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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.
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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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[underlined] No 1. [/underlined]
Lido
27.10.41
Darling,
It was so nice to hear your voice over the phone this evening, though I would rather have seen you in person. Barbara & I took Frances out this afternoon and when we came back I half hoped to find you waiting here. Still, we have had some lovely weeks together and we mustn’t complain, though I must say if they can’t find you any work to do – I can!
[page break]
The M.O’s verdict about your nose is rather upsetting, but still I don’t suppose he knows as much about it as Coleridge, and Coleridge surely wouldn’t have recommended the operation if there were no hope of effecting an improvement in your condition. I hope when you write you will tell me all about your interview with him
There’s not awfully much news to tell you since I mentioned the chief item over the phone – to wit, Frances’ disgustingly large gain this week – 12 oz!
We did a large wash this morning which was considerable hampered by the fact that the water would hardly run out of the sink at all altho’ I cleared it out again & got a lot more muck out. So I rang up Adams, & asked him to attend to that & the ball cock in the left & he said he’d send a man tomorrow.
[page break]
I went on my rounds last night after rea and disposed of all those certificates. Mrs Neal said how sorry she was that she hadn’t asked us in there one evening while you were home, she had meant to, & so on.
I did miss you so last night, my dearest. It’s horribly empty here when you’ve gone, tho’ Frances helps to fill the void.
I wonder if perhaps there could be a letter from you tomorrow? I’ll leave a bit of space just in case.
All my love to you, darling, for always.
[underlined] Tuesday [/underlined]
No letter from you but enclose one from Jack B-P. Fancy that scruffy boy getting a commission! Haven’t read it all,
Lots of love
Ursula
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Title
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Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Description
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Mentions his phone call and then relates her daily activity. Commiserates over his medical issues. Continues with gossip on her activities.
Date
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1941-10-27
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Four page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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EValentineUMValentineJRM411027
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1941-10-27
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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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Ursula Valentine