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Title
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
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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Valentine, JRM
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Start of transcription
25th October 1943.
No fresh letters to acknowledge, yours to 14th Sept here. Hope mine are getting through at long last. Managing to do quite a lot of fiddle practice now sometimes in the strangest of places & most awkward circumstances. Have even spent a few hours in total darkness sitting on a pile of spuds in a shed, grinding out scales! Am still having trouble with instruments – my own has been re-assembled by enthusiastic amateurs here but its not strung up yet. I pray that the glue will hold. Have been able to taste for 2 months – even throughout a wretched cold which is going but slowly. Life is awfully dull – your letters & photos liven it up a lot & I’m eagerly awaiting news of house purchase. Weather luckily has been mild & dry for 2 weeks so that absence of coal not unbearable. Hope both my darlings are well. I long for you always. Love John.
[page break]
75/132
[two ink stamps] [postmark]
M [underlined] RS [/deleted] U. M. VALENTINE
[deleted] C/O LITTLE CLOSE
DEVON ROAD [/deleted]
FELMERSHAM
[deleted] SALCOMBE DEVON [/deleted]
BOTTRELLS LANE
[deleted] ENGLAND [/deleted]
CHALFONT ST GILES
BUCKS
J.R M. VALENTINE (Sgt)
450
LAGER “A”
Cut finger (sorry)
End of transcription
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Title
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Postcard from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Description
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Number 75-132. Writes he is managing to practise violin but still having problem with instrument. Sense of taste now back for two months and awaits letters and news of house purchase.
Date
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1943-10-25
Contributor
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Peter Bradbury
Format
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Two sided handwritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EValentineJRMValentineUM431025
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Lithuania
Lithuania--Šilutė
Great Britain
England--Buckinghamshire
England--Chalfont St. Giles
England--Devon
England--Salcombe
Temporal Coverage
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1943-10-25
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.
Creator
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John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
prisoner of war
Stalag Luft 6