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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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[underlined] NUMBER 19 [/underlined]
8-4-43
There is little or no fresh news. Large quantities of Red X food have arrived during recent weeks & our weekly parcel is assured for some time. In contrast to last month, the weather is most unpleasant – lots of sleet & cold winds. I seem to make negligible on the fiddle despite the hours I put in. Assuming your parents come home soon & after you have spent some months with them, what about your taking Frances to live on a farm till I get back & am demobbed. It would be grand for her & you could help with the farm work, learning a lot & also helping the war effort just as much as you do now, if not more. You could plough & sow, reap & mow, drive tractors milk cows & become quite a “land girl” or “land mother”. You would also find out if you really liked the life too, which would be a good thing. Let me know what you think. Love to both. John
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[reverse of postcard]
GEPRUFT 32
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 19. Large quantities of Red Cross food were arriving at the camp. He suggested that Ursula and Frances could live, and help, on a farm until he gets home.
Date
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1943-04-08
Contributor
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Sue Smith
Format
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Two sided handwritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EValentineJRMValentineUM430408
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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1943-04-08
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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.
Creator
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John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
prisoner of war
Red Cross
Stalag Luft 3