ship`s carpenter from Tiree, whose ship was sunk twice in World War I and who was torpedoed twice in four months during World War II.
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