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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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Start of transcription
Felmersham.
Tuesday Jan. 29
Darling Johnnie,
I’m not a bit happy about Frances, she doesn’t seem nearly so well today as yesterday. She got up to breakfast, but started an awful fit of coughing, & made herself sick. Afterwards she started to work on her scrap book, then said she didn’t feel well & went to bed for about an hour. She got up of her own accord about 11 am & seemed better, & this time started doing some painting by the dining room fire, while I went on with my music lesson. But after about 1/2 hour she started crying, I went to her & she complained of a tummy pain. So I suggested she should go to bed again,
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which she gladly did, must have dropped off to sleep quite quickly & hasn’t woken yet (2 p.m.) She’s obviously far from well. It may only be general weakness after the flu, but when she coughed so this morning & then was sick I began to fear whooping cough, altho’ I haven’t heard any whooping. I think I’ll just keep her quiet for today, & not send for Howard unless there are definite disquieting symptoms. Her temperature is normal.
I listened to “The Way to the Stars” on the radio last night – quite good. Only post this morning was electricity bill (£3.4.11.) – I wonder when the milk permit will come?
Longing to have news from you about your immediate future, I do miss you so darling, come home again soon. Yours always. Ursula.
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Letter to John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Description
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Writes that she is still concerned with daughter being unwell and describes daily activities including sending her to bed. Concern over possibility of whooping cough. Mentions listening to radio and days post electricity bill for £3.4.11,
Date
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1946-01-29
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Text. Correspondence
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EValentineUMValentineJRM460129
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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1946-01-29
Creator
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Ursula Valentine
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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.