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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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MRS DONALDSON
DANESHILL FARM HOUSE
OXSHOTT
SURREY
ENGLAND
157032 F/O DONALDSON
R.A.F INDIA
Dec 22nd 1943
Dear Joyce. It was very kind of you to write me such a long letter. I refer to your airmail of mid October – and it really deserves a better reply than one of these miserable forms. You were too right about Norman – you will have heard that he expects to be come a Captain any day. I am only consoled by the fact that I shall be slung out of the R.A.F as being over the age for doubtful F/O's whilst my beribboned & brass hatted brothers will still be firmly in the net. In the intervals of sleeping soundly I have had a tentative hand at a variety of odd jobs, including adj's stooge (Does Willy still want an adj.) and doing the mess accounts.
I am having to laugh the latter off just at present, having more or less accused everyone of embezzlement, a miserable ex articled clerk has appeared who discovered all the shortages to be due to my additions. I don't like these keen young men. Still there is nothing to grumble at in the life here, except a slight growth of mould around the mind. Did you hear that I acquired a silver spoon the other day by the great skill with which some total strangers pulled an 'oar' for me. I think it will have to do as a slightly late christening present for Frances. I am glad she is progressing. I do hope that you manage to find yourself a flat somewhere. I'm sure its time you had a bit of luck in that direction. Please give my love to Willy. I will try & write him a letter one of these days, meanwhile I hope he gets some news from Mama. I fell sure you have enough to do with a husband and a daughter but any news of either is most welcome
Yours Ian.
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Letter to Joyce Donaldson from her brother-in-law Ian
Description
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Writes catching up with family news and his activities in India
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I Donaldson
Date
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1943-12-22
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One page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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EDonaldsonIDonaldsonJ431222
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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India
Great Britain
England--Surrey
England--Oxshott
Temporal Coverage
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1943-12-22
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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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Frances Grundy