1 25 28 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2738/50888/SKaneWB19210816v10010.2.jpg 7242fa20a00a09144daf3e5f3a9e99fe 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 Kane, William B Description An account of the resource Fourteen items. The collection concerns Flying Officer William B Kane DFC (b. 1921, Royal Air Force) and contains documents and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 75 and 115 Squadron. The collection was donated to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Barbara McKinnell and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-09-01 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 Kane, WB Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Flying Officer William Baron Kane DFC Description An account of the resource Service history. After training as navigator/observer and bomb aimer completed a tour as Stirling bomb aimer on 75 (NZ) Squadron. Rested on training tours and the second tour as Lancaster bomb aimer on 115 Squadron. Subsequent postings to India and Israel. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1942-04 1942-08 1942-11 1942-07 1943-01 1943-10 1944-01 1944-05 1944-09 1944-11 1945-07 1945-11 1946-05 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. United States Florida--Pensacola Great Britain Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway England--Hertfordshire England--Cambridgeshire England--Suffolk England--Buckinghamshire England--Lincolnshire England--Norfolk India India--Bangalore India--Delhi Israel Florida 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 New Zealand Air Force Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One page printed document Conforms To An established standard to which the described resource conforms. Pending text-based transcription Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SKaneWB19210816v10010 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. 115 Squadron 75 Squadron aircrew Anson bomb aimer bombing Catalina Lancaster RAF Bassingbourn RAF Feltwell RAF Little Horwood RAF Manby RAF Mepal RAF Newmarket RAF Waterbeach RAF Wigtown RAF Witchford Stirling training Wellington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2626/46199/MShepherdGC3030576-180525-01.1.pdf 0dd0b9902b96949b6368da29d75a624f 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 Shepherd, George Charles Charlie Shepherd Description An account of the resource 211 items. The collection concerns George Charles 'Charlie' Shepherd (b. 1924, 303576 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, correspondence, documents, objects and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner with 115 Squadron. <br /><br />The collection also contains a folder <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2658">The War Years</a> containing correspondence, documents, and photographs, and a <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2660">Wooden box</a> containing medals, badges and ribbons. <br /><br />The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Melissa Shepherd and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-05-25 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 Shepherd, C 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 1945 calendar with dates on 7 Squadron Description An account of the resource Calendar mounted below a b/w photograph of rear quarter of airborne Lancaster annotated 'Best of Luck from Ken'. Title 'East West Home's Best'. Successive items show successive months flipped up with dates blocked out and document with list of months with dates on 7 Squadron. Reverse of photograph is annotated 'KO-U on the way out Essen 1944'. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-02 1945-03 1945-05 1945-06 1945-07 1945-08 1945-10 1945-11 1945-12 1944 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 Photograph Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Mounted photograph, printed calendar and handwritten document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MShepherdGC3030576-180525-01 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Germany Germany--Essen Germany--Ruhr (Region) 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. 7 Squadron Lancaster https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2357/45633/PFoskettW23020025.1.jpg e48dd41555480612a3b39bc06b3f8bca https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2357/45633/PFoskettW23020026.1.jpg 5e8393a632248d6c71cf73b1f165d0d7 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 Foskett, William Description An account of the resource 104 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant William Foskett (b. 1921, 13230505 Royal Air Force) and contains his log books, correspondence, documents, and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner and navigator with 214 Squadron. After the war, he was stationed in Italy (RAF Udine), France, Germany and North Africa. The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Peter Foskett and catalogued by Barry Hunter with the assistance of Roberto Bassi of the Aeroclub Friulano Campoformido. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-04-07 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 Foskett, W 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 Bill Foskett Description An account of the resource Bill sitting on a wall, smoking his pipe. On the reverse 'Transville Roof (Bari - Italy) Adriatic Sea - Background Nov '45'. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Italy Italy--Bari 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 Photograph Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One b/w photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PFoskettW23020025, PFoskettW23020026 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. aircrew https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2447/43328/MSteainstreetA186187-180313-030004.1.jpg d0470caa79fbef322fe2d60646c7263b 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 Steainstreet, Arthur Description An account of the resource 55 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Arthur Steainstreet (1920, 186187 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, correspondence, documents,&nbsp;<a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2506">An Album</a> and photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 170 Squadron and was killed 16 March 1945. <br /><br />The collection was donated to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Beryl Walton and catalogued by Barry Hunter. <br /><br />Additional information on Arthur Steainstreet is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/122212/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-03-13 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 Steainstreet, A 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 Credit Advice for Arthur Steainstreet's Widow Description An account of the resource Money paid by the RAF into Arthur's Widow's account. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11 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 Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Service material Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One printed sheet with handwritten annotations Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MSteainstreetA186187-180313-030004 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 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Steainstreet, Arthur. Bank Account Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1989/41035/BWrightSRGeorgeDBv1.2.pdf 3c7857e24900fa64d8d5365560c62710 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 George, David Burrows D B George Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-11-17 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 George, DB Description An account of the resource 14 items.&nbsp;The collection concerns Sergeant David Burrows George (1796593 Royal Air Force) and contains operation reports, correspondence, a biography and photographs. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 153 Squadron and was killed 22 January 1945. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Shelagh Wright and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /> Additional information on David Burrows George is available via the&nbsp;<a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/108520/">IBCC Losses Database.</a> Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document David Burrows George David was the last born of the six children of James and Ellen George of Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The family lived at 14 Dufferin Avenue, Bangor which was not only the family home but also his father’s boot and shoe making business. His mother was a dressmaker. His father was a veteran of the First World War. He never knew his first-born brother Edmund who died at only four days old in 1909. His eldest sister, Sarah, known as Sadie pre-deceased him when she succumbed to tuberculosis in 1937. The third born child of the family was his sister Annie (Anne) who lived to be 99 years old and passed away in 2012 with such fond memories of her brother through to the end of her life. James (Jim) was the fourth born and lived for 78 years whilst Elizabeth, known as Elsie, was the fifth born and lived for 87 years. David lost his mother when he was only 8 years old so that it was his sister Annie who accepted the responsibilities for her youngest siblings. She told stories of how well behaved David and Elsie were when they were called in for their supper. It was in 1933 when David’s father re-married introducing David’s step-mother, Lydia, to the family. [photograph] Annie supervises David and Elsie on a donkey ride. David was educated at Bangor Central P.E. School and, on leaving school, entered the service of the Post Office in the engineering department at Telephone House. [page break] He joined the RAF in December 1943 and trained in England. On completion of his training he led the cadet parade of his unit and was recommended for a commission with a very high percentage in the examinations. David spent his last Christmas at home in Bangor where the family now lived at 8 Donaghadee Road. His last letter to Anne was written on Wednesday 3rd January 1945 and records a fondness for ‘Liffy Water’ (Guinness) . . . [inserted] I had a good time at home over Christmas, managed to keep myself happy when not eating & sleeping by having a few bottles of Liffy Water, Elsie was quite Chirpy on Christmas [/inserted] It was written from the Sergeant’s Mess at RAF Scampton . . . [inserted] As you will see I have moved to Scampton now, this is an operational drome & I have had the pleasure of visiting Europe on a couple of occasions. I like it very much here, we are billeted in married quarters & are very comfortable indeed, fires in the bed rooms & bags of hot water for baths & shaving. The food too leaves nothing to be desired, usually we have a choice of three dishes for dinner, so you may gather we dont do so badly at all. [/inserted] [page break] David had met and fallen for his girlfriend Marjorie whilst at Lindholme and: [inserted] My girl friend, you know Marjorie who I was forced to part with when I left Lindholme was asking for you in all her letters, she too is very fond of children, so who knows I may be a family man myself one of these – I wont say days but soon I hope, yes it is as serious as all that. [/inserted] He spoke with fondness of his relationship with Elsie’s daughter, his niece Frances . . . [inserted] Elsie was quite Chirpy on Christmas eve although probably she would be the last to admit it. Both she & Francis are getting along fine, especially Francis, she is quite a big girl, and gives my ego quite a lift by crying when I leave her. I am beginning to think I am no goats toe when it comes to entertaining the coming generation. [/inserted] Little did he know that this was to be the last letter to Anne as he signed off just 19 days before his death at the tender age of 21 years. [page break] [inserted] Well Anne I don’t think I will draw this out any longer, please drop me a line as soon as convenient & let me know all about my latest niece. Cheerio for now, & a happy & Prosperous New Year. Your Loving Brother David [/inserted] It was November 1945 when The Spectator printed a tribute to him: [inserted] BANGOR AIRMAN PRESUMED KILLED [PHOTOGRAPH] Flight-Engineer-Sergt. D.B. GEORGE ANOTHER gallant young Bangor airman has made the supreme sacrifice. He is Flight-Engineer – Sergeant David B. Goerge, 8, Donaghadee Road, Bangor. Missing since his Lancaster was brought down in air-operations over Duisburg in January last, official intimation has now been received that his death may now be presumed. Aged 22, he was educated at Bangor Central P.E. School, and on leaving school entered the service of the Post Office in the engineering department at Telephone House. He joined the R.A.F. in December, 1943, trained in England and on the completion of his training led the cadet parade of his unit and was recommended for a commission with a very high percentage in the examinations. He had taken part in a number of operational flights. He was a popular young man of much promise and had many friends who deeply regret his death. Sympathy goes out to the family in their bereavement. [/inserted] 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 Burrows George Description An account of the resource A biography of David from his birth in Bangor, Northern Ireland. He died at the age of 21. A tribute was printed in The Spectator. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain Northern Ireland--Bangor Germany--Duisburg Germany 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 Civilian Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Personal research Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Four printed sheets Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context BWrightSRGeorgeDBv1 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 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Alan Pinchbeck aircrew killed in action Lancaster missing in action RAF Lindholme RAF Scampton training https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2243/40794/MWickhamHW124631-190629-02.1.jpg 160a61dff80a6011a7d338662163143a 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 Wickham, Harry William Wickham, HW Description An account of the resource 23 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Harry William Wickham (b. 1919, 124631 Royal Air Force) and contains his log books, a biography, service records and photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 102 Squadron. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lynne Parry and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-06-29 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 Wickham, HW 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 British united services officers club Karachi - membership card Description An account of the resource Made out for Flt Lt H W Wickham Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Pakistan Pakistan--Karachi 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. Transport Command Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Printed card with handwritten entries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MWickhamHW124631-190629-02 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/636/40410/SRoyallGL1801494v10001.2.jpg ae84a8195d3ab89df711d4004bba3e8f 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 Royall, George G Royall Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Royall, G Description An account of the resource 46 items. An oral history interview with Warrant Officer George Royall (1801494 Royal Air Force) his flying log book, photographs, correspondence, course notes, examinations, newspapers and parts of magazines. He served as a bomb aimer on 166 Squadron. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by George Royall and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. 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. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-07-20 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 No 166 Squadron Kirmington Description An account of the resource Front cover of a document, showing the squadron number, base, dates and badges. Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1936-11 1945-11 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Lincolnshire 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 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Printed front cover Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Royall, George. No 166 Squadron Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SRoyallGL1801494v10001 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 166 Squadron RAF Kirmington https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2200/39871/EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451119.1.pdf 6605c9ac3a86dd42409d9f73485fb054 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 Darby, Charles Arthur Hill Darby, CAH Jack Darby Johnny Darby Description An account of the resource 203 items. The collection concerns Charles Arthur Hill Darby (1915 - 1996, 154676 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs, documents and correspondence. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 186 Squadron. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Richard John Darby and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-02-02 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Darby, CAH 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. Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [postage stamp] [postmark] Mrs Darby, 7, Queens Drive, Surbiton Surrey [inserted] 19.11.45 [/inserted] [page break] A.R.M.+2. F/o C. Darby. 154676 R.A.F. Station Acaster Mallis, Nr York. Yorks SUNDAY My darling, Thought I would send you a few lines tonight so you should receive this on Tuesday, please thank Mum very much for sending the parcel of laundry, it arrived safely yesterday. Well, it has’nt been a very hectic weekend, I took a party of aircrew to Snaith a transport command airfield on Saturday morning by road and arrived back about [page break] 2/ lunch time, made a pleasant change, about a 50 mile journey. Saturday afternoon I cycled into York, wanted to get some odds and ends for the Lanc, as usual had a look at the shops and then went and had a good tea at the officers club. There was’nt much interesting on at the films but I went and saw Bette Davis in her new film, at the moment can't remember the name (Mr Something I think). was’nt too bad. They've a good film coming next week. "Perfect Strangers" the trailer seemed interesting may have a [indecipherable word] out [page break] 3/ tomorrow night as Bill is away and I'm on my own. If nothing turns up I should be home on Thursday evening, if you are’nt working I think it would be a good idea if we sleep at Claygate as I must finish that draining board effort this weekend, then Mr Russell can get on with the tiling, if however [deleted letter] you have taken another job perhaps it will be more [deleted word] suitable for you [deleted letter] if we stay at Surbiton, however expect you will mention something about it in your letter. [page break] 4/ The weather has been lousy today, rained the whole time, I did’nt get up for breakfast but about 10.30 the fire wanted some coke so I had to move, was quite busy getting coke, chopping wood and making my bed. (we don't see any batwomen on Sunday). This afternoon I settled down to work on the Lanc and have made good progress, may be able to start filing the other one before I come home. Well darling, am afraid this is all for the moment, remember me to Mum & Dad. Take care of yourself dearest, hope to see you Thursday. All my love Jack 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 Jack Darby to his Wife Description An account of the resource He asks his wife to thank her mother for the laundry parcel. He took airmen to Snaith for onward transport. He went into York for shopping, tea and a film. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jack Darby Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11-19 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Yorkshire England--York 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. Correspondence Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two double sided handwritten sheets and envelope Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451119 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 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sue Smith RAF Acaster Malbis RAF Snaith https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2200/39870/EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451113.1.pdf ec81a817c8dc2a2d3eeaa3662699e676 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 Darby, Charles Arthur Hill Darby, CAH Jack Darby Johnny Darby Description An account of the resource 203 items. The collection concerns Charles Arthur Hill Darby (1915 - 1996, 154676 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs, documents and correspondence. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 186 Squadron. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Richard John Darby and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-02-02 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Darby, CAH 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. Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [postage stamp] [postmark] Mrs Darby, 7, Queens Drive Surbiton Surrey [inserted] 13-11-45 [/inserted] [page break] F/O. C. Darby, 154676 R.A.F. Station Acaster Malbis, Nr York Yorks. Monday. My darling, Just a short note to let you know that I arrived back at camp safely. I got through fairly quickly on the underground and arrived at Kings Cross at 11 o/c the 11-15 hadn't come in and although there was a large crowd I happened to be lucky and shot into a first class, after a bit of wangling I kept my seat and had a good sleep, as usual the [page break] 2/ train was an hour late and did’nt arrive in York until 4.30 am. I soon got the old bicycle out and was back and in bed by 5.15. of course the hut was cold and it was’nt very nice sleeping alone. This morning as there was’nt much doing a [sic] ran down to York in the transport and bought two more Lancs, so I should have something to keep me busy, its turned out a miserable day and its started to rain, most damp and depressing, a typical Monday kind of weather. As you will have probably guessed [page break] 3/ I'm writing this on the firm's paper in there time, thus nothing much doing, the dart board is at present working overtime and we only want a couple of crates of beer and some sawdust on the floor to make it a real pub. Am not certain what will happen next weekend, shall probably have some more gen later on, shall have to see what can be done. Well darling, not a lot more to write about, someone has just rung up from another station, they've lost one body presumably [page break] 4/ still alive and I'm just going to see what's happened to him. Cheerio for the present, remember me to Mother and Dad. Take care of yourself darling, all my love, Jack 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 Jack Darby to his Wife Description An account of the resource He reports that he travelled back safely but an hour late. He cycled from York to his base. He has very little work. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jack Darby Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11-13 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Yorkshire England--York 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. Correspondence Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two double sided handwritten sheets and envelope Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451113 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 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sue Smith RAF Acaster Malbis https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2200/39832/EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451106.1.pdf fd7edd729d660793f13149653c512249 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 Darby, Charles Arthur Hill Darby, CAH Jack Darby Johnny Darby Description An account of the resource 203 items. The collection concerns Charles Arthur Hill Darby (1915 - 1996, 154676 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs, documents and correspondence. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 186 Squadron. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Richard John Darby and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-02-02 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Darby, CAH 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. Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [postage stamps] [postmark] Mrs Darby, 7. Queens Drive Surbiton Surrey [inserted] 6-11-45 [/inserted] [page break] Tuesday F/O. C. Darby, 154676 R.A.F. Station Acaster Malbis, Nr York. Yorks My darling, Am feeling somewhat overwhelmed by your two letters, they both arrived yesterday morning and I’m feeling as though I ought to start wearing glasses, [deleted word] or in answering of working out a filing system something like this, “your letter of Friday page 504 para 1600” if they got to much longer, you know [page break] 2/ The second letter was so long that when I finished it I had grown a beard! Can expect some strong comments on the above when you next write, joking aside darling I do look forward to your letters and I do like to hear all the news. The parcel arrived from you today so I shall be changing again and sending my other laundry home, if some of the pants are in holes just scrap them and I’ll get some fresh ones at home. [page break] 3 Regarding the weekend I may be home but it won’t be until Saturday as our boss is having a few days off, I told Dad that if he could get the chap that was going to do the tiling to come in on Sunday morning I would come home anyway, however I shall probably ring up home on Friday if I don’t hear anything. Expect you and Ivy did some overtime talking when you visited her, expect her poor husband went off to the local to get some peace and quiet [page break] 4/ Thanks so much for ringing Winnie Hart, expect poor old Jack is pretty cheesed, hope we shall be hearing from him soon, by the way, are the wedding photos’ to hand yet? The Lanc is making fair progress, does’nt look too bad and if I finish it I may bring it home this weekend, the chief difficulty is fixing it on a stand, however have thought out a scheme which might work, it takes hours of filing to reduce it to a somewhat smooth finish, we’ve used [page break] 5/ plenty of emery paper and have now got to the final polishing stage, anyway if you don’t like it we can use the stand as an ashtray. So its twelve months since we were engaged, as you say a lot has happened since then. I thought the war would have been over longer and I should have been released, however its not much longer now, shall have to face it and come back to that rolling pin, still I can always chop it up can’t I.? When I get out we can really get down to getting the flat organised, I think [page break] 6/ it will take at least a month to set the kitchen right working all the time, shall have to teach you to paint, its quite easy somewhat like the lathering you gave my face the other weekend. Bill and I went into York on Saturday, managed to get the rest of the bits for the Lanc, then went to the pictures, saw The Common Touch, an English film, quite worth seeing. Well, my darling am nearly writing a book, hope Mum and Dad are O.K. All my love, take care of yourself dearest, Yours Jack. 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 Jack Darby to his Wife Description An account of the resource He thanks her for her two letters and parcel. He makes flippant comments about the length of her letters. His model Lancaster is progressing. He is expecting to be released from service and promises to get to work on their flat when he gets home. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jack Darby Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11-06 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. Correspondence Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three double sided handwritten sheets and envelope Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451106 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 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Yorkshire Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sandra Jones RAF Acaster Malbis https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2200/39831/EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451102.1.pdf 4c69351e248550a5da8616752b1b18ff 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 Darby, Charles Arthur Hill Darby, CAH Jack Darby Johnny Darby Description An account of the resource 203 items. The collection concerns Charles Arthur Hill Darby (1915 - 1996, 154676 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs, documents and correspondence. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 186 Squadron. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Richard John Darby and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-02-02 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Darby, CAH 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. Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [inserted] 2.11.45 [/inserted] [postage stamp] [postmark] Mrs Darby. 7. Queens Drive Surbiton Surrey [page break] F/o C. Darby 154676 R.A.F. Station Acaster Malbis Nr York. Yorks Thursday. My darling, Was so pleased to receive your last letter which reached me yesterday. I did’nt think I should have long to wait before you changed your mind. At the moment I’m writing this in the firms time and one [sic] their notepaper, the Adjutant has gone into York and taken Bell with him to see a crowd of bods off, they won’t be back before three o’clock so if the phone does’nt continually ring I may get this finished, we are gradually getting rid of all our spare aircrew and the camp closes down 28th November, what they will do with us then I dont know, probably go somewhere else. I’m sorry about Tom’s letter, am afraid I [page break] 2/ can’t give you the address as I don’t know it, Dad has it in his book so he can give it to you. The model is slowly taking shape, its very difficult to get a real smooth surface without scratches, those files and emery paper are too coarse but you really need a polishing machine to finish it off properly, shall have to see what equipment the firm has, perhaps we may be able to get it done here, however will bring the finished article home when its completed. I've another job on hand today – Orderly Officer, have changed with another chap as he wants to go out tonight, I was’nt going as its been very foggy and extremely difficult to get back to camp, our local bus nearly ended up in the ditch so we heard today. [page break] 3/ By the way when you ring Dad about the address you might tell him not to bother about the other uniform, the chap that wanted it managed to get one from the stores free so that he’s fixed up. Yes, I've had very nice quiet 10 minutes time for my shaving, no interfering wives to contend with, when I get demobbed I’m going to have a screen put round when I have my morning shave, expect it will be the only time I’ll have peace & quiet, or will it? The last paragraph has been completed about half an hour, have had two bods in for leave and Group Headquarters on the phone, perhaps things will become calmer in a minute One thing I’ve just remembered regarding the bill I paid Dad, he sold my flying underwear for coupons and cash and he has’nt [page break] 4/ credited me with it, just wait until I write to him! dont say anything. Well darling, this is about the extent of my news at the moment, hope Mother has got properly rid of her cold and Dad is O.K now, also I trust you are in the best of health, not losing weight or pining! Cheerio for now, all my love darling and take care of yourself. Your loving husband Jack 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 Jack Darby to his Wife Description An account of the resource He is writing the letter when his boss is away. He discusses clothing and closing down the airfield. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jack Darby Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11-02 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Yorkshire 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. Correspondence Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two double sided handwritten sheets Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451102 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 Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Frances Grundy RAF Acaster Malbis https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2200/39828/EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451101.2.pdf 6f3ff29ada659cbe886d4f1efb47e9f6 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 Darby, Charles Arthur Hill Darby, CAH Jack Darby Johnny Darby Description An account of the resource 203 items. The collection concerns Charles Arthur Hill Darby (1915 - 1996, 154676 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs, documents and correspondence. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 186 Squadron. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Richard John Darby and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-02-02 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Darby, CAH 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. Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [inserted] 1.11.45 [/inserted] [postage stamps] [postmark] Mrs Darby, 7 Queens Drive Surbiton Surrey. [page break] Sunday F/o C. Darby 154676 R.A.F. Station Acaster Malbis, Nr York. Yorks My darling, Was so pleased to receive your two letters, am glad to hear you and Mother had an enjoyable night at Wimbledon theatre, it makes a nice change for both of you, – but fancy sucking ice-cream cornets in the stalls thats not done in the best of circles, you’ll be eating fish and chips in the Tube [page break] 2/ next. So poor old Basil is a much married man, well don’t get ideas of ruling me with a rod of iron or I’ll sign on in the Air Force for another 7 years or grow a beard or something. I [deleted word] suppose Daphne has’nt settled on a prospective husband, by the way what happened to the other chap who lived at Claygate, the one much older than her, is he still on the list of possibles? How is the wiring progressing? hope he is’nt making too much mess [page break] 3/ am glad to hear you have managed to collect a few more odds and ends for the kitchen, I wish I was nearer home as they have dumped some large packing cases on the site for firewood, it really a shame to cut them up, they are 6 feet long by 3 feet wide and 2 feet in depth all nice wood about an 1” thick just what I want for the top of the coal cellar, its wicked the waste that goes on in the service, any manufacturer would [page break] 4/ pay two or three pounds for a case. I have’nt sent off my parcel of washing yet as Mother’s has’nt arrived and I need a clean vest to change, however expect it will arrive on Monday. Things are quieter now we have moved some of the bods, we have another 250 to get rid of before we close down so this should take us a few days. Well my darling, must finish now, am writing to Mother and Dad by this post. Remember me to Mother & Dad, hope Mum is better, All my love darling, Jack 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 Jack Darby to his Wife Description An account of the resource He thanks her for her two letters. Their friend, Basil, has got married and he is worried that Jean will rule him strictly. He asks about washing and explains they have 250 airmen to process. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jack Darby Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11-01 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. Correspondence Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two double sided handwritten sheets Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EDarbyCAHDarbyJ451101 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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Title A name given to the resource Hayhurst, Jose Margaret J M Hayhurst Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-07-25 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 Hayhurst, JM Description An account of the resource 108 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Jose Margaret Hayhurst (2073102 Royal Air Force) and contains decorations, uniform, documents and photographs. She served as a radar operator in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Andrew Whitehouse and 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 Tee Emm Description An account of the resource Tee Emm magazine Vol 5 No 8, November 1945. This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln. 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Title A name given to the resource Stewart, Edward Colston. Stewart, Edward Colston. Banknotes Description An account of the resource 28 items. The collection contains Japanese bank notes. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Paula Cooper and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-24 2022-06-21 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 Stewart, EC 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 Japanese Ten Dollar Banknote Description An account of the resource Both sides of a Japanese $10 bill, 'MP'. On the front is handwritten '[indecipherable] RAF Singapore November 1945'. 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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 Bank of Japan Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2012/31583/MStewartEC87436-170727-030007.1.jpg 0913543b4ec1b17452478fd3de1dceda https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2012/31583/MStewartEC87436-170727-030008.1.jpg 0c651a7d0a3e50ec53fa531893aaf8c6 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 Stewart, Edward Colston. Stewart, Edward Colston. Banknotes Description An account of the resource 28 items. The collection contains Japanese bank notes. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Paula Cooper and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-24 2022-06-21 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 Stewart, EC 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 Japanese One Dollar Banknote Description An account of the resource Both sides of a $1 bill, 'MO'. On the front is handwritten 'RAF Singapore Nov 45'. 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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 Bank of Japan Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2012/31581/MStewartEC87436-170727-030005.1.jpg 7916cc4129c5b0a8b6be515cac61c0fb https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/2012/31581/MStewartEC87436-170727-030006.1.jpg 927f988d045be4d963a348ca60a85476 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 Stewart, Edward Colston. Stewart, Edward Colston. Banknotes Description An account of the resource 28 items. The collection contains Japanese bank notes. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Paula Cooper and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-02-24 2022-06-21 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 Stewart, EC 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 Japanese One Rupee Banknote Description An account of the resource Both sides of a Japanese One Rupee banknote, 'BD'. On the front is handwritten '[indecipherable] RAF Singapore November 1945' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One double sided printed banknote Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical object Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MStewartEC87436-170727-030005, MStewartEC87436-170727-030006 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Japan Singapore 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bank of Japan Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1524/30335/PBaxterPD16020055.1.jpg 0629ffcea922dcaf07c55fc347dff315 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1524/30335/PBaxterPD16020056.1.jpg d928f953549a0647b64e7f2d4cdde852 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1524/30335/PBaxterPD16020057.1.jpg e2da355173c7b0d9a114f216af91037f 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 Baxter, Peter Dennis P D Baxter 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 2016-07-12 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Baxter, PD Description An account of the resource 63 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Peter Baxter (b. 1922, 52604 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs and documents. He was trained as an airframe apprentice at RAF Halton and served as ground crew before volunteering to become air crew. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 12 and 153 Squadrons. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Michael Baxter and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle. 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 Peter Baxter at Pompeii and Napoli Description An account of the resource From information provided by the donor. Photographs taken on Lancaster flights to Italy as part of Operation Dodge to repatriate Allied service personnel. One is of a ruined bakery, the other two were taken at Pompeii. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three b/w photographs Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PBaxterPD16020055, PBaxterPD16020056, PBaxterPD16020057 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 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Italy--Naples Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city) England--Lincolnshire Italy Great Britain Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 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. 153 Squadron Lancaster Operation Dodge (1945) RAF Scampton https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1368/23068/PThomasAF20050008.2.jpg dc59c29394fda626bdd3608581c8dd5d 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 Thomas, Arthur Froude. Album 4 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 2020-02-11 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 Thomas, AF Description An account of the resource 42 items. An album containing photographs of 149 Squadron aircraft and personnel as well as pictures taken in 1946 of some of the bomb damage to German cities. Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document November 1945. R.A.F. Methwold. 149 Squadron Flight Engineers Party held at the Rose & Crown Hotel, Wisbech. [Photograph] [Photograph] [Photograph] L to R. F/Sgt Freddy Parks. Warrant Officer MacDonald. Self. F/Lt Bill Westaway. F/O Alec Gilbert. P/O Reggie Strauch. F/Sgt Ron Tandy. F/Sgt G. Antell. [Inserted] CENTRE FRONT. W/O G. A. ALEXANDER. [/inserted] 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 Flight Engineer's Party, Methwold Description An account of the resource Photo 1 and 2 are the Flight Engineers seated at a long table set for dinner. Photo 3 is the Flight Engineers, including Arthur Thomas, standing by a table, drinking. It is captioned with the individuals named. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Three b/w photographs on an album page Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PThomasAF20050008 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 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Wisbech England--Cambridgeshire 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. 1945-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource David Bloomfield Anne-Marie Watson Requires A related resource that is required by the described resource to support its function, delivery, or coherence. Workflow A completed 149 Squadron aircrew entertainment flight engineer RAF Methwold https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/983/21964/MShipmanJ1694683-181126-23.2.jpg 92913f1206dde0093a2d346b3f302f70 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/983/21964/MShipmanJ1694683-181126-24.2.jpg 42f9d62a5e03e06a39a47b6c8e5b1a2b 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 Shipman, John J Shipman Description An account of the resource 43 items. An oral history interview with John Shipman (1923 - 2020, 1694683 Royal Air Force) his diary, documents and a photograph album. He served as ground personnel in India and the Middle east The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by John Shipman and catalogued by Barry Hunter. 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 2018-10-10 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 Shipman, J 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 Contact Club Membership Cards Description An account of the resource John's membership cards for October and November 1945 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Contact Club Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two printed cards with handwritten annotations Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MShipmanJ1694683-181126-23, MShipmanJ1694683-181126-24 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Pakistan Pakistan--Karachi 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. 1945-10 1945-11 entertainment https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1319/20092/PGrundyL1905.jpg 9fc707178581f4831781105306f09a60 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1319/20092/AGrundyL190928.mp3 39cab77f8f8d3cfc461e919660413f88 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 Grundy, Lillian L Grundy Description An account of the resource 15 items. An oral history interview with Lillian Grundy (b. 1923), and documents, including correspondence from a prisoner of war and photographs. She worked in an Avro factory during the war. The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Lillian Grundy and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle. 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 2019-09-28 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 Grundy, L Transcribed audio recording A resource consisting primarily of recorded human voice. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document BW: This is Brian Wright interviewing Lilian Grundy on Saturday 28th of September 2019 at her home in Salford, Greater Manchester. The time is approximately 11.35. Also with me is her friend Gary Bridson-Daley and World War Two author who’s interviewed Lilian before and [Cherilyn Lauder], her daughter. So, Lilian, if you would just kindly start first off for me would you confirm your date of birth and where you were born? LG: I was born at Manchester and I was born March the 10th 1923. BW: And whereabouts in Manchester was it where you, where your home was. Where you grew up? LG: Ancoats. BW: And how many family members were there? Mum and dad of course. Did you have any brothers or sisters? LG: Yes. I had two brothers and two sisters. BW: And were you the eldest or the youngest? LG: No. My mother was married and had, before the war she, in the second, the First World War my mother lost her husband and it left her with four children. One of the [pause] William, the eldest one he died in the war. The First World War. So he left her and her husband didn’t come back and she married my dad. He was in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War my dad. At France. And he didn’t, her husband had died and she married my dad years after and me and my brother came after. So there was me and my brother Edward and my dad. My dad came from the Isle of Man. BW: And what was it like growing up? This would be in the sort of mid-‘20s now and ‘30s. What was, what was your home life like? LG: Overcrowded. No bath. No hot water. Basic food. Going to the butchers for bones for nothing and my mother used to skim all the bones off and make soup. Corned beef was cheap and we used to have Oxo in a cup with the stale bread. We never had milk. It was skimmed milk in a tin, and mum used to have a special jar for it. We had a spoon in it. Food were very very basic. Then I left school at 1937 and I went to work. I left school on the Friday and went to work on the Monday and because my mum didn’t want to pay any bus fare there was a mill in Prestwich where I lived and I went in there and I went winding bobbins and I was there until I was seventeen and a quarter. Didn’t like it. It was long hours, very noisy and you were just dogsbody to the weavers. So, I went to Halls Toffee Works at Whitefield and I got a job there and it was on a toffee machine and you had to watch your fingers, there were a big knife on it and I used to wrap all the sweets. I loved it. I loved it. It was nice. You had a proper dinner hour. You had a canteen. You had a nurse. It was lovely. Then a lady came from out of nowhere, asked me all questions and about a month after I was called up to go in to the war. A brown envelope came through the door and I had to go to this place. When I went to the place they said, ‘You’re at Avro’s near Manchester’. Never heard of it in my life but I’d seen old Mr Roland Hall who owned the sweet place used to come over. He’d park in his private plane from Ringway and that’s all I knew about planes. Anyway, I was called up and we went to an interview and then I was a member of AV Roe’s and they let, it was the Manchester bomber and they were just changing it over for the Lancaster bomber when the, our setter used to set the machine up. He’d been there years. He’d done seven years apprenticeship, and we went on to the Lancaster bomber. It was long hours. You were a month on nights. A month on days. I couldn’t manage the days because it was too far to go really. They shouldn’t have sent us that far but they did and I was an hour going, an hour going back. By the time I was coming to go home on nights to get in to bed them who lived near would have been in bed by the time I put my foot on the bus. It was very dark there. No light. I should imagine it had been built before the First World War. To me it looked hundreds and hundreds of years old. Of course, I was young. I went on the Number 8 Machine. It was, I weren’t frightened of the machine because I’d already been on the machine wrapping sweets with the knife, cutting the papers for the toffees. I weren’t frightened. I had two friends who were, who went with me from the toffee works, and they lived at Whitefield so it wasn’t bad. It was long nights. We got a break. I think we had two breaks. You had to clock on but ours were the furthest clock away so I was often a quarter hour because we used to get a train from Manchester to Park Station. That’s at Newton Heath. And we used to run like mad, and still we were a quarter houred. We had no umbrellas in them days and we used to be wringing, wringing wet through by the time we got there. Anyway, there was a trolley and you was to put your coat on it and the man used to wind it up. You never seen your coat then until you came home. There were guards on the door. You had a pass. You knew everybody in the machine shop and the food was good and it was cheap. We, the canteen did serve good food, but I could never have afforded it, only on a Friday. We used to have fish and chips which I looked forward to. BW: So did you have to take your — LG: We had sandwiches. BW: I was just going to say did you have to take your food in? if you weren’t going to — LG: Yes. You used to take. We had a locker. A tin locker. It was no good but we still had it. Everybody smoked cheap cigarettes and it used to smell of cigarettes all through the factory. And then we used to skim the wings and it was like nail polish remover to me. Nail polish remover, and it used to smell of that, cigarettes and everybody sweating. But them days nobody told you if you had b.o. even if you had. Nobody bothered. You just got on with the war. We had a boiler suit. All you could see from the boiler suit was your hands, feet and face and we had a silly hat and you pulled it right over your head. Of course, I had a lot of hair and she used to come around and poke you on the shoulder very hard and say, ‘Get that hair under that cap.’ BW: Was this your supervisor? LG: Yes. BW: What were they like? I mean obviously trying to keep your hair under your hat but — LG: Yes. Because — BW: Were they constantly looking at you to make so many parts per hour or something like that? LG: Well, when I look back now, yes. She was keeping me safe, so me hair wouldn’t go around the, the tools which was on the capstan lathe. Yes. BW: And how big a machine was it? This lathe you were working on. LG: Oh, twice as big as me and I’m five foot four. BW: So it was quite, quite a size. LG: Heavy. BW: I believe there was a note on the machine when you first arrived at the factory. LG: Oh yes. Somebody had gone in the Navy had said, ‘Keep this machine right. I’ve always looked after it and I’ll be back.’ And I used to think I wonder what he looked like. BW: You never met him. LG: No. BW: And you said two friends joined you when you moved from Hall and Brothers. The confectioners at Whitefield. They came over to Avro’s with you. Did you see them when you were in the factory on your breaks or anything like that? LG: Yes. I went out with them all the time. We went dancing. We went on regular nights to save all the coming and going and we used to get up in the day and go dancing at the Ritz or the Plaza in town and we used to, I got then a very good dancer and they did. Could do all the dances. The jitterbug. And of course the Americans all came into the war then and we danced with them and then I used to say, ‘I have to go. I have to leave you. I have to go back. I’m on nights.’ Yes. BW: And you left Hall’s in 1940. LG: No. BW: Sorry. Did you leave later than that? LG: Yes. 1940 I’d only be seventeen. I was, when I was eighteen and a quarter so that’s ’41. BW: Okay. I’m just interested in the period in 1940 because that’s quite significant in history and I wondered although you were working at a different factory before joining Avro’s what it was like in that period of time. Whether you felt the nation was under threat or how did it feel during 1940 when the threat of invasion was pretty imminent. Did you get a sense of that? LG: I thought we’d win. I never thought we’d lose. I never, and I didn’t miss anybody and I met plenty of the forces. Canadians, Poles, French, you name it. Americans. English. Sailors. All dancing. Just wishing the war was over and they wanted to go home. I never met nobody who said we wouldn’t win. No. We was all determined and one of Winston Churchill’s speeches, ‘We will fight on the beaches, and on the land and never, never will we surrender.’ Well, that was in us. That was in us. Yes. Definitely. We were out to win the war and do our best which I think we did. BW: And during this time you had met a young man. George. LG: Oh, I met him in August. BW: August ’39. LG: Yes. It was beautiful, beautiful weather. I’d gone with my friend into the park at Prestwich. Her uncle was a gardener and he was putting wall flowers into this garden and she took me along to see him. He were called Percy. And we sat on this bench and Percy came over, which would be her uncle and he gave us a few sweets and he said, ‘Stay there and I’ll cut a few flowers for you to take home for your mother.’ So we stayed on this bench. Beautiful park. St Mary’s in Prestwich. We stayed there and there was a bandstand behind, it’s not there anymore and two boys came along and we still sat there watching Percy doing the garden. And then they came over and they said, they were well dressed, I’d never seen anybody so fit and upstanding with their shoulders and they said, ‘What time is it, girls?’ Well, we hadn’t got a watch. It wasn’t, well we couldn’t afford a watch and as they said that the clock that’s still there, the clock, it chimed 3 o’clock. We laughed. They laughed. Percy came and said, ‘Are they bothering you?’ And she said, ‘No.’ And they asked to sit down at the side of us. The rest is history. I courted him and he, he, the war started the 3rd of September and he was away at Leyland, Preston guarding with a piece of wood outside, supposed to be a gun outside this gas, gas mask factory. And he was there and then he came home on leave and he said, ‘I am not a territorial any more. I’m regular Army.’ Then he came, he was sent up Northumberland. Way up Northumberland and he finished up there at Alnwick Castle. And from there he went over to, down south and then he went to France. I got all his mail. He came on leave a few times. My sister got married 1940, April. Easter Saturday. And on the Easter Monday I had all Easter weekend seeing him going on walks and going in the park. We had no money. He had no money so we walked my shoes off. My sister got married then and then on the Monday night he had to go back to Northumberland. I didn’t see him any more then. That was April 1940 and he came home to me 1st of May 1945. I was, been on nights at AV Roe’s. Worked very hard. Tired. And this knocking kept going on and I thought it’s, it was the kids again knocking at the door. I looked through the window and there was George after over five years. I had curlers in my hair, and I always thought when he comes home I’ll meet him at a station and I’d be all dressed up. Of course, I got good money at AV Roe’s so I was able to get myself some nice clothes, nice shoes and nice handbags. So I wanted to meet him in all my finery and there was I at the window with all my curlers in. BW: Because he’d joined the Lancashire Fusiliers and been sent over with the Expeditionary Force to France as you say. LG: Yes. BW: And then was captured during the retreat from Dunkirk which was why you didn’t see him for five years. He was taken to a prisoner of war camp. LG: Yes. He got wounded in his arm but the bullet went right through. He still had the bullet wound up to him dying. You could put your finger in the hole in his arm. Yes. BW: And so all, all of that, both the joy of having met him and the sort of, the hope of meeting him again occupied your thoughts no doubt while you were working at Roe’s didn’t it? LG: Yes. I got married from AV Roe’s. Yes. They bought me a present. A duck, a park duck. There weren’t much to buy because there had been six years of war. Nothing. BW: So just going back to your time in the factory at Roe’s. So you said you started on the Manchester. And then you were making parts for the Lancaster. Do you know what sort of parts they were? Were they specific for say an engine or part of the air frame or were they just bits that you were told to make and given to somebody else to make the aircraft? LG: No. It was big screws. Very, very big screws and you had to make the screw from [pause] you leaned over and you pushed the metal bar. You leaned over again and you put it in the capstan lathe and then you got all things here that you had like a [pause] like a knob on the end. You twirled it and you twirled it. And all the time you were doing this so your waist was very slim. Everybody around you were very slim. All the women had beautiful waists because they were moving. You weren’t still a minute. And then if you wanted to contact your friends, my friend who got called up with me, Muriel. She’s still alive in Southampton. No. Yeah. Other: Corby. CL: Corby. Other: Northampton. LG: Not Southampton. They made a new estate. She married a Polish man. Made a new estate down there. BW: It’ll come back to you. LG: Northampton. BW: Northampton. LG: In the mid estate. She went down there. Well, you were never still because if you wanted to talk to her it were noisy. It was very, very noisy so you were never still. You used to tip tap to her, she tip tapped back while this, your machine were going around and if you wanted to go to the toilet I used to put my hand up and she’d do the same and the gov’ put your fingers three minutes. And you had to get your screw off. You couldn’t leave it because you’d ruin it and then when it finished the machine would stop. And then it had a burr on the end. Watch your fingers because you had a big, a big thing and you took the burr off and then you stepped off a duck board and you would go. Oh, it would be a long way. I’d say a six minute walk to the toilet because it was a big place. Hundreds and hundreds of people were working there and nobody said hello to you or nodded when you went to the toilet because they were all busy. All busy bees doing all the work. If you were a long time and you came back of course her machine was on the level with mine. She’d be on number two machine. Well, they’d be empty. Well, he come. The foreman would come. ‘Where the hell have you been?’ You got told off. And you were told off more in one day than they had been for all the years after. Yes. It was hard, heavy, miserable, smelly, cold, damp work. And we were very tried but you couldn’t get tired. I found 3 o’clock, 3 o’clock to 4 o’clock was the worst hours. BW: Would that be when you were on nights? LG: Yes. That was the worst period. Yes. And then if you went to the canteen it wasn’t, it was an old place, you were wringing wet through going and it snowed on you. You had to mind you didn’t slip and you couldn’t get your coat because it was hung up inside, so you come back freezing and when you come back there was a door right behind me. My machine was there and the door was here. Muriel my friend was higher up so it were warmer. And they’d open this door to take the wings of the planes out and I used to freeze to death. It was freezing cold but lovely in the winter because the big doors would be open. BW: In the summer. LG: On the railway line. The Park Station. BW: It would be lovely in the summer though. LG: Beautiful. But all the breath, you got everybody’s breath and they got yours because there was no interval in between. No. No. If they swept up they swept up while you were there. They had labourers. [unclear] men who had been in the First World War came to do labouring. Yeah. BW: I’m just going to show you a photograph of an assembly line which was taken at Chadderton. Does that look something similar to the environment you worked in? [pause] LG: No. No. They had all these platforms and these ladders yes. Platform and the ladders. And they used to have half, half of the Lancaster riveting up there. Up on them things. The platform. BW: Yeah. LG: The platform. They’d have half of, yeah. I don’t remember the floor like that. It was uneven. Been there First World War. They never even did it. BW: Yeah. LG: Used to, well I used to wear low heels so I was all right. You couldn’t wear high heels on that duck board because it had, it were just knocked together. You used to walk so your heels would go in the wood and you’d be stuck. You’d be doing it with one shoe on and one off. So no. I don’t recognise that at all. No. BW: I just wondered if it was, if it was similar being sort of a big open space. LG: Oh yes. BW: With a lot of machines and things. LG: High up it was but there it looks, it’s looks a modern factory where mine was very old. Very, very old. Everything you touched was old. Even the toilets. They were tin, I would say asbestos. You wouldn’t be able to put it now. I would have said there was asbestos. Yes. And floors. Uneven floor. Yeah. You just had to just watch every way you went. Yeah. And outside when you come out in the yard, it wasn’t cobbled. It was, I don’t know just a trampled piece of land. BW: Did you ever get to see aircraft like the Lancaster or the Manchester flying at all? You weren’t on an airfield of course but did you ever to get to see them flying during the war at all? LG: Oh no. Oh no. No. No. No. BW: You mentioned that you had a number of friends and that you got to meet a number of servicemen from different countries. You mentioned also earlier that you’d spoken to a Canadian. Is that right? LG: American. BW: American. I beg your pardon. LG: That’s his place. BW: Is that him? LG: Yes. He were called Johnny. BW: How did you get to meet him? Was it just at, was it through the dancing and — LG: Yes. Dancing. And we went to concerts. And then people at work would say, ‘Are you doing anything tomorrow? Would you like to come on a blind date?’ I’d been on a few of them and they’d been alright. Yeah. Nice people. Yeah. Yeah. BW: And at this stage you were working alternate shifts. One month on nights, one month on days and six days a week, twelve hours a day, I think you said. LG: Yes. BW: And that continued for pretty much four years solid. LG: All the time. Yes. Yeah. BW: And you didn’t get any other days off apart from the Sunday. You didn’t have things like holiday time or anything like that, did you? LG: No. When we did days you got first when I went there you had a Monday and the next week it went to Tuesday. And that’s how it went. Very rare you got a Sunday at home because you would have to go say seven. Seven weeks for Sunday and it used to alter. Well, on nights we used to finish Friday, Saturday dinner. Saturday dinner ‘til Monday night. So you had all the weekend. And that’s how you met people. I was never in. Never in. BW: And you said earlier the money [coughs] the money was good. LG: Yes. It weren’t bad because you could — what do call that? [pause] You made your own [pause] you had a basic wage. Everybody had that and then you would work hard and you’d go to the checkout and they would say you’ve earned well perhaps a sixpence or a shilling on working hard. The sooner you did it you got a bonus. That was it. So I always got a bonus. Always. I used to keep my head down and think I’m making money. I’m making money. BW: And was the bonus paid on the number of screws that you made? LG: Yes. Yes. And a man used to come around and say if they weren’t right. He was Scotch. Came from Scotland. He didn’t like working there, and he would grumble all the time. But why he wasn’t in the war was because he had duodenal tummy. He used to say, ‘I want to go back to Scotland to my wife and children.’ We got that the whole of the time. And I used to say, ‘Shut up. I’m miserable too.’ BW: And did you manage to keep in touch with what was happening in the war in general? LG: Oh, yes. BW: Did you used to keep abreast of certain information? LG: Oh yes. Used to go to Manchester and there was a News Theatre. Used to take you to the news, most of the Americans loved the News Theatre. They’d take you there and then would take you to the big picture and buy you a meal after and a drink. But they’d more money. Lots more money than ours. Yes. And a nicer uniform. Softer and nicer. Ours was woolly, and if it got wet and they kissed you, you could smell wool on us [laughs] Yes. BW: Yeah. LG: A different world. BW: Heavy and scratchy. LG: A different world altogether. And they used to talk of fridges and washing machines and I used to think what are they talking about? [laughs] Yeah. Cadillacs and cars like that. Show you, they’d show you. They had this big car in America and I used to think oh, you know they were kidding. It was their father’s or their uncle’s which now I know it would be theirs. BW: Yeah. What do you recall of June 6th 1944 when you were in the factory and you got news of D-Day? LG: Oh, that. Oh, that was [pause] I was on nights on the machine and you used to do, you couldn’t hear so we did lights. They used to do lights. And they used to do this. I think it was a coloured light and they used to, if that was break and they used to do this coloured light. And you couldn’t hear, so it’s no good saying go to your meal because you couldn’t hear. They did this light. We used to then stop the machine [pause] get our lunches and go down to the canteen. It was a long walk and we used to get outside. It was no rain. It was a beautiful dawn and we’d go to, in the canteen like we did all, all the time. Paying no attention. Just to get your food. We all sat down and by then we’d been there years so the men used to sit with us then at the other side and we were eating our meal and this tannoy came on, and it said something like [pause] I can’t describe it. It was something like, ‘Ladies and gentleman of England. This is our day. The men have gone. It is D-Day.’ Well, we all looked at one another and the man said again, I think he was called Alvar Liddell, because Lord Haw Haw used to do his voice and he used to say it was him. Not Lord Haw Haw because he used to come on. He was over in Germany. And we all looked at one another and the men said, ‘Oh it’s D-Day.’ And it dawned. Absolutely hit you in the face because we’d been expecting it for twelve month. So he went off the air and he said, ‘We wish our boys luck.’ Something like that. And there was a lot of ladies with us who was older and they said, ‘Stop your lunch.’ Breakfast. It was at breakfast. ‘Stop your breakfast. We’ll all held hands and we’ll pray for England and the boys.’ And there was people crying. Well, we were young. We knew we’d lose a lot. And the man across said, ‘You know when you go and fight?’ And we said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Well, all Germany will be ready for our boys and they’ll be ready for our Navy.’ Which I thought was the finest in the world then. We all did. ‘And they will be defending it,’ and he said, ‘While you was eating your meal the other night and I came and pushed you would you have gone back?’ I said, ‘Yeah, of course I would.’ He said, ‘Well, that’s what we’re going to have. They’re waiting and they’ve got everything ready and they’ve been arming for years and years and they’re going to throw everything at us because they want Germany to win and we’ll lose a lot of people.’ So I said, ‘Well, let’s all say the Lord’s Prayer,’ which we did. Everybody knew it. And there was two singers. They came from outside Manchester they came and they were in the church choir and they got on the stage and they sung, “There’ll Always Be an England,” and, “Jerusalem,” and the mills, the satanic mills. The real Jerusalem. And everybody, we had tin plates, tin mugs, but you all had your own in your locker with your name painted on. I painted mine on with nail polish and we banged them and I think we chipped off all the white stuff off them [laughs] The enamel. And we all went back singing, to our machine, and separately and the foreman came walking down and the other foreman come walking down and we had about ten bosses, they came walking down. There were more bosses than workers. People who were ill I suppose, and couldn’t go in the war. And they said, ‘Get on with your work.’ And we did. And it finished. We got, buses came, 25 bus used to bring us into Albert Square. A long walk along the Fish Market and the Flower Market to the Victoria Station and everybody I met and even the bus scouts and that I said, ‘It’s D-Day, D-Day, D-Day.’ I came home and my mum was getting up to give me a bit of, no, I had no breakfast. No cup of tea. I used to just roll in bed, and I said, ‘Mother, get up. It’s D-Day.’ She said, ‘Oh, those poor boys.’ And that was D-Day. It was wonderful. And the pictures were showing you all of them going over and everything. And then I went to work the next day and there were some ladies we used to sit near for lunch. Older than us. And they said, ‘Haven’t you got a boyfriend over in Germany? ‘So I said, ‘Yes. I’m engaged to him.’ And they said, ‘He’ll be coming home soon.’ And I thought oh, of course he will, because they’re advancing into Germany now and they’re going to get his prisoner of war camp. Anyway, they sent them on a long march and he ended up at Dresden where they made beautiful, beautiful pots. Even after the war and before the war and he got to Dresden and it had been a long march and it had been, he set off before D-Day, and they used to get the snow off the German side and they had an old kettle that they used to put snow in the kettle and make cups of tea. They used a tea bag about fifteen times until it was like just water. And as he got into Dresden all the people had no houses. We’d bombed them. And they were on the roadside sat, well on piles of timber and bricks, the houses begging for food. They said, ‘I’m very sorry. We’re hungry too.’ And he said, then after being a prisoner five years we just all stopped and looked and he said to them, some had been very cruel to them and they wanted to be kind to these people and he said, ‘I really, really thought oh look at the world. It’s absolutely destroyed and these people are as hungry as I am.’ His stomach was hurting and theirs was hurting more. ‘And they looked us in our eyes and we looked back.’ He said, ‘I’ll never forget that.’ But he said, ‘Oh, what you’ve done to us,’ and he said, and I do go to church, he felt he couldn’t tell you how he felt, and they were all the same. They were all quiet. Very, very quiet. And they heard tanks and they said, ‘Them are ours. They’re too noisy them tanks.’ And it was the Americans. Throwing chewing gum. And he’d never chewed, he didn’t even like chewing gum. And he said they were throwing chewing gum and they said, ‘Food,’ and they said, ‘Back at camp.’ And they gave them that much food they were sick as a dog. Their stomach couldn’t take it. And then ours came and took them in big trucks and they had a bath. Every three minutes they were throwing them in a bath. Yeah. Yeah. These Americans couldn’t believe them. They were saying, ‘We’re British. We’re British.’ And they said, ‘You look terrible.’ They said, ‘Wouldn’t you after five years?’ BW: Yeah. Five years in a camp and bad food. And you’d got letters from George through that time. While you’re on the home front and in the factory George was in the prison camp. You corresponded with him. LG: Oh yes. BW: Through that time. LG: Oh, I got lots of letters. He used to give. The Red Cross used to come. He would never, never, when he came home pass a Red Cross box and the Salvation Army. He would always, always if we’d not got a penny he’d put it in. He said, ‘Only for them I’m living.’ BW: And come the end of the war even before the formal end of the war on May 8th he’d come back to you. You said earlier he came back in early May. Is that right, he was — LG: 1st of May. BW: Yeah. How soon was it after that you got married? LG: June the 2nd BW: So that’s pretty quick. LG: Quick. Very quick. BW: And did, because you had, you perhaps wouldn’t have known this at the time but because you had another five or six months to run with Avro’s because you finished in November 1945. LG: Yes. BW: Did you get time off to get married? LG: Yes. Yes. I didn’t get paid. I got the time off. Yeah. BW: And were you able to afford a reception and a honeymoon or was it — LG: Yeah. We went to Southport on our honeymoon because all the beaches was barricaded up with guns and the people on them to safeguard our island when they felt France and Holland and all over there, yeah. BW: And George had some time for recuperation. LG: Oh yes. BW: When he went off to hospital and so on in Cheshire. LG: Yes. Looked after him. He got double rations. He had a double ration book for food. Yes. He got double rationed. BW: And then come post-war period how soon were you sort of able to get your own house and place together and what happened after the war for you? LG: Oh. His mother lived up Unsworth. A little village up Bury. Bury took, Bury was the council. This cottage became empty and it had been a sergeant major in it with the Suffolk Regiment up Unsworth. There was a mill there. A cotton mill. And they put all these Army of the Suffolk Regiment in and this sergeant major had got this little cottage. No hot water. No. No, no bath, no hot water, and no water toilet. Bury used to come and empty it. Anyway, my brother then was in the REME. He came back and he was taking the other bedroom out in the cottage so we’d nowhere to sleep because I used to sleep with my mum in the bedroom, in the front. My brother had the back one, and we’d nowhere to sleep. So when he went up to his mum’s with him and she said, ‘There’s a cottage empty but it’s in a terrible disgrace.’ So his sister said, ‘I know the landlady. I go to church with.’ So she took me to see the landlady and the landlady said, ‘I’ve got twenty people after it.’ I thought well, it can’t be that bad. So she said, ‘You can have it because George’s people go to church with me.’ She was a churchgoer. She was not married. She were an old lady. Not married. No nothing. No kids. Nothing. And we got the key to go and see it. Anyway, I thought well it’s not too bad. George was away then. He didn’t see it. And I scrubbed it, and a man I knew who was a decorator and he’d been in the First World War so he stayed here with us. So he decorated it for us, for not too much money and he had a van and he moved. I went and got different things while George was in. He came home April the following year. So twelve months to get stuff and my mum kept it down her cellar. So he moved me in the van up to the cottage, but George was demobbed then and the cottage was all lovely. We stayed there. The only thing I didn’t like was it hadn’t got a water closet and I don’t, I know we’d had no bath and no hot water in our cottage but our cottage was twenty times better than that. It weren’t good but it was twenty times better. Anyway, we went in it and we were in it quite a while. It was only 25p a week rent so I used to pay it at a pound a month because the landlady was a lonely lady and she used to talk me to death. Of course, I’m only twenty odd, and I didn’t want to talk that long and I didn’t drink cups of tea in them days. So I never wanted to go and have a cup of tea [laughs] BW: And you continued — LG: I put my name down and I got this house. BW: Working. Then you continued working for Hall’s I think at first and then you had various cleaning jobs around and about didn’t you and raised a family. LG: I went to, yeah I went to Smith’s, the cleaners at Prestwich. Yeah. I stayed there until I was sixty two and they made me a party for sixty but I told them a lie so I could stay longer. So when I was having my sixtieth party I said I’ve gone sixty two. I told a white lie. That was a cheap one but I was, I could have done another five years easy, but I got my pension. Full pension. BW: And so when, now after all this time you see the, the sort of tributes being paid to Bomber Command and Lancasters flying on display. LG: Oh, when I see that. BW: Does it evoke all those emotions again for you? How do you feel seeing that? LG: Oh, I could cry. I think, we used to say at the Works that, the setter used to say, ‘Come on, you little belter.’ So when they fly over I say, ‘Come on you little belter.’ Yeah. I think of how marvellous it was and the men who designed it and everything. Very clever. And to do that bouncing bomb and open the big doors because they altered it for the big door to come on. Ah, what a wonderful thing. They must have been. Mind you they had a very good education. They were in another world to you. You were down here and they were up there. Another world. And it opened my eyes going to AV Roe’s. Another world. You’re not the same person. You’ve just, in a week you’ve grown up so much. And they’re talking different. So different than Radcliffe and Bury twang. You know, there’s all different, different ones. And then you’ve got people coming if they married and had no children they were on the machines with you and their husbands would be in oh, Egypt or Italy. Way out Palestine. And yeah. You heard all them talking whereas I’d only heard girly talk because the men didn’t bother with you. They was too busy working. Yeah. It was different. BW: But it, it was a good experience for you. LG: Very. BW: Even though it was — LG: Because it had grown you up. Yes. And then you see you couldn’t put a foot dancing then. Well, in your dinner hour they used to get you up and they’d say, ‘This is the quick step.’ ‘This is the waltz.’ I never knew any of that. And then you’d get them singers coming on stage. And I’d never heard of Jerusalem and the satanic mills. It was a big [pause] I don’t know. It was just opened new things. And then the Americans used to talk on things I never knew, and then the airmen coming in Heaton Park and they were all with the white on, on the front of their hat and that meant they was going to be on the aeroplanes. And they used to go and study and I used to say, ‘Why are you studying?’ They used to say, ‘Because I want to be a pilot.’ But most of them written to me afterwards and some of them had been an air gunner and some had been a, mapping out the maps. BW: Navigator. LG: Yeah. And there were very few pilots but most who had written they all passed for the aircraft and they went to South Africa and Canada. And I’ve got the letters now to this day. BW: Wow. LG: Yeah. BW: So it opened up a whole new world for you, didn’t it? LG: A new world. Yeah. They talked on different things and then we’d been to, them who lived down south used to talk about fields, and the lambs and things and I used to think what are they talking about? And they used to use big words. Well, me dad had bought me a dictionary. I used to come home and look it up. And they used to call me petite, and I didn’t know what it was and it meant you’re a small slim person which I was [laughs] It was different. And then I used to, then I went. I lost my other friends then. They, they got sent. One went in the Navy. The Army and the Navy. The Land Army. Well, they went away and all the lads I went to school went in the forces so you had to make a world for yourself and George was taken away off me. So, it was different. So different. And you just grew up all at once. BW: Fine. Well, thank you very much for, for your time, Lilian. It’s great to hear the recollections. So I’ll end the interview now if that’s alright. 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 Interview with Lillian Grundy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brian Wright 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 2019-09-28 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. Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context AgrundyL190928, PGrundyL1905 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 00:56:39 audio recording Description An account of the resource Lillian Grundy was born and grew up in Ancoats, Manchester. Upon leaving school, she worked in a local mill, winding bobbins, and the Hall Brothers Toffee Works, wrapping sweets. Lillian met George in 1939 and they were engaged at Easter 1940. George was captured during Dunkirk and taken to a prisoner of war camp, where he remained until 1945. In 1941 she was called up to work at the Avro factory, where she made screws for Manchester and Lancaster aircraft until November 1945. She describes working for 12 hours, six days a week, rotating night and day shifts monthly, and recalls the uncomfortable conditions of the factory. Despite the long hours, she notes the good wage, receiving a bonus for hard work, and going dancing with her friends and American servicemen on their days off. She also recollects her emotions upon learning of D-Day, during a night-shift, and joining hands with her colleagues to pray and sing. Lillian also describes her surprise reunion with George in May 1945, their marriage the following month, and his recuperation before moving into their first home in 1946. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tilly Foster Julie Williams Carolyn Emery Maureen Clarke Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. France Great Britain England--Manchester England--Lancashire Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1939 1940-03-24 1941 1945 1945-05 1945-11 1946 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 Language A language of the resource eng entertainment home front Lancaster love and romance Manchester Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944) prisoner of war https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/721/18321/PBradburyDC1708.1.jpg c06f6cf1927e1807eeb3982bcb4f8233 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 Bradbury, Denis Carlos D C Bradbury Description An account of the resource Seven items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Denis Carlos Bradbury (1924 - 2017) and contains an oral history interview with Irene Bradbury, his wife (b. 1926), a scrap book (catalogued as a sub-collection) and six loose photographs. He flew operations as a wireless operator / air gunner with 514 Squadron. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Denis and Irene Bradbury and catalogued by Barry Hunter. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-22 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 Bradbury, DC 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 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 Large group of airmen and an Air Sea Rescue Lancaster Description An account of the resource Large group of airmen arranged on and around Lancaster PB529. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One b/w photograph Type The nature or genre of the resource Photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context PBradburyDC1708 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 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. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Cliff Thornton Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Yorkshire Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 279 Squadron air sea rescue aircrew ground crew Lancaster RAF Thornaby https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/759/17796/MCruickshankG629128-150428-080001.1.jpg 99e48a6c3a3e49a0e3bcb87ab4f4fb78 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/759/17796/MCruickshankG629128-150428-080002.1.jpg 7b6ee25ef4a0bc51a3b955835fc64d17 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 Cruickshank, Gordon G Cruickshank Description An account of the resource 76 items. Concerns the life and wartime career of Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cruickshank DFM who joined the Royal Air Force in 1938. After training as an air gunner he flew 52 operations on Manchester and Lancaster with 50, 560 and 44 Squadrons. Collection consists of a 1956 memoir with original photographs donated separately, a memoir of his life on squadron from December 1941, his logbooks. a further notebook with memoir, playing cards annotated with his operations, official documents, lucky mascots, medals and badges, dog tags, memorabilia, crew procedures, as well as photographs of aircraft, targets and people. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Linda Hinman 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 2015-04-28 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 Cruickshank, G 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 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 Pages from officers pay book G Cruickshank Description An account of the resource Details pay and allowances for October and November 1945 from RAF base accountant officer Bombay Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-10 1945-11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two printed pages handwritten filled in Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Service material Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MCruickshankG629128-150428-08 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. India India--Mumbai Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-10 1945-11 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 military service conditions https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1246/16864/MNealeETH1395951-150731-109.2.jpg 865ac6909e88c766b01ce190ba055fb6 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 Neale, Ted E T H Neale Description An account of the resource 123 items. The collection concerns Edward Thomas Henry Neale (b. 1922, 1395951 Royal Air Force) who served as a navigator with 37 Squadron in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. The collection contains his training notebooks from South Africa as well as propaganda leaflets dropped by the allies in the Mediterranean theatre. The collection also contains a photograph album, navigation logs and target photographs. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alison Neale and catalogued by Barry Hunter. 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 2015-07-31 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 Neale, ETH 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 Ted Neale Travel Pass Description An account of the resource A pass issued to Ted Neale authorising him to travel from CMF to UK. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 144 Maintenance Unit Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11-02 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One typewritten sheet with handwritten annotations Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Service material Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MNealeETH1395951-150731-109 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 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. 1945-11 aircrew https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1011/11360/EStavesMEStaves[GF-GM]451115-0001.jpg 5249f3a3745f884dc5d92d7e38ad36a5 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1011/11360/EStavesMEStaves[GF-GM]451115-0002.jpg 2543f363cf83b17642f46c2d2a5ab08e https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/1011/11360/EStavesMEStaves[GF-GM]451115-0003.jpg c1e56b5adc13e193c34a00b2eb057ebd 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 Staves, Malcom Ely M E Staves Description An account of the resource 77 items. The collection concerns Flying Officer Malcom Staves (1924 - 2012, 1591418, 203137 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, items, documents, photographs, and training notebooks. He flew operations as a wireless operator with 207 Squadron. <br /><br />There is also a sub collection concerning Flight Lieutenant&nbsp;<a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1020">D A MacArthur.</a><br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Christina Chatwin and catalogued by Barry Hunter. 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 2016-02-26 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 Staves, ME Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document [postmark] [postage stamp] 1591418 F/S Staves M. E. C/o Sgts. Mess. R.A.F. Station Methwold Nr Thetford [underlined] Norfolk. [/underlined] [page break] The Hollies Stickford Boston 15th Nov 1945 Dear Malcolm, Just a line now the fits on I have just been feeding pig & poultry & collecting eggs just one egg so you may guess it was rather disappointing, in fact I tell piggie but we are going to him on the 10th Dec if things go alright it is getting a very good pig so if you can come over and see us on that date you would be very useful if you wudnt [sic] kill it you could scratch some of the hair of, so much for the poor pig we have just about finished with the apples we have sold about 21st [sic] at 5/0 per stone so you may guess we have got heaps of money now anyway we keep strugling [sic] on we are saving some cold potatoes and cauliflower pickled onions ready when you come but dont [sic] forget to razor and apron as it look [inserted] very good [/inserted] [page break] Your Aunt Phoebe the last we heard she was improving so we hope she will soon be better and home again I think some of us is going to see her next Sunday then we shall see how She is we had a letter from your mother the other morning she told us about you been busy packing up I expect it not a very lively place perhaps you will not be there long I hope they will move you to Kirkby then you could soon pop in. So much for this lot, we are keeping real well and get about as usual Ben Walter Tom are all well Maud, Will, Peter are well hoping to hear from you when you have got spare time. So Cheerio With lots of Love From Grandad & Grandma H, & R, Ely 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 Malcolm Staves Description An account of the resource A letter to Malcolm Staves from his grandparents. News from the farm and family matters. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1945-11-15 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Two handwritten sheets and an envelope 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 EStavesMEStaves[GF-GM]451115-0001, EStavesMEStaves[GF-GM]451115-0002, EStavesMEStaves[GF-GM]451115-0003 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Norfolk England--Boston England--Lincolnshire 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 David Bloomfield Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1945-11 aircrew RAF Methwold https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/84/9867/MCluettAV120946-150515-270001.1.jpg f566ae89e13828097c27b971ace12bfd https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/84/9867/McluettAV120946-150515-270002.1.jpg 5ffc3bff33265cb3544314a11a7b3b02 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/84/9867/McluettAV120946-150515-270003.1.jpg 9882ca6f24495bd9bd1b9b719d10ce1c https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/84/9867/McluettAV120946-150515-270004.1.jpg 51c2b877c84fb848f9b5b402d961c6a3 https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/files/original/84/9867/McluettAV120946-150515-270005.1.jpg 91819785e6e47a0bbb1bfa06ea0aa3fd 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 Cluett, Albert Victor Albert Victor Cluett A V Cluett Subject The topic of the resource World War (1939-1945) Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command Description An account of the resource 68 items. The collection concerns Leading Aircraftman Albert Victor Cluett (1209046, Royal Air Force). After training in 1941/42 as an armourer, he was posted to 50 Squadron at RAF Swinderby and then RAF Skellingthorpe. The collections consists his official Royal Air Force documents, armourer training notebooks, photographs of colleagues, aircraft and locations as well as propaganda items, books in German and Dutch and items of memorabilia. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Albert Victor Cluett's daughter Pat Brown and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015-05-15 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 Cluett, AV Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive 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 [underlined] INTERNAL RETURN AND RECEIPT VOUCHER (AIRMEN) [/underlined] [underlined] Part II. [/underlined] R.V. NO. Sub-Form 675. PERIOD OF A/C. 46-4 7 R.A.F. [underlined] RAUCEBY [/underlined] [Table of Articles of clothing and Equipment Returned On Discharge] SIGNATURE OF STOREKEEPER [signature] [signature] S/LDR. EQUIPMENT OFFICER. Certified that I have handed into Store all kit and equipment in my possession at this hospital as detailed above with the exception of items which I am permitted to retain. Signature of Patient A.V Cluett. [page break] [underlined] ROYAL AIR FORCE. [/underlined] R.A.F. Form 1383 [underlined] DEFICIENCIES OF KIT. [/underlined] Number 1209046 Rank AC Name CLUETT Trade Certified that the Kit of the above-named airman is deficient of the items detailed overleaf. The deficiencies arose owing to, or at, Kitting on enlistment. (IV. No .......... refers.) Promotion Posting to Remustering Increase in scale authorised by P.O.R. No.............. refers. (P.O.R. is not required for deficiencies on kitting on enlistment). Date of Issue and Unit Stamp. Signature Senior Equipment Officer. [underlined] This Form must be taken care of and surrendered by the airman named hereon when any deficient item is issued to him. The airman will be charged for any deficiencies discovered in his kit if he fails to produce this form unless there are sufficient grounds for write-off against the public. [/underlined] (*8050–5657) Wt. 16539-728 930M. 6/41 T.S. 700 [page break] [underlined] DEFICIENT ITEMS. [/underlined] (All entries are to be made in ink). Section Reference No ITEM Quantity Issued on IV. No. [deleted] Shirts 1 [/deleted] [deleted] Collars 2 [/deleted] [deleted] Boots Rubber 1 [/deleted] [deleted] Shorts gym 2 [/deleted] [deleted] Vests gym 2 [/deleted] [deleted] Vests ea 1 [/deleted] [underlined] Unused lines are to be struck through by the Issuing Officer. [/underlined] [page break] Certified that the deficiencies and other claims known are recorded in the Accounting Section as chargeable to 1209046 LAC CLUETT Date 13/5/46 [signature] F/O Accountant Officer. [page break] CERTIFIED that the deficiencies and other claims known are recorded in Accounting Section as chargeable to:- 1209046 LAC CLUETT 7.11. 1945 [signature] O/C for ACCOUNTANT OFFICER. [inserted] 6TLO ? [/inserted] 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 Albert Cluett's return and receipt voucher and other documentation RAF sub form 675; RAF Form 1383 Description An account of the resource Lists articles of clothing and equipment returned on discharge, deficiencies of kit form and follow up signatures and charging details. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Great Britain. Royal Air Force J R Black Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1946-05-13 1945-11-07 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource One page printed form filled in; two-sided printed form filled in and two tear off slips with signatures. Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Text. Service material Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MCluettAV120946-150515-27 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Royal Air Force Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Great Britain England--Lincolnshire Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1946-05 1945-11 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 Angela Gaffney RAF hospital Rauceby