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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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[inserted] Personal File [/inserted]/07/26
“Bricklefield”
Hackleton.
Northants.
July 26th
Ref 192/C 2151/P.2.
Dear W/Cdr Donaldson,
Thank you for the photograph of the Squadron Badge which I will keep fro my husban. Rn was his happiest period in the R.A.F.
He is now in Calcutta
[page break]
and full of complaints about the heat and the natives!
With very best wishes to to yourself & 192 Squadron,
Yours sincerely,
[underlined] G. Rollinson [/underlined]
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Letter to David Donaldson from G Rollinson
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Thanks David for photograph of squadron badge that she will keep for her husband whose happiest time was on 192 squadron. He is now in Calcutta
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G Rollinson
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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ERollinsonGDonaldsonDWXX0726
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Northamptonshire
England--Hackleton
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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
Date
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1945
Temporal Coverage
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1945
Contributor
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Frances Grundy
192 Squadron