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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] Box 29 [/underlined]
Watervale
[underlined] 2.2.45 [/underlined]
My Dear Doris
I was ever so pleased to see an air letter yesterday, dated 18.1.45, & completed the following day. The one you wrote the previous day (17th) has not arrived yet but I hope it is there tomorrow. Do you know, I think some of your letters have failed to reach me – I had three all written Dec. 11th, telling me about your birthday – remember. Then I had no more for over 3 weeks & the next one was dated Jan 1st. You are certainly having a dreadful winter – we are told its the coldest for over 50 years, so therefore it’s the worst you remember! I guess your mum was wild when the wind blew the pane out of the window at that unearthly hour especially. Had I been present I could have helped quite considerably – with the curses. Glad the cake arrived safely & only hope it [underlined] did [/underlined] keep moist [indecipherable word]? No use you trying to be modest my dear, I’ve shown your snaps to hosts of people & one & all say “Isn’t she lovely!” So what! I showed Miss Warren the pictures of Lincoln & she was so thrilled. She has been in the Cathedral very often & says its very lovely. Did you ever hear from the Air Ministry re. Malcolm’s bike, Doris? I hope you didn’t mind us having it sent to you, I know it is what Malcolm would have wished. I had 17 more letters returned last week – I haven’t told his dad – Have I written you since we had a letter from Air Board to the effect that the International R. Cross, Geneva
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had been making special inquiries but deeply regretted without success - ? I forget whether it had come to hand before I wrote your last air letter. Don’t know whether I’m sickening for any childish complaint or whether I overdone it in the garden this morning, but have come all out in a prickly rash & feel rotten – headachy & eyes watering –
Should the other air letter arrive safely I’ll answer it immediately.
Please don’t thank me for the parcel – we owe you lot’s more than a paltry cake – You once asked me if [deleted] our [/deleted] the name of our home had a special meaning – it’s the name of a little town in Victoria – where Mr Payne was born. Beleive [sic] it has a native meaning but have never been able to find out. Keep well – lots of love. Yrs lovingly.
M.L. Payne xxxx
Sender’s name and address:-
Mrs F. Payne
Watervale
Sth. Aust.
Miss D. WEEKS
37 Hawthorne 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
Date
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1945-02-02
Format
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Two-page handwritten air letter
Temporal Coverage
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1945-02-02
Description
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Discusses letters backward and forward. Comments on bad winter in England. Writes about showing photographs of Doris and Lincoln to people. Enquires whether Doris has heard from the Air Ministry about Malcolm's bike which they have bequeathed to her. Mentions correspondence with International Red Cross, Geneva. Concludes with general chat.
Creator
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M L Payne
Language
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eng
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Text
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Identifier
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EPayneMLWeeksD450202
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
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