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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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[underlined] APPLICATION FORM [/underlined]
Date:-30/8/45
To:- The Officer Commanding 192 Squadron,
[underlined] R.A.F. Station, Foulsham, Norfolk. [/underlined]
Sir,
I No [underlined].134556 [/underlined] Rank. [underlined] F/L. [/underlined] Name. [underlined] Ieuan Thomas [/underlined] have the honour, look you, to request that I be granted permission to proceed to the land of my Fathers on September 5th. 1945.
If you are unable to grant this small favour there is mean you are, and I shall have to write to my father who was the chief Druid (acting) at the Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerichwyndropwyll-llantisilioggogogoch Eisteddfod a short while ago, and there is mad he'll be!!!
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
your obedient Servant,
[underlined] Ieuan Thomas [/underlined]
(Thomas the Bomb.)
[deleted] Approved
Not Approved [/deleted] [inserted] AYE [/inserted] [underlined] D W Donaldson w/c [/underlined]
Commanding Officer 192 Squadron,
Foulsham.
“HISTORICAL DOCUMENT”
No. 1
Permanent Preservation
Transfer to Air Ministry (A.H.B.)
custody when closed.
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Title
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Letter to David Donaldson from Flight Lieutenant I Thomas
Description
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Humorous requests permission to go to Wales. Signed Thomas the Bomb. Approved by Wing Commander Donaldson 192 Squadron. Stamped 'Historic Document No __ permanent preservation, transfer to air ministry (A.H.B.) custody when closed'.
Creator
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I Thomas
Date
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1945-08-30
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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EThomasIDonaldsonDW450830
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Norfolk
Wales--Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll
Temporal Coverage
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1945-08-30
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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One-page typewritten letter
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Frances Grundy
192 Squadron
RAF Foulsham