| Description | Includes:
Annual reunion dinner programmes, 24 Oct 1986, at Sewerby Hall 11 Sep 1999, 8 Sep 2001, Expanse Hotel, Bridlington 30-31 Aug 2003, 5 Sep 2004, 2 Sep 2005, 2 Sep 2006, 6 Sep 2009, 3 Sep 2010-5 Sep 2010
Memorial service at Lissett Church orders of service, 12 Sep 1999, 31 Aug 2003, 17 Sep 2000, 5 Sep 2010, 6 Sep 2015
News sheet number 2, Jun 2000 includes list of names of those who have recently died and biographical sketch of Percy Charles Pick first station commander at Lissett 1943
News sheet number 5, Apr 2003 includes list of names of those who have recently died and anecdotes from the war
Newsletter number 14, Spring 2011 includes description of last year's reunion, article on 'Squadron Memorial/Wind Farm' by Adrian Hammond relating to Lissett, mentioned in despatches
Newsletter number 15, Jan 2012 includes description of last year's reunion
Newsletter number 17, Summer 2013
Newscuttings file:
'Wartime life at Lissett for 158 Squadron' in 'Bridlington Free Press', 20 Oct 1977
'Squadron memorial plan for Lissett' in 'Bridlington Free Press', 15 Sep 1983
'Memorial to those who fought for Britain's freedom' (Lissett), 1984
'Squadron is back to base', Bridlington newspaper, 1989
'Salute to a great wartime aircraft and a simple memorial to the brave men who flew it' Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, 'Yorkshire Post', 14 Sep 1996
'Flypast marks anniversary' in 'Bridlington Gazette and Herald', 10 Sep 2002
'Team begins work again on reproduction Halifax plane' in 'The Northern Echo', 14 Feb 2004
'158 Squadron remembered' in 'Driffield Times', 7 Sep 2005
'Squadron's memorial service at Lissett' in 'Driffield Times', 5 Sep 2007
Plaques as village [Stillingfleet] honours bomber crew who died in war' in 'Yorkshire Post', 15 Feb 2008
'New memorial for 851 heroes' in 'Bridlington Free Press', 7 May 2009
'Remembering the 851 fallen heroes of World War II' in 'Driffield Times', 9 Sep 2009
Squadron memorial at Lissett award in 'Bridlington Free Press', 29 Oct 2010
'Service for squadron' in 'Bridlington Free Press', 8 Sep 2011
'Airmen based st Lissett in WW2' in Bridlington Free Press' 29 Mar 2012
'Squadron reunion to see first meeting of men named after bomber pilot who gave his life saving his crew' in'Yorkshire Post', 22 Aug 2012
Herbert Nevil 'Bluey' Mottershead president of 158 Squadron association for 40 years awarded MBE, 2012
'70th anniversary for RAF heroes' in Bridlington Free Press', 12 Sep 2013
'In memory of fallen comrades, 6 surviving veterans of 158 Squadron at memorial service at Lissett Church' in 'Driffield Times and Post', and 'Bridlington Free Press' 11 Sep 2014
Also:
Obituaries of persons involved in Royal Air Force
Memories of raids over Germany in Second World War
Bomber Command memorials
'Oud-Wapenbroeders' newsletter of 'Veteranen Legioen Nederland', Sep 1977
'Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 3 Aircraft and Crew Losses 1942' by W R Chorley, 1994 (photocopy)
Souvenir programme for roll out of Halifax Bomber 'Friday the 13th' at Yorkshire Air Museum, The original 13th flew from Lissett in 1944/45, 13 Sep 1996
'Yorkshire Air Museum Allied Air Forces Memorial' visitor guide book
'The Tocchini Tales, Reminiscences of a WW2 Halifax Pilot'
Photographs belonging to Herbert Nevil Mottershead 1940s-2009
Burnaston Aerodrome 50th anniversary souvenir programme, 17 Jun 1989
St Clement Danes Church Strand a service to celebrate 40th anniversary of church's reconsecration as central church of the Royal Air Force, 20 Oct 1998
The Millennium Chapel at National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, guide, 2000
A service of commemoration for the Bomber Command Association at St Paul's Cathedral, 24 Apr 2002
Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th anniversary commemorative dinner menu, Doncaster, 25 Aug 2002
The order for the 60th anniversary commemoration of the fatal crash of Halifax RT922 at parish church All Saint's, Grindon, 18 Feb 2007
Annual Bomber Command commemorative ceremony at Bomber Command Memorial, Sculpture Garden, Australian War Memorial, 6 Jun 2010
Dedication of the Aircrew Association Memorial held at National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire, 20 Jun 2010
Memorial service to honour crew of Wellington MK10 LP397 who died at Mayfield 13 Jun 1944, 12 Jun 2011
The National Canadian Airforce Memorial a service of dedication, National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, 8 Jul 2011
Service to remember 70 years since end of Second World War and to commemorate the fallen at St Luke's Church, Derby, 15 Aug 2015
RCAF Memorial Museum Canada's National Air Force Museum, Trenton, Ontario, leaflet
'Requiem for a Rear Gunner' poem by R W Gilbert
Article by Arthur Westcombe Cole on his experiences in the Second world War
Archive number 158-HNM-0010 |