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                <text>309 Items and a sub-collection of 51 items. Concerns Royal Air Force career of Wing Commander David Donaldson DSO and bar, DFC. A pilot, he joined the Royal Air Force Reserve in 1934. Mobilized in 1939. he undertook tours on 149, 57 and 156 and 192 Squadrons. He was photographed by Cecil Beaton at RAF Mildenhall in 1941. Collection contains a large number of letters to and from family members, friends as well as Royal Air Force personnel. Also included are personal and service documents, and his logbooks. In addition, there are photographs of family, service personnel and aircraft. After the war he became a solicitor. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Frances Grundy, his daughter.&#13;
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The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Anna Frances Grundy and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.</text>
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                <text>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.</text>
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              <text>Thirteen aircrew in two rows wearing tunic or battledress. Five are sitting in front with a dog 'Dusky' in the centre. David Donaldson is centre front. In the background trees. Other personnel identified as: rear row left to right: Flight Lieutenant  T Y Hicks RNZAF, C Flight Commander, Flight Lieutenant A Kelly Section Leader, flight engineers, Flying Officer G Savage Section Leader bomb aimers, Flight Lieutenant Reg Woolgar Section Leader air gunners, Flight Lieutenant Ken W ‘Winnie’ Churchill, Section Leader signallers / wireless operators, Flight Lieutenant E Groves Section Leader special operators, Flight Lieutenant J N Barren Section Leader navigators, Flying Officer Leuan Thomas H2S Instructor. Front Row left to right: Squadron Leader B M Fawkes A Flight Commander, Squadron Leader A R Kendrick Operations and Deputy Officer Commanding 192 Squadron, Wing Commander David W Donaldson Officer Commanding 192 Squadron, Squadron Leader John H Crotch B Flight Commander, Flight Lieutenant Loudden Adjutant. Via the late John Crotch DFC. &#13;
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