Focus on
Forgotten front: Britain, Bolshevism, and Chinese auxiliaries in northern Russia
At the end of the First World War, the British Army enlisted the service of Chinese labourers working in the Arctic.
Piece
No 256 Squadron
Catalogue reference: AIR 50/99
What’s it about?
This record is about the No 256 Squadron dating from 1941 Apr-1944 Mar in the series Air Ministry: Combat Reports, Second World War. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
Access information is unavailable
Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AIR 50/99
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1941 Apr-1944 Mar
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
No 256 Squadron
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
-
Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1912628/
How to order it
- View this record page in our current catalogue
- Check viewing and downloading options
- Select an option and follow instructions
Series information
AIR 50
Air Ministry: Combat Reports, Second World War
See the series level description for more information about this record.
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
1,016,614 records
34,163 records
You are currently looking at the piece: AIR 50/99
No 256 Squadron
You may be interested in
Read stories that share a catalogue subject with this record.
-
-
Record revealed
‘The Book of Negroes’: Black refugees who fought in the American Revolution
This volume offers a glimpse of the numerous ‘Black Loyalists’ who seized the American Revolutionary War as a chance to gain freedom from enslavement. -
The story of
Karl Muller and the fatal lemon
When can a lemon have fatal consequences? If it proves you are, in fact, a wartime spy…
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.