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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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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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[Post Office crest]
POST OFFICE TELEGRAM
[ink stamp] [postmark]
95 8.20 OSHOTT LBK 18/17 10.35m
To: PND VM
W/CMDR DONALDSON RAF FOULSHAM-NORFOLK
MANY HAPPY RETUNS OF THE DAY LOVE FROM US BOTH JOYCE AND FRANCE [deleted] CT NFM FRANCE [/deleted]
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Title
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Telegram to David Donaldson from his wife
Description
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Wishes him happy birthday
Creator
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J Donaldson
Date
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1944-06-19
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One page printed telegram
Language
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eng
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Text
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Identifier
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EDonaldsonJ-AFDonaldsonDW440619
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Norfolk
England--Surrey
England--Oxshott
Temporal Coverage
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1944-06-19
Publisher
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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
RAF Foulsham