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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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S X Branch
HQ 21 Army Gp Main,
B.L.A.
Aug 5th 1945
Dear David,
Very many thanks for your letter. I don't think you have been at all slow – I have been much slower to write and congratulate you on the bar to your DSO. Well done! You seem to be deputising for the whole family! At the moment I have been warned for immediate draft to the Far East. If I can't wangle out of it, I shall be getting married next week!
My release is alas a distant prospect as I am group 34. however I shall see you one day on Civvy St. Don't forget to send me lots of work! - otherwise Mary and I shall have to send the hat round to the family.
Yours
[underlined] John[/underlined]
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Title
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Letter to David Donaldson from cousin John Donaldson
Description
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Congratulates him on award of bar to Distinguished Service Order and catches up with his own activities.
Creator
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J F Donaldson
Date
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1945-08-05
Format
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One page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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EDonaldsonJFDonaldsonDW450805
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
British Army
Temporal Coverage
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1945-08-05
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
Distinguished Service Order