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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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[inserted] 21/11 [/inserted]
at Little Close
Devon Road,
Salcombe,
Devon.
July 31st 1944
My own darling Johnnie,
I’m afraid my letters to you have been a bit irregular since I’ve been down here, not because I think of you less, but partly because the rhythmic regularity of life at home is disturbed by frequent visits to the beach & evenings given over to bridge & mah-jong & even last week, a dance; and partly because, with the war situation changing so fast & so [deleted] regularly [/deleted] favourably I don’t really think you are ever likely to receive these letters – at least, I hope not!
Life down here is very pleasant, the weather is good, & we spend all afternoon on the sands. Frances simply loves the sea, & will soon learn to float if she goes on at her present rate.
Pat & her baby have now left us. She didn’t get on well with my people, was very tactless & inconsiderate, & anyway she wanted to find somewhere where her husband could go if he got leave. Also with the prospect of the war ending soon, she couldn’t have come back to Felmersham, so she scouted round & has been very lucky to get rooms on a farm about 10 miles from here. I’m really not sorry she’s gone, we lived right on top of each other for five months & that’s really enough. My people & some New Zealand friends of theirs here are [deleted] concerned [/deleted] convinced she’s a Maori & at [missing word] half-caste – I don’t know & don’t really
[page break]
[missing word] that it makes much difference anyway.
Frances fell off a chair on to the tiles in the kitchen smack on to her face, & has given herself an awful black eye which has temporarily quite spoiled her beauty. [stamp GEPRUFT 131] I am very busy on dull days making her winter outfit, coat leggings & bonnet in blue woollen trimmed with darker blue velvet. I think its going to look alright. I have made her a blue winter dress with smocking round the waist, & there’s still lots to be done. I’m making the most of Mother’s machine.
I have had two letters from you at last, a p.c. of 4th May & letter of 14th. So glad you’d had some mail at last. There are going to be an awful lot of letters wandering round Europe when the war’s over & the boys come home! Thank you so much for your cheerful letter, you are a real darling.
Mother & I went in to Plymouth for the day the other day, to do some shopping & look round. I bought a macintosh with sou’wester in soft green for Frances, she looks very nice in it. I got some stockings too, but there’s not much to be had.
We are off for an all day picnic today as the weather is so glorious. Frances has got a small boat & is very keen to sail it in the sea.
All my love to you dearest, come home soon!
Yours always Ursula
[circled X] kiss from Frances
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Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Description
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Explains why her letters have been irregular since arriving in Devon. Mentions that life their is pleasant and provides long explanation of why her lodger had left. Writes that daughter fell off a chair giving herself a black eye and writes of her activities and mail she has received from him. Concludes with mention of shopping visit to Plymouth and going of for the day on picnic.
Date
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1944-07-31
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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EValentineUMValentineJRM440731
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Devon
England--Salcombe
England--Plymouth
Poland
England--Plymouth
Lithuania
Lithuania--Šilutė
Temporal Coverage
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1944-07-31
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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
prisoner of war
Stalag Luft 3
Stalag Luft 6