Wallet 1 of 1 - Flying logbok and papers of Raymond Waller Nowland

Places	Asia: Burma Asia: Ceylon Asia: India, Assam Asia: Pakistan, Lahore Asia: Thailand Europe: United Kingdom, England, Dorset, Bournemouth Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Cunderdin Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Geraldton Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Perth Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Perth, Pearce
Accession Number	AWM2021.7.52
Collection number	PR04172
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Wallet
Item count	1
Object type	Book, Papers
Physical description	74 Image/s captured
Maker	Nowland, Raymond Waller
Place made	Australia, India, United Kingdom
Date made	1941-1945
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945

Places

Accession Number

AWM2021.7.52

Collection number

PR04172

Collection type

Digitised Collection

Record type

Wallet

Item count

Object type

Book, Papers

Physical description

74 Image/s captured

Maker

Nowland, Raymond Waller

Place made

Australia, India, United Kingdom

Date made

1941-1945

Conflict

Second World War, 1939-1945

Collection relating to the Second World War service of 406366 Flight Lieutenant Raymond Waller Nowland, 84 Squadron and 1579 Calibration Flight, Royal Australian Air Force, Australia, United Kingdom, Middle East and India, 1941-1945.

Wallet 1 of 1 – Contains two folders of material relating to Flight Lieutenant Raymond Waller Nowland.

Folder 1 of 2 consists of one flying log book of Flight Lieutenant Nowland, containing entries dated between 10 January 1941 and 12 January 1945. It covers the period of Flight Lieutenant Nowland’s training in Australia and the United Kingdom, and service with 84 Squadron and 1579 Calibration Flight in South-East Asia. The entries record details such as dates and times of flights, aircraft types and numbers, other crewmembers, purposes of flights, and additional notes. Some of the purposes of flights include elementary flying training, service flying training, operational training, aircraft conversion, aircraft tests, transport of supplies and personnel, air fighting training, bombing operations targeting Japanese positions in Burma and Thailand, equipment calibration, and cooperative exercises with the Army.

Folder 2 of 2 consists of three items relating to Flight Lieutenant Nowland. It contains:
1x Copy of photograph of Raymond Waller Nowland, [date unknown]
1x Fortress Commander’s Permit for Karachi Protected Area issued to Flight Lieutenant Nowland, India, issued 20 May 1942
1x Certificate of Service and Discharge of Flight Lieutenant Nowland, issued 26 February 1943