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Title
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Donaldson, David
David Donaldson
D Donaldson
Description
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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.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Anna Frances Grundy and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-06-02
2022-10-17
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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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Donaldson, D
Grundy, AF
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Transcription
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May 18th 1934
Newlands
Seaford
Sussex
Dear Daddy,
I hope you are quite well. I am. We went to church this morning, and for a walk his afternoon. It has been miles too hot for me today. Please thank Nanny for her letter. I think that Moses is sweet in that photograph. I am afraid that [deleted] you [/deleted] my [inserted] writing [/inserted] [deleted] better [/deleted] is rather untidy. I am longing to come home. We begin bathing very soon. I am afraid that I must end now as I am writing to Elizabeth. [word deleted] Give my love to everybody,
much love from,
David
P.T.O
[page break]
P.S There [word deleted] is a boy [inserted] at Newlands [/inserted] who rides [word deleted] twice a week because he is knockkneed
P.S.S. I developed a film with Mr. Manning on thursday
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Title
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Letter from David Donaldson to his father
Description
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Describes his activities at school and catches up with family news.
Date
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1924-05-18
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EDonaldsonDWDonaldsonT240518
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Sussex
England--Seaford
Temporal Coverage
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1924-05-18
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.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Creator
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David Donaldson