1. Photograph from Joan Pullen. Sergeant in Royal Army Service Corps front right.
Date: April 1944
Image ID AN02_001_003

2. "With Best Wishes to Emmy, Rue and Joan from Geoff".
Geoff Green. The uniform is unusual in that there is no insignia. Geoff was in 2/5th Battalion Essex ...
Date: 1945
Image ID AN04_004_005

3. North West Frontier 1942.
Sunday morning stroll in the Garrison wall.s
From H.D. Young, Captain.
Norman Ward spent time in Burma and India during ...
Date: 1942
Image ID AN04_007_001

4. Army - Field Ambulance Corps. Norman Ward front left ? (no caption with photo.
Image ID AN12_019_001

5. Wedding of Sgt James Argent and Winifred Joan Mussett
L-R 1. Joan Pullen, 2. Elgar Mussett, 3. Valerie Farthing, 4. ?, 5. James Argent, 6. Joan Mussett, 7. ...
Date: 7 August 1943
Image ID AN13_016_005

6. Peace celebration street party after WW2, in Station Road, Tollesbury.
The car on the left is AEV271.
Date: cMay 1945
Image ID ATR_TBY_013

7. County of Essex Air Raid Precautions
This is to certeify that Mrs Ettie V.M. Thorp The Cedars High St. Noth. West Mersea has been duly appointed as an Air ...
Date: 7 October 1942
Image ID BJ44_001_001

8. Light-hearted side to Dad's Army activities.

During the latter part of the war the Home Guard manned the two big guns on the sea front.

At the ...
Image ID BJ44_003_003

9. A full car park along Victoria Esplanade in the early 1950s.
Wartime Mersea folder. The concrete pill box can be seen behind the first few cars in the car ...
Date: c1952
Image ID BJ44_013_001

10. Over-Seas League Empire Day 1941.
This is to certify that John Smith has helped to provide ...

Probably J.V. Smith of 2 Water Terrace, Abberton, as ...
Date: 24 May 1941
Image ID BJ44_019_001

11. NALON sinking. She was bombed and sunk 6 November 1940 to the West of Ireland, on a voyage Beira to Glasgow. A near miss had blown in the plates at No.3 Hold ...
Image ID BJ52_004_001

12. Maurice Johnson - Royal Air Force Service Book. Pages 1 & 2.

Official No. 1186325 Maurice George Johnson.
Date of Birth 18 January 1916. Labourer ...
Date: 16 Aug 1940
Image ID BJ80_060_051_002

13. Essex County Constabulary Clacton on Sea 16 August 1942.
Letter to Mrs D. Johnson, "Rutland", Stanley Avenue, Hornsea, E. Yorks giving her permission to ...
Date: 16 Aug 1940
Image ID BJ80_060_053

14. Royal Air Force Brief statement of Service and Certificate of Discharge of
Maurice George Johnson Official No. 1186325.
Enlisted 16.8.40 in RAFVR as ...
Date: 27 April 1945
Image ID BJ80_060_101

15. Back of Royal Air Force Brief statement of Service and Certificate of Discharge of Maurice George Johnson Official No. 1186325.
Date: 27 April 1945
Image ID BJ80_060_102

16. Sgts Mess Catfoss Xmas 1940. Menu.
The back of the menu has "to my darling Doris from Maurice."
Date: 25 December 1940
Image ID BJ80_060_111

17. Essex at War, compiled by the Editorial Staff of Essex County Standard and edited by Hervey Benham.
There is also a copy of this in Hervey Benham cupboard ...
Date: 1945
Image ID BOX005_009_C001

18. Girls of the Royal Observer Corps 18 group inspected by Air-Commodore Finlay Crerar, CBE (Commandant R.O.C.) at Birch aerodrome, on stand-down.

From ...
Date: July 1945
Image ID BOX005_009_P105

19. Women's Institute jam-makers at Birch.

From Essex at War by Hervey Benham, page 121.

This is in the kitchen at Birch Hall. See ...
Date: cDecember 1940
Image ID BOX005_009_P121

20. The oysterman George Stoker of West Mersea before the 'offoce' of the Stags Head Oyster Fishery Company. A wartime picture - there is barbed wire in the ...
From: Gaff Rig / Smacks
Date: c1943
Image ID BOXB3_125_001_001

21. Passed by Technical Reproduction Branch 18 Dec 1942. No Admiralty Objection to publication, signed, Captain R.N. Wivenhoe. [from back of photograph]
Wooden ...
Date: 18 Dec 1942
Image ID BOXB5_014_001

22. FY PT 1011 just afloat at Wivenhoe. The yard boat stands by to help with mooring ropes and later in removal of sliding ways, poppets and other timber structure ...
Image ID BOXB5_014_022

23. MMS 1012 [on back of photograph]
FY PT 1012 leaves the river Colne after completion and commissioning in 1943. The harbour party and an officer are ...
Date: c15 October 1943
Image ID BOXB5_014_024

24. A quiet interlude during war. Wooden motor minesweeper FY PT 1044 is towed to the fitting out berth after launch from Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd., in 1943. The river ...
Date: 30 December 1943
Image ID BOXB5_014_026

25. During the War at Wivenhoe. Part of "Mulberry" in the making on the River Colne. [DW]

The projected invasion of Normandy in June 1944 needed the ...
Image ID BOXB5_014_028

26. Colchester Diving Club salvaging Typhoon which had ditched in the River Blackwater during WW2. The boat belongs to Derek 'Dink' Ball. Ashley Upsher in orange ...
Date: 1971
Image ID CDC_TYP_001

27. Colchester Diving Club salvaging Typhoon which had ditched in the River Blackwater during WW2. The engine was brought up first. The Napier Sabre engine was sold ...
Date: 1971
Image ID CDC_TYP_005

28. Colchester Diving Club salvaging Typhoon which had ditched in the River Blackwater during WW2. A section of the wing resting on the mud. The conger eel was ...
Date: 1971
Image ID CDC_TYP_019

29. Colchester Diving Club salvaging Typhoon which had ditched in the River Blackwater during WW2.
Letter from Ministry of Defence to M.D. Lungley, 68 St ...
Date: 1971
Image ID CDC_TYP_031

30. Colchester Diving Club. Rolls Royce Merlin engine from a Mosquito, recovered near the Molliette beacon.
Divers L-R are Richard Neal, Bob Leeds, 'Dink@ ...
Date: c1972
Image ID CDC_TYP_107