Photographs, Geoffrey Vernon Leicester

11 British Air Ministry duplicate prints annotated on the reverse by 430661 Warrant Officer (WO) Geoffrey Vernon Leicester in the Royal Australian Air Force. The originals of these images are held in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. Print numbers C 5031, C 4472, C 5178, C4657, 5153(?), CH 12341, CH 6421, CL2772, C 5075, C 4919 and C119. 6 other images relating to the service of WO Leicester. WO Leicester enlisted for service on 26 February 1943 from Melbourne, Victoria. During the last two years of the war, he served with the Royal Air Force’s elite Pathfinder force in 156 Squadron (8 Group Pathfinder), flying Vickers Wellingtons and subsequently Avro Lancasters. The Pathfinder Force played a major role in Bomber Command’s European offensive as target-marking squadrons. They secured and marked areas with incendiary bombs and flares to increase the accuracy of bomber squadrons. Warrant Officer Leicester was discharged on 3 November 1945.

• Group portrait of seven crew members of 156 Squadron in front of their Avro Lancaster. Identified ...
• Group portrait of seven crew members of 156 Squadron in front of their Avro Lancaster. Identified ...
• Group portrait of six crew members of 156 Squadron. Identified back row, far left is 430661 ...
• Duplicate print of British Air Ministry CL 2237. Bursts of German anti-aircraft fire fill the sky ...
• Duplicate print of British Air Ministry CH 12427. Original held in the collection of the ...
• Duplicate print of British Air Ministry CL 2672. Oblique aerial photograph showing smoke rising ...
• Duplicate print of British Air Ministry CL 2673. Oblique aerial photograph showing some of the ...
• Duplicate print of British Air Ministry C 5165. Oblique aerial photograph showing the contrail ...
• Photograph of Cologne as captured through the bomb-aim of an Avro Lancaster by 430661 Warrant ...
• Photograph of Cologne Cathedral captured through the bomb-aim of an Avro Lancaster by 430661 ...
• Photograph of Mannheim rail yards as captured through the bomb-aim of an Avro Lancaster by 430661 ...
• Photograph of the rail bridge over the Rhine at Bonn as captured through the bomb-aim of an Avro ...
• Photograph of locks on the Rhine as captured through the bomb-aim of an Avro Lancaster by 430661 ...
• Photograph of a truck travelling across an intact pontoon bridge on the Rhine, as captured ...
• Photograph of a paddle steamer and barges on the Rhine as captured through the bomb-aim of an ...
• Photograph of the collapsed Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine as captured through the bomb-aim of ...