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                <text>146 Items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer Ian Archer Wynn (1908 - 1943, 146838 Royal Air Force). After training as ground crew he remustered as a flight engineer and flew operations with 100 Squadron. He was killed 25 May 1943 on an operation from RAF Grimsby to Düsseldorf. Collection consists of a diary, a memorial book, an official report on what was his final operation, photographs of his crew, his family and the squadron as well as official correspondence from Air Ministry and British Red Cross, letters of condolence and a large number of letters from Ian Wynn to his wife Kathleen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Patrick Anthony Wynn and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additional information on Ian Archer Wynn is available via the &lt;a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/126116/"&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>WAR ORGANISATION OF THE&#13;
BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY AND ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM&#13;
[underlined]WOUNDED, MISSING AND RELATIVES DEPARTMENT[/underlined]&#13;
7 BELGRAVE SQUARE,&#13;
LONDON S. W. 1.&#13;
7th June, 1943.&#13;
Ref: EW/AT RAF/L 16333&#13;
Dear Mrs Wynn,&#13;
We have received your letter of June 4th in which you make an enquiry for your husband Sergeant I. A. Wynn No. 1024298.&#13;
We very much regret to tell you that no news has come through about him up to the present. Any information which may be obtained from the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva or from any other source, as a result of the enquiries being made, will be passed to you immediately.&#13;
Yours sincerely,&#13;
[signature] Margaret Ampthill&#13;
Chairman&#13;
&#13;
Mrs K. Wynn.&#13;
Sunny Brae.&#13;
Norley.&#13;
Frodsham.&#13;
Warrington.&#13;
LANCS.&#13;
[page break]&#13;
[envelope front with Red Cross logo]&#13;
Post Office stamp LONDON S.W.1 Dated 17. V1. 43&#13;
Mrs K. Wynn. &#13;
Sunny Brae.&#13;
Norley.&#13;
Frodsham.&#13;
Warrington.&#13;
LANCS.&#13;
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