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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.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-06-02
2022-10-17
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Donaldson, D
Grundy, AF
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Brambridge Park
Bishopstoke
Hants
Dear Willy
As you have probably heard I am still sitting on my bottom [deleted] he [/deleted] at home, a state of affairs which I hope will continue for a long time. I went over and saw your wife & daughter on Thursday. They both entertained me very industriously & I enjoyed myself, though I failed to count to more than six teeth & I can claim to be very practical in tooth hunting these days as Pa did his usual trick of depositing his on the towing path just before August Bank holiday & we have been searching spasmodically since. [deleted word]
Norman & Elizabeth have both been over, the latter seeming very well & busy house hunting like you without any real success as yet. I gather Brian isn’t definitely posted to Farnborough as yet, only attached, but I suppose he will be shortly. Norman was very full of the joys of being an officer & a gentleman, the newness of the contrast not having yet worn off. He hadn’t got his uniform when he came over. He said when he left Medmenham [deleted word] all the S.P at the gate laughed at him, but promised they would
[page break]
be good & salute him when he returned.
Apparently he very shortly has to learn to ride a motor bike, there doesn’t seem to be much instruction given so I only hope there won’t be another casualty in the Intelligence Corps
Ma & Pa are both pretty well having had a weeks holiday here. Emma unfortunately went on Thursday & now Mrs Fudge is back very eager to find any fault she can with what Emma did there seeming to be a certain rivalry between the two. Ma with my assistance & criticisms has just produced a fine mixed grill.
I have been trying to make a will so you will have to be an executor I hope you don’t mind.
I hope you are well & your house hunting has been successful; [deleted] you [/deleted] I couldn’t quite gather what the position is at the moment.
Love from Ma Pa & Self
Ian.
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Letter to David Donaldson from his brother Ian
Description
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Written while at home, catches up with family news.
Creator
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Ian Donaldson
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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EDonaldsonIDonaldsonDW[Date]-03
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Hampshire
England--Bishopstoke
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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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Angela Gaffney