Warrant Officer A. Elson. R.A.F. V.R. No. 751538

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Warrant Officer A. Elson. R.A.F. V.R. No. 751538
Albert Elson, a brief service history

Description

A brief account of Albert Elson's service in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during which time he trained as an air gunner, flew 39 operations, was shot down and captured and finally repatriated. It also describes how he returned to Belgium after the war to find the place and people who helped him evade capture.

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Three typewritten sheets

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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.

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BElsonAElsonAv10001, BElsonAElsonAv10002, BElsonAElsonAv10003

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Citation

Albert Elson, “Warrant Officer A. Elson. R.A.F. V.R. No. 751538,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed January 23, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/58189.