S Bond]]> O Wells]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Bedford]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Netherlands]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Belgium--Liège]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> France]]> France--Lille]]> Poland]]> Poland--Żagań]]> England--Norfolk]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--London]]> Malta]]> England--Cambridge]]> Italy]]> Italy--Milan]]> 1943-08]]> 1943-12]]> 1944-01]]> 1945-06]]> 1946]]> 1950]]> 1941-01]]> 1943-07]]> 1943-08]]> 1956]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Navy]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--West Midlands]]> England--Wolverhampton]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Stamford]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Thetford]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Carlisle]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Theale (West Berkshire)]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Northampton]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--High Wycombe]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Godalming]]> England--Norwich]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Scotland--Angus]]> Scotland--Arbroath]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Warrington]]> England--Devon]]> England--Plymouth]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Gosport]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Bedford]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Cheltenham]]> England--Cirencester]]> England--Chippenham (Wiltshire)]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Shrewsbury]]> Scotland--Ross and Cromarty]]> Scotland--Invergordon]]> England--Andover]]> Wales--Glamorgan]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Wales--Dyfed]]> Wales--Aberystwyth]]> England--Kent]]> England--Ramsgate]]> Germany]]> New Zealand]]> New Zealand--Dargaville]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--London]]> England--Hounslow]]> England--Cumberland]]> England--Middlesex]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Royal Wootton Bassett]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]> 1948]]> 1949]]> 1950]]> 1951]]> 1952]]> 1953]]> 1955]]> 1960]]> Evening Standard]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Maidenhead]]> England--Billericay]]> England--London]]> England--Romford]]> England--Bedford]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Essex]]> 1944-04-02]]> There is a second diary for 1943 only and its contents are identical to the first diary. A third diary covers 1944.

Year 1942
The diary describes tedium and excitement of training through 1942. He started training learning Morse, German, English, maths, gunnery instruction, and ground defence. From the very beginning he wanted to fly, going to hangars to beg a flight in an aircraft on test. Free time was spent reading, cinema, playing billiards and snooker, plus church parade. Describes crashes and various incidents while training. He was posted to RAF Evanton ( Scotland) for air gunner course and flew in the gun turret of a bomber for the first time. On 18th September he was presented with air gunner brevet and sergeants stripes, posted to RAF Abingdon 22 September and promoted to flying officer. Crewed up on the 4th October, started flying in a Whitley Bomber. Courting a young woman called Sandy, who he asked her to marry him. posted to RAF Stanton Harcourt Oxfordshire, got a two day pass to celebrate the engagement. Sandy and Harold were married during this period. Harold passed out as a wireless operator and air gunner. Harolds hopes that he would survive the war and return to peacetime to be with Sandy who had brought him so much happiness.]]> Arthur Mace]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> John Nobbs]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Diary]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Ely]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Knebworth]]> England--St. Albans]]> England--Hertford]]> England--Welwyn Garden City]]> England--Haverhill]]> England--Newmarket (Suffolk)]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Essen]]> England--Peterborough]]> England--Whittlesey]]> Germany--Bremen]]> England--Hitchin]]> England--Hereford]]> England--Crewe (Cheshire East)]]> Scotland--Tain]]> Scotland--Inverness]]> England--Letchworth]]> England--Oxford]]> England--London]]> France]]> France--Paris]]> England--Newquay]]> England--Padstow]]> England--York]]> England--Wetherby]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> France--Montluçon]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Bochum]]> England--Goole]]> England--Bedford]]> England--Luton]]> England--Selby]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> England--Chichester]]> England--Leeds]]> England--Hull]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> England--Howden]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Scotland--Ross and Cromarty]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> England--Bedford]]>
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