121. Denis Smy a Profile, by Godfrey Thomas.
Denis was a Flight Sergeant in the RAF in WW2.
From Mersea Life October 2018, Local page 192.
Date: October 2018
Image ID ML2018_010_L92

122. Denis Smy a Profile, by Godfrey Thomas, contd.
Denis was a Flight Sergeant in the RAF in WW2.
From Mersea Life October 2018, Local page 193.
Date: October 2018
Image ID ML2018_010_L93

123. Ration Book Supplement for Barbara Maude Mears, The Ivy House, East Mersea - Page 1
Date: 7 July 1941
Image ID MM2013_MEA_RTN_001

124. Ration Book Supplement for Barbara Mears - Page 6
Date: 7 July 1941
Image ID MM2013_MEA_RTN_006

125. Minesweeper BYMS20, artist Commander S.W. Hills. Acrylic 13cm x 23.5cm Framed under glass, good condition.
Built as BYMS-20 by Bellingham Iron Works, ...
Date: c1943
Image ID MMA_9413

126. Naval Message to Commanding Officer, EXPRESS, Fishing Smack No. CK231, to sail for Ramsgate 31st May 1940, taking a full supply of fuel and two days' ...
Date: 30 May 1940
Image ID MMC_0275

127. Air Raid Precautions. Notice to Mersea Men aged about 35 and over. YOU ARE WANTED to enrol for voluntary training and work with The Air Raid Precautions ...
Date: c1940
Image ID MMC_2006_08_008_A

128. Looking across St. Peter's Meadow to the beach and fisherman's hard, from Coast Road. Hove Creek comes in bottom right. There is a line of barbed wire just ...
Date: c1943
Image ID MMC_P452

129. Peldon Home Guard photographed outside the Peldon Rose.

No.3 (Peldon) Platoon - D Coy. - 18th. BN. Essex Home Guard
June 1940 - December ...
Date: cDecember 1944
Image ID MMC_P668_001

130. Wivenhoe Shipyard - launch of minesweeper J537. Managing Director Mr Buckingham is standing extreme right, next to Rowhedge manager Frank Butcher. [Rowhedge ...
Date: 1941
Image ID MMC_P668_004

131. WW2 shipyard launch party at Wivenhoe.
Date: c1942
Image ID MMC_P668_005

132. Wivenhoe Shipyard - launch of minesweeper J537.

This was MMS37, completed 18 August 1941 for the Royal Navy, Yard Number 15 [ John Collins ]
Date: 1941
Image ID MMC_P668_006

133. Wivenhoe Shipyard - launch of minesweeper J537.

This was MMS37, completed 18 August 1941 for the Royal Navy, Yard Number 15 [ John Collins ]
Date: 1941
Image ID MMC_P668_007

134. Minesweeper Launching at Wivenhoe Shipyard.
L-R Leonard Archer ?, unknown lady, Agnes Mary Pullen, Mildred Lait (with parasol - Diane Stoker's Aunt), ...
Date: c1941
Image ID MMC_P668_013

135. Wartime ship launch at Wivenhoe ? Unidentified.
Image ID MMC_P668_018

136. Ship launch, probably a wooden minesweeper at Wivenhoe, and either MMS113, MMS114 or MMS115.

There is what looks like a Japanese flag as part of the ...
Date: c1942
Image ID MMC_P668_029

137. West Mersea St. John Ambulance Brigade Ladies - 1939/45 War.
Back row L-R 1. Miss Pat Catchpole [Catchie], 2. Miss Barbara Shiels, 3. Miss Muriel Mills, 4. ...
Date: c1945
Image ID MMC_P788_A

138. I Remember - wartime poem by Dr Jean Hudson.

I remember, I remember, the Mersea ARP.
When we waited at the 'Ready'
Cheered by frequent cups ...
Date: October 1988
Image ID MMC_P788_D_001

139. I Remember - a wartime poem by Dr Jean Hudson - Page 2.
...
I remember, I remember, how all our tasks were planned
By the General at Woodstock, ...
Date: October 1988
Image ID MMC_P788_D_003

140. Ron Pottinger in front of a Hawker Typhoon at Manston in Kent. In March 1944 he was pilot of Typhoon R8895 which crashed in the River Blackwater.
Date: 1943
Image ID MPO_001

141. Ron Pottinger, age 101. Christmas Day 2020. Ron was the pilot of the Typhoon aircraft that crashed in the River Blackwater March 1944.
Date: 25 December 2020
Image ID MPO_003

142. Typhoon R8895 from Bradwell Bay ditching in River Blackwater - Ron Pottinger's diary. Page 1.
All pages are available in the Museum. They have been ...
Date: 22 March 1944
Image ID MPO_011_001

143. A View From The Office, by R.W. Pottinger.
A personal story from the Second World War by Ron Pottinger [who amongst his adventures was having to ditch in a ...
Date: 2004
Image ID MPO_BK1_001

144. Alfred Tilley Prisoner of War 1940 to 1945.
Stalag X R Ilag, Germany. A Merry Christmas.
Date: December 1941
Image ID MST_ALT_005

145. c1944-45. The making of pontoon floats at Clifford White's old workshops, situated in Kingsland Road, West Mersea. The staff pictured came from Gowens the ...
Date: c1945
Image ID MST_MIS_133

146. Members of the Royal Observer Corps on the church wall.
L-R Ernie Woods, Sid Stoker, Jack Mole, Dick Haward and Richard Haward (not a ...
Date: c1949
Image ID MST_MIS_193

147. Parade on Wings for Victory Week on 25th May 1943 Note by David Mussett : John is on photo on the left near bugler.
...
Date: 25 May 1943
Image ID MST_MIS_261

148. School Air Raid Shelters demolished 10 April 2007. Lots of memories went with these buildings! O.M. Fletcher photo.
The shelters were behind the Legion ...
Date: 10 April 2007
Image ID MST_MIS_319

149. Ian Michell 1927-1945. Air Training Corps.
Son of Mary and Victor Michell.
Image ID NHP_011

150. John Hamilton-Peters and fellow officers at West Mersea. The house is thought to be Cranbrook, now No. 70 Coast Road.
John was stationed in Mersea during ...
Date: c1944
Image ID NHP_019