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Title
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Hobbs, Frank
Frank James Hobbs
F J Hobbs
Description
An account of the resource
69 items. The collection concerns 1262633 Flight Sergeant Frank James Hobbs a wireless operator with 630 Squadron, RAF East Kirkby, who was killed while on operations in a Lancaster on 16 March 1944. The collection contains his log book, official and family correspondence, official and personal documents, photographs of aircrew, family and his grave and some items of memorabilia. It also includes correspondence from a French gentleman who was witness to his aircraft crash and who returns recovered personal items belonging to Frank Hobbs. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Barbara Storer and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br />Additional information on Frank Hobbs is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/110858/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-06-04
Rights
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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
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Hobbs, FJ
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Transcription
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[House of Commons crest]
34, South Molton Street,
W. 1.
30th June, 1945.
Mrs. Hobbs,
32, Southcroft Road,
Tooting,
S.W.17.
Dear Mrs Hobbs,
I have received your letter of the 27th instant and I am very sorry indeed to learn that you lost your gallant husband while he was engaged in operations over Stuttgart in March 1944.
I realise that it is impossible for you to live without working on a pension of £2-15-0 per week and maintain your daughter in the fashion that you and your late husband would desire. It is very difficult indeed to frame a Pensions Scheme that will meet the needs of everyone. Many widows of working men who received £3 or £4 a week during their liftime [sic] are, of course, well content with the pension which you find inadequate. Your husband, obviously was in a very much better position in civil life than the majority of his comrades.
I am deeply sympathetic with your case, and if I can do anything to help I will be only too glad to do so, but the situation is not easy, and it would be wrong if I was to buoy up your hopes that I would succeed in getting you more money. I will, however, give your problem very serious thought, because it would give me considerable amount of satisfaction to be able to render some service to you.
Yours sincerely,
[signature]
[inserted] As a preliminary step I have sent your letter on to the Minister of Pensions. [/inserted]
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Title
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Letter to Mrs Hobbs from House of Commons
Description
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Letter in reply to Mrs Hobbs regarding the inadequacy of her weekly pension payment. Handwritten annotation that letter has been passed to Minister of Pensions.
Date
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1945-06-30
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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ERobertsonDHobbsKM450630
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1945-06
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
David Bloomfield
Rights
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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.
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One-page typewritten letter