https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/53/710/EBoldyDABoldyAD-LM290811-0001.2.jpg 0a8a3a0e0fdc3ba63dd49099d481e056 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/53/710/EBoldyDABoldyAD-LM290811-0002.2.jpg 4387f2368ab4e8c3b899f38296ede145 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 [underlined] TELE ADDRESS: “PAULTIE, DARJEELING” [/UNDERLINED] ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL, JALAPAHAR DARJEELING August 11th 1929 My dear Mummy and Daddy. I hope you are quite well and happy. I am glad to hear you [sic] better. Thank you for the postcards. We have had hockey mat [inserted] c [/inserted] hs [sic] up to now. The first one our second XI played and won the score was 7-0 the second our first XI played and won the score was 10-0 the third our first XI played and won the score was 2-1 We have one [sic] all our matches up to now. We had a hole [sic] holiday on tuesday [sic] because it was such a nice day. Stevie is coming down to-morrow [sic] from hospital. Another boy went up to hospital with mumps on on [sic] wednesday. [sic] That means quite a lot of [indecipherable word] still I am glad to hear pompom Darjie and polly are getting on well. Yes please teach polly [page break] some more words. We had Educational pictures yesterday it had a comic at the end it was very funy, [sic] this saturday [sic] it is going to be a live house concert. If you are nearly well when it is about time for my birthday please try and come up.?. I would love you too. [sic] Some boys told me they think the number of post-cards you have to get is 60. But the ones you have to get 60 of are the small ones of the London [sic] zoo I supose [sic] the ones you have to get 24 because it is a smaler [sic] zoo than the London[sic] zoo. I am ending my letter now with lots of love and kisses From your loving [underlined] son David [/underlined] 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 form David Boldy to his parents with general conversation about school life and sport scores. 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 1929-08-11 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 Text. Correspondence Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EBoldyDABoldyAD-LM290811 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--Darjeeling India Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1929-08 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