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Air Transport Auxiliary
The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British civilian organisation set up during the Second World War and headquartered at White Waltham Airfield that ferried new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between factories, assembly plants, transatlantic delivery points, Maintenance Units (MUs), scrap yards, and active service squadrons and airfields, but not to naval aircraft carriers.
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Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson (1 July 1903 – 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English aviator who was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia.
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Borough of Charnwood
The Borough of Charnwood is a local government district with borough status in the north of Leicestershire, England, which has a population of 166,100 as of the 2011 census.
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Caroline Shirley, Duchess Sforza Cesarini
Caroline Shirley, Duchess Sforza Cesarini (December 1818 – 17 November 1897) was an Englishwoman who married into the Italian aristocracy at the age of eighteen.
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Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.
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East Goscote
East Goscote is a modern village and civil parish in the Borough of Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England, just north of the market town of Syston.
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Leicestershire
Leicestershire (abbreviation Leics.) is a landlocked county in the English Midlands.
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Lindsay Everard
Sir William Lindsay Everard (13 March 1891 – 11 March 1949) was a brewer, politician, and philanthropist from Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
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Parish councils in England
A parish council is a civil local authority found in England and is the first tier of local government.
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Parish meeting
A parish meeting, in England, is a meeting to which all the electors in a civil parish are entitled to attend.
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Ratcliffe on the Wreake
Ratcliffe on the Wreake is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England.
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River Wreake
The River Wreake is a river in Leicestershire, England.
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Sefton Brancker
Air Vice Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker, (22 March 1877 – 5 October 1930), commonly known as Sir Sefton Brancker, was a senior officer of the Royal Flying Corps and later Royal Air Force, and pioneer in British civil and military aviation.
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Sileby
Sileby is a former industrial village and civil parish in the Soar Valley in Leicestershire, between Leicester and Loughborough.
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St Botolph's Church, Ratcliffe on the Wreake
St Botolph's Church is a Grade II* listed Church of England church in the village of Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England.
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Syston
Syston is a town and civil parish in the district of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England.
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Thrussington
Thrussington is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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