Letter to Mrs Thomson from the Caterpillar Club

Title

Letter to Mrs Thomson from the Caterpillar Club

Description

Glad to hear that her son's life had been saved by an Irvin parachute and explaining that he caterpillar pins would not be available for prisoners until after the war due to supply restrictions. Includes letter of congratulation and welcome as member of the club as well as further letter from Irvin that he was glad to hear her son was home and including his caterpillar badge.

Creator

Date

1945-04-05
1945-10-10

Temporal Coverage

Language

Format

Two typewritten letters, two printed documents and an envelope

Rights

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.

Identifier

EIrvinLLThomson[Mo]450405

Collection

Citation

LL Irvin, “Letter to Mrs Thomson from the Caterpillar Club,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 13, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/51484.