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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.
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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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Lido 9th December
Johnny my darling, I haven't had a letter from you today, which has added to the general gloom. I'm simply pining to see you again, I hope to goodness nothing interferes with your weekend leave. The doctor came yesterday to see Frances & says her trouble is only a heavy cold & there's nothing wrong with her chest. He gave me a cough mixture prescription, & says
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she must be kept in a warm room, so I have had the gas or electric fire going in the nursery most of the time. I'm a bit nervous of leaving the gas fire on at night, so I gave her the electric till 10 pm. & put it on again at 6 am. I thought she'd be roasted if it stayed on all night. She's certainly much better this morning, & can muster up a smile & a twinkly again, tho' her nose still runs copiously & she coughs a bit too. However she's more herself,
[page break]
& a great relief it is. I am so used to finding her cheerful & smiling that it's heartrending when she only whimpers & droops. I've missed the noon post today as Ba & Peter were both out this morning & I couldn't leave Frances to go to the post. However perhaps you may receive this tomorrow all the same.
The WAAF came back last night but hadn't much to say for herself. I had a letter from Fiona thanking me for the photo of you – enclosed herewith. What ho for the Japs, the dirty little skunks!
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I wonder if it will make a lot of difficulties for our supplies now that USA is in it. Perhaps it will stop them striking anyway. Nothing much to report this end. I didn't go out at all yesterday except to dig in the garden I had planned to go up to the West End but didn't want to leave Frances. Perhaps I'll be able to go tomorrow. Ba is having a week's leave from Thursday (except for Monday) & if Mrs Stenzel is coming it should be at the weekend too tho' I can't make out from her letter which day. Peter goes back on Thursday.
Come soon to me darling, I long for you so much. All my love Ursula
PS. Don't bother about P.M. this weekend. Better wait till they mention it again. I sent off the photo of Frances to your Mother yesterday.
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Title
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Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Description
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Writes saying she is longing to see him and hopes nothing interferes with his upcoming leave. Mentions doctor visit to see daughter who has heavy cold. Catches up with family news and mentions that billeted WAAF has returned. Comments on Japanese and USA now in war and effect that might have on supplies. Continues with description of her activities.
Date
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1941-12-09
Format
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Four page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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EValentineUMValentineJRM411209
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1941-12-09
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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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Ursula Valentine
ground personnel
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force