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Study: Southern England, 1944. Spitfires Attacking Flying Bombs by Walter Thomas Monnington, graphite and ink on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, X008-9848

Made in preparation for a finished painting (IWM Collection LD 4589), this compositional sketch represents spitfires flying at low altitude over tree-lined countryside in Southern England, leaving white contrails in the sky. With ink, Monnington paints a washline mount around the drawing.

Study: Southern England, 1944. Spitfires Attacking Flying Bombs by Walter Thomas Monnington, graphite and ink on paper, RAF Museum

Study: Fighter Affiliation by Walter Thomas Monnington, graphite and ink on laid paper

Fine Art, In Storage, X008-9847

This sketch is one of several made in preparation for the painting 'Fighter Affiliation: Halifax and Hurricane', commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee in 1943 (see L001-1755; LD 3770). A Fighter Affiliation exercise involved training bomber crews (in aircraft such as Halifaxes) to out-manoeuvre faster and more agile fighter aircraft, to prepare them for real-life situations of pursuit from enemy fighters. It enabled crews to practice positioning their turrets and gunsights, and make evasive manoeuvres, in response to attacks from challenging angles.

Study: Fighter Affiliation by Walter Thomas Monnington, graphite and ink on laid paper, 1943. Two aircraft (one a fighter) engaged in a 'dog fight', surrounded by clouds., RAF Museum

Recorded interview with Jennifer Herz and Virginie Mitcham, 1 June 2026

Film & Sound, In Storage, X008-9944

Jenny Herz and Virginie Mitcham discuss their family connections to the RAF, and Jenny remembers her time training with East Midlands University Air Squadron while a student at Leicester University.

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An Officer from New South Wales, Australia, 276: F/O Arthur Edward Kell by Edith Honor Earl, chalk on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00928

Flying Officer Arthur Edward Kell DFC (1918-1968) was an Australian pilot who undertook two operational tours and 59 sorties with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War.

Bust length coloured chalk portrait of Australian officer, facing forward and turned right, wearing War Service Dress uniform with pilot's wings and medal ribbons. Small associative landscape drawing of Australia in upper right corner., RAF Museum

Spanish Refugee Family by Rachel Reckitt, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA02109

This is a rare scene of refugees from the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) who remained living in London during the Blitz. Reliant on charities, they were shockingly neglected and received no financial assistance from the Government or local authorities.

Rachel Reckitt painting of a Spanish refugee family sheltering and sleeping, © Golsoncott Trust / RAF Museum

Welding by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00997

This is one of seven paintings Andrews made about boat building, which she developed after the war from wartime sketches taken while working for the British Power Boat Company in Hythe, Southampton, which built high-speed launch craft for RAF air sea rescue missions.

Welding by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas, circa 1943, The Glenbow Museum of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada / RAF Museum

Medal Bar of Wing Officer Jessie Mary Higgins

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, X003-7378

Medal Bar of Wing Officer Jessie Mary Higgins, Princess Mary Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

Medal bar of seven, including the Royal Red Cross (1st class),, Royal Air Force Museum

Medal Bar of Warrant Officer William Nathan Addison

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1992/0045/D

William Addison was initially a Wireless Operator but volunteered for aircraft duties at the start of the Battle of Britain in 1940. He flew as an air gunner in Bristol Blenheims with No. 23 Squadron.

A group of five medals, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Medal Bar of Group Captain Geoffrey Brunner

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1993/0470/D

During the Battle of Britain Geoffrey Brunner served with No. 43 Squadron. On 26 August 1940 in a raid off Portsmouth he was attacked by a Messerschmitt Bf 109. With no radio, engine or hydraulics, covered in petrol and wounded in the ankle, he successfully made a wheels-up landing at RAF Tangmere.

Six medals on individual ribbons with different stripe patterns in multiple colours, © RAF Museum

Medal Bar of Pilot Officer Robert Alan Marshall

Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1997/0384/D

Robert Alan Marshall trained in Canada as a navigator. Marshall joined the RAF as a Sergeant, before being promoted to Pilot Officer, and served with Nos. 12 and 619 Squadrons. Marshall was later seconded to BOAC.

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