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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.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-06-02
2022-10-17
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Donaldson, D
Grundy, AF
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12/11/1942
Pte Donaldson,
63 Platoon, Y Coy,
5 P.T.C.,
Catterick Camp, Yorks.
Dear Willie,
Many congratulations on the infant, which I hear arrived on Monday. I was pretty disgusted to be told that it was a niece, but the mere fact of being an uncle at all has swollen my self-respect immensly [sic] against the ravages made upon it by our Corporal. He isn't really so bad, but he has a somewhat excessively loud bark. The Sergeant is really a very decent young fellow, and we did have a charming Corporal, but he's in hospital.
Anyway, it's a very fine show. I
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had considered, if it was a boy, blackmailing you with the threat of sending Joyce the more loathsome pictures of you in infancy, to shew her what to expect; but perhaps Frances will take after [inserted] her [/inserted] Mother, in which case she would have some hope.
The militia spend their time grumbling solidly, while the volunteers tell each other how much they are enjoying it, to justify themselves for their folly. It hasn't been bad so far, though we have not yet come in contact with any Sergeant-Majors, so that joy is still to come. The most hectic time is is 6-8 a.m., when there seem to be so many things which you can't
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do the night before. They've even stopped us shaving in the evening, in hot water, now, on the ground that it grows again in the night. And to think I used to shave once every three days at home!
Give my best wishes to Joyce; I really am awfully thrilled about it all, and I hope they are both doing well. I'm sorry I can't attend the christening; but I hope I'll be further South after Xmas, and I might be able to get down for 48 hours and see my niece some time.
Your affectionate brother,
Uncle Norman.
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Letter to David Donaldson from his brother Norman
Description
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Congratulates David on arrival of infant. Writes about his training and offers family banter. Writes about his current life and activities. Sends best wishes.
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Norman Donaldson
Date
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1942-11-12
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Three page handwritten letter
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eng
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EDonaldsonGNDonaldsonDW421112
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British Army
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Yorkshire
England--Catterick
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1942-11-12
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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
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Frances Grundy
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