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Title
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Brooks, Harry
Brooks, C H S
Brooks, Charles Harry Sidney
Description
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Collection contains 18 items concerning Sergeant Harry Sidney Brooks (1915 - 1942, 1357673, Royal Air Force) who was killed in an aircraft accident 20 December 1942 while serving as a wireless operator with 9 Squadron at RAF Waddington. Collection consists of pages from logbook, letters and telegrams to his wife from Harry Brooks, Brooks' father, official sources and others of condolence as well as photographs of him and family. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pamela Tickner and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on Harry Sidney Brooks is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/102784/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-10-02
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Brooks, HS
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RECORD OFFICE,
ROYAL AIR FORCE,
GLOUCESTER.
19th January 1943
Your Ref. C7/1357673
Dear Madam,
It is my painful duty to confirm the death of your husband No. 1357673 Sergeant Harry Sidney BROOKS of No. 9 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who was killed at 6.1 p.m. On the 20th December 1942 when the aircraft of which he was a wireless operator and air gunner collided in mid-air with another aircraft and crashed near Waddington, Lincolnshire during an operational flight.
This information was forwarded to you in a letter dated 27th December 1942 to 51 Sheppey Terrace, Chequers, Isle of Skye, your address as shown in my records, but the letter has been returned by the post office marked “Gone away”, I had therefore to obtain your present address from your husband's unit, which will explain the delay in writing to you.
The Air Council desire me to express their sympathy and deep regret at your husband's death in his Country's service.
I am,
Dear Madam,
Your obedient Servant,
H. W. Saunders
for Air Commodore,
Air Officer i/c Records,
ROYAL AIR FORCE.
Mrs. W.M. Brooks,
116 Porthill Road,
LEWISHAM,
London S.E. 13.
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Letter to Mrs W Brooks from Royal Air Force Records Office
Description
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Confirms the death of No 1357673 Sergeant Harry Sidney Brooks of 9 Squadron who was killed in a mid-air collision on 20 December 1942, crashing near Waddington, Lincolnshire. Explains delay in writing due to information being initially sent to another address.
Date
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1943-01-19
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Service material
Identifier
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E[Author]BrooksWM430119-01
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
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1942-12-20
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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IBCC Digital Archive
Format
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One-page typewritten letter
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Record Office
Contributor
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Jan Waller
9 Squadron
aircrew
killed in action
mid-air collision
RAF Waddington
wireless operator / air gunner