Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Flight Lieutenant H Goodwin
Title
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Flight Lieutenant H Goodwin
Description
A Rhodesian flight engineer, he requests information on how to get posted to Cheshire's squadron. Previous tour on 78 Squadron and currently on 425 Squadron, which is becoming all French Canadian. Happy to drop rank but wished to remain with Pathfinder force squadron. Provides more history including training post at RAF Dishforth.
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Date
1944-05-17
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Three page handwritten letter
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This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘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.
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Identifier
SCheshireGL72021v10062
Transcription
Answered GLC
[RAF Crest]
F/Lt. H.J. Goodwin
Officers Mess
R.C.A.F. Station
Tholthorpe
Nr. York
17th May 1944
Dear Sir,
I wish to obtain information as to how I could get a posting to your Squadron.
I am the Rhodesian Engineer whom at one time flew with F/Lt. Read of 78 Squadron Linton and I now wish to fly with your Squadron
[page break]
in a crew.
At the present moment I am Engineer Leader at 425 French Canadian Squadron and in the next month I shall be looking for a new position as they wish to make this a complete French Canadian Squadron.
Even if I have to revert back to Flying Officer I don't mind as my second tour has just began and I now wish carry on with P.F.F. Squadron.
This morning I spoke
[page break]
to my Wing Commander and he suggested that I should write to you, therefore I hope I am not going against regulations or putting you out in any way.
I am in the R.A.F. but on completion of my first tour I was posted to 1664 Con Unit R.C.A.F. Staton Dishforth on a tour of instruction which lasted eight months
I have the honour to be Sir
Your obedient servant
[underlined] H.J.Goodwin [/underlined]
[RAF Crest]
F/Lt. H.J. Goodwin
Officers Mess
R.C.A.F. Station
Tholthorpe
Nr. York
17th May 1944
Dear Sir,
I wish to obtain information as to how I could get a posting to your Squadron.
I am the Rhodesian Engineer whom at one time flew with F/Lt. Read of 78 Squadron Linton and I now wish to fly with your Squadron
[page break]
in a crew.
At the present moment I am Engineer Leader at 425 French Canadian Squadron and in the next month I shall be looking for a new position as they wish to make this a complete French Canadian Squadron.
Even if I have to revert back to Flying Officer I don't mind as my second tour has just began and I now wish carry on with P.F.F. Squadron.
This morning I spoke
[page break]
to my Wing Commander and he suggested that I should write to you, therefore I hope I am not going against regulations or putting you out in any way.
I am in the R.A.F. but on completion of my first tour I was posted to 1664 Con Unit R.C.A.F. Staton Dishforth on a tour of instruction which lasted eight months
I have the honour to be Sir
Your obedient servant
[underlined] H.J.Goodwin [/underlined]
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Citation
H Goodwin, “Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Flight Lieutenant H Goodwin,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/16903.
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