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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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                <text>One hundred and sixty-four items plus another one hundred and fifteen in two sub-ciollections. The collection concerns Flying Officer Kenneth Gill DFC (1922 - 1945, 1438901, 155097 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents, photographs and family and other correspondence. &lt;br /&gt;He flew operations as a navigator with 9 Squadron before starting a second tour with 617 Squadron. He was killed 21 March 1945 having completed 45 operations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collection also contains two albums.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2114"&gt;Kenneth Gill. Album One&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2117"&gt;Kenneth Gill. Album Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additional information on Kenneth Gill is available via the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/108654/"&gt;IBCC Losses Database.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Derek Gill and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.</text>
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            <text>Specimen Nos:-&#13;
COLNBROOK 231/232/233&#13;
&#13;
Central Depository,&#13;
Royal Air Force,&#13;
Colnbrook, Slough,&#13;
BUCKS.&#13;
&#13;
In reply please&#13;
quote reference:-&#13;
CD/ BY 28747&#13;
&#13;
9. May 1946&#13;
&#13;
[underlined] F/O GILL K. D.F.C. (155097) [/underlined]&#13;
&#13;
Dear Madam,&#13;
&#13;
In accordance with Air Ministry instructions the Flying Log Book of the above named is forwarded herewith by registered post.&#13;
&#13;
Upon receipt of the Log Book would you be good enough to sign the attached form and return it to this Unit, for which purpose a prepaid addressed label is enclosed.&#13;
&#13;
Yours faithfully,&#13;
[signature]&#13;
Wing Commander, Commanding,&#13;
[underlined] R.A.F. Central Depository. [/underlined]&#13;
&#13;
Mrs. V. Gill,&#13;
23, Sycamore Avenue,&#13;
Halton,&#13;
Leeds,&#13;
Yorks.</text>
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