RAF's No. 2 School of Photography

Portrait of the first intake of WAAF Women's Auxiliary Air Force recruits to undertake training at the No. 2 School of Photography in Blackpool. The RAF's No. 2 School of Photography was established in August 1940 to meet the rapidly increasing need for more photographers and photographic technicians to aid with aerial reconnaissance during the Second World War. The School was based at the Blackpool Technical College and Palatine Secondary School in Blackpool. Training of women at the School began in 1941. The photographicky Chapman nee Knapman with other members of her cohort the surnames of each woman appearing on the print. The reverse of the print has the handwritten caption Sgt. Hambledon'. The women shown in the photograph have the following surnames: Bibby, Bradford, Carter, Constantine, Davies-Colley, Fisk, Gravell, Hanson, Kelly, King, Knapman, Lawson, Lowndes, Maddison, Newey, Nutter, Ogilvie, Parsons, Patterson, Pearson, Pell, Rose, Sporle, Smallburn, Tompkins, and Watson

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