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Whitehead, Tom
T Whitehead
Description
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31 items and an album sub collection. Collection concerns Warrant Officer Tom Whitehead (b. 1923) who served as a rear gunner with 428 Squadron operating from RAF Dalton in Yorkshire. He was shot down over Duisburg and became a prisoner of war. Collection includes his prisoner of war logbook, official correspondence to his mother, official documentation, letters from the Caterpillar Club, German prisoner of war propaganda, 14 editions of the Red Cross prisoner of war newspaper and photographs of Royal Air Force personnel including himself.
Album in sub collection consists of 47 pages of prisoner of war related photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pamela Hyslop and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-03-07
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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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Whitehead, T
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AIR MINISTRY
(Casualty Branch)
73-77 OXFORD STREET.
LONDON, W.1
[Customs and Excise Manchester Date Stamp 9 Aug 1945]
November, 1944
P. 402665/43/P.4.P. of W/B.5.
[deleted] Sir [/deleted]/Madam
[underlined] 1502391 Warrant Officer T. Whitehead [/underlined]
I am directed to inform you that your [inserted] son [/inserted] [deleted] husband [/deleted], the above named prisoner of war has been promoted to the rank of Flight Sergeant with effect from 28th August 1943 and Warrant Officer with effect from 28th August 1944.
I am, [deleted] Sir [/deleted]/madam,
Your obedient Servant,
C E Jenkins
For Director of Personal Services.
Mrs T Whitehead,
Jaum Fields Farm,
Littlemoss,
Ashton – u- Lyne,
Lancs.
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Title
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Letter to Tom Whitehead's mother from the Air Ministry Casualty Branch
Description
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Informs her that her prisoner of war son has been promoted to the rank of flight sergeant form 28 August 1943 and warrant officer from 28 August 1944.
Creator
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Great Britain. Air Ministry. Casualty Branch
Date
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1944-11
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Text. Service material
Identifier
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EJenkinsCEWhiteheadJ[Mo]4411XX
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Temporal Coverage
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1943
1944
Format
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One-page typewritten letter
Rights
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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.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
Contributor
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Claire Monk
prisoner of war
promotion