1 25 4 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/19/23385/LBonneyA651126v1.pdf 06e28fc25ff0b9611bc446d60599dba5 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 Auton, Jim J Auton Description An account of the resource 26 items. The collection relates to Sergeant Jim Auton MBE (1924 - 2020). He was badly injured when his 178 Squadron B-24 was hit by anti-aircraft fire during an operation from Italy. The collection contains an oral history interview and ten photographs. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Jim Auton and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff. 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. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-07-30 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Auton, J Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 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 Flying Officer A. Bonney’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot 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. Description An account of the resource Flying Officer A. Bonney’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot, from 13th October 1942 to August 1944. Recording his training as an air gunner in Canada and England, two completed tours with 142 Squadron RAF based in North Africa, subsequent instructor duties, and operations with 31 Squadron South African Air Force (205 Heavy Bomber Group RAF) based in Italy. He was stationed at RCAF Mont-Joli Quebec (No 9 Bombing & Gunnery School), RAF Edgehill/Shenington (21 Operational Training Unit), RAF Blida (142 Squadron RAF), RAF Castle Kennedy (No 3 Air Gunnery School) and Celone Airfield (Foggia #1, 31 Squadron SAAF). Aircraft in which flown: Battle, Wellington, Dakota, Hudson, Anson, Martinet and Liberator. He flew 45 operations (all night-time) with 142 Squadron RAF on the following targets in Italy: Alghero, Angitola, Battipaglia, Borgo Rizzo, Cagliari, Caltanissetta, Castelventrano, Catania, Civitavecchia, Eboli, Elmas Decimomannu, Sesto Fiorentino, Formia, Marsala, Messina, Montecorvino airfield, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Pantelleria, Pizzo, Rome (‘Nickels’), Salerno, Taranto, Villacidro and Viterbo. He also flew 12 night-time operations with 31 squadron SAAF on the following targets in Greece, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France and Poland: Heraklion, Trieste, Bucharest, Fiume, Fanto oil refinery (Pardubice), Valence airfield, River Danube (‘Gardening’), Szombathely and Warsaw (dropping supplies). His pilots on operations were Sergeant Walkden and Captain Lawrie. He is recorded as missing from the last of these operations. Comments on operations include: 'Aircraft holed 24 times. 2 through my turret'. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource David Leitch Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LBonneyA651126v1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Algeria Canada Croatia Czech Republic France Great Britain Greece Hungary Italy Poland Romania England--Oxfordshire Greece--Crete Italy--Sardinia Italy--Sicily Mediterranean Sea Croatia--Rijeka Czech Republic--Pardubice Danube River France--Valence (Drôme) Greece--Ērakleion Hungary--Szombathely Italy--Alghero Italy--Angitola Italy--Battipaglia Italy--Borgo Rizzo Italy--Cagliari Italy--Caltanissetta Italy--Castelvetrano Italy--Catania Italy--Civitavecchia Italy--Decimomannu Italy--Eboli Italy--Elmas Italy--Foggia Italy--Formia Italy--Marsala Italy--Messina Italy--Naples Italy--Olbia Italy--Palermo Italy--Pantelleria Island Italy--Pizzo Italy--Rome Italy--Salerno Italy--Sesto Fiorentino Italy--Taranto Italy--Trieste Italy--Villacidro Italy--Viterbo Poland--Warsaw Québec--Mont-Joli Romania--Bucharest Scotland--Castle Kennedy North Africa Québec Québec--Mont-Joli Danube River Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Italy--Montecorvino airfield Italy--Castelvetrano Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943 1944 1943-05-08 1943-05-09 1943-05-11 1943-05-12 1943-05-13 1943-05-14 1943-05-15 1943-05-17 1943-05-18 1943-05-21 1943-05-22 1943-05-23 1943-05-24 1943-05-27 1943-05-28 1943-05-29 1943-05-30 1943-05-31 1943-06-01 1943-06-02 1943-06-06 1943-06-07 1943-06-09 1943-06-19 1943-06-20 1943-06-21 1943-06-22 1943-06-23 1943-06-24 1943-06-25 1943-06-28 1943-06-29 1943-07-02 1943-07-03 1943-07-04 1943-07-05 1943-07-08 1943-07-11 1943-07-12 1943-07-13 1943-07-14 1943-07-15 1943-08-02 1943-08-05 1943-08-06 1943-08-09 1943-08-10 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-14 1943-08-15 1943-08-16 1943-08-18 1943-08-19 1943-08-21 1943-08-22 1943-08-25 1943-08-26 1943-08-27 1943-08-28 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-04 1943-09-05 1943-09-06 1943-09-07 1943-09-08 1943-09-09 1943-09-10 1943-09-11 1944-06-04 1944-06-05 1944-06-26 1944-06-27 1944-07-02 1944-07-03 1944-07-19 1944-07-20 1944-07-21 1944-07-22 1944-07-24 1944-07-25 1944-07-26 1944-07-27 1944-07-30 1944-08-01 1944-08-07 1944-08-08 1944-08-10 1944-08-11 1944-08-13 1944-08-14 1944-08-16 1944-08-17 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 142 Squadron 205 Group 21 OTU 31 Squadron SAAF air gunner Air Gunnery School aircrew Anson anti-aircraft fire B-24 Battle bombing Bombing and Gunnery School C-47 Hudson Martinet mine laying missing in action Operational Training Unit RAF Blida RAF Castle Kennedy RAF Shenington training Warsaw airlift (4 August - 28 September 1944) Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1826/33144/LScottEW188329v1.2.pdf 3191938df781a8aed2f6b4ae713d33a1 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 Scott, Eric William E W Scott Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-04-06 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Scott, EW Description An account of the resource 139 items. The collection concerns Flying Officer Eric Scott (1425952, 188329 Royal Air Force) and contains his log books, a memoir, correspondence, documents, newspaper cuttings, a flying course handbook and photographs. He flew operations in North Africa as a bomb aimer with 142 Squadron and then after an instructional tour in Palestine started a second tour on 37 Squadron in Italy where he was shot down and finished the war as a prisoner. The collection includes three albums. <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2040">Album 1</a> Photographs of Jerusalem, Bethlehem. Tel Aviv, Haifa and friends. <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2041">Album 2</a> Photographs taken during training in the United States and England and during his service in North Africa and Italy. <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2046">Album 3</a> Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, documents and the last issue of the Prisoner of war Journal. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Jacqui Holman and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. 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 Eric Scott's observer's and air gunner's flying log book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LScottEW188329v1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force 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. Description An account of the resource Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for Eric Scott, bomb aimer, covering the period from 1 September 1942 to 4 January 1946. Detailing his flying training and operations flown as Air Bomber. He was stationed at RCAF Picton (31 Bombing & Gunnery School), RCAF Mount Hope (33 Air Navigation School), RAF Moreton-in-Marsh (21 OTU and 311 FTU), RAF Kairouan (142 Squadron), RAF El Ballah (Advanced Bombing & Gunnery School), RAF Qastina (77 OTU), RAF Torterella (37 Squadron) and RAF Pershore (23 OTU). Aircraft flown in were Anson, Battle Wellington, Dominie and DC3. Targets were - first tour – Messina (6), Olbia, Cagliari, Catania (2), Palermo, Syracuse, Marsala, Battipaglia (2), Reggio, Aquino, Pratica di Mare, Capodichino, Naples, Lamezia, Paola-Sapri, Salerno, Bagnoli, Torre Annunziata, Leghorn, Grosseto, Formia, 'Grass Roads' [sic], Viterbo, Pesaro, Leghorn, Grazzanise and Civitavecchia. Second tour – Valence , Ploesti, Szőny, Miskolc, Bologna (2), Ravenna (3), Pesaro, Yugoslavia (Nickel), Danube (mining), Eleusis (2), Rimini, Salonika, Verona, Székesfehérvár, Opicina, Vinkovci, and Maribor. Shot down on this raid. He flew 35 night operations with 142 Squadron and 21 night with 37 Squadron making a total of 56. His pilots on operations were Sergeant Pearce, Flying Officer Kirley and Pilot Officer Jeffares. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Terry Hancock Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Danube River Great Britain England--Gloucestershire France France--Valence (Drôme) Greece Greece--Eleusis Greece--Thessalonikē Hungary Hungary--Miskolc Hungary--Székesfehérvár Hungary--Szőny Italy Italy--Aquino Italy--Battipaglia Italy--Bologna Italy--Cagliari Italy--Catania Italy--Civitavecchia Italy--Formia Italy--Grosseto Italy--Livorno Italy--Marsala Italy--Messina Italy--Naples Italy--Palermo Italy--Paola Italy--Pesaro Italy--Pisa Italy--Pratica di Mare Italy--Ravenna Italy--Reggio di Calabria Italy--Rimini Italy--Salerno Italy--Sapri Italy--Syracuse Italy--Torre Annunziata Italy--Trieste Italy--Verona Italy--Viterbo Romania Romania--Ploiești Slovenia Slovenia--Maribor Ontario Ontario--Mount Hope Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-06-09 1943-06-19 1943-06-20 1943-06-22 1943-06-23 1943-06-28 1943-06-29 1943-06-30 1943-07-01 1943-07-04 1943-07-05 1943-07-06 1943-07-07 1943-07-08 1943-07-09 1943-07-10 1943-07-11 1943-07-12 1943-07-13 1943-07-14 1943-07-15 1943-07-16 1943-07-19 1943-07-20 1943-07-21 1943-07-22 1943-07-23 1943-07-26 1943-07-27 1943-08-02 1943-08-03 1943-08-04 1943-08-05 1943-08-07 1943-08-11 1943-08-12 1943-08-13 1943-08-14 1943-08-15 1943-08-19 1943-08-20 1943-08-22 1943-08-23 1943-08-26 1943-08-27 1943-08-29 1943-08-30 1943-08-31 1943-09-01 1943-09-06 1943-09-07 1943-09-09 1943-09-10 1943-09-11 1943-09-12 1943-09-13 1943-09-14 1943-09-15 1943-09-16 1943-09-18 1943-09-19 1943-09-23 1943-09-24 1943-09-25 1943-09-30 1943-10-01 1943-10-02 1943-10-03 1943-10-04 1944-08-15 1944-08-16 1944-08-17 1944-08-18 1944-08-21 1944-08-22 1944-08-23 1944-08-24 1944-08-25 1944-08-27 1944-09-01 1944-09-02 1944-09-04 1944-09-06 1944-09-07 1944-09-09 1944-09-10 1944-09-11 1944-09-13 1944-09-14 1944-09-15 1944-09-18 1944-09-21 1944-10-11 1944-10-13 1944-10-15 1944-10-17 1944-10-21 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 142 Squadron 21 OTU 23 OTU 37 Squadron Air Observers School aircrew Anson Battle bomb aimer bombing Bombing and Gunnery School C-47 Dominie mine laying Operational Training Unit RAF Kairouan RAF Moreton in the Marsh RAF Pershore RAF Qastina shot down training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2154/37419/LRidingRH1525125v1.pdf fd37a4f0aec84bc856e0e30c707909c9 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 Riding, Ronald Holford Riding, RH Description An account of the resource 45 items and five photograph albums. The collection concerns Ronald Holford Riding (b. 1921, 1525125 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, correspondence, documents, photographs, and service material. He flew operations as a navigator with 69 Squadron before he was shot down in France. He evaded and worked with the resistance before crossing the Allied lines in August 1944. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Lyn Elizabeth Jolliffe and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-09-23 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Riding, RH 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 Ron Riding's Royal Canadian Air Force observers and air gunners flying log book 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. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Log book and record book Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LRidingRH1525125v1 Description An account of the resource Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for R H Riding, navigator, covering the period from 5 January 1942 to 25 April 1948. Detailing his flying training, operations flown, instructor duties and post war flying with 1332 Heavy Conversion Unit, 242 Squadron and 230 Operational Conversion Unit. He was stationed at RCAF St Johns, RCAF Caron, RCAF Mont Joli, RCAF Rivers, RCAF Summerside, RCAF Greenwood, RAF Thornaby-on-Tees, RAF Blida, RAF Protville, RAF Gibraltar, RAF Northolt, RAF Dishforth, RAF Longtown, RAF Oakington, RAF Abingdon and RAF Lindholme. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Battle, Hudson, Baltimore, Wellington, C-87, York, Liberator, Stirling, Dakota, Oxford, Skymaster, RY3, Halifax and Lancaster. He flew a total of 54 daylight operations, 6 with 500 Squadron, 47 with 52 Squadron and one with 69 Squadron, on which he was shot down and evaded for 10 weeks. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Merrill. Targets are listed as convoy escort, anti-submarine patrols, U-boat hunt, air sea rescue, including Sardinia, Civitavecchia, Spezia, Ustica, Alicudi islands, Gozo, Catania, Sicily, Anzio and Gibraltar. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942 1943-06-25 1943-07-20 1943-07-21 1943-07-24 1943-07-25 1943-07-27 1943-09-09 1943-09-12 1943-09-17 1943-09-28 1943-10-03 1943-10-10 1943-10-19 1943-11-11 1943-11-23 1943-11-26 1943-12-01 1943-12-05 1943-12-08 1943-12-12 1943-12-15 1943-12-20 1943-12-27 1943-12-31 1944-01-13 1944-01-16 1944-01-18 1944-01-20 1944-01-21 1944-01-23 1944-01-29 1944-02-03 1944-02-04 1944-02-06 1944-02-07 1944-02-08 1944-02-10 1944-02-20 1944-02-21 1944-02-27 1944-03-01 1944-03-05 1944-03-08 1944-03-12 1944-03-15 1944-03-17 1944-03-20 1944-03-22 1944-03-24 1944-03-27 1944-03-30 1944-04-01 1944-04-04 1945 1946 1947 1948 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Algeria Canada Gibraltar Great Britain Italy Malta Tunisia Québec England--Cambridgeshire England--Cumbria England--London England--Oxfordshire England--Yorkshire Italy--Alicudi Island Italy--Anzio Italy--Catania Italy--Civitavecchia Italy--La Spezia Italy--Sardinia Italy--Sicily Italy--Ustica Island Malta--Gozo Island Manitoba New Brunswick--Saint John Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island--Summerside Québec Québec--Mont-Joli Saskatchewan New Brunswick Manitoba--Rivers Italy--Sicily North Africa Prince Edward Island Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Cara Walmsley Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 242 Squadron 52 Squadron Air Observers School air sea rescue aircrew Anson anti-aircraft fire B-24 bale out Battle Bombing and Gunnery School C-47 Cook’s tour evading Flying Training School Halifax Heavy Conversion Unit Hudson Lancaster navigator observer Operational Training Unit Oxford prisoner of war RAF Abingdon RAF Blida RAF Dishforth RAF Lindholme RAF Northolt RAF Oakington RCAF Caron RCAF Rivers Second Tactical Air Force shot down Stirling submarine Tiger Moth training Wellington York 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/. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Italy--Civitavecchia Description An account of the resource This page is an entry point for a place. Please use the links below to see all relevant documents available in the Archive. Title A name given to the resource Civitavecchia [entry point]