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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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Felmersham,
Tuesday 28th Aug.
Darling Johnnie,
This morning I was well rewarded for my letterless day yesterday by getting no less than three from you. The idea of actually playing tennis with you and going swimming, as well as dancing, makes our coming week together seem extremely alluring, I will certainly bring tennis kit with me, but dread to think what sort of a game I shall give you – though I suppose you are just as out of practice as I am, if not more, so that can be no excuse.
To answer your outstanding queries first. 1) My bike is now very satisfactory, the tyre stays “hard as a brick” for two or three days at a stretch and only needs occasional topping-up. However, if you can get hold of a spare inner tube, I think it would be a good idea to do so.
2) Barbara did catch her train on that memorable Sunday, it was nearly 20 minutes late, so she had loads of time.
I am sending on your Father’s letter to you. He sent it here as he had forgotten your address! You will probably have received the padlock by now, as you don’t need it perhaps I could have it for my bike, which I sometimes would like to lock up when I have to leave it out.
I note what you say about writing to you in the evenings and know quite well what you mean. However, evenings are
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generally scheduled for practice as well as gardening, ironing, mending, etc, so I doubt whether you would come off much better then!
This afternoon Mrs. Kinsey is coming (I hope) to meet her husband, the erring soldier from Woking, here in the hope that it may be possible to effect a reconciliation between them. I am feeling extremely nervous and hope I don’t show it too much. SSAFA business is rather brisk just now and I want to get as much as poss. cleared up before Friday. I think on the whole I will come back here after seeing Frances off, otherwise I shall be very cluttered up with her luggage and mine. Even if they don’t get on to the 10.30, Barbara will be there, so I could come home in time to get the train you have usually taken from Amersham, which connects with a train at Aylesbury which I take to be the 3.30 from Marylebone which you mentioned over the phone. Mother is very keen for Frances to stay longer after making the long journey, we shall have to talk it over when we meet, it would probably mean my going down to [deleted] gq [/deleted] fetch her in the middle of a week.
I’m in a flat spin as to what clothes to bring with me, I am anxious to dazzle you but would like to limit my luggage to one trunk if possible!
All my love darling,
Yours always
Ursula.
Laski, have you still got him
P.S. In your reading list you didn’t mention/
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[child’s drawing]
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Letter to John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Description
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Reports arrival of three letters and looks forward to activities in their upcoming weekend. She answers his queries in his letters about her bike and her sister. Mentions forwarding a letter from his father and her letter writing schedule. Continues with her activities, SSAFA business, and travel arrangements.
Date
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1945-08-28
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Two page typewritten letter with enclosed drawing
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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EValentineUMValentineJRM450828
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Buckinghamshire
England--Chalfont St. Giles
Temporal Coverage
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1945-08-28
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.
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Ursula Valentine