Letter from WT Baker to secretary of the caterpillar club

Letter from WT Baker to secretary of the caterpillar club

Informs addressee that his that his son Sergeant Robert Baker is entitled to become a member of the club after baling out 25/26 June 1943. Asks to be send application details.

1943-11-17

One page handwritten letter

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.

EBakerWTIrvinLL431117

[inserted] Recd 19 Nov [/inserted]

Ivy Bank
4 Limefield Terrace
Levenshulme Manchester 19
Nov 17/1943

[inserted] card 1-12-43 [/inserted]

The Secretary.
The Caterpillar Club

Dear Sir,
[underlined] 1549092. Sergeant Robert Baker [/underlined]

I have just heard from my son who is a p.o.w. At Stalag Luft 6 that he is entitled to become a member of the Caterpillar Club, by safing [sic] his life through “baling out” during operations over Germany on the night of June 25/26 last.

Please send me all particulars so that I can make application on his behalf.

Yours truly
W. T. Baker