1 25 12 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/474/8361/LClydeSmithD39856v2.pdf e0d96effd48c511db0b4d3f3418f4285 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 Clyde-Smith, Denis Clyde-Smith, D Description An account of the resource Collection contains 34 items and concerns Squadron Leader Denis Clyde-Smith Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross, who joined the Royal Air Force and trained as a pilot in 1937. He flew in the anti aircraft cooperation role including remotely piloted Queen Bee aircraft before serving on Battle aircraft on 32 Squadron. He completed operational tours on Wellington with 115 and 218 Squadrons and Wellington and Lancaster with 9 Squadron after which he went to the aircraft and armament experimental establishment at Boscombe Down. The collection consists of two logbooks, aircraft histories of some of the aircraft he flew, photographs of people and aircraft, newspaper articles, a long memoir of his service and gallantry award certificate. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by John Clyde-Smith and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. 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 2016-09-19 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Clyde-Smith, D 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/. 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 LClydeSmithD39856v2 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending review Review Oct 2024 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 Description An account of the resource Pilot's flying log book for Denis Clyde-Smith covering the period from 10 May 1937 to 31 May 1942. Detailing his flying training, Operations and instructor duties. He was stationed at RAF Sywell, RAF Sealand, RAF Henlow, RAF Calshot, RAF Watchet, RAF Biggin Hill, RAF Farnborough, RAF Weston Zoyland, RAF Benson, RAF Ringway, RAF Wing, RAF Harwell, RAF Marham, RAF Lichfield, RAF Fradley and RAF Tatten Hill. Aircraft flown in were, Tiger Moth, Hawker Hart, Audax and Fury, Queen Bee, Avro Prefect and Tutor, Moth, Swordfish, Wallace, Magister, Henley, Battle, Gauntlet, Hurricane, Scion, Monospar, Percival 96, Leopard, Vega Gull, Proctor, Walrus, Gladiator, Lysander, Anson and Wellington. He flew a total of 30 operations with 115 Squadron and 218 Squadron. Targets attacked were, Boulogne, Hannover, Düsseldorf, Brest, Berlin, Hamburg, Lorient, Kiel, Cologne, Bremen, Munster and Osnabrück. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One booklet Language A language of the resource eng 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 Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Royal Air Force. Coastal Command Royal Air Force. Fighter Command Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. France Great Britain Germany Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay England--Bedfordshire England--Berkshire England--Buckinghamshire England--Cheshire England--Hampshire England--Kent England--Norfolk England--Northamptonshire England--Oxfordshire England--Somerset England--Staffordshire France--Brest France--Lorient Germany--Berlin Germany--Bremen Germany--Cologne Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Kiel Germany--Osnabrück Wales--Flintshire France--Boulogne-sur-Mer Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Münster in Westfalen Germany--Ruhr (Region) Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1941-02-07 1941-02-10 1941-02-11 1941-02-12 1941-02-15 1941-02-25 1941-03-02 1941-03-03 1941-03-12 1941-03-13 1941-03-14 1941-03-15 1941-03-16 1941-03-30 1941-03-31 1941-04-03 1941-04-04 1941-04-07 1941-04-08 1941-04-09 1941-04-10 1941-04-11 1941-04-12 1941-04-13 1941-04-14 1941-04-15 1941-04-16 1941-04-17 1941-04-22 1941-04-23 1941-04-25 1941-04-26 1941-05-16 1941-05-17 1941-06-13 1941-06-14 1941-06-15 1941-06-16 1941-06-20 1941-06-21 1941-06-23 1941-06-24 1941-06-26 1941-06-27 1941-06-29 1941-06-30 1941-07-04 1941-07-05 1941-07-06 1941-07-07 1941-07-08 1941-07-09 1941-07-10 1942-05-30 1942-05-31 Title A name given to the resource Denis Clyde-Smith's pilot's flying log book. One 115 Squadron 15 OTU 218 Squadron 27 OTU aircrew Anson Battle bombing bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942) Flying Training School Hurricane Lysander Magister Operational Training Unit pilot Proctor RAF Benson RAF Biggin Hill RAF Calshot RAF Farnborough RAF Harwell RAF Henlow RAF Lichfield RAF Marham RAF Ringway RAF Sealand RAF Sywell RAF Watchet RAF Weston Zoyland RAF Wing Swordfish Tiger Moth training Walrus Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1213/15106/LDonaldsonDW70185v1.1.pdf 1a7c7740b88e474aee2629a899eb7201 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 Donaldson, David David Donaldson D Donaldson Description An account of the resource 309 Items and a sub-collection of 51 items. Concerns Royal Air Force career of Wing Commander David Donaldson DSO and bar, DFC. A pilot, he joined the Royal Air Force Reserve in 1934. Mobilized in 1939. he undertook tours on 149, 57 and 156 and 192 Squadrons. He was photographed by Cecil Beaton at RAF Mildenhall in 1941. Collection contains a large number of letters to and from family members, friends as well as Royal Air Force personnel. Also included are personal and service documents, and his logbooks. In addition, there are photographs of family, service personnel and aircraft. After the war he became a solicitor. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Frances Grundy, his daughter. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Anna Frances Grundy and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. 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 2015-06-02 2022-10-17 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 Donaldson, D Grundy, AF Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document Cutting from the Times that was attached to the page with the entry for October 23rd 1940 THE TIMES WEDENESDAY DECEMBER 30 1953 [Photograph of a stone archway] The gatehouse entrance to St. Osyth’s Priory. SALE OF ST. OSYTH’S PRIORY ESTATE NEW OWNER’S PLANS St. Osyth’s Priory estate, on the Colne estuary, near Colchester, Essex, has been bought by Mr Somerset de Chair. He intends to preserve the priory, which is in excellent architectural condition and includes a flint and ashlar gatehouse erected in 1475. This historic place was bought in 1949 by the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds Friendly Society from Brigadier-General K. J. Kincaid-Smith for £30,000. It was then planned to build a war memorial in the grounds and to restore the thirteenth-century chapel. St. Osyth’s Priory derives its name from Osyth, granddaughter of Penda, King of Mercia. When the Danes sacked the property, they killed the nuns and beheaded the Prioress Osyth. The priory was founded by Richard de Balmeis, Bishop of London, in 1118, on the site of a nunnery, but the earliest surviving building is the small chapel, with its fine groined arches supported on slender pillars. Mr. de Chair informed The Times yesterday that he hoped to work the priory farm, and might convert the gatehouse into a pied-à-terre. Lofts and Warner. Of London, and Percival and Co., of Sudbury, have acted as agents for the vendors in the sale of the estate. [Page break] Newspaper cutting that was attached to the summary page for April 1943 THE COURSE OF NATURE THE “MIRACLE OF SPRING” FROM A CORRESPONDENT The fine weather since Easter has brought things on. There is again the miracle of Spring. It is perhaps a minor miracle compared with April 1943, when by St. George’s Day the trees were leafy as in June, and the hedges heavy with the scent of hawthorn, so that many, seeing and smelling the billowing masses of white blossom, were content that this was out, and, not waiting for the following month’s exit to give permission, too hurriedly cast their clouts. If in the woods there is as yet no density of green above, nor bridal white of wild cherry blossom, there is no lack of green and white below, for the bluebells, soon to bloom, have raised a thousand gleaming dark green spears, in contrast to which there are the dainty pale green shamrock leaves of wood sorrel, graced by pendant silver bells, most delicately veined. Pendant, too, on a dull or cloudy day, but raise and opening wide to the sun, are the white wood anemones, which now make a starry heaven underneath the trees. There are other stars, the glossy bright gold stars of the celandines, and, in ever-widening constellations, the “milky way” of primroses. In woodland, too, as well as in meadows, one finds the “lady-smocks all silver white” (though more usually the palest shade of mauve) as well as “violets blue,” which may be pale wood violets if the spur is darker than the petals or dark wood violets if the spur is paler, and it is often a creamy white. Such is the absurdity of some English names. Add to these the quaintly attractive green flowers of the moschatel, the small white flowers of the barren strawberry, and, where the ground drops to the merest trickle of a woodland stream, the pale gold of the golden saxifrage, and one has, indeed, a few short weeks from ice and snow, “the miracle of Spring.” [Page break] THE TIMES THE REGISTER [Crest] DEBATE: THE HUTTON REPORT page 80 ▪ COURT & SOCIAL: MANOR OF DULWICH page 82 OBITUARIES WING COMMANDER DAVID DONALDSON Pilot who bombed Hitler’s invasion barges in Calais harbour and flew with the Pathfinders [Photograph of a pilot leaning against the wing of an aircraft] Donaldson with a Wellington of 149 Squadron: the type was the mainstay of Bomber Command earlier in the war IN WHAT was, given the cruel statistics of wartime flying, a remarkably long career on bombing operations, David Donaldson flew his first raids during the Battle of Britain in September 1940, when Bomber Command’s techniques were in their infancy, and he was still there at the end. He participated in Pathfinder ops in 1941, by which time the whole strategic air offensive had taken on a much more scientific cast and was beginning to achieve results. And he was still airborne over enemy territory on electronic countermeasures missions in the last months of the war, by which time the RAF, and the US Army Air Forces were masters of the skies over Western Europe. In four tours of operations, Donaldson flew 86 sorties, a figure which put him well above the average survival chances. During Bomber Command’s worst days in 1941 and 1942 (if one discounts the virtual suicide missions against heavily defended German naval bases in December 1939), the average life in the command was as low as eight sorties. David William Donaldson was born in 1915 at Southampton, a son of the managing director of the Thorneycroft shipyard. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a keen rower. Taking a boat over to Germany with the First Trinity Boat Club in the mid-1930s, he enjoyed the hospitality of boat clubs in the Rhineland – and at the same time became sharply aware of the culture of aggression that was taking over the German psyche with the advent of Hitler. In 1934 he joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve as a weekend pilot, and did much of his flying training at Hamble. After graduating at Cambridge he had joined a firm of solicitors in London. But his articles were interrupted in September 1939 when he was called up. After basic training he did operational training on Wellington bombers and on September 20 was sent to 149 (Wellington) Squadron at Mildenhall, Suffolk. No 149 had already been involved in some desperate missions: the forlorn-hope attack on German shipping at Wilhelmshaven on December 18, 1939; the equally hopeless attempt to stem the German advance in the Low Countries in May 1940; and a brave but futile transalpine lunge at Genoa in June after Italy had opportunistically entered the war on the German side. Now it was ordered to attack invasion barges which had been collected in Channel ports, and Donaldson’s first sortie was a daytime raid on Calais harbours. With the end of the Battle of Britain, No 149 was redirected to strategic bombing. This was soon to be revealed as far too dangerous against flak and fighter defences by day, and was therefore conducted by night, which (frequent) bad weather made locating targets extremely difficult in the state of development of navigational aids at the time. During the winter of 1940-41 the main effort was against targets in the relatively close Ruhr, but there was a much longer sortie, to Berlin, in vile weather, in October. This ended with Donaldson’s Wellington becoming completely lost on the return trip. At length, with fuel running perilously low, he achieved a casualty free forced manding at St. Osyth, near Clacton. There were further attacks on northern Italian industrial cities, one of which, an attack on the Fiat works at Turin, Donaldson was asked by the BBC to describe a radio broadcast in December 1940. Instead of dwelling on the difficulties of such a mission, he eloquently described the majesty of the snow covered Alps for his audience. Donaldson won his DFC for a highly successful raid on Merignac aerodrome, near Bordeaux, which he bombed from a height of 1,500ft, destroying its large hangars. Further publicity for these early efforts by Bomber Command came from his featuring in a series of propaganda photographs taken by Cecil Beaton, entitled A Day in the Life of a Bomber Pilot. Once of these, which features the aircrew of a 149 Squadron Wellington at Mildenhall, adorns the cover of a recently published video of the 1941 propaganda film Target for Tonight. Donaldson was “rested” after completion of his tour in March 1941. But there was still plenty of flying to be done. He was seconded to the Air Ministry to help buy aircraft in the US. This turned out to involve hazardous ferry flying across the Atlantic of American aircraft that had been purchased, notably the invaluable Hudson long-range patrol bomber for Coastal Command. In September Donaldson returned to operations with 57 Squadron, another Wellington unit. Bomber Command was faring no better than it had been earlier in terms of results, and an improvement in German air defences was increasing the rate of losses among aircrew, with corresponding effects on RAF morale. No 57 was roughly handled. In a raid over Düsseldorf in October, Donaldson’s aircraft was badly shot up and limped home without hydraulics. The undercarriage could not be lowered and the sortie ended with a crash landing at Marham. After several more raids Donaldson succumbed to the strain and at the end of the year was admitted to hospital. After a period of sick leave he was posted as group tactical officer to 3 Group, but in July 1942 the air beckoned again when he was posted to No 15 Operational Training Unit for six months as a flight commander. Though this was not supposed to be a frontline unit, he did get in one operational trip, to Düsseldorf, during this period. Then, in January 1943, he was appointed a flight commander to 156 Squadron, one of the original units of the Pathfinder Force, which had been making strides in the improvement of bombing through its marking techniques since its formation under the Australian Don Bennett six months previously. The four-engined Lancaster was now the mainstay of Bomber Command and both the weight and accuracy of the air offensive began to assume a different dimension. With No 156 Donaldson carried out 23 raids, and was awarded the DSO and promoted to wing commander at the end of his tour. Bennett himself said of Donaldson, “He has provided an example of determination and devotion to duty which it would be difficult to equal.” Rested again in June 1943, Donaldson commanded a conversion unit and then went as a staff officer to No 100 (Special Duties) Group. The air war had changed out of all recognition and the need to be able to jam and confuse the enemy’s radars and radio direction beacons was well recognised. In June 1944, just after D-Day, Donaldson was back in the air again in command of 192 (SD) Squadron. Flying a mixture of Wellingtons, Halifaxes and Mosquitoes, over the remaining months of the war No 192 sought out and jammed the enemy’s radio and communication systems using methods ranging from the well-tried “window” – dropping steel foil strips – to more sophisticated electronic deception techniques. Leading the Squadron in a Halifax III, Donaldson flew 25 more sorties, some of them in daytime. On one daylight operation he was attacked by two Bf109s. Rather than trying to shoot it out against the cannon armed fighters with the Halifax’s 303in machineguns, Donaldson chose to evade the foe by violent and skilful evasive action, and brought his aircraft and crew safely home. He was awarded his second DSO in July 1945. Donaldson had no ambition to further a career in the RAF and on demobilisation he resumed his law articles and qualified as a solicitor. After four years in the City firm Parker Garrett he joined National Employers Mutual Insurance, where he was at first company secretary and later a director. He left NEM to become chairman of an industrial tribunal, which he greatly enjoyed, presiding over some notable cases. He finally retired in 1987. His wife Joyce, whom he married when she was a WAAF officer during the war, died in 1996. He is survived by a daughter and two sons. Wing Commander David Donaldson, DSO and Bar, DFC, wartime bomber pilot and solicitor, was born on January 31, 1915. He died on January 15, 2004, aged 88. [Page break] DAVID AND THE RAF My brother David’s very distinguished wartime career with the RAF – two DSOs and a DFC, and promotion to Wing Commander at 28 – warrants a separate appendix to these family notes. He has kindly helped me to compile it by giving me the run of his log books, and I have supplemented them from a number of other sources. He became interested in flying in he early 1930s. I recall him taking his small brother of 9 or 10 to an air show at Eastleigh and abandoning him while he went up as a passenger in a Tiger Moth doing aerobatics. That may well have given him the incentive to join the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1934 as a weekend pilot. He did much of his training at Hamble on the Solent. When war broke out in September 1939 he was called up immediately and had to abandon his legal training. He spent the “phoney war” towing target drogues at a bombing and gunnery school at Evanton in Scotland. His log books show him rated as an “average” pilot. At the end of April 1940, just before the Germans attacked in the West, he went to Brize Norton for immediate training (earning an “above-average” rating) and then to Harwell for operational training on Wellingtons, the main twin-engined heavy bomber of the early war years. On 20th September, just as the Battle of Britain was ending, he was posted to his first operational squadron, No 149, part of No 3 Group, at the big pre-war station at Mildenhall. His first operational sortie was over Calais towards the end of September, no doubt to attack the invasion barges. Over the following five months he took part in some 31 night raids. The German defence at this time was relatively feeble by comparison with what was to follow, and so the tour was correspondingly tolerable; however bitter experience had shown that day bombing was much too costly, and the night bombing techniques were very inaccurate. His first raid on Berlin, at the end of October, was particularly eventful; they got hopelessly lost on their return, came in over Bristol, and ended up over Clacton as dawn was breaking with very little fuel left. There both the Army and the Navy opened up on them, and even the Home Guard succeeded in putting a bullet through the wing. They eventually made a forced crash landing at St. Osyth. The Home Guard commander, a retired general, entertained him generously and he finally got back to Mildenhall where his Group Captain forgave him for the damaged aircraft and advised him to go out and get drunk. He took the advice, and in the pub he met a WAAF whom he married eight months later (maybe that is why he remembers that particular day so well.) The gauntlet of Friendly Fire seems to have been a not uncommon hazard to be faced. On another occasion, when he had to make three circuits returning to Mildenhall, the airfield machine gunners opened fire on him from ground level; he thought they were higher up and judged his height accordingly, and narrowly missed the radio masts which were not, as he thought, below him. The longest raids on this tour were trips of over ten hours to Italy: to Venice, which they overflew at low level, and to the Fiat works at Turin. He described the latter raid, and the spectacular views of the Alps it afforded, in a BBC broadcast in December 1940. The commonest targets were the Ruhr and other German cities, and some raids were made at lower level on shipping in French ports. The raid which won him the DFC was on 22nd November, on Merignac aerodrome near Bordeaux, which “difficult target he attacked from a height of 1,500 feet and successfully bombed hangars, causing large fires and explosions. As a result of his efforts the task of following aircraft was made easier … He has at all times displayed conspicuous determination and devotion to duty.” It was at Mildenhall that he featured in a series of propaganda photos by Cecil Beaton, [Page break] = 2 = “A Day in the Life of a Bomber Pilot”; they were given a good deal of publicity and in fact David appears in one of them on the cover of a recently published video of the 1941 propaganda film “Target for Tonight”, also made with the help of 149 Squadron – though he did not take part in the film. Beaton describes the occasion at some length in his published diaries, though he has thoroughly scrambled the names and personalities, and he “demoted David from captain to co-pilot in his scenario. On completion of this tour, early in March 1941, David was detached on secondment to the Air Ministry to assist with buying aircraft in North America, and later to ferry aircraft within North America and across the Atlantic – he flew the Atlantic at least twice in Hudsons, taking 12 hours or more. The “chop rate” 1 in Bomber Command increased substantially during the first half of 1941. This coupled with increasing doubts about the value of the results obtained led to a serious decline in aircrew morale. During the summer of 1941 the Germans had considerable success with intruders – fighter aircraft attacking the bombers as they took off or landed at their own bases. At the end of September David returned to No 3 Group and joined No 57 Squadron at Feltwell, still with Wellingtons. His third raid, over Dusseldorf on October 13th, was particularly difficult; they were badly shot up and with their hydraulics out of action they crash landed at Marham on their return. After two more raids the strain finally proved too much and he was admitted to hospital just before Christmas 1941; for the next two months he was there or on sick leave. From then until mid-July he was Group Tactical Officer at HQ No 3 Group, and not directly involved in operations. In July 1942 he was posted to No 15 Operational Training Unit, at Harwell and Hampstead Norris, where he spent six months as a flight commander flying Ansons and Wellingtons, though he did participate in one raid on Dusseldorf while he was there. In spite of the appointment of Harris in early 1942 and the introduction of the Gee radio navigational aid, results were still considered disappointing, particularly over the Ruhr, and serious questions were raised about the future of Bomber Command. To improve matters, in August 1942 the elite Pathfinder Force was set up under Don Bennett, albeit in the face of considerable opposition from most of the group commanders who were reluctant to lose their best crews to it. At least initially, all the crews joining it had to be volunteers, and to be ready to undertake extended tours. Their task was to fly ahead of the Main Force in four waves; the Supporters, mainly less experienced crew carrying HE bombs, who were to saturate the defences and draw the flak; the Illuminators, who lit up the aiming point with flares; and the Primary Markers and Backer Up who marked the aiming point with indicators. Their methods became more and more refined as the war went on. The increased accuracy required of them, and their position at the head of the bomber stream, inevitably exposed them to greater danger and a higher casualty rate than those of the Main Force. No 156 Squadron was one of the original units in the Force; it operated from the wartime airfield of Warboys with Wellingtons until the end of 1942 and thereafter with 4-engined Lancasters, the very successful heavy bomber which was the mainstay of Bomber Command in the later years. The squadron flew a total of 4,584 sorties with the loss of 143 aircraft – a ratio of 3.12%. David joined it in January 1943, again as a flight commander. In the following four months he carried out a further 23 raids (all but one as a pathfinder) in Lancasters. The log books note occasional problems – “coned 2”, “shot up on way 1 The average sortie life of aircrew in the Command was never higher than 9.2 and at one time was as low as eight, and during the dark days of 1941-1943 the average survival chances of anyone starting a 30-sortie tour was consistently under 40% and sometimes under 30%. In one disastrous raid, on Nuremburg in March 1944, 795 planes set out, 94 were shot down and another 12 crashed in Britain. During the war as a whole, out of some 125,000 aircrew who served with Bomber Command, 55,000 died. 2 “Coned” – caught in a cone of converging searchlights, as experience which says put him off hunting for life. [Page break] = 3 = in”, “slight flak damage”, and so on. Much of the period became known as the Battle of the Ruhr, though other targets were also being attacked. He told me once that the raid he was really proud to have been on was the one where instead of marking the targeted town (I think Dortmund) they marked in error a nearby wood, which the main force behind them duly obliterated; only after the war did the Germans express their admiration for the British Intelligence which had identified the highly secret installation hidden in the wood … One of the pages in his log book has a cutting from the Times inserted, evidently dated some years later, recalling how in April 1943 the spring came very early and the hedges were billowing with white hawthorn blossom. This puzzled me until I read in a book on 156 Squadron how that blossom had come to have the same significance for them as the Flanders poppies of the 1914-1918 war. David was promoted to Wing Commander half way through the tour (pathfinders rated one rank above the comparable level elsewhere), and awarded the DSO towards the end of it. The recommendation for this said that he had “at all times pressed home his attacks with the utmost determination and courage in the face of heavy ground defences and fighters. As a pilot he shows powers of leadership and airmanship which have set an outstanding example to the rest of the squadron” – and Bennett himself added, noting that David had just flown four operational sorties in the last five days, “he has provided an example of determination and devotions to duty which it would be difficult to equal.” On the end of this tour in June 1943, he was sent to command No 1667 Conversion Unit at Lindholme and later Faldingworth. In December 1943 he transferred to a staff appointment at the headquarters of the newly formed 100 (SD) Group at West Raynham and later Bylaugh Hall. At this stage in the war the methods of attack and defence were growing increasingly complex, and this group was formed as a Bomber Support Group, including nightfighters, deceptive measures, and radio countermeasures (RCM). In June 1944, just after D-Day, he was given command of No 192 (SD) Squadron based at Foulsham, another wartime airfield. This squadron had been formed in January 1943 as a specialist RCM unit, and it pioneered this type of operation in Bomber Command; it flew more sorties and suffered more losses (19 aircraft) than any other RCM squadron. While RCM and electronic intelligence were its primary purpose, its aircraft often carried bombs and dropped them on the Main Force targets. RCM took a number of forms – swamping enemy radar and jamming it with “window” tinfoil, looking for new radar types and gaps in its coverage, deceptive R/T transmissions to nightfighters and so on – and one of the attractions of the work was the considerable measure of autonomy, and the freedom to plan their own operations. These extended to tasks such as searching for V2 launch sites (recorded as “whizzers” in David’s log book) and trying to identify the radio signals associated with them, and supporting the invasion of Walcheren in September. The squadron was equipped with Wellingtons (phased out at the end of 1944), Halifaxes and Mosquitoes, plus a detachment of USAAF Lightnings. This role was the climax of his career, and lasted until the end of the war and after. It involved him in 25 operational sorties, all in Halifax IIIs, the much improved version of this initially disappointing 4-engined heavy bomber. They carried special electronic equipment and an extra crew member known as the Special Operator. The record of these sorties in the log books, for the most part so formal and statistical up to this point, becomes a little more anecdotal: “rubber-necking on beach “ (when he took two senior officers to see the breaching of the dykes at Walcheren), “Munster shambles”, “Lanc blew up and made small hole in aircraft [but only] 4 lost out of 1200!” The furthest east he went was to Gdynia in Poland; on returning from there he had the privilege of becoming the first heavy aircraft to land at Foulsham using the FIDO fog dispersal system. “Finger Finger Fido” was the cryptic comment in the log book. [Page break] = 4 = A number of these sorties were daytime; on one of them, on September 13th, he was chased home by two ME109s which made six attacks on him. One of them opened fire but thanks to violent evasive action his aircraft was undamaged: his own gunners never got a chance to fire. No doubt it was skill of this sort, as well as his survival record, which gave his crew great faith in David’s ability to get them home safely. An encounter on December 29th 1944, on a Window patrol over the Ruhr, was not quite so satisfying; they claimed to have damaged a Ju88 which subsequently proved to be an unhurt Mosquito X from Swannington – and the Mosquito had identified them as a Lancaster. The log book entry concludes “Oh dear. FIDO landing, flew into ground. What a day.” He was awarded a bar to his DSO in July 1945. The recommendation, made in March, recorded that “since being posted to his present squadron he has carried out every one of his sorties in the same exemplary fashion and has set his crews an extremely high standard of devotion to duty and bravery. This standard has had a direct influence on the whole specialist work of the squadron. “He has been personally responsible for the planning of all the sorties carried out by his special duty unit and by his brilliant understanding and quick appreciation of the everchanging nature of the investigational role of his squadron, much of the success of the investigations performed by his aircraft can be attributed to him. He has shown himself to be fearless and cool in the face of danger, and towards the end of his tour made a point of putting himself on the most arduous and difficult operations. “Both on the ground and in the air he has been untiring and has not spared himself in his efforts to get his squadron up to the high standard which it has now reached.” The squadron was disbanded in September, by which time David had completed 501 hours of operations against the enemy in 86 sorties, the great majority of them as captain of his aircraft, He had no ambition to make a permanent career in the RAF; he has commented to Richard that this fact gave him a degree of independence in his dealing with his superiors that he thinks they appreciated and valued. He was demobilised in November and returned to his interrupted law studies. ……. I showed these notes to David, who thought them well written but suggested that they gave a twisted view of the reality – a reaction that I can understand. Since then, however, I have managed to contact one man who flew with David: HB (Hank) Cooper DSO DFC, who first met David in 149 Squadron which he joined in January 1941 as a wireless operator / air gunner for his first tour, and later did two tours as a Special Operator in 192 Squadron, the second of them under David’s command. On two occasions he flew as a member of David’s crew. He has written of David that “he was always completely fearless and outstandingly brave and pressed home his attacks to the uttermost. As the Squadron’s CO he generated loyalty and warmth, he was an outstanding model to follow. He spent much trouble and time encouraging his junior air crews as well as helping and seeing to the needs of the ground technicians who serviced the aircraft, generally in cold and difficult conditions. He was completely non-boastful, in fact he belittled his own actions (which were always of the highest order) when discussing air operations. (That rings very true!) He was an outstanding squadron commander in all respects, much liked and completely respected by all his air crews and ground crews.” GND March 2002 [Page break] Temple Bar 1217 TEL. Extn. 2631 Correspondence on the subject of this letter should be addressed to:- PS. THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, AIR MINISTRY S. 7. E. and should quote the reference:- S.7.e/79693. [Crest] AIR MINISTRY, LONDON, W.C.2. 26 March, 1949. Sir, I am directed to refer to your letter dated 21st March, 1949, regarding those awards due to you in respect of your service in the 1939/45 World War, and to inform you that your entitlement to the 1939/45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star with the France and Germany Clasp, and the War Medal has been established. These awards will be despatched to you shortly. 2. It is regretted that as you did not complete three years wartime non-operational service in the United Kingdom, the Defence Medal cannot be authorised. The Air Efficiency Award will not be ready for issue for some time. Application will not be necessary, but I am to request that you will notify this Department of any change in your permanent address, so that the award may be sent to you as soon as it becomes available. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, [Signature] Wing Commander D.W. Donaldson, D.S.O., D.F.C., 1a, Crescent Place, London, S.W.3. [Crest] Rep’d 29/3/49 & pointed out total of No of service in UK was 3 yrs 4 mth 120 day [Page break] [Blank page] 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 David Donaldson's pilot's flying log book. One Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LDonaldsonDW70185v1 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 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 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 Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1940-09-25 1940-10-01 1940-10-02 1940-10-09 1940-10-10 1940-10-13 1940-10-14 1940-10-15 1940-10-16 1940-10-21 1940-10-22 1940-10-23 1940-10-24 1940-11-06 1940-11-07 1940-11-08 1940-11-09 1940-11-13 1940-11-14 1940-11-15 1940-11-16 1940-11-17 1940-11-18 1940-11-19 1940-11-20 1940-11-22 1940-11-23 1940-11-28 1940-11-29 1940-12-04 1940-12-05 1940-12-08 1940-12-09 1940-12-20 1940-12-21 1940-12-23 1940-12-24 1940-12-28 1940-12-29 1941-01-02 1941-01-03 1941-01-09 1941-01-10 1941-01-12 1941-01-13 1941-01-29 1941-01-30 1941-02-10 1941-02-11 1941-02-12 1941-02-14 1941-02-15 1941-02-21 1941-02-22 1941-02-24 1941-02-25 1941-02-26 1941-02-27 1941-03-01 1941-03-02 1941-09-30 1941-10-01 1941-10-03 1941-10-13 1941-10-14 1941-10-22 1941-10-23 1941-11-26 1941-11-27 1942-09-10 1942-09-11 1943-02-13 1943-02-14 1943-02-15 1943-02-19 1943-02-20 1943-02-24 1943-02-25 1943-02-26 1943-03-08 1943-03-09 1943-03-10 1943-03-11 1943-03-12 1943-03-13 1943-03-22 1943-03-23 1943-03-27 1943-03-28 1943-03-29 1943-03-30 1943-04-04 1943-04-05 1943-04-10 1943-04-11 1943-04-13 1943-04-14 1943-04-26 1943-04-27 1943-05-04 1943-05-05 1943-05-12 1943-05-13 1943-05-14 1943-05-23 1943-05-24 1943-05-25 1943-05-26 1943-06-12 1943-06-13 1943-12-21 1943-12-22 1944-09-03 1944-09-13 1944-10-03 1944-10-25 1944-11-04 1944-11-05 1944-11-18 1944-12-04 1944-12-05 1944-12-06 1944-12-07 1944-12-18 1944-12-19 1944-12-29 1944-12-30 1945-01-05 1945-01-06 1945-01-28 1945-01-29 1945-02-02 1945-02-03 1945-02-08 1945-02-09 1945-02-14 1945-02-15 1945-03-03 1945-03-04 1945-03-07 1945-03-08 1945-04-02 1945-04-03 1945-04-07 1945-04-08 1945-04-25 1945-04-26 1945-05-12 1945-06-23 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Anne-Marie Watson Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Czech Republic France Germany Great Britain Italy Netherlands Poland Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Atlantic Ocean--North Sea Czech Republic--Plzeň England--Berkshire England--Cambridgeshire England--London England--Hampshire England--Norfolk England--Oxfordshire England--Suffolk England--Yorkshire France--Brest France--Calais France--Cherbourg France--Dunkerque France--Le Havre France--Lorient France--Saint-Nazaire Germany--Berlin Germany--Berchtesgaden Germany--Bochum Germany--Bremen Germany--Chemnitz Germany--Cologne Germany--Dessau (Dessau) Germany--Dortmund Germany--Duisburg Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony) Germany--Essen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg) Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Kiel Germany--Mannheim Germany--Merseburg Germany--Munich Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony) Germany--Steinfurt Region (North Rhine-Westphalia) Germany--Stuttgart Germany--Wiesbaden Germany--Wilhelmshaven Italy--Milan Italy--La Spezia Italy--Turin Italy--Venice Netherlands--Vlissingen Netherlands--Walcheren Poland--Gdynia Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie) Scotland--Ross and Cromarty Germany--Münster in Westfalen France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) Germany--Ruhr (Region) France--Mérignac (Gironde) Germany--Ladbergen Germany--Leipzig France--Pas-de-Calais Description An account of the resource Pilots flying log book for David W Donaldson. This is a newly bound compilation of 3 log books covering the period from 12 March 1938 to 19 September 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations flown, Instructor duties and special duties flying. He was stationed at RAF Hamble, RAF Hanworth, RAF Evanton, RAF Brize Norton, RAF Harwell, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Feltwell, RAF Wyton, RAF Exning, RAF Hampstead Norris, RAF Warboys, RAF Lindholme, RAF West Raynham, RAF Bylaugh Hall and RAF Foulsham. Aircraft flown were, Cadet, B2, Hart, Hind, Magister, Henley, Oxford, Wellington, Hudson, Mentor, Anson, Lancaster, Tiger Moth, Halifax, Proctor and Moth Minor. He flew a total of 86 Night operations, 31 with 149 squadron, 5 with 57 squadron, 1 with 15 OTU, 23 With 156 squadron and 26 with 192 squadron. Targets were Calais, Le Havre, Flushing, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Duisburg, Merignac, Mannheim, Turin, Bordeaux, Lorient, Bremen, Venice, Wilhelmshaven, Hannover, Brest, Cherbourg, Dunkirk, Düsseldorf, Emden, Milan, Nurnberg, Stuttgart, St Nazaire, Kiel, Frankfurt, Spezia, Dortmund, Pilsen, Munster, North Sea, Walcheren, Bochum, Hagen, Merseburg, Gdynia, Wiesbaden, Politz, Chemnitz, Ladbergen, Dessau, Stade, Molbis and Berchtesgaden. His first or second pilots on operations were Pilot Officer Woollatt, Pilot Officer Morrison, Flying Officer Henderson, Sergeant Horn, Pilot Officer Garton, Pilot Officer Pelletier, Sergeant Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Meir, Major Leboutte, Flying Officer Parr, Wing Commander Chisholm and Wing Commander Willis. The log book contains newspaper clippings and a summary of his exploits written by his brother. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 100 Group 149 Squadron 15 OTU 156 Squadron 1667 HCU 192 Squadron 57 Squadron Air Observers School aircrew Anson bombing Bombing and Gunnery School Cook’s tour Distinguished Flying Cross Distinguished Service Order Flying Training School Gee Halifax Heavy Conversion Unit Hudson Lancaster Magister Operational Training Unit Oxford Pathfinders pilot Proctor RAF Brize Norton RAF Evanton RAF Feltwell RAF Foulsham RAF Hampstead Norris RAF Harwell RAF Lindholme RAF Mildenhall RAF Warboys RAF West Raynham RAF Wyton Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943) Tiger Moth training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/886/23101/EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD410122-0001.1.jpg 8631aeecf3c823c45391649308ebd1ad https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/886/23101/EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD410122-0002.1.jpg e2dc2fcc1441c041fc9d6c6450286e4e 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 Hudson, Douglas James Douglas Hudson J D Hudson Description An account of the resource 529 items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer James Douglas Hudson, DFC (755052 Royal Air Force) who joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1939 and trained as an observer. While on route to Malta in August 1940 his Blenheim crashed in Tunisia and he was subsequently interned for two and a half years by Vichy French in Tunisia and Algeria. After being freed he returned to Great Britain and after navigator retraining completed a tour of 30 operations on 100 Squadron. The collection contains letters to and from his parents and from French penfriends while interned in Tunisia and Algeria, newspaper cuttings of various events, logbooks and lists of operations, official documents and photographs. A further 23 items are in two sub-collections with details of navigator examinations and postcards of Laghouat Algeria.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Elizabeth Smith and Yvonne Puncher and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /> <p>This collection also contains items concerning Louis Murray and Harry Bowers. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202827/">Harry Bowers</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/220410/">Louis Murray</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database.</p> 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 2015-06-16 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 Hudson, JD Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [inserted] 21 [/inserted] [inserted] 12-3-41 [/inserted] 10 Moorside Rd. Kensal Salford 7 England. Wed. 22nd Jan. 1941. My dear Douglas. Altho’ I have little news for you since writing on Sunday I must just send a short note for remembrance. The severe wintry spell has passed away & today has been a very lovely afternoon. I begun to say the day had been lovely forgetting that the morning opened in typical Manchester fashion, with rain which washed away the remains of the snow but this afternoon was a really pleasant bit of Spring & the air warmed by a glowing sun felt quite balmy. And you know how I just love the Spring. I’ve had many letters for my birthday & they all tell of very heavy snow in Yorkshire. A letter from “Little Dorothy” this morning tells of very unpleasant conditions with snow drifts level with the walls & for the moment at any rate the child was wishing she was an A.R.P. worker like Eileen so she would not have to wait about for buses to take her to & from the bank. Auntie Maud is now in Edinburgh but [page break] there is no news of any happenings there yet. And I was hoping to be able to share my birthday with Newbould Junior! Seeing that you have now become very domesticated you may be interested to know that for some months there has been areal shortage of onions & we have had to do some very makeshift cookery. Imagine my surprise when my greengrocer announced yesterday “I’ve brought you an onion.” It was “news” & very welcome too. It is strange how we used to take everything as a matter of course. It is true that we never realize the value of a thing until we lose it. Still we have many- very many, good things tho’ my butter ration is not now the 3 lbs a week of pre-war days. I have become quite clever at soup making, proof that there is much truth in the old adage “necessity is the mother of invention”. Well love you’ll think I’ve gone very domestic all at once so I will say Goodnight to you & enjoy my cup of tea. Am so glad you are able to get the cup that cheers too! All love from Mother & Dad. 755052 Sgt. Chef. J. D. Hudson. Camp de Sejour Surfeille S/courert Commandant D’armes El Kef Tunisie Nord Afrique. 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 to Douglas Hudson from his parents Description An account of the resource Writes of weather, mentions she got many letter for her birthday and comments on bad weather noted in some and other news. Mentions shortage of onions and continues with other gossip. Comments on butter ration and that she has become a clever soup maker. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource P Hudson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1941-01-22 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 EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD410122 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 Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Tunisia Tunisia--El Kef Great Britain England--Lancashire England--Salford (Greater Manchester) North Africa Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1941-01-22 1941-02-12 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tricia Marshall home front prisoner of war https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1385/25519/SBakerDA19210428v20002-0001.jpg cdcdc27e720e821a1c97b83adccc9afe https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1385/25519/SBakerDA19210428v20002-0002.jpg ecef58014555a1d27afd5ab55dd4b123 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 Baker, Donald Arthur D A Baker 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 2018-11-13 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 Baker, DA Description An account of the resource 187 items. Donald Arthur Baker (b. 1921) travelled from Southern Rhodesia to England in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force. Trained as a pilot in 1941 he was operational with 144 Squadron at RAF North Luffenham flying Hampdens. He was shot down on 5 November 1941 and remained a prisoner of war mostly in Stalag Luft 3 until 1945. He return to farm in Southern Rhodesia after the war. The collection contains letters to his mother throughout the war as well as other correspondence and documents including his prisoner of war log with photographs and notes. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by June Baker Maree and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Permission granted for commercial projects Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document 8th June 1940 Rhodesia Railways, Bulawayo. Played “rugger” second league, stayed at the Sussex Hotel, where the room wasn’t exactly built last year” Received his Certificate of Registration. Undated Letter Hoping he would be called for the Air Force. Going to see a Major Riley about the Air Force. Pencil/undated Doing part time training, being called up on the 1st July or thereabouts. Trying to get in with a draft of re-cruits being sent overseas. July 13th 1940 No. 2 Training Camp (RAF) Bulawayo No. 778186 “Doing his stuff”. Reported on Friday 12th July to RAF. Being sent either to UK or Canada. Jolly glad. Leaving soon, about 2 weeks time, being paid 2/- a day. LAST LETTER BEFORE GOING TO UK BU SHIP 26th August 1940 First letter from UK. Stationed at Bridgenorth, [sic] Sulop.[sic] Marching and doing a spot of musketry. Ciga-rettes 1/6 for 20, bought 500 on the boat for 12/6. Family news: Harry married 9th September 1940 Interviewed and accepted for pilot training. 5 months approximately to do the course. “The Empire relies on me to turn the tide” 16th September 1940 Bridgenorth, passed medical, witing [sic] to be posted for training. “175 Germans down yesterday” Cold, vis-ited Wolverhampton. 26th September 1940 Visited Somerset relatives. Caught train from Wolverhampton, changed @ Birmingham, Bristol, Bath and Westbury. Walked to Cary Hill. 9th October 1940 Left Bridgenorth to Paignton, near Torquay, starting on pilot’s course. Staying in Hotels (4 in a room, all Rho-desian), big window overlooking the sea. (Harry back from honeymoon) Leaving for 3 weeks to do a Maths course at another camp, then exams. Thereafter EFTS 8 weeks, then AFTS 8 weeks. Only half the fellows pass. If I fail then will be an observer or gunner. 19th November 1940 Writing exams, issued with flying kit “lovely stuff and warm as anything”. Sorry to leave Paignton. Gets dark very early. 15th December 1940 Written on Air Force letterhead. Remarked harry Roberts killed, Phylis husband? Had a few weeks leave, went to Scotland and styed [sic] with the Tullochs. Went to Uncle Jim’s school, made to take the salute in the classrooms. Babs studying to be a doctor. Met Uncle Jim Dunn and “got a lecture on religion, took my dose like a lamb” Some of the relatives mentioned: Auntie Isobel (always in the shop), Bella Stephenson, aunt Nellie, Bella Strachan Stayed in Carlisle on way up to Glasgow in Forces Room cost 6d. Promoted to leading Aircraftsman, rise in pay from 2/- to 5/6 per day. (Very worried about his insurance policy and the payment of premiums) 29th December 1940 £12 set aside for a rainy day! Still at Paignton, out of 5 months only done 6 weeks real work. Bruce Clothier married, staying at Wyke house. 5th January 1941 Bitterly cold, saw snow for the first time on New Year’s Day. Have to do PT in vest and shorts outside! 7th January 1941 Moved to Brough, did 2 and a half hours flying 24th January 1941 Brough 2nd February 1941 Not able to fly for 3 weeks, because of bad weather. Lectures from 8.30 - 5.30 12th February 1941 Nearly ready to go solo, weather permitting. Done 8 hrs. flying. Will have to do 42 hours flying before going to next station. In 5 weeks have only done 8 hours. Saw Errol Flyn [sic] “The Sky Hawk” 24th February 1941 Finished final exams, waiting for results. Have to do at least 50 hours before moving to next station. [page break] 9th March 1941 Brough 30th March On leave in Somerset. Finished course on the 20th March and leave exteneded [sic] from 2nd april to 9th april. Will have to report to new station about 40 miles north of London. Sorry to leave Brough. April 7th May 1941 Wrote Wings exam last week, set to do Ops Training after 72 hrs. here. Went to London to get off recom-mended instructors course, not keen to ba an instructor. 10th May 1941 Started night flying May 11th 25th May 1941 About to write wings exam. Recommended for a commission, had more medicals and interview. Better con-ditions being an officer than Sargeant [sic] Pilot. Uniform £40. 17th June 1941 Wings and commission granted at Cranfield Undated end June, beg July Left Cranfield 26th June, went to London to get uniform, had leave and went to Somerset, then another week’s leave to Glasgow & Warrington to visit Gatherums (Forbes) Now @ Upper Heyford, Oxon July 24th Going on bombers, probably Hapdens. Not started flying them as yet. Cross counrty [sic] on Ansons “easy to fly” 7th August 1941 Doing Operational Training and flying the Hapden “nice, reliable plane” Had 4 teeth out. 18th August 1941 Been “crewed up”, one Rhodesian, Australian observer, wireless operator from Southern Ireland and English gunner 8th September 1941 Ready to go on “ops”, but first goin [sic] to Somerset. “Terribly boring, nothing to do when not flying”. Bor-rowed 2 bikes rode into Oxford. Went to Bristol channel to practice bombing, went to Highbridge did “shoot up along the beach. Been over Wales and Irish sea, Isle of Man 29th Septembe [sic] 1941 On an Operational Squadron. Done one boming [sic] trip so far, held up by bad weather. Oakham, in the middle of Rutland. Flying “tonight” LAST LETTER WRITTEN BEFORE CAPTURE HAMPDEN1 AD846 SHOT DOWN 5TH NOVEMBER 1941 [page break] 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 List of letters Description An account of the resource List of 29 letters sent by Donald Baker to his mother between June 1940 and September 1941. Also notes he was shot down on 5 November 1941. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two page printed document Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Memoir Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBakerDA19210428v20002 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 Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Zimbabwe Zimbabwe--Bulawayo Great Britain England--Shropshire England--Bridgnorth England--Staffordshire England--Wolverhampton England--Devon England--Paignton England--Bedfordshire England--Cranfield England--Oxfordshire England--Yorkshire England--Hull England--Somerset Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940-06-08 1940-07-13 1940-08-26 1940-09-09 1940-09-16 1940-09-26 1940-10-09 1940-11-15 1940-12-15 1940-12-19 1941-01-05 1941-01-07 1941-01-24 1941-02-02 1941-02-12 1941-02-24 1941-03-09 1941-03-30 1941-05-07 1941-05-10 1941-05-25 1941-06-17 1941-08-07 1941-08-18 1941-09-08 1941-08-29 1941-11-05 1941-07-24 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). 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Steve Christian Maureen Clarke Anson crewing up Hampden RAF Bridgnorth RAF Cranfield RAF Paignton RAF Upper Heyford shot down training https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1385/25571/SBakerDA19210428v20026-0001.1.jpg 1e820e29b9511d944a6e4d77cc731f74 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1385/25571/SBakerDA19210428v20026-0002.1.jpg db4cadbfc6ff460c57c469e3809046db https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1385/25571/SBakerDA19210428v20026-0003.1.jpg e988f91e8897e878cd0d4d81163562fd 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 Baker, Donald Arthur D A Baker 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 2018-11-13 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 Baker, DA Description An account of the resource 187 items. Donald Arthur Baker (b. 1921) travelled from Southern Rhodesia to England in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force. Trained as a pilot in 1941 he was operational with 144 Squadron at RAF North Luffenham flying Hampdens. He was shot down on 5 November 1941 and remained a prisoner of war mostly in Stalag Luft 3 until 1945. He return to farm in Southern Rhodesia after the war. The collection contains letters to his mother throughout the war as well as other correspondence and documents including his prisoner of war log with photographs and notes. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by June Baker Maree and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Permission granted for commercial projects Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [Royal Air Force crest] Usual Address. 12.2.41. My Dearest Mother, No letter from you for over 3 weeks now but suppose we will hear soon that a ship has been sunk. However I hope you are all well and that the delay has not been caused by you being ill or anything like that. There is practically nothing to report since last I wrote. Am still keeping fit and have been able to do a little flying so that am ready to go solo now weather permitting. Have done about 8 hours now which is just about average We are busy preparing for the final ground exam for this course. Actually we should only be here for 6 weeks at the end of which we [page break] do the finals and having passed them we are sent on to another station for more advanced training However we shall be here for a good long time longer than 6 weeks as we are supposed to do 42 hours flying here before going on to the next station and in five weeks we have only managed to do an average of about 8 hours. Had a letter from Babs Tulloch ‘tother [sic] day. She said they were all keeping fit and that she was still working hard. She said that they had had another parcel from you. When I was there they seemed to think the world of the tea you had sent. Uncle Jim Dunbar was fairly fit after another lapse at Christmas time. I also received a pair of woollen knitted gloves from her [page break] Saw Erol Flynn in a very good bio in Hull last week. “The Sea Hawk” it was called. Also went to an enjoyable dance in the evening. There is nothing to do in Brough so we always have to go Hull for any entertainment Well dear Mother there is no more news so will have to close with much love to you all and hoping to receive a letter soon. Your loving son Donald. 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 Donald Baker to his mother Description An account of the resource Writes that he has had no letter but suspects ship sunk. Little to report, had done a little flying and ready to go solo weather permitting. Preparing for final ground exams and once done - posting to another station for advanced training. However, need to do 42 hours before moving on. Reports mail from friends and passes on news. Mentions films seen and going out to dance but that there was nothing to do in Brough. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource D A Baker Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1941-02-12 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three 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 SBakerDA19210428v20026 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 Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Yorkshire England--Hull Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1941-02-12 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 Tricia Marshall training https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1549/35521/LHansonJE46968v1.2.pdf 4b0fc8fbb3e8b03820e6719b128cd957 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 Hanson, Joseph Edward J E Hanson 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 2016-10-18 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 Hanson, JE Description An account of the resource Three items. The collection concerns Flying Officer Joseph Edward Hanson DFM (<span>46968&nbsp;</span>Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, remembrance and photograph. He flew operations as an air gunner with 50, 44 and 61 Squadrons. He was killed 1 October 1942. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Colin Thompson and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun SCXW134679673 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW134679673 BCX0">Additional information on<span>&nbsp;Joseph Edwar Hanson&nbsp;Joseph Edward Hanson</span></span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW134679673 BCX0"><span>&nbsp;</span>is available via the</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW134679673 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}">&nbsp;<a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/109837/">IBCC Losses Database.</a></span> 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 JE Hanson flying log book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Atlantic Ocean Denmark France Germany Great Britain Russia (Federation) Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay Atlantic Ocean--English Channel Atlantic Ocean--North Sea Denmark--Copenhagen England--Dorset England--Lincolnshire England--Nottinghamshire England--Oxfordshire England--Wiltshire England--Yorkshire France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France--Brest France--Dunkerque France--La Rochelle France--Lorient France--Saint-Nazaire Germany--Berlin Germany--Bremen Germany--Cologne Germany--Cuxhaven Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Essen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Kassel Germany--Kiel Germany--Saarbrücken Germany--Wilhelmshaven Germany--Wismar Northern Ireland--Antrim (County) Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ) Great Britain Germany--Ruhr (Region) 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 Royal Air Force. Bomber Command 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 LHansonJE46968v1 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940-10-29 1940-10-30 1940-11-15 1940-11-16 1940-11-25 1940-11-26 1940-11-28 1940-11-29 1940-12-08 1940-12-09 1940-12-16 1940-12-17 1940-12-21 1940-12-22 1940-12-28 1940-12-29 1941-01-01 1941-01-02 1941-01-04 1941-01-05 1941-01-08 1941-01-09 1941-01-14 1941-01-15 1941-01-30 1941-01-31 1941-02-05 1941-02-06 1941-02-07 1941-02-08 1941-02-10 1941-02-11 1941-02-12 1941-02-21 1941-02-22 1941-02-24 1941-02-25 1941-02-26 1941-02-27 1941-03-18 1941-03-19 1941-03-20 1941-03-21 1941-03-29 1941-03-30 1941-04-08 1941-04-09 1941-04-13 1941-04-14 1941-04-17 1941-04-18 1941-04-24 1941-04-25 1941-04-28 1941-04-29 1942-05-02 1942-05-03 1942-05-31 1942-06-01 1942-06-02 1942-07-26 1942-07-27 1942-07-29 1942-07-30 1942-08-09 1942-08-13 1942-08-17 1942-08-19 1942-08-28 1942-08-29 1942-09-01 1942-09-02 1942-09-10 1942-09-11 1942-09-14 1942-09-15 1942-09-16 1942-09-17 1942-09-24 1942-09-25 1942-10-01 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending review Review Oct 2024 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939 1940 1941 1942 Description An account of the resource Flying log book for J E Hanson, wireless operator/air gunner, covering the period from 3 January 1939 to 1 October 1942. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Finnningley, RAF Upper Heyford, RAF Lindholme, RAF Warmwell, RAF Coningsby, RAF Scampton, RAF Waddington, RAF Boscombe Down, RAF Nutts Corner and RAF Syerston. Aircraft flown in were Tiger Moth, Wellesley, Anson, Whitley, Hampden Hereford, Blenheim, Battle, Lysander, Lancaster, Manchester, Hind, Botha and Wellington. He trained with 76 Squadron which became 16 Operational Training Unit. He flew a total of 46 operations. 29 with 50 Squadron, 3 with 44 Squadron and 14 with 61 Squadron. The aircraft crashed on take off on their 47 operation, with the loss of all crew when the dinghy deployed fouling the tail plane. Targets were Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Lorient, Bremen, Brest, Cuxhaven, St Nazaire, Wilhelmshaven, Dunkirk, Hannover, Kiel, La Rochelle, Copenhagen, Bordeaux, Essen, Saarbrucken, Atlantic Ocean, Kassel, Konigsberg, Wismar and mine laying. The log book also contains photographs of him and aircraft. His pilots on operations were Pilot Officer Paramore, Pilot Officer Woodward, Squadron Leader Weston DFC and Squadron Leader Burnett. 16 OTU 44 Squadron 50 Squadron 61 Squadron 76 Squadron Air Gunnery School aircrew Anson Battle Blenheim bombing bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942) Botha crash Distinguished Flying Medal Hampden killed in action Lancaster Lysander Manchester Me 109 mine laying Operational Training Unit RAF Boscombe Down RAF Coningsby RAF Finningley RAF Lindholme RAF Nutts Corner RAF Scampton RAF Syerston RAF Upper Heyford RAF Waddington RAF Warmwell take-off crash Tiger Moth training Wellington Whitley wireless operator / air gunner https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1502/36138/LNimanMA137571v1.1.pdf fe40e9891138c779a2858ea73f4e9c1d 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 Niman, M A 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 2016-04-24 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 Niman, MA Description An account of the resource Two items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant M A Niman (966637, 137571 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book and correspondence. He flew operations as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner with 10 and 192 Squadrons. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by J Niman and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff. 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 M A Niman’s RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book Description An account of the resource M A Niman’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book, from 6th August 1941 to 2nd May 1945, detailing operations and instructional duties in the UK, Middle East and East Africa as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner and “Special Operator”, including bomber transport, anti-submarine patrols and radio/radar counter-measures. The logbook starts with a note certifying flying hours (36 ‘trips’) contained in a logbook which was lost on the 16th July 1941 when a Bombay aircraft crashed into the sea at Gibraltar. It ends with a list of 31 ops flown with 10 Squadron obtained in 2002 from historical records, and a crew list. He was stationed at RAF Kemble (Overseas Aircraft Delivery Flight), RAF Heliopolis (No. 216 Bomber Transport Squadron), Wadi Gazouza/ Nanyuki (72 OTU), Kipevu, Mombasa (259 and 209 Squadrons), RAF Halfpenny Green (also known as RAF Bobbington) (No. 3 (O) AFU) and RAF Foulsham (192 Squadron). Aircraft in which flown: Bombay, Blenheim, Anson, Catalina, Short C-Class, Lodestar, Halifax and Whitley. Records a total of 14 night operations with 192 Squadron: some have no targets named, and some names are incorrectly spelled. These have been corrected where necessary by reference to the squadron ORB. Targets in Germany are: Augsburg, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Flensburg, Hamburg, Harburg, Kiel, Ladbergen, Langendreer, Nuremberg, Plauen and Stade.&nbsp;His pilots on operations were Flight Sergeant D T Witt, Squadron Leader K F Ferguson, Sergeant P Hickling, Pilot Officer Williams and Wing Commander V B Bennett,&nbsp;Flight Lieutenant Ford, Flying Officer Gray, Flying Officer Gilmour, Flight Lieutenant Helyer, Flight Lieutenant Dimant, Flying Officer Dutton, Flying Officer Field, Wing Commander Donaldson, and Flight Lieutenant Payne.<br /><br /><span data-contrast="auto" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun SCXW246595534 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246595534 BCX0">This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No </span><span class="ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW246595534 BCX0">better quality</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW246595534 BCX0"> copies are available.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW246595534 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}">&nbsp;</span> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1940-08-13 1940-08-14 1940-09-15 1940-09-16 1940-09-20 1940-09-21 1940-09-22 1940-09-23 1940-10-01 1940-10-02 1940-10-07 1940-10-08 1940-10-14 1940-10-15 1940-11-12 1940-11-13 1940-11-15 1940-11-16 1940-11-17 1940-11-18 1940-11-26 1940-11-27 1940-12-02 1940-12-03 1940-12-18 1940-12-19 1940-12-20 1940-12-21 1940-12-23 1940-12-24 1940-12-29 1940-12-30 1941-01-03 1941-01-04 1941-01-05 1941-01-10 1941-01-11 1941-01-16 1941-01-17 1941-02-03 1941-02-04 1941-02-11 1941-02-12 1941-02-23 1941-02-24 1941-02-26 1941-02-27 1941-03-01 1941-03-02 1941-03-03 1941-03-04 1941-04-08 1941-04-09 1941-04-10 1941-04-14 1941-04-15 1941-05-07 1941-05-08 1941-05-09 1945-02-23 1945-02-24 1945-02-28 1945-03-01 1945-03-02 1945-03-03 1945-03-04 1945-03-16 1945-03-21 1945-03-27 1945-04-03 1945-04-04 1945-04-05 1945-04-06 1945-04-08 1945-04-10 1945-04-11 1945-04-13 1945-04-14 1945-04-15 1945-04-16 1945-04-22 1945-04-23 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Germany Great Britain Kenya Sudan Egypt--Cairo Kenya--Mombasa Kenya--Nanyuki England--Gloucestershire England--Norfolk England--Staffordshire Germany--Augsburg Germany--Bochum Germany--Bremen Germany--Bremerhaven Germany--Flensburg Germany--Hamburg Germany--Kiel Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Plauen Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony) Germany--Steinfurt (North Rhine-Westphalia) Egypt North Africa Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Langendreer Germany--Ladbergen 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 Royal Air Force. Bomber Command 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 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource David Leitch Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LNimanMA137571v1 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 10 Squadron 192 Squadron 216 Squadron Advanced Flying Unit aircrew Anson Blenheim bombing Catalina Halifax Operational Training Unit radar RAF Foulsham RAF Halfpenny Green RAF Heliopolis RAF Kemble training Whitley wireless operator / air gunner https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2052/42816/LSouterKP129001v1.1.pdf cbe847749ea7ad0bea26e83052ee0656 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 Souter, Kenneth Place K P Souter Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-07-10 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 Souter, KP Description An account of the resource 30 items. An oral history interview with Kenneth Souter (1919 - 2024, 129001 Royal Air Force), his log books and photographs. He flew operations as a fighter pilot with 73 Squadron in North Africa and as a test pilot. After the war he flew Lancasters during the filming of The Dam Busters film in 1954. The collection was catalogued by Barry Hunter. 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 Ken Souter's pilot's flying log book. One Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LSouterKP129001v1 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. 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 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Description An account of the resource Pilot's flying log book. One, for Ken Souter. Covering the period from 5 July 1939 to 27 April 1945. Detailing his flying training, operational flying and instructor duties. He was stationed No.43 Elementary and Reserve flying traing School at RAF Woolsington, No.22 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Cambridge, No.9 Elementary Flying Training School RAF Ansty, No,5 Operational Training Unit RAF Aston Down, 43 Squadron RAF Acklington and RAF Ismalia, 73 Squadron RAF Gazala, RAF El Adam, RAF Abu Sueir, RAF Bu Amud and RAF El Gubbi, 102 maintenance Unit RAF Abu Sueir, 108 Maintenance Unit RAF El Firdan, No.1 Delivery Unit RAF Wadi Natrun, test Pilot RAF Port Sudan, RAF Summit and RAF Sidi Henish, No.8 Air Gunnery School RAF Evanton, 867 Squadron RAF Detling, 771 Squadron RNAS Twatt. Aircraft flown in were, Tiger Moth, Hart, Audax, Harvard, Hurricane, Blenheim, Wellington, Lysander, Valencia, Tomahawk, Bombay, Maryland, Vincent, Magister, Lockheed, DC2, Oxford, Kittyhawk, Hardy, Boston, Douglas, Lodestar, JU52, Gladiator, Sunderland, DC3, Clipper, Prefect, Master, Hind, Martinet, Anson, Dominie, DH86, Hind and Corsair. He flew 41 operational sorties with 43 and 73 squadrons, these are described as patrol, scramble, search, and reconnaissance. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Egypt Great Britain Libya Sudan Egypt--Ismailia (Province) Egypt--Natrun Valley England--Cambridgeshire England--Gloucestershire England--Kent England--Northumberland England--Warwickshire Libya--Cyrenaica Libya--Tobruk Scotland--Orkney Scotland--Ross and Cromarty Sudan--Port Sudan North Africa Libya--El Gubbi Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mike Connock Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1939 1940-12-04 1941-02-04 1941-02-12 1941-02-18 1941-02-22 1941-02-27 1941-03-03 1941-03-05 1941-03-09 1941-03-10 1941-03-15 1941-03-16 1941-03-18 1941-03-24 1941-03-28 1941-04-01 1941-04-02 1941-04-04 1941-04-06 1941-04-07 1941-04-08 1941-04-09 1941-04-11 1941-04-12 1941-04-13 1941-05-03 1941-05-08 1941-05-12 1941-05-13 1941-05-16 1942 1943 1944 1945 Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 43 Squadron Air Gunnery School aircrew Anson Blenheim Boston C-47 Dominie Flying Training School Harvard Hurricane Ju 52 Lysander Magister Martinet Operational Training Unit Oxford P-40 pilot RAF Abu Sueir RAF Ansty RAF Aston Down RAF Evanton Sunderland Tiger Moth training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2635/46206/LKeelingRV82689v1.1.pdf 614702122603a1a6bac8c0c911c28346 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 Keeling, Robert Victor Description An account of the resource 48 items. The collection concerns Robert Victor Keeling, DFC (b. 1916, 82689 Royal Air Force) and contains his log books, correspondence, decorations and a <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2655">Scrapbook</a>. He flew operations as a pilot with 51 Squadron. Following his retirement from the Royal Air Force with the rank of Squadron leader he became a civilian pilot. <br /><br />The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by David Keeling and catalogued by Lynn Corrigan. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023-06-01 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 Keeling, RV 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 Robert Victor Keeling's pilot's flying log book. One Description An account of the resource Pilot's flying log book for Robert 'Bob' Victor Keeling covering the period 15 June 1939 to 30 June 1943. Details his training and operational duties. Bob flew 27 night operations, 15 as second pilot to Pilot Officer Deacon, Sergeant Prior and Squadron Leader Hollrick and 12 as pilot with 51 Squadron. Operations, all flown in Whitley aircraft, were to Antwerp, Berlin, Bordeaux, Boulogne, Bremen, Brest, Chemnitz, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Kiel, Leipzig, Le Havre, Leuna, Lorient, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Pilsen, St. Nazaire and Turin. The log book continues with details of Bob's time as a flying instructor with the School of Navigation, 7 Squadron and Royal Aircraft Establishment. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940-09-11 1940-09-12 1940-09-14 1940-09-15 1940-09-17 1940-09-18 1940-09-21 1940-09-22 1940-09-23 1940-09-24 1940-09-25 1940-09-26 1940-10-11 1940-11-12 1940-10-15 1940-10-16 1940-10-27 1940-10-28 1940-10-30 1940-10-31 1940-11-01 1940-11-02 1940-11-08 1940-11-09 1940-11-13 1940-11-14 1940-11-15 1940-11-16 1940-11-17 1940-11-18 1940-11-27 1940-11-28 1940-12-08 1940-12-09 1940-12-13 1940-12-14 1940-12-17 1940-12-18 1941-01-09 1941-01-10 1941-02-11 1941-02-12 1941-03-01 1941-03-02 1941-03-10 1941-03-11 1941-03-13 1941-03-14 1941-03-15 1941-03-16 1941-04-10 1941-04-11 1941-04-12 1941-04-13 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Belgium Czech Republic France Germany Great Britain Italy Belgium--Antwerp Belgium--Zeebrugge Czech Republic--Plzeň France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France--Boulogne-sur-Mer France--Brest France--Le Havre France--Lorient France--Saint-Nazaire Germany--Berlin Germany--Bremen Germany--Chemnitz Germany--Cologne Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Kiel Germany--Leipzig Germany--Leuna Germany--Magdeburg Germany--Mannheim England--Bedfordshire England--Cambridgeshire England--Cheshire England--Derbyshire England--Gloucestershire England--Hampshire England--Oxfordshire England--Warwickshire England--Wiltshire England--Wiltshire Italy--Turin Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Ruhr (Region) 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 Royal Air Force. Bomber Command 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 LKeelingRV82689v1 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 David Leitch Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 10 OTU 21 OTU 22 OTU 51 Squadron 7 Squadron Advanced Flying Unit aircrew Anson Battle Blenheim Flying Training School Hampden Hudson Hurricane Lancaster Magister pilot RAF Abingdon RAF Burnaston RAF Cranage RAF Dishforth RAF Farnborough RAF Hullavington RAF Kemble RAF Moreton in the Marsh RAF Oakington RAF Wellesbourne Mountford Spitfire Stirling training Wellington Whitley https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2468/46744/LWhymarkJP53481v1.1.pdf 551b9fb9670ed9aad0d684fed1683dac 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 Whymark, Jack John Percy Whymark Description An account of the resource 56 items. <br /><br />The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Jack Whymark DSO DFC (1920 -1945, 616289, 53481 Royal Air Force) and contains a<span>n oral history with his son, Robert Whymark.&nbsp;</span><br /><br />He joined 17 Squadron in 1939 and took part in Operation Aerial in 1940.&nbsp;<br /><br />He flew operations as an air gunner in Europe and North Africa with 101, 103, 106, 148 and 149 Squadrons and was killed 04 October 1945 during Operation Dodge. <br /><br />The collection was donated to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Graham Thurlow and Robert Whymark and catalogued by Lynn Corrigan. <br /><br /><span>Additional information on Jack Whymark is available via the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/230288/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-11-03 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 Whymark, JP Requires A related resource that is required by the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence. [his log book, correspondence, documents, objects and photographs]. 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 Jack Whymark’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LWhymarkJP53481v1 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 Royal Air Force. Bomber Command 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 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. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1940-12-16 1940-12-17 1940-12-28 1941-01-02 1941-01-09 1941-01-29 1941-02-10 1941-02-11 1941-02-12 1941-02-14 1941-02-21 1941-02-24 1941-02-25 1941-03-11 1941-03-12 1941-03-14 1941-03-18 1941-03-19 1941-03-20 1941-04-30 1941-05-01 1941-05-17 1941-05-18 1941-05-22 1941-05-23 1941-05-28 1941-05-29 1941-05-30 1941-05-31 1941-06-02 1941-06-03 1941-06-16 1941-06-26 1941-06-27 1941-06-29 1941-07-02 1941-07-03 1941-07-06 1941-07-07 1941-07-08 1941-07-09 1941-07-10 1941-07-14 1941-07-15 1941-07-17 1941-07-18 1941-07-20 1941-07-21 1941-07-22 1941-07-23 1942-11-17 1942-11-18 1944-02-19 1944-02-20 1944-02-21 1944-02-24 1944-02-25 1944-02-26 1944-03-01 1944-03-02 1944-03-15 1944-03-16 1944-03-18 1944-03-19 1944-03-22 1944-03-23 1944-03-24 1944-03-25 1944-03-26 1944-03-27 1944-03-30 1944-03-31 1944-04-10 1944-04-11 1944-04-12 1944-04-20 1944-04-21 1944-04-22 1944-04-23 1944-04-24 1944-04-25 1944-04-26 1944-04-27 1944-04-28 1944-05-11 1944-05-12 1944-05-19 1945-05-20 1944-11-09 1944-12-13 1944-12-14 1945-01-02 1945-01-03 1945-01-07 1945-01-08 1945-01-14 1945-01-15 1945-01-28 1945-01-29 1945-02-01 1945-02-03 1945-02-28 1945-03-05 1945-03-06 1945-03-11 1945-03-12 1945-03-15 1945-03-16 1945-03-26 1945-03-31 1945-04-04 1945-04-05 1945-04-22 1945-04-27 1945-05-07 1945-05-10 1945-08-23 1945-08-25 1945-10-03 1945-10-04 Description An account of the resource Jack Whymark’s Flying Log Book as an Air Gunner from 1st October 1940 until 4th October 1945 when his aircraft crashed in to the Mediterranean Sea. Initial training at No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School and 225 Squadron. Posted to 149 Squadron for operations in December 1940. In April 1941 posted to the Middle East with 148 Squadron, returning to the United Kingdom in September 1941. Become an Air Gunner Instructor in February 1942 with No. 1 Air Armament School. Further posting as an Instructor to No. 4 Air Observer’s School. February 1943 saw a posting to the Central Gunnery School as an Air Gunner for further training before returning to No. 4 Air Observer’s School as an Air Gunner Instructor. His second operational posting was to 101 Squadron in February 1944. A further operational posting to 103 Squadron in November. On 3rd/4th October 1945 his aircraft was reported missing over the Mediterranean Sea during an Operation Dodge flight carrying 17 ATS females and two Army Nursing Sisters as well as the crew of six. Served at RAF Evanton, RAF Old Sarum, RAF Tilshead, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Manby, RAF West Freugh, RAF Syerston, RAF Sutton Bridge, RAF Ingham, RAF Elsham Wolds, RAF Glatton, RAF Kabrit (Egypt). Aircraft flown were Harrow, Battle, Hector, Lysander, Wellington, Botha, Anson, Lancaster, Oxford, Martinet. With 149 Squadron he flew 15 night operations to targets including Mannheim, Lorient, Bremen, Gelsenkirchen, Wilhelmshaven, Hannover, Brest, Kiel, Cologne. His pilots were Flt/Sgt Marr, Flt/Sgt Goss, Flt/Sgt Hawley, Flt/Sgt Milsted, With 148 Squadron, 21 night operations to Gazala, Benghazi, Karpathos, Heraklion, Tripoli, Naples, Messina, Palermo, His pilot in 148 Squadron was Flt/Sgt Milsted. A single night operation while with No. 4 Air Observer’s School to Danzig, his pilot being Pilot Officer Curtin. 20 night operations with 101 Squadron to Leipzig, Stuttgart, Schweinfurt, Augsburg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Essen, Nuremburg, Aulnoye, Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Friedrichshafen, Hasselt, Orleans. With this squadron his pilots were P/O Evans, P/O Holland, (P/O Waughman. Finally a total 17 bombing operations with 103 Squadron (7 day, 10 night). Targets included Wanne-Eickel, Samso Fjord, Denmark, Nuremburg, Munich, Merseburg, Stuttgart, Ludwigshafen, Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen, Chemnitz, Essen, Dortmund, Hannover, Paderborn, Hamburg, Mining-Kattegat, Bremen. Also 1 Operation Manna (Rotterdam), 2 Operation Exodus (Brussels) and 2 Operation Dodge (Pomigliano). Pilots included Flight Lieutenant Garton, Squadron Leader Hague, Flying Officer Saxe, Flying Officer Mosley, Flying Officer Wright, Squadron Leader Butler, Flight Lieutenant Anderson, and Flight Lieutenant Newman. Newspaper clippings of the last flight in October 1945 included. The last couple of pages of the logbook have been signed by those who attended the squadron reunion at Elsham in 1995. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Berkshire England--Buckinghamshire England--Cambridgeshire England--Essex England--Gloucestershire England--Lincolnshire England--London England--Norfolk England--Oxfordshire England--Rutland England--Suffolk England--Wiltshire England--Yorkshire England--Yorkshire Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway Scotland--Ross and Cromarty Wales--Glamorgan Belgium Belgium--Brussels Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Aachen Germany--Augsburg Germany--Berlin Germany--Bottrop Germany--Bremen Germany--Chemnitz Germany--Cologne Germany--Dortmund Germany--Düsseldorf Germany--Essen Germany--Frankfurt am Main Germany--Friedrichshafen Germany--Gelsenkirchen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Karlsruhe Germany--Kiel Germany--Leipzig Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein Germany--Mannheim Germany--Merseburg Germany--Munich Germany--Nuremberg Germany--Paderborn Germany--Schweinfurt Germany--Stuttgart Germany--Wanne-Eickel Germany--Wilhelmshaven France France--Aulnoye-Aymeries France--Brest France--Lorient France--Orléans Malta Greece Greece--Ērakleion Greece--Karpathos (Municipality) Netherlands Netherlands--Hasselt Netherlands--Rotterdam Netherlands--Texel Poland North Africa Libya Libya--Banghāzī Libya--Darnah Libya--Gazala Libya--Tripoli Egypt Egypt--Kibrit Italy Italy--Messina Italy--Naples Italy--Palermo Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea) Denmark Denmark--Samsø Germany--Stuttgart Italy--Sicily Italy--Sicily Poland--Gdańsk Italy--Pomigliano d'Arco Europe--Frisian Islands Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nick Cornwell-Smith Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Review Oct 2024 101 Squadron 103 Squadron 148 Squadron 149 Squadron 225 Squadron air gunner Air Gunnery School Air Observers School aircrew Anson Battle Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944) bombing Bombing and Gunnery School bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944) Botha evacuation Harrow killed in action Lancaster Lancaster Mk 3 Lysander Martinet mine laying missing in action Operation Dodge (1945) Operation Exodus (1945) Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945) Oxford RAF Elsham Wolds RAF Evanton RAF Glatton RAF Ingham RAF Kabrit RAF Manby RAF Mildenhall RAF Old Sarum RAF Sutton Bridge RAF Syerston RAF Tilshead RAF West Freugh training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2652/46882/EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0001.2.jpg 28eee75d12880013044922efd646acdc https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2652/46882/EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0002.2.jpg 56c94e50ed7fab0098fb11fde8eb9e25 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2652/46882/EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0003.2.jpg 69246292de0f90547b7362df2607694f https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2652/46882/EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0004.2.jpg b6774f863ce67913968da54a6fc39be9 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2652/46882/EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0005.2.jpg 02ebeccedf4ca53ac766d1501470ab7f 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 Butler, Bob Robert Butler R Butler Description An account of the resource 76 items. The collection concerns Flying Officer Robert ‘Bob’ Butler RAFVR (1914 – 1942, 958421 and 102576) and contains his log book, correspondence, documents, photographs and objects. He flew operations as an air gunner with 99 and 218 Squadrons before being presumed dead in the North Sea on 23/24 September 1942. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Jan Johnstone, Richard Heslop and Liz Heslop. Catalogued by Jan Johnstone with additional contributions by Paul Baguley, Verandar Yuen, Tsz Yau, Shwetal Patil, and Ami Wagner.<br /><br /> <p>Additional information on Robert Butler is available via the&nbsp;<a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/204033/">IBCC Losses Database.</a></p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023-07-12 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 Butler, R 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 Edna Whitaker to Bob Butler's sister Description An account of the resource A handwritten personal letter describing a relationship with Bob Butler. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edna Whitaker Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One handwritten letter Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0001, EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0002, EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0003, EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0004, EWhitakerEHeslopM410212-0005 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. Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1941-02-12 Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Correspondence Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1941-02-12 love and romance https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2856/50585/SBondS-VandervordDv10001.1.pdf e12f15b614645e9a749cbc5c4c1aeb82 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 Vandervord, David Description An account of the resource 15 items. Collection concerns Sergeant David Vandevord who flew operations as a Wellington second pilot on 218 Squadron. Collection contains his pilot's flying log book, an oral history interview 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 A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-18 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 SBondS-VandervordDv1 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 David Vandervord’s Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Book 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 Royal Air Force. Bomber Command 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 Multi-page printed book with handwritten entries Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending review Review Oct 2024 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SBondS-VandervordDv10001 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force 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 David Vandervord’s Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Book from 22nd July 1939 until 14th May 1941. Initial pilot training at No. 34 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School, No. 7 Elementary Flying Training School, 12 Service Flying Training School, 15 Operational Training Unit. Operational posting to 218 Squadron. Served at RAF Southend, RAF Desford, RAF Grantham, RAF Harwell, RAF Marham. Aircraft flown were Tiger Moth, Anson, Wellington. He flew 12 night bombing operations with 218 Squadron as second pilot. His targets were Boulogne, Rotterdam, Hannover, Bremen, Brest, Berlin, Hamburg, the Scharnhorst, Mannheim. His pilots were Flying Officer Anstey, Flying Officer Agar and Sergeant McNeil. His aircraft force landed in England after the operation on 11/12th February 1941. His aircraft was attacked by two Me110’s on the night of 13/14th March 1941 which result in a minor injury to himself. This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1939 1940-12-29 1941-01-09 1941-02-07 1941-02-10 1941-02-11 1941-02-12 1941-03-02 1941-03-12 1941-03-13 1941-03-14 1941-05-03 1941-05-04 1941-05-05 1941-05-06 1941-05-07 1941-05-08 1941-05-10 1941-05-11 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Essex England--Leicestershire England--Lincolnshire England--Norfolk England--Oxfordshire France France--Boulogne-sur-Mer France--Brest Netherlands Netherlands--Rotterdam Germany Germany--Ruhr (Region) Germany--Berlin Germany--Bremen Germany--Hamburg Germany--Hannover Germany--Mannheim Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nick Cornwell-Smith 15 OTU 218 Squadron aircrew Anson bombing Flying Training School forced landing Me 110 Operational Training Unit pilot RAF Desford RAF Grantham RAF Harwell RAF Marham RAF Southend Scharnhorst Tiger Moth training Wellington