https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1246/16330/BNealeETHNealeETHv010001.jpg df4162bce0a73a7a0d96df93e69f8f5e https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1246/16330/BNealeETHNealeETHv010002.jpg f7a4008eddc66215fd94813e455a4966 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1246/16330/BNealeETHNealeETHv010003.jpg 2909e20a4df81f4b47a313baff3d2363 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Neale, Ted E T H Neale Description An account of the resource 123 items. The collection concerns Edward Thomas Henry Neale (b. 1922, 1395951 Royal Air Force) who served as a navigator with 37 Squadron in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. The collection contains his training notebooks from South Africa as well as propaganda leaflets dropped by the allies in the Mediterranean theatre. The collection also contains a photograph album, navigation logs and target photographs. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alison Neale and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-07-31 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Neale, ETH Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document The best thing I ever did. I left school at 17, to take up an apprenticeship at the Woolwich Arsenal. On 7th September 1940 we were queing (sic) to clock off when we heard these loud bangs, someone shouted “BOMBS”, and one bomb landed just across the road, the last bomb landed on an air raid shelter [deleted] which [/deleted] [insert] and [/insert] killed my cousins husband. We all scattered to make our way home, in my case to Eltham, with airplanes battling above some crashing, anti-aircraft guns banging away, parachutes coming down, shrapnel & bullet clips pinging down. I arrived home saftley (sic) after joining some soldiers in the Woolwich Barracks, who had recently been rescued from DUNKIRK. I went back to the Arsenal, [insert] on Sunday [/insert] to find that my factory had been burned right out, so on Monday I went to the recruiting office to volunteer Page break 2 for the Royal Air Force. It took 18 months to get my release from the Arsenal, and I joined the RAF in early 1942 at ST JOHNS WOOD where we were kitted out and were fed in [insert] the [/insert] ZOO restaurant. A few weeks later I was posted to SCARBOROUGH to learn how to march, then some weeks later I was posted to CARLISE AIRFIELD to learn how to fly a TIGER MOTH. Returning to camp one evening with another cadet, we overtook two young ladies who were happy to talk, we agreed to meet the next night and so it went on, visits to the YMCA etc, my girl was called Mary, eventually my course was coming to an end, and I was expecting to be posted overseas to train, Mary & I felt that we had something going, so I asked if she would like to come to London to see my family, she readily agreed, my sister and her husband met the train at Euston, there was Page break 3 an air raid alert at the time, however they arrived home safetly (sic) and she got an A1 rating from the family. I meanwhile was somewhere else in England. I caught up with Mary when I was posted to Whitley Bay for a commando course, we were waiting for a ship to take us to SOUTH AFRICA for more flying training, all the ships were being used to take troops to the invasion of North Africa. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The best thing I ever did Description An account of the resource Ted Neale's account of his early experience from the age of 17, when he volunteered for the RAF. He recalls his early experiences. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ted Neale Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three handwritten sheets Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Memoir Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context BNealeETHNealeETHv010001, BNealeETHNealeETHv010002, BNealeETHNealeETHv010003 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Scarborough England--Carlisle England--Whitley Bay South Africa England--London England--Cumberland England--Northumberland England--Yorkshire Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Laura Morgan Maureen Clarke love and romance shelter Tiger Moth training