https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/53/589/EBoldyDABoldyAD-LM340408-0001.2.jpg aeb3ac70eeb13e908b2d28dc06a302cf https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/53/589/EBoldyDABoldyAD-LM340408-0002.2.jpg a94a78cdff2e3208b1fb4528f8bb575e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Boldy, David Dave Boldy D A Boldy Description An account of the resource 334 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant David Adrian Boldy (1918 – 1942, 923995 Royal Air Force) and consists of his school reports, letters from school and photographs of family and locations in India, letters from training and service, and photographs from his social life and time training. It also includes newspaper cuttings and letters about him being missing in action. David Boldy was born and attended school in India and studied law at Kings College London. He volunteered for the Royal Air Force and trained as an air gunner in South Africa. He flew operations in Manchesters and Lancasters with 207 Squadron from RAF Bottesford. His aircraft failed to return from an operation to Gdańsk 11 July 1942. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Boldy and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.<br /><br />Additional information on David Boldy is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/102182/">IBCC Losses Database</a>. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Boldy, DA Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [St. Joseph’s College crest] ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE NAINI TAL. 8.4.34. My darling Mummy and Daddy. The College B team played [deleted] Sherwood [/deleted] [inserted] P.S.C B [/inserted] yesterday and they beat us 4-2. But our A team beat a station team 4-1. There are 9 players missing from our A this year, in hockey & football. We went for a walk yesterday as we do every saturday [sic] evening. A nun died in the Convent the other day, the Convent is our sister school. We have baths once a week. We go to bed at half nine and [inserted] are [/inserted] up at half five. It is getting very warm now. Boys are still coming to the [deleted] school [/deleted] college. I have written to Ronald & Raymond. On certain days before holidays their [sic] no Prep (they call it study) my class and the S.C do study. We have been doing Cambridge Papers only so far. Another my has come to my class today. In the Gospel and Acts we have to learn [page break] many passages, [deleted] of [/deleted] and I have learnt quite a lot of them. For English my class is taking up the Tempest. I have learnt 1 and ¾ speeches. We have to learn a good lot of them. I have started French. Is Stevie to take up French?. When my class played Stevies [sic] in cricket they beat us. We were all out for 38 and they were all out for 99. [deleted] We [/deleted] My class had very bad luck though. At the end of the year there are matches for cups of all games [deleted] again [/deleted] for the classes J. C. upwards to the specials play against each other, & 4th to 7th , and 1st to 3rd. the 17th of this month is a holiday but the Cambridge boys will have class no wonder they get such good results. The cup matches have not begun yet. All the brothers here can ride horses. No more news today will write again when the stamps arrive. With lots of love & kisses from your loving son David P.S. Please send some more stamps. This is incase you did not see it written on the envolope [sic] of the other letters. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Letter from David Boldy to his parents with general conversation about attending St. Joseph’s College, Naini Tal. Writes about the college sports news and about his daily life at school, and about lessons. He is learning passages from scripture, and in English passages from the Tempest, and that he has started learning French. He mentions the death of a nun in sister school the Convent. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource David Boldy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-04-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two page handwritten letter Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text. Correspondence Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EBoldyDABoldyAD-LM340408 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. India India--Naini Tal Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1934-04 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 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. Title A name given to the resource Letter from David Boldy to his parents Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Andy Hamilton sport