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Date Posted: 19/11/13 15:12:27
Author: D. Coumbe
Subject: 209 Squadron 1939-1945

I recently found a cache of photographs belonging to my late father, Ralph E. Coumbe who served with 209 Squadron and was posted to Iceland and then to East Africa where his legs were shot up and he was returned to England.

On the 28th November 1943, someone who I think must have been a fellow airman drew a cartoon of my father then aged 24. The design & economy of line suggest a trained artist. It was sketched whilst he was sitting and playing, poker probably, on a soap box and in Africa. He's obviously wearing the RAF working kit but with 'correspondent's shoes' - something I remember still being in his wardrobe in the post war years. He was with the engineering section and ground crew.

I would very like to identify the artist whose signature is now quite hard to read but I think if I could get hold of a list of personnel serving at that time and place it should be possible to do this.

It is very amusing and I'd like to send it to the Imperial War Museum for their archives and feel credit should go where due before doing so.

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