Thieves at work!

Dreadful.

Dreadful, truely dreadful…. dark Spectres…something we all live with but never expect it to strike ….. we too will be on the watch for anything resembling these comming out into the daylight.. our sympathy …Lakes Lightnings

yep someone who knows you orchestrated this, they werent even bright enough to cover their tracks and steal other tech to cover what they really wanted. scum

My bits and pieces.

Every thing was in a box under my computer table. Nothing was marked.

Ken

Its good that you have brought this to the attention of a specialist forum.

Manuals and AP’s sell for a reasonable figure these days – this was probably soemone you knew, or you had met at the museum. They wouldnt otherwise have known what to target.

I’m sure we will all keep an ear to the ground for this stuff – were there any marks or signatures that would define them as yours?

Bruce

Yes, certainly not the local yobs or druggies out to make a quick couple of bob, this smacks of a stolen to order job. From where were the items taken?

Certainly sorry to hear of your loss and wish you success in tracking them down.

Planemike………..

a shocking loss.

In my humble opinion stuff like that is stolen to order their are people willing to pay vast sums of money for any kind of memorabilia be it ww2 stuff or antiques. Unfortunatly its a market worth billions every year.

Keep an eye out though you never know where the stuff might turn up.

Bypassing the camera gear says to me they knew what they were after.

My condolences Canberra man. Let this be a lesson to us all.

If you have old photos, documents, books (old enough that the copyright or security laws do not apply); that are of significant historical or sentimental value suggest getting them copied/scanned to preserve them and to back them up.

I was sick when my family divided up my fathers estate, so I was not present. I was very upset that my family threw away or sold at a yard sale much of my fathers war memorabilia, and work artifacts and documentation (much of it was even marked secret etc…, though it was so old I doubt there was any security issues). I was infuriated historical aviation and aviation (R&D) manufacturing and documentation and artifacts were trashed and sold at a yard sale.

Fortunately my father gave me some of that before he passed away; but the vast majority is gone.

My parents also had my great grandfathers logbook and photographs when he worked and died building the Panama Canal. I had hoped that I could scan it and preserve it, regrettably my family members divided up between them without me and now it is scattered across the country with them and they’ve lost track of much of it and it’s out of order what little they can find.

The last letter that my great grandfather sent home said the doctor said he was good enough to release from the hospital after an appendix surgery and he was looking forward to going back to work. The last thing that was in his book was his death certificate that stated he died of infection just a day or two after being released from the hospital “in good health“. (in those days our knowledge of cleanliness, surgery and related germs was poor) I was always told he died of malaria, but the evidence seems to imply that he died of something like a staph infection.

Check Ebay! I hope you catch the scum:mad:

I would also be tempted to check military collectors sales at conventions (or the UK equivalent).

Check Ebay! I hope you catch the scum:mad:

That’s terrible! hope your things are recovered somehow

I’ve been robbed. I was at the aviation museum in Dumfries, my wife had taken the dogs for a long walk and they struck! They did not touch camera’s and expensive things. They went for my RAF mementos. All my photo’s from the Binbrook era, of Canberras and Lincolns. Two Vol 1s, one for Canberra B2 and one for the Avro Lincoln Mk2. My GSM(Malaya) My Cadet Forces Long Service Medal and Clasp. They even took my Commandants Commendation for 28 years service! My wife puchased new medals to save the long wait through official channels. Headquarters Air Cadets replaced my Commendation. So if any of you kind folk have any photos from that era? If its Binbrook, all the better, if not as long as they are B2s and Lincolns and where to find the Tech. books The eerie thing is, they seemed to know where to go!!!

Ken

Thats horrible, i mean if it had of been an camera or such then its easily replacable but still bad all the same.

I shall keep my eye out when i look around various sites and bits

Maybe it was someone that you know, seeing as they knew where to go and didnt get anything such as cameras

Hopefully things will turn up soon

That is awful Canberraman.. Try and keep a watch on ebay or local flea markets etc..?