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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>F.A. Craddock.&#13;
c/o Mrs Horton&#13;
“Cheslyn”&#13;
36 Beresford Avenue&#13;
Skegness&#13;
Lincs&#13;
Dear Kath.&#13;
I was very sorry and upset to hear from Hilda that Ian was missing and I offer to you my heart felt [sic] sympathy in this time of trouble and worry and trust and pray that he is safe somewhere. I do think Kath that you will hear some good news in the near future so please try and bear up Kath.&#13;
I heard from Hilda again this weekend she said that you had written a card to them and she also said that Muriel had got a very bad cough and Hilda herselve [sic]&#13;
[page break]&#13;
[underlined] 2 [/underlined]&#13;
Was not to [sic] well.&#13;
I hope that Tony and David are keeping fit and well I guess they find you plenty to do Kath. Well I will close now Kath and sincerely hope that by the time you receive this letter that [corrected] you [/corrected] have had the news that Ian is quite safe and please let us know Kath and remember me to Tony and David also your Mother and Father.&#13;
From your Cousin&#13;
Fred,&#13;
For&#13;
Tony &amp; David &#13;
Xxxxx&#13;
xxx&#13;
xx&#13;
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