My grandfather, Charlie Wenn, was in the Royal Air Force during World War 2. After training in the in UK, he was posted abroad for more training and then active service during the second half of the war and was stationed in the eastern theatre (Burma, Singapore, Malaysia & finally India). Despite training as a pilot, he ended up working in an RAF mobile photographic unit. Their primary job was to process and print aerial reconnaissance photos, but he was ever the entrepreneur and ended up processing and printing other photos too. Some look official, some are likely personal snaps taken by him and other servicemen as the war finally ground to an end. I have several hundred prints - mostly contact prints from 120 film (in most aspects) - and have been meaning to start in on the mammoth job of scanning them and sending them to my family. A lot of the prints have annotations on the back.
Here are the first few, chosen by my daughter who saw them for the first time and wanted copies to use in an art project she's working on.
- "Yooo! Up and in the clouds."
- July 1943. Horseshoe Falls, Canada
- Japanese working party marching back to camp after work in Kuala Lumpur.
- Snooker at the Bagmare Club
- No info.
