The RAF’s No. 2 School of Photography was established in August 1940 to meet the rapidly increasing need for more photographers and photographic technicians to aid with aerial reconnaissance during the Second World War. The School was based at the Blackpool Technical College and Palatine Secondary School in Blackpool. Training of women at the School began in 1941.
The reverse of the print has the handwritten caption 'Sgt. Hambledon'.
The women shown in the photograph have the following surnames: Wilson, Alway, Reeves, Bonneres, Mills, Tennyson, Townsend, Austin, Melville, Shaw, Hatton, Lambirth, and Plummell.
This is part of the Volume: CHP01/07/01 Photograph Album Compiled by Knicky Chapman; within the Series: CHP01/07 Women's Auxiliary Air Force Second World War Photographs; within the Collection: CHP01 Knicky Chapman Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Military, Second World War, Women's History
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