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Payne, Malcolm
Malcolm H Payne
M H Payne
Description
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54 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Malcolm L Payne (417512 Royal Australian Air Force). He flew operations from RAF Bardney as an air gunner with 9 Squadron and was killed in action along with other members of his crew on 13 July 1944. The collection consists of his letters to Miss Doris Weeks, letters from Doris Weeks to Malcolm Payne's mother after his death and official letters to Doris Weeks from the Royal Australian Air Force concerning his death, grave and bequeaths. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Debbie Brown and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br />Additional information on Malcolm L Payne is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/118239/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-05-18
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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. 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.
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Payne, MH
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[underlined] No 2. [/underlined]
Watervale
[underlined] 30.12.44 [/underlined]
Continuation –
My dear Doris – Here I am again. About Malcolm’s Studio photo, I mentioned it in a recent sea mail letter. I hope the wool will be correct shade for you. Will send you another lot later. Who knows, that non stop weekend flight may even yet transpire. Our weekly dust storm yesterday was appalling, it was impossible to see a hundred yards away quite early in the afternoon & it continued until night. Was up at daylight this morning cleaning up & by noon had everything looking nice & despite the fact that my back was broken & I had housemaids knees I felt quite smug & self satisfied, only to see, to my horror, another dust storm coming. However it has kept to the hills this time. What a glorious birthday you had, Doris! And such lovely gifts! I hope your prayer is answered, it was a lovely thought, turning down the glass. We were amused to know Malcolm still remembered “Fred & Maggie” – we’ve had many a laugh over them but oh! they were weak! Maggie especially was the dumbest person ever. Freds greeting every evening was “Yoo, hoo Maggie I’m home [underlined] dear [/underlined]. By hove I don’t know, a man slaves all day at the office only to find – such & such – usually Maggie had given his best suit to a beggar, or the twins had crawled down the drain & got stuck! Getting back to your birthday – thank you so very much for your kind thought in sending us some cake – we shall look forward immensely to receiving it. Doris will be having her 21st early in the year, & I’m puzzled as to what to give her. She has a lovely lot of linen & glass ware set. They have bought a beautiful bed roome [sic] suite & have it here. I don’t know whether I mentioned this before? So Doris just comes & goes feeling quite free to do so. Incidentally your letter to her came yesterday & Pop re-directed it, as she is now in the River district, cutting [indecipherable word] for drying. They certainly see some country.
[page break]
I am feeling a bit anxious about Don B’s mother. When she spoke to me on the phone she particularly emphisised [sic] the fact that she was sending off a letter to me that night & I haven’t heard from her. She sounded very upset & rambled quite a lot, I’m afraid she may be ill. However, I have written her so hope for a reply. She is taking things very hard, she didn’t give up hope, & now things seem so utterly hopeless she is distracted.
She sent me a beautiful book of poems called “This, my son”. They are really lovely. Two of my young nieces are staying with me for a week & its lovely to hear then running & yelling, after the quietness. We have felt so utterly lost the last 3 years without our boys. Please give my love to your mother Doris & I shall answer her letter just as soon as I get in a supply of letter cards as these are the only two I have on hand. I pray for you, & with you day & night. Our fondest love. Yrs sincerely
M.L. Payne xxxx
Sender’s name and address:-
Mrs. F. Payne
Watervale
Sth. Aust.
Miss D. Weeks
37 Hawthorn Rd.
Bunkers Hill
Lincoln
England.
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Title
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Letter from Mrs Payne, mother of Flight Sergeant Malcolm Payne, to Doris Weeks
Description
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Writes about studio photograph of Malcolm. Talks about local dust storms and cleaning up. Catches up with Doris' birthday news and mentions 'Fred and Maggie' and their exploits. Catches up with family and acquaintances news.
Creator
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M L Payne
Date
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1944-12-30
Format
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Two page handwritten air letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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EPayneMLWeeksD441230-02
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Australia
South Australia--Clare
Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
England--Lincoln
South Australia
Temporal Coverage
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1944-12-30
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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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Tricia Marshall
David Bloomfield
killed in action
missing in action