Hartley Gallery

The RAF Crew Memorial, Hartenstein Museum Grounds

This was the brainchild of Alan Hartley (standing beside the Memorial), the founder of the RAF Down Ampney Association, which remembered all the crews that flew the re-supply aircraft during Operation Market Garden. Alan raised thousands of pounds. Sir John Bond, Chairman of HSBC sponsored a 10,000 donation in memory of Captain John Grayburn VC who won his award for actions at Arnhem. His father had worked at HSBC. General Anthony Deane-Drummond (who had escaped at Arnhem by hiding in a cupboard for 13 days) lent his support and Lord Ashcroft donated 1,000. In Holland much co-ordination and arranging of local permssions to place the Memorial, was done by Frans Ammerlaan who also succeeded in having General Sosabowski posthumously awarded the Dutch Bronze Lion in recognition of the Polish Parachute Brigade. The eagle design was based on one in the collection of Major and Mrs Holt (whose faint reflection, as they took the photograph, can be see in the marble column during the unveiling on 15th September 2006). Date: 2006

© Holts Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans

Laurette Taylor in Out There, war-themed play in New York, W

Miss Laurette Taylor (1883-1946) American actress born Loretta Helen Clooney, pictured appearing in various scenes in the play, "Out There," written by her second husband John Hartley Manners, who had also penned, Peg O My Heart, the enormously successful play in which Taylor had starred in London. "Out There," told the story of the war and the noble part women have played in it. Consequently, she is pictured as a nurse and taking on various cleaning jobs. The show ran at the Frolic Theatre, New York in 1917. Date: 1917

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Pocket flask and napkin ring from Titanic

1. A silver pocket flask belonging to Florence Ware, a second class passenger who survived the Titanic disaster. It was given to her by the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley. 2. A silver-plated napkin ring bearing the White Star Line design, belonging to H J Pitman, 3rd Officer on the Titanic

© Mary Evans Picture Library/ONSLOW AUCTIONS LIMITED

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