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Title
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
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674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-09-06
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Identifier
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Valentine, JRM
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NUMBER 7
16-3-43
Still no mail however I hope I’m not in for another long wait for your letters are the chief joys of life here. Rumour has it that we are likely to be moved in the not too distant future. For my part, I shall be sorry, for we are well treated here, the climate is good & the accomodation[sic] quite reasonable even if crude. In addition, a lot of work has gone into organising the camp into its present state of smooth running. The weather so far this month has been gorgeous – today has been almost hot. I’m still tasteless & therefore not touching my precious stock of tobacco. I am trying to get another fiddle instructor but have had no success yet. I wonder if you & Frances could manage a holiday this year. You certainly deserve one. John.
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[Reverse of postcard]
GEPRUFT 32
PASSED P.W. 3310
MRS U. M. VALENTINE
LIDO
TENTERDEN GROVE
HENDON
LONDON N.W.4
ENGLAND
[/Reverse of postcard]
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Title
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Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Description
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Number 7. Reports no mail. Writes of rumour of move for which he would be sorry as they are well treated there, weather is good and a lot of work has been dome organising. Try another violin instructor.
Date
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1943-03-16
Contributor
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Sue Smith
Format
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Two sides handwritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EValentineJRMValentineUM430316
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Poland
Poland--Żagań
Great Britain
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1943-03-16
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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John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
prisoner of war
Stalag Luft 3