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- Roadside sign
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- Disused runway, RAF Metheringham
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- RAF Metheringham 106 Squadron Memorial
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- 106 Squadron Memorial and poppies
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- RAF Metheringham Visitor Centre
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- RAF Metheringham Visitor Centre
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- BBMF flypast, 106 Squadron Reunion July 2005
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- RAF Metheringham derelict NAAFI building
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- RAF Metheringham picket hut with briefing building behind
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- RAF Metheringham derelict senior officers quarters
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- Fg Off Wilkinson’s scrapbook
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- Fg Off Wilkinson’s scrapbook
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- Fg Off Wilkinson’s scrapbook
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- Bill’s scrapbook – route to Frankfurt 1944
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- Norm, Fred and Bill, RAF Market Harborough 1943
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- Crw and Wellington, 43 OTU, RAF Market Harborough, 1943
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- Fg Off Bill Wilkinson wearing new Irvin sheepskin
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- View from Stirling flight deck, 1660 HCU RAF Swinderby early 1944
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- Fred’s crew, 1660 HCU RAF Swinderby 1944
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- 106 Squadron March 1944
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- Photo signed in early 1944 at RAF Swinderby
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- Fred and crew, 106 Squadron 1944
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- Lancaster JB641, 1944
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- LAC Chris Burgess and groundcrew in front of ‘X-tra Weight’
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- Bill and Lancaster RAF Metheringham, note Horsa glider in background
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- German V1 Propaganda Leaflet
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- V1 Propaganda Leaflet
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- Sgt Ed Gautschi at grave 1944
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- Cross at the grave in the wood
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- Debris field, cross at grave in distance
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- Fragment of JB641 recovered 1944
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- Families at St Sever Cemetery, 2006
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- Families St Sever Military Cemetery, 2006
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- 106 Squadron Wreath at St Sever Military Cemetery
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- Chris Burgess and Des Richards lay 106 Squadron Wreath on the War Memorial Bures-en-Bray
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- Gun emplacement covering Entree Brault, St Leu 2008
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- Entree Brault, St Leu
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- Inside the caves at St Leu
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- Hindenburgerstrasse, caves, St Leu
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- Bomb casing and target marker casing, St Leu
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- Alain Charpentier examines a V1 fuselage flattened by rock fall, St Leu, 2008
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- View from BBMF Lancaster cockpit Jersey 1985
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- BBMF Lancaster taxiing for display Jersey 1985
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- BBMF Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfire escort us home from the Battle of the Flowers Airshow, Jersey, 1985
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- BBMF Lancster English Channel 1985
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- BBMF hangar, RAF Coningsby 2005
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- BBMF Lancaster
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- Lancaster IWM Duxford
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- Lancaster IWM Duxford
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- Wireless Op position IWM Lancaster
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- View past wireless Op position, BBMF Lancaster, RAF Coningsby
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- Bomb Aimer position
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- Bomb Aimers position, IWM Lancaster
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- BBMF Lancaster
Seven Short Lives 
Just returned with my father from a visit to RAF Metheringham. His younger brother Flight Engineer Reg Cozens perished on the final flight of Lancaster ME790 on 23rd May 1944 aged 19. It’s marvellous that parts of the old airbase remain accessible today.
Mike Cozens
By: Mike Cozens on September 21, 2014
at 3:40 pm
Dear Mike Cozens,
you wrote: Just returned with my father from a visit to RAF Metheringham. His younger brother Flight Engineer Reg Cozens perished on the final flight of Lancaster ME790 on 23rd May 1944 aged 19.
I have more information about this case. ME790 crashed near my homeadress. My email adress: v.urbansky@t-online.de
By: Volker Urbansky on August 7, 2019
at 11:09 am
my Great Uncle was the pilot of lancaster ME790 his name was flt.lt. Sidney Jack Houlden but we dont have any pictures of him.
By: kevin philip houlden on January 13, 2019
at 11:18 am