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Title
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Madgett, Hedley Robert
H R Madgett
Description
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250 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Hedley Madgett DFM (1922 - 1943, 147519, 1330340 Royal Air Force), a pilot with 61 Squadron. He was killed 18 August 1943 on the last operation of his tour from RAF Syerston to Peenemünde. The collection consists of letters, postcards and telegrams to his parents while he was training in the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition the collection contains memorabilia, documents from the Air Training Corps, artwork, a railway map, diaries, medals as well as his logbook, photographs of people, places and aircraft. Also contains letters of condolence to parents and a sub collection containing a photograph album with 44 items of his time training in Canada'.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Joan Madgett and Carol Gibson, and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Hedley Madgett is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/114690/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/madgett-hr/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-03-17
2019-06-14
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Madgett, H
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4 Main Street
Muirskirk
Ayrshire.
1/7/46
Dear Mr & Mrs Madgett
Received the cutting out of your local paper I must thank you very much.
You were wondering about my son’s grave, well he is buried in a Military Cemetery Venlo Holland. All the crew are buried there. We are very sorry you have not found out where your dear boy Hedley is buried, we hope you will get news through time.
We have had a big loss our Dear Daughter Helen aged 32 years. She was a Nursing Sister in a Military Hopital, she had a kidney removed and never got over it. She was buried
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here in Muirskirk a month ago. This cruel war has taken two of my family but we have got to bear it.
I am not good at writing letters as you will notice My eldest daughter does all the letter writing to save me the trouble.
Thanking both you and Mr Madgett for your kindness,
We remain
Yours sincerely
Mrs. & Mr Jas Girdwood
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Title
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Letter to Hedley Madgett's parents
Description
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From Mr and Mrs J Girdwood thanking them for the cutting they sent. Confirms their sons grave in in Venlo Holland along with all his crew. Sorry that Madgetts have no news of Hedley's grave. Writes that their daughter a nursing sister had died after an operation which she never got over.
Creator
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J Girdwood
Date
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1946-07-01
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EGirdwoodJ-HMadgettLR-AG460701
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Scotland--Ayrshire
Scotland--Cumnock
Netherlands
Netherlands--Venlo
Temporal Coverage
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1946-07-01
1943-06-21
1943-06-22
1943-08-17
1943-08-18
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.
Contributor
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David Bloomfield
final resting place
killed in action