Letter to W Anderson from Air Council
Title
Letter to W Anderson from Air Council
Description
The letter informs the father of Sergeant William Gowland Anderson that his son has been killed in action
Date
1944-05-12
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
One type written sheet
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Contributor
Identifier
SWrightAC1149750v20009
Transcription
[UNDERLINED] Gerrard 9234 [/UNDERLINED]
[UNDERLINED] Casualty Branch, [/UNDERLINED]
[UNDERLINED] 77, Oxford Street, [/UNDERLINED]
London, W.1.
P.416558/4/P.4.A.2.
12 May, 1944.
Sir,
I am commanded by the Air Council to inform you that they have with great regret to confirm the telegram in which you were notified that your son, Sargeant William Goland Anderson, Royal Air Force, lost his life as the result of air operations on the night of 27th/28th April, 1944.
Your son was a wireless operator of a Lancaster aircraft which set out to bomb Friedrichshafen and failed to return.
The British Air Attache at Berne has since reported that two of the occupants of the aircraft, Flying Officer Prowse and Sargeant Bridges, have been admitted to hospital, and that your son and five other occupants were killed.
No information has yet been furnished regarding the place of their burial.
The Air Council desire me to express their profound sympathy with you in your bereavement.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servent,
J A Smith
W. Anderson, Esq.,
4, St Cuthberts Terrace,
Dalton
Murton,
Co.Durham.
[UNDERLINED] Casualty Branch, [/UNDERLINED]
[UNDERLINED] 77, Oxford Street, [/UNDERLINED]
London, W.1.
P.416558/4/P.4.A.2.
12 May, 1944.
Sir,
I am commanded by the Air Council to inform you that they have with great regret to confirm the telegram in which you were notified that your son, Sargeant William Goland Anderson, Royal Air Force, lost his life as the result of air operations on the night of 27th/28th April, 1944.
Your son was a wireless operator of a Lancaster aircraft which set out to bomb Friedrichshafen and failed to return.
The British Air Attache at Berne has since reported that two of the occupants of the aircraft, Flying Officer Prowse and Sargeant Bridges, have been admitted to hospital, and that your son and five other occupants were killed.
No information has yet been furnished regarding the place of their burial.
The Air Council desire me to express their profound sympathy with you in your bereavement.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servent,
J A Smith
W. Anderson, Esq.,
4, St Cuthberts Terrace,
Dalton
Murton,
Co.Durham.
Collection
Citation
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Air Council, “Letter to W Anderson from Air Council,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/2259.
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