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                <text>250 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Hedley Madgett DFM (1922 - 1943, 147519, 1330340 Royal Air Force), a pilot with 61 Squadron. He was killed 18 August 1943 on the last operation of his tour from RAF Syerston to Peenemünde. The collection consists of letters, postcards and telegrams to his parents while he was training in the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition the collection contains memorabilia, documents from the Air Training Corps, artwork, a railway map, diaries, medals as well as his logbook, photographs of people, places and aircraft. Also contains letters of condolence to parents and a sub collection containing a photograph album with 44 items of his time training in Canada'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Joan Madgett and Carol Gibson, and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Additional information on Hedley Madgett is available via the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/114690/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/madgett-hr/ "&gt;IBCC Losses Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&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>[telegram header]&#13;
127 147519 17/18 NBD/T&#13;
From [signature] 105 12.0 NBD/T OHMS PTY CA 42 To [office stamp]&#13;
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(PRIORITY CA) MR L R MADGETT&#13;
127 [inserted]L[/inserted]ONGLANDS RD SIDCUP - KENT&#13;
= REGRET TO INFORM YOU YOUR SON 147519 P/O H R MADGETT DFM IS REPORTED MISSING AFTER AIR OPERATIONS ON 17/18 AUG ANY FURTH[inserted]ER[/inserted] INFORMATION WIL[inserted]L[/inserted] BE COMMUNICATED TO YOU IMMEDIATELY = AERONAUTICS SYERSTON +&#13;
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[vertical] PRIORITY [/vertical]&#13;
POST OFFICE TELEGRAM&#13;
[inserted] 105&#13;
Mr L. R. Madgett&#13;
127 Longlands Rd [/inserted]&#13;
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THIS ENVELOPE AND ITS CONTENTS SHOULD ACCOMPANY ANY ENQUIRY REGARDING THE TELEGRAM</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. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.</text>
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