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                <text>54 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Malcolm L Payne (417512 Royal Australian Air Force). He flew operations from RAF Bardney as an air gunner with 9 Squadron and was killed in action along with other members of his crew on 13 July 1944. The collection consists of his letters to Miss Doris Weeks, letters from Doris Weeks to Malcolm Payne's mother after his death and official letters to Doris Weeks from the Royal Australian Air Force concerning his death, grave and bequeaths. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Debbie Brown and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additional information on Malcolm L Payne is available via the &lt;a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/118239/"&gt;IBCC Losses Database&lt;/a&gt;.</text>
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                <text>This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.</text>
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            <text>[postmark]&#13;
[postage stamp]&#13;
Miss Doris Weeks,&#13;
37 Hawthorne Rd.,&#13;
Bunker’s Hill,&#13;
Lincoln&#13;
Lincs.&#13;
[postmark]&#13;
[page break]&#13;
A417512&#13;
F/Sgt. Payne. M.H.&#13;
BarDNEY&#13;
11-7-44.&#13;
Dearest Angel,&#13;
Thanks heaps for your letter which I recieved [sic] about an hour ago. Thanks too for sending the comb along [deleted] Pet [/deleted] (mucky b – s!) Pet. As a matter of fact I have another but it isn’t much use.&#13;
We didn’t do Ops. last night as you probably know but we were briefed and got as far as getting out to the Air craft. I was awfully glad it was scrubbed because I wasn’t a bit keen. Matter of fact (said that before too) I think the strawberries and raspberries must have upset me somewhat. But they we [sic] nice just the same and it was worth it. However, I feel O.K. again but I’d rather wait ‘till after leave&#13;
[page break]&#13;
xx.&#13;
before Ops. Getting lazy.&#13;
I haven’t had any replies to my pleas to the hens in the North yet. Should be something for me tomorrow.&#13;
Tag and I tried to grab the Gunnery Leader this morning but his Office was full of bods (as usual) and nowt could be did. We’ll see what we can do this afternoon.&#13;
Darling, you are forgiven for saying no the other night but that’s not what upset me. You can say no any time you wish and I won’t care such a helluva lot. You said you wanted to wait and see if that’s all I came to see you for and it was that which hurt, and how.&#13;
I assure you Pet that that is not why I come to see you. I come because I love you and what better reason&#13;
[page break]&#13;
xxx&#13;
could anyone want. At the time it seemed you were more or less experimenting with me.&#13;
But let’s forget it all darling. You are completely, totally and lovingly forgiven so please don’t worry. After all I don’t blame you now.&#13;
I think I have run short of news (there isn’t any anyway) so will say T.T.T.T. (Ta ta till tomorrow).&#13;
All my fondest love.&#13;
I do love you darling.&#13;
And hundreds of x’s&#13;
Yours&#13;
[underlined] Malcolm [/underlined]&#13;
Xxxxx&#13;
Xxxxxx&#13;
Xxxxxx&#13;
Xxxxxx&#13;
X from Bonzo&#13;
X from ? to ?&#13;
X from me to you. </text>
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              <text>Thanks for letter and comb. No operations last night . No replies on accommodation for trip up north. Continues with love talk. </text>
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