1 25 4 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1305/18166/SAkrillWE1436220v10011-0001.2.jpg 695c54b48d9a0725112e8c3f55ec8237 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1305/18166/SAkrillWE1436220v10011-0002.2.jpg 26f63e6dc4f71046aace791582f00abd https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1305/18166/SAkrillWE1436220v10011-0003.2.jpg 8662209594e13e5b0268da33aee6f492 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1305/18166/SAkrillWE1436220v10011-0004.2.jpg daf0a607a870ce9e796e30faf00ba240 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 Akrill, William. Letters written at thirteen Description An account of the resource Ten illustrated letters written to Billy Akrill's father who was in hospital in 1935. The letters refer to farm activities in Newark and Nottinghamshire: animals, the weather and his family and include illustrated stories. There are also cartoons and drawings, some coloured. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Billy Akrill 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 2017-12-04 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 Akrill, WE Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document 1 [inserted] Maker of Pills (trying to sell his wares) “Gentlemen these are just the things for folk like you. If you are unemployed just have one tonight and you’ll be fully employed tomorrow.” [/inserted] Potter Hill Collingham Newark. Tuesday 2nd July Dear Daddy, So glad to hear that Vesuvious has been in eruption [drawing]. We are very busy now we’ve heard the news. [drawing] We got out pick axes [drawing] spades etc, rolled up our sleeves & set to work to fell a few weeds [drawing] Harry got out the reaper & cut the lawn [drawing]. Mary & I unearthed a few weeds [drawing] & mother got a pick axe & unloaded the soil [drawing]. Unfortunately Mary got lost in a bed of giant goose-grass & hasn’t been seen since; Harry ran over an ant-hill & was knocked off the reaper falling with his head on a boulder & has been taken to Newark Hospital [page break] 2 After vain efforts to get her pick-axe into the soil mother suddenly struck a large rabbit hole & her axe went right through & mother was so taken unawares that I regret to say fell in & got lost in that gloomy subterranean passage. Anyway I told my old friend Moses the mole to tell her, if he saw her, to come up & see me some time. So now there’s only me left & I only just escaped to tell the tale for I came across a huge spider [drawing] set on me & but for my Indian Game, would have dined on me, but they, seeing a friend in need & rushed up & killed him. Out of those five there will be two cocks [drawing] two hens [drawing] & one angel [drawing] The other two are beauties. [drawing] One about 90% pure I.G. & the other 75% Gosh! “Have you ever seen a dream walking?” [page break] 3 Well there cometh one on ye lawn. Yea verily: [drawing] Behold! it cometh with Moses ye mole. Surely I know ye large proboscis which sticketh out of ye muck [drawing] Why tis Mother! So Moses & I took her & put her in the bath & turned on the tap [drawing] & now she’s O.K. again sticking like billy-ho er I mean William Hoe. Most folks are cutting their seeds now - ! Whatever! Is yon walking weed that standeth on the lawn? [drawing] I will investigate [drawing] Poor Mary you know what a terrible habit goose-grass has? [drawing] Well then you’ll imagine what she was like. Bessie rescued her & poor dog she’s covered with its seeds. x x x x x x x x x x In your next letter will you please give instructions for Harry to let some one see to the chicken pen (No 2 old hens’ pen).? The x x x x x x x x x x is true!!! [page break] 4 The beast go over the barbed wire, knock down & trample on the other wire [drawing] & make a mess of everything. Mary does her utmost to keep them out but they just walk in again while Mary nearly weeps & begs Harry to get some more barbed-wire put up &c but he “don’t care” so will you please tell him? Whoo! Here comes a mummy [drawing]. I’ll unravel it to see whats in side. Lawks a lummy its Harry all wrapped up. I knew they wouldn’t keep him long at the hospital. Well it’s eight o’clock, so, know that my romance is brought to a happy ending I’ll close Yours (UN) truly Billy [underlined] PLEASE [/underlined] DON’T LET ANY-BODY READ THIS 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 Letter from Billy Akrill to his father Description An account of the resource Billy mixes real events with fantasy stories, illustrated with small people and animals. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Billy Akrill Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1935-07-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tricia Marshall Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Four-page illustrated handwritten letter Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Correspondence Artwork Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SAkrillWE1436220v10011 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. Great Britain England--Nottinghamshire England--Newark (Nottinghamshire) Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1935-07 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 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1305/18165/SAkrillWE1436220v10010-0001.jpg 5bf4679943c635a9cc06bef7558c2f6e https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1305/18165/SAkrillWE1436220v10010-0002.jpg 0a0f56e410c25be686c48e0c17c32125 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1305/18165/SAkrillWE1436220v10010-0003.jpg 21e9e29bd471d462f47d36ece1d21a01 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1305/18165/SAkrillWE1436220v10010-0004.jpg 5665ab41c16298748a80d6abdaa59cdf 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 Akrill, William. Letters written at thirteen Description An account of the resource Ten illustrated letters written to Billy Akrill's father who was in hospital in 1935. The letters refer to farm activities in Newark and Nottinghamshire: animals, the weather and his family and include illustrated stories. There are also cartoons and drawings, some coloured. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Billy Akrill 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 2017-12-04 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 Akrill, WE Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document Potter Hill, Collingham, [Sketch of two birds] Newark, Notts, 13 July 1935 [Sketch of Rooster] Dear Daddy, Oh! How good the duck smells! [Sketch of face] so good that Ive [sic] had to come into dining room, it makes me feel dread fully hungry in the kitchen, [sketch of food] but its [sic] enough to make anyone’s mouth water [sketch of mouth-watering] I wish I could send you a bit. Oh dear I can’t write I’ll draw [underlined] “ In our garden” [/underlined] [Sketch of Giallardia] Giallardia (School garden) [Sketches of flowers] 10 wk [Underlined] Stocks [/Underlined] Heres [sic] the duck [Sketch of duck] [Underlined] ta ta! [/Underlined] [Page break] Oh that duck was good [Sketch of face] I had 2 big helings [sic] & was full up [Sketch of being full] Little Mary [Sketch of Escolsia] Escolsia [Sketch of Candytuft] Candytuft [Sketch of Linum] Linum [Sketch of Cornflowers] Cornflowers [Sketch of Nicotiana] Nicotiana I’ll go and feed now Billy [Sketch of chicken] [Sketch of chicken] P.S. nearly forgot again but we’ve several pullets laying (watsons) I been laying a fortnight [Page break] [Various sketches] [Sketch of Cartoon] [Page break] [Sketch of Cartoon] 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 Letter from Billy Akrill to his father Description An account of the resource Writes about eating duck and chickens laying eggs. Illustrated with coloured drawings of their garden, including flowers and chickens and two comic strip style cartoons. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Billy Akrill Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1935-07-13 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Four page illustrated handwritten letter Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Correspondence Artwork Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SAkrillWE1436220v10010 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. Great Britain England--Nottinghamshire England--Newark (Nottinghamshire) Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1935-07 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 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bradley Froggatt https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/53/456/EBoldyDABoldyAD350722-0001.2.jpg 4a0d14f864d1538b4eef9b69899c45e1 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/53/456/EBoldyDABoldyAD350722-0002.2.jpg 0d9f795e244270ed35af40ddc9a82a5d 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 NAINI TAL. [underlined] 22/7/35/. [/underlined] My own darling Daddy. Thanks ever so much for your nice letter. Steve is being careful of his arm so there is no need to worry. Cricket has stopped on account of the rain. I will be careful in future and will not get into trouble. This was my first row so its nothing. I have already paid up the four rupees from my own savings and will leave it at that as Mummy is spending a lot on us. I have already learnt my first [deleted word] concert piece and must now become perfect at it so as to be able to play it fast. Mummy came and saw us last evening before we went out. She gave us a surprise for not only was my pullover ready but also Steve’s. They both look very nice and fit us perfectly. Poor Steve had an apsis [sic] under one of his eye teeth. He had the tooth out and the apsis [sic] lanced. He is quite allright [sic] now except for a slight [page break] swelling which is only to be expected. On Wednesday our “B” lost to the Command 5-1. And last evening they lost P.S.C. “A” 3-0. That’s good for them. Our “A” beat the Ghouska’s last evening 5-1. Our goalkeeper was missing as he had a dislocated ankle. We had a Latin Test yesterday. I do not think I did badly. I am getting on well in class, music and games. The other day we had a terrific downpour for a few hours. Our big field was simply flooded with water. In the interclass tournament my class is second. We are only three points behind the leading class. We will soon be having the knockouts. These are very exciting and rough. No more news today with lots of love and kisses God bless & keep you for us your loving [underlined] son Dave [/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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1935-07-22 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two page handwriten 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 EBoldyDABoldyAD350722 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. 1935-07 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource David Boldy Description An account of the resource Letter from David Boldy to his father with general conversation about attending St. Joseph’s College, Naini Tal. Discusses his brother Steve and health issues, as well as cricket, school studies and the concert where he will be playing the piano. 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 father Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Karl Williams sport https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/53/454/EBoldyDABoldyAD350708-0001.2.jpg e0d2ad1f38237a1aaef65767de936aad https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/53/454/EBoldyDABoldyAD350708-0002.2.jpg ca5da1308bf4ce6d754f23e4ebf49f01 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 [school crest] ST JOSEPH’S COLLEGE NAINI TAL. [underlined] 8/7/35/. [/underlined] My own darling Daddy. Thanks ever so much for your letter. I am glad to hear you have settled down now. How is your leg getting on? I hope it is much better. The man Steve goes to for his electric treatment says it will be quite allright [sic] for [deleted word] him to play cricket. In fact he says it will do it good. Any way he wont [sic] play till we hear from you again. We saw Mummy yesterday when we went for a walk. She went to the “Barretts of Wimpol [sic] Street” after seeing us. She is also coming up to see us today. We read Mummy’s story in the Odd Moment magazine and it was quite good. We have been having our quarterlies these last few days but have not yet had our marks. French is the only paper that has been marked so far. I got 36 for it. That’s not bad considering I’ve only done [page break] it for one year. Our A team played the band A and lost 2-0. We had terrible luck. We missed about four or five sure goals. We still have a chance if the band lose a match. I am learning piece for the orchestra and will most probably play for the concert (if I am able) which will take place during the sports. I will try hard to get in. Steve is also playing. Since Steve has begun the electric treatment again his arm has got much better. D.V. he ought to soon have the normal use of it again. The weather here is not so bad either. But the rain is an [deleted] d [/deleted] awful nuisance sometimes. Well no more news today, God bless and keep you for us with lots of love and kisses from your loving [underlined] son Dave [/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/. 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 1935-07-08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two page handwriten letter Type The nature or genre of the resource Text. Correspondence Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EBoldyDABoldyAD350708 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. 1935-07 Language A language of the resource eng Description An account of the resource Letter from David Boldy to his father with general conversation about attending St. Joseph’s College, Naini Tal. Discusses about his brother, Steve having electric treatment for his arm and that it is improving. His mother visits regularly and had a story published in the Odd Moment magazine. Hoping to be chosen to play with the school orchestra, at the next concert. 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 father Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Karl Williams