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  • Tags: RAF Hemswell
  • Type is exactly "Text. Correspondence"

SChandlerEB911217v10023.pdf
Chan writes that he is getting better quickly. They are being treated well in hospital and he should get three weeks leave.

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Writes that heh had moved to RAF Hemswell but did not expect to be there long. Was currently doing ground school. Says they will be flying "real aircraft". Says mess and billets not as good as last base. Writes of going into Lincoln to cinema and…

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Confidential note to Geoffrey Gosney confirming his passing the promotional examination "C".

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Congratulations note confirming passing the promotion examination "C".

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The letter offers congratulation son his DFM.

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A postcard taken from a roof looking along a street with on one side the sea and on the other buildings and palm trees. The card is addressed to 'The kids c/o Mrs Wrigley' at RAF Hemswell.

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Top is a photograph of 170 Squadron personnel with four rows in front of and a row standing on top of a Lancaster. Caption '170 Squadron Hemswell, December 1944'. In the middle, two newspaper cuttings announcing Jack Hayley's award of the…

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Letter congratulating Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton on the award of his Distinguished Flying Medal.

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The letter invites Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton to repeat a British Broadcasting Corporation broadcast entitled ‘Bringing a Damaged Bomber back from Wilhelmshaven’. The reverse contains the conditions attached to the broadcast.

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Letter from Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton to his father. Refers to air raids in Wales, weather, leave, crops, visit to cinema, a death in the cinema and finally a comment about a piece of shrapnel that bruised his ribs, reported in Monday’s…

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Letter from Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton to his father. Discusses the news of Distinguished Flying Medal and a broadcast on the British Broadcasting Corporation about its award.

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Postagram from Charles Portal to Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton RAF Hemswell congratulating on Distinguished Flying Medal.