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Bain, Andrew
A Bain
Description
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58 items. The collection concerns Andrew Bain (1916-1943, 658930, Royal Air Force). He joined the British Army in September 1939 and transferred to the RAF in October 1941. He was killed in action 23/24 August 1943. Collection includes: observer's logbook, pay book, photographs (some loose, some in album), letters (numerous), brevets and badges, medals, ribbons and BC Clasp. Includes correspondence received by Andrew's widow Isabel following his death and a list of his effects. <br /><br />Additional in formation on Andrew Bain is available via <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/201025/">the IBCC Losses Database.</a><br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lorna Aitchison Howieson and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-07-23
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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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.
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Bain, A
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[underlined] GERrard 9234 [/underlined]
(Casualty Branch)
77 Oxford Street,
London, W.1.
P.407893/3/43/P.4.A.2.B.
9 November, 1943.
Madam,
I am commanded by the Air Council to inform you that they have with great regret to confirm the telegram in which you were notified that, in view of information now received from the International Red Cross Committee, your husband, Sergeant Andrew Bain, Royal Air Force, is believed to have lost his life as the result of the air operations on the night of 23rd/24th August, 1943.
The Committee’s telegram, quoting official German information, states that your husband and the six other occupants of the aircraft in which he was flying on that night were killed on 24th August. It contains no information regarding the place of their burial nor any other details.
Although there is unhappily little reason to doubt the accuracy of this report, the casualty will be recorded as “missing believed killed” until confirmation by further evidence, or until, in the absence of such evidence, it becomes necessary, owing to lapse of time, to presume for official purposes that death has occurred. In the absence of confirmatory evidence death would not be presumed until at least six months from the date when your husband was reported missing.
/The
Mrs.A.Bain,
25 Beaufort Gardens,
Bishop Briggs,
Glasgow.
[page break]
The Air Council desire me to express their deep sympathy with you in your grave anxiety.
I am, Madam,
Your obedient Servant,
[signature]
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Missing believed killed letter from Air Ministry
Description
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Letter to Isabel confirming the information from the International Red Cross that Andrew had lost his life when his aircraft was lost. But he would formally be listed as 'missing believed killed' for six months.
Creator
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Great Britain. Air Ministry
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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1943-11-09
Format
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One typewritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text. Correspondence
Text
Identifier
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ECasBraBainID431109-0001, ECasBraBainID431109-0002
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Scotland--Glasgow
Temporal Coverage
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1943-11-09
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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.
Contributor
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Steve Baldwin
killed in action
missing in action