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                <text>166 items. The collection concerns Reginald Charles Wilson (b. 1923, 1389401 Royal Air Force) and contains his wartime log, photographs, documents and correspondence. He few operations as a navigator with 102 Squadron. He was shot down on 20 January 1944 and became a prisoner of war. &#13;
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The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Janet Hughes and catalogued by Barry Hunter. </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>[Air Ministry crest]&#13;
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AIR MINISTRY,&#13;
2 Seville Street,&#13;
[deleted] LONDON, S.W.1. [/deleted]&#13;
Knightsbridge,&#13;
London, S.W.1.&#13;
&#13;
TELEPHONE: [deleted] ABBEY 3411 [/deleted] [inserted] Sloane 0771 [/inserted]&#13;
&#13;
Any communications on the subject of this letter should be addressed to:-&#13;
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, AIR MINISTRY,&#13;
and the following number quoted:- K.27330/44/Accts.16(a)&#13;
&#13;
18 April 1944.&#13;
&#13;
Madam,&#13;
&#13;
With reference to your letter of 12th April 1944, I am directed to acknowledge receipt of order book number V.A.7 289653, and to inform you that instructions have to-day been given for payment to you from your son’s Royal Air Force pay of the sum of 10s. 6d. (Ten shillings [inserted] / [/inserted] sixpence) a week with effect from 13th April 1944.&#13;
&#13;
The payments will be made to you monthly on the first day of each calendar month by the Royal Air Force Agents, Messrs. Glyn, Mills &amp; Co., (Holt’s Branch), Osterley Park, Isleworth, Middlesex, and the sum now due to 30th April 1944 will be paid to you forthwith.&#13;
&#13;
The balance of your son’s Royal Air Force pay, subject to the deductions referred to in this Department’s letter of 27th March 1944, and to recovery of the voluntary allotment overissued to you since the date of his appointment to a commission will be held to his credit pending receipt of his instructions as to its disposal.&#13;
&#13;
I am to explain that the payments to you, now authorised, from your son’s pay are admissible only until he makes alternative arrangements with his bankers and will be terminated upon the completion of such arrangements.&#13;
&#13;
I am, Madam&#13;
Your obedient Servant,&#13;
&#13;
[signature]&#13;
&#13;
for Director of Accounts.&#13;
&#13;
Mrs. M. Wilson,&#13;
38 Joydon Drive,&#13;
Chadwell Heath,&#13;
Romford,&#13;
Essex.&#13;
&#13;
[National Scheme for Disabled Men crest] </text>
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