March 24, 2023
THE TOP photo shows three young women, one appearing to comfort the other in the middle, during the carrying of caskets into the cemetery. More than likely two of these women were Sylvia Ann Moverly and Jean Isobel Hayes, having been widowed the day before.
Credit: Vivian Cribbes Guerra and Geoffrey Hayes, sites. google.com/view/ georgederykcribbes/allan-al-hayes
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Eric Wiberg: Wives and bases
THE build-up of New Providence into the hub of all South Atlantic air deliveries to the Allies in Africa, the Mediterranean, Middle and Far East was sudden, yet the nation’s air hub was built as Windsor Field for the RAF Ferry Command, and to support the RAF Transport Command, the No 113 Transport Wing instructors who trained over 7,000 students for the front, and to deliver over 9,000 aircraft to Africa.
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