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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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Identifier
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Valentine, JRM
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Transcription
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No. 1 Lido Sunday 29.3.42
My darling Johnny, I enclose the long-awaited telegram, which arrived about 2 minutes after I got home from seeing you off. Words fail me! I'm also sending your name-plate, which you left behind the bathroom door after all. I went to Communion this morning at 7.15 am. - actually got up at 6.30 when the alarm went off!! I was much impressed with the service, it is far more satisfying in every way than Matins, or the average non-conformist service; dignified and
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beautiful, & a far more real act of worship than any other I have experienced. How I wish we could have gone together – if only the telegram had arrived a bit sooner.
Yesterday evening I busied myself with the Savings Certificates. This morning I was working in the house, this afternoon we shall go for a walk & post this, & this evening I am thinking of going to a concert – Myra Hess is playing at the Orpheum, Finchley Rd, so I think I shall try to get in & Ba will mind Frances. It is not till 7 pm so I shall have lots of time to bath her & put her to bed.
Life seems incredibly dreary without you – I don't
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know what I should do at all without Frances, so I can imagine that it is hard for you. Still there is a vast amount of work to be done inside & outside the house, & I shall see how much I can get done before your next leave. How I long for it already! Frances is as bonny & as good as ever. The neighbours have been admiring her, & Mrs Neal says she thinks she has a ground-sheet to fit the play-pen, so if she has it would save me a lot of bother. I must go & take Frances for a walk now, she is beginning
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to get impatient. It's good to hear about this raid on St Nazaire, but it doesn't seem very clear yet how successful it was.
I'm longing to get a letter from you – that's one consolation about being away from you! I love you so much, my precious one, & I'm so proud of you too, tho' I know you'd probably demand to know why. Anyway I am. With all my love to you for always, Ursula
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Title
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Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Description
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Writes that she is enclosing telegram that arrived just after he left and his name plate that he left behind. Relates going to church and other activities which include plans to go to a concert. Continues with baby news and mentions attack on St Nazaire.
Date
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1942-03-29
Format
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Four page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EValentineUMValentineJRM420329
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
France
France--Saint-Nazaire
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1942-03-29
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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Ursula Valentine
entertainment
faith