Giddings, Leslie

Title

Giddings, Leslie

Description

Six Items. Collection concerns warrant Officer Leslie Giddings who flew as a Halifax flight engineer on 102 Squadron. His aircraft was lost in February 1944 and he was then a prisoner of war. Collection consists of a memoir, transcript of a conversation and photographs.

The collection was licensed to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dr Steve Bond and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.

This collection was provided, in digital form, by a third-party organisation which used technical specifications and operational protocols that may differ from those used by the IBCC Digital Archive.

Date

2022-01-18

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

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

SBondS-GiddingsLv1

Collection Items

Leslie Giddings
Half-length portrait of a sergeant wearing tunic with Canada shoulder flash.

Halifax
Side view of a Halifax parked on dispersal. A tractor is nearby.

Halifax at dusk
A group of spectators waving and watching a Halifax with engines running. On the left a runway control caravan.

Leslie Giddings
Head and shoulders portrait of Leslie Giddings.

Conversation with Les Giddings
Speaks a little about training and mentions cross country with Leonard Cheshire as pilot. Mentions first operation to Kassel. Gives details of aircraft involved on Leipzig operation including high loss rates. States he did not know what went wrong…

Leslie Giddings memoir
Leslie gives account of his last operation to Leipzig on 19/20 February 1944. He commences with brief description of his join up and training. He mentions operations to Kassel and Berlin, completing 7 operations completed before Leipzig. He rists…
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