Christmas greetings from an RAF station in 1941

Now I have been posting historic Christmas cards for the last week or so and decided this one also needed to be included.

It come from the collection of my friend Jean, who writes, "this Christmas Card was sent to my mother by her brother in law, Sq Leader Walter Young, Christmas 1941:-

He was at RAF Pocklington, Yorkshire. Throughout WW2  Pocklington was a key station in Bomber Command's Heavy Bomber operations, which attacked vitally important targets such as Cologne, Berlin and (in 1943) Peenemunde, which halted the production of Germany's deadly V1's and V2's.

At the time when Walter sent this Christmas card, Pocklington was also the home of the Royal Canadian Air Force's famous No. 405 (Vancouver) Squadron - Walter's main task, it is said by the family, was to keep the young Canadian airmen from causing mischief and mayhem in the nearby village of Pocklington”

My mother and uncle were also in the RAF and mother was stationed in bomber county attached to one of the squadrons’ that mounted one of 1000 bomber raids on Cologne which just happened to be where both mum and uncle Roger were born.

Picture; courtesy of Jean Gammons