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Title
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Cahir, Francis Shamus
Francis Shamus Cahir
Jim Cahir
Francis S Cahir
Francis Cahir
F S Cahir
F Cahir
J Cahir
Description
An account of the resource
44 items. An oral history interview with Francis Shamus "Jim" Cahir (419441 Royal Australian Air Force), letters, documents, photographs and a sub collection.
He flew operations as a mid upper gunner with 466 Squadron. His aircraft was shot down and he became a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Jim Cahir and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-06-09
2016-06-08
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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.
Identifier
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Cahir, FS
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[underlined] Kriegsgefangenenpost [/underlined]
[postmark]
[two ink stamps]
An Mrs. M. CAHIR.
Emfangsort: 505 BELL ST
Strasse: PRESTON MELB
Kreis: VICTORIA
Land: AUSTRALIA
[underlined] Gebührenfreil [/underlined]
Absender:
Vor- und Zuname: Francis. S. CAHIR F/sgt
Gefangenennummer: 267500
Lager-Bezeichnung: M.-Stammlager IV B [inserted] “C” [/inserted]
[underlined] Deutschland (Allemagne) [/underlined]
[page break]
Jan 18th. 45
Dear Mum Pat & Vincent. How are you? in the best I hope, at the moment I am nursing my first chilblains and not liking it, otherwise I am in the very best of health, so don’t worry over me. The weather has been bad lately nothing but snow & biting winds, if anybody mentions snow to me when I get out of this hole I will go mad. No mail for a couple of weeks now, the first parcel you sent me has not turned up yet, by the way in case there should be need to send any more parcels, send food such as Tea, Chocolate, Soups, Egg Powders, etc plus a pair of socks. Food parcels arrive safely at this end and there is no trouble about them. I have seen hundreds of [indecipherable word] here, any trouble there may be will be at your end. Here is an extract from a German Paper, it may interest Pat! The Extract is [inserted] from [/inserted] a Criticism of the American Paper the “Yank” “Mail Call is a Page on which the G.I’s really let loose in a manner unknown in other Army – except maybe the Australian” The Extract refers to the “Letters to the Editor” Page in the Yank, and a G.I. is an American Private. According to this Country’s Newspapers, Big things are happening and as far as I can see the future looks very bright, let’s hope I am not disappointed. Sorry I can’t write to all the people I should write to at home. How is Kathleen now? I never forget her in my Prayers. Cheerio & Love. Jim.
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Title
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Letter to Mrs Cahir from Jim Cahir
Description
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Airgraph from Flight Sergeant Jim Cahir to his mother and brothers. He writes that he has chilblains, about the weather, and asking if they send a parcel it should be a food parcel and quoting an extract from a German paper criticising the American paper “Yank”.
Creator
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Jim Cahir
Date
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1945-01-18
Format
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One handwritten air letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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ECahirFSCahirM-P-V450118-0001, ECahirFSCahirM-P-V450118-0002
Coverage
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Royal Australian Air Force
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Australia
Victoria
Victoria--Melbourne
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.
Temporal Coverage
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1945-01-18
aircrew
entertainment
prisoner of war