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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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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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[inserted] 13A [/inserted]
R.A.F. Station
Ref:- 192/C.2151/F2. 6th January 1944
Dear Worrad,
Thank you very much for your letter of the 2nd January.
I am very sorry you are all having such a wretched time. Apart from forwarding your complaint on, there is little I can do at the moment as we have no aircraft which will be available for training. Later on I hope that “A” Flight aircraft will be available and then we may be able to get some of you back to complete your training here.
Serviceability is always poor at Conversion Units and I should hardly think that the recent weather has been much help for the flying programme.
I hope it won't be long before we manage to get some of you back and in the meantime heres [sic] wishing you a very happy New Year.
Yours
D.W.D.
Pilot Office A.E. Worrad,
Officers' Mess,
R.A.F. Station,
Marston Moor,
Nr. York.
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Title
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Letter from David Donaldson to Pilot Officer A E Worrad
Description
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Commiserates with him over lack of available aircraft at conversion unit. Mentions possibility of training on squadron aircraft in the future.
Date
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1944-01-06
Language
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eng
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EDonaldsonDWWorradAE440106
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Norfolk
England--Yorkshire
Temporal Coverage
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1944-01-06
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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David Donaldson
Format
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One-page typewritten letter
Contributor
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Frances Grundy
Heavy Conversion Unit
RAF Foulsham
RAF Marston Moor
training