On the reverse '30 Film 44']]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Sussex]]> On the reverses 'Film 48 2' and Film 30 24'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Sussex]]> On the reverse '29 Film43'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Sussex]]> 1944-05-05]]> On the reverse '10 Film45'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Sussex]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> In January 1942 he flew as part of a six aircraft ferry flight from Egypt to the Far East, travelling via Habbaniya, Bahrain, Sharja, Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon and finally Sumatra. He carried out both day and night attacks on Japanese landing forces, fleet units and positions around Palembang and Java, often in difficult conditions with poor facilities and heavy losses. During the collapse of Java he escaped on foot from Kalidjati with a small mixed group before being captured near Tjilatjap.
He spent more than three years as a prisoner of war, first in solitary confinement and then in camps at Tjilatjap, Bandoeng, Changi and Kranji, taking part in work parties and camp duties until liberation in 1945. After repatriation he returned to Britain and was demobilised later that year.]]> George Milson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Claire Campbell]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Singapore]]> Great Britain]]> England--Torquay]]> England--Paignton]]> England--St. Leonards (East Sussex)]]> England--Stoke-on-Trent]]> England--Skegness]]> England--Boston]]> France]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Texel]]> France]]> France--Brest]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Norderney]]> Malta]]> Gibraltar]]> Italy]]> Italy--Pantelleria Island]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Marsá Maṭrūḥ]]> Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Ismailia (Province)]]> Iraq]]> Iraq--Mosul]]> Iraq--Baghdad]]> Egypt--Suez]]> Israel]]> Israel--Tel Aviv]]> Israel--Haifa]]> Iraq--Karkūk]]> Iran]]> Iraq--Baṣrah]]> Israel--Tel Aviv]]> Malaysia]]> Malaysia--Butterworth (Pulau Pinang)]]> Sudan]]> Bahrain]]> United Arab Emirates]]> Pakistan]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> India]]> India--Mumbai]]> India--Hyderabad]]> Burma]]> Burma--Akyab (District)]]> Burma--Toungoo]]> Burma--Rangoon]]> Indonesia]]> Indonesia--Sumatra]]> Indonesia--Palembang]]> Indonesia--Medan]]> Singapore]]> Indonesia--Bandar Lampung]]> Indonesia--Batavia]]> Sri Lanka]]> Sri Lanka--Colombo]]> Indonesia--Bandoeng]]> Indonesia--Tjilatjap]]> England--Liverpool]]> New Zealand]]> England--Langham]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> North Africa]]> India--Kolkata]]> United Arab Emirates--Shāriqah]]> England--Torquay]]> 1939-09]]> 1942-01]]> 1942-02]]> 1945]]> S Bond]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Maureen Clarke]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. 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Luftwaffe]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Moosburg an der Isar]]> Germany--Barth]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--West Sussex]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-06]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1945-01-09]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lynn Corrigan]]> Terry Hancock]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Coastal Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Italy--Turin]]> England--Filey]]> England--Northallerton]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Barth]]> Malta]]> Oman--Masirah Island]]> India]]> Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]> Sri Lanka]]> Iraq--Ḥabbānīyah]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> Sri Lanka--Negombo]]> Sudan--Khartoum]]> Germany--Lübeck]]> Italy]]> Sudan]]> North Africa]]> Germany]]> Iraq]]> Pakistan]]> Yemen (Republic)]]> Oman]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Kent]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--London]]> John Goldby]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Georgie Donaldson]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. 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Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Germany]]> France]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany--Kiel]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Calais]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Homburg (Saarland)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Jülich]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Castrop-Rauxel]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Goch]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Elbe River Estuary]]> Germany--Dithmarschen Region]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Great Britain]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-14]]> 1944-09-15]]> 1944-09-17]]> 1944-09-20]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-25]]> 1944-09-27]]> 1944-09-28]]> 1944-10-09]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-10-25]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-09-30]]> 1944-10-31]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-05]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-20]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-27]]> 1944-11-28]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1945-02-04]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-21]]> 1945-02-27]]> 1945-03-02]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-21]]> 1945-03-24]]> 1945-03-25]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Review Oct 2024]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Alberta--Red Deer Region]]> Alberta--Fort Macleod]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany--Aachen Region]]> Germany--Borken (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Papenburg]]> Germany--Steinfurt (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Nova Scotia--Debert]]> Ontario--Quinte West]]> Saskatchewan--Estevan]]> England--Sussex]]> Ontario]]> Saskatchewan]]> Alberta]]> Nova Scotia]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-02-10]]> 1945-02-15]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-02-22]]> 1945-02-26]]> 1945-02-27]]> 1945-02-28]]> Ken describes how he met his pilot. They initially shot down V-1s flying Mosquitoes. They went to northern France and did cross countries. Ken missed D-Day as he was training on Mark 10 radar at RAF Twinwood Farm. They did intruder raids. He describes going to Linz and their encounters with fighters. His squadron, along with another Mosquito squadron, were sent to the Channel Islands and was instrumental in the surrender German forces stationed there on 9th May 1945.
Ken was a recipient of Lady Ryder’s Dominion and Allied Services Hospitality Scheme and describes some of the hospitality and leisure pursuits he experienced.
After the war, Ken received the Legion of Honour.
]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Austria]]> Austria--Linz]]> Canada]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Sussex]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Channel Islands]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> Victoria]]> Victoria--Mornington Peninsula]]> Victoria--Mount Martha]]> Western Australia]]> Western Australia--Bunbury]]> Western Australia--Busselton]]> Western Australia--Geraldton]]> Western Australia--Moora]]> 1945]]> Reg Barker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Des Forges]]> Maureen Clarke]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States]]> Great Britain]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Haywards Heath]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kiel]]> 1943]]>