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I have had this great photo sent to me to see what information we can drum up to help the owner of the image.

It is a WW2 image and appears to have a mixture of RAF and Navy personnel, perhaps maritime patrol ??.

Anyway the owner tells me the photo was found in grandparents belongings and they lived at Kinnesswood, Kinross.

Any info please as little as it might be, ta very much mateys

Could be a Seafire?

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Look at the Cannons on the wing, I have not seen sea Hurricane with this type of weapons.

The aircraft from the main image maybe from a training school. The RN Officer is a pilot, see "wings" on his arm and he is wearing RAF flying boots :cool:
 
Yes mate I agree it is a Seafire.

What part would the rest of the fellas play?
Are they his ground crew / maintenance team etc?

(Y)
 
The RAF could be attached to a Naval unit and passing on information about the aircraft to the Navy techies?
 
Great image! Could it be somebody saying 'goodbye' to their aircraft?
RAF Balado Bridge was a WWII airfield located next to Kinross. Opened as a satellite to Grangemouth in March 1943 as part of 81 Group. The airfield was home to 58 Operational Training Unit, renamed No. 2 Tactical Excercise Unit 17th October 1943. The unit disbanded 25th June 1944. In November of that year the site was taken over by the War Department and used until 1952 for scrapping ex-Fleet Air Arm aircraft. Light aircraft and gliders used the runways from 1946 until closure in 1957.
http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/RAFBaladoBridge
 
Hi , I know I am a bit late to this post , but found it when I was doing a reverse search for the same photograph. I am a photographer and photo restorer and I have been asked to do some work on the same photograph. After some research I can offer a little information on the picture. The Pilot is Lieut. Francis Cyril de la Cour de Labilliere , (born 1900 , died 1948?) in 1939 he was an RAF Instructor , and joined the fleet air arm in 1941, he was moved to the Naval reserve in 1942. This might well be a photo after his last flight ( but that is only a guess). He was also the Uncle of General Sir Peter de Labilliere.
 
Hi , I have found this image after doing a reverse search on a photo that I have been sent for a bit of restoration. I can add a little to the story. The pilot is Francis Cyril de la Cour de Labilliere 1900 - 1948. In 1939 he was an RAF flight instructor but by 1941 had joined the Navy and was a pilot in the fleet air arm he was moved to the reserve list in 1942 , and this may be a picture after his last flight ( but that is only a guess). He was the uncle of General Sir Peter de Labilliere.
 
Hi , I have found this image after doing a reverse search on a photo that I have been sent for a bit of restoration. I can add a little to the story. The pilot is Francis Cyril de la Cour de Labilliere 1900 - 1948. In 1939 he was an RAF flight instructor but by 1941 had joined the Navy and was a pilot in the fleet air arm he was moved to the reserve list in 1942 , and this may be a picture after his last flight ( but that is only a guess). He was the uncle of General Sir Peter de Labilliere.

For what it's worth, I've just pulled Peter de la Billiere's autobiography ("Looking for Trouble") off the bookshelf and this is what he has to say about his uncle -

"My father's generation had eccentrics of its own, not least his brother Cyril, who joined the Fleet Air Air during the Second World War, then became a mining engineer and went prospecting in East Africa where he claimed to have discoverer a gold mine, but disappeared - murdered (We suspected) by rivals. His body was never found".
 
For what it's worth, I've just pulled Peter de la Billiere's autobiography ("Looking for Trouble") off the bookshelf and this is what he has to say about his uncle -

"My father's generation had eccentrics of its own, not least his brother Cyril, who joined the Fleet Air Air during the Second World War, then became a mining engineer and went prospecting in East Africa where he claimed to have discoverer a gold mine, but disappeared - murdered (We suspected) by rivals. His body was never found".
Thanks Gaz, I did know that , although the story I heard was that it was diamonds in Kimberley. He was certainly in Southern Rhodesia before the war.
 
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