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Title
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Baker, Donald Arthur
D A Baker
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-11-13
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Baker, DA
Description
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187 items. Donald Arthur Baker (b. 1921) travelled from Southern Rhodesia to England in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force. Trained as a pilot in 1941 he was operational with 144 Squadron at RAF North Luffenham flying Hampdens. He was shot down on 5 November 1941 and remained a prisoner of war mostly in Stalag Luft 3 until 1945. He return to farm in Southern Rhodesia after the war. The collection contains letters to his mother throughout the war as well as other correspondence and documents including his prisoner of war log with photographs and notes.
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by June Baker Maree and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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[underlined] RHODESIA RAILWAYS LIMITED. [/underlined]
[postage stamp] [postmark]
Mrs C. Baker,
“Charlton,”
Inyagura,
S.R.
[page break]
[postmark]
[underlined] From [/underlined]
D.A. Baker,
P.O. Box 603
Bulawayo.
[page break]
[circled 1]
A.F.2.
Rhodesia Railways, Ltd.
Chief Accountant’s Office
P.O. BOX 603.
Bulawayo.
Saturday 8.6.40.
My Dearest Mother,
Thank you very much for your letter received last Monday. Am jolly glad to hear you are all fit and also that the tobacco prices have been so good up to now. Thanks also for Phyllis’ letter. No I did not feel the earthquake or volcano or whatever it was, in fact when you mentioned it was the first time I had heard anything about same.
Went to a cabaret last Saturday evening. It was not a bad show and as it was the first I had been to for quite a long time I quite enjoyed the show. My partner was also a bit of all right so that also helped.
Am a member of the Bulawayo young peoples Club and they had a dance last evening. It was also not a bad show.
Am playing rugger again. My ankle is better after giving it a rest for 3 weeks but am now only playing second league Is Harry playing rugger this season and how
[page break]
how is the Inyagura team getting along.
Shifted into the Sussex Hotel at the end of last month It is allright [sic] so far, but will soon tire of it I expect. My room-mate has a wireless so we are quite comfortable. The room wasn’t exactly built last year but it is not too bad.
Well dear Mother I cant think of any news at all so must close now hoping this finds you fit as it leaves me.
Much love to all
Your loving son
Donald.
Have received my Certificate of Registration. What did Windy apply for?
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Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Description
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Writes that he is pleased tobacco prices had been good. Continues with social activities, mentions Bulawayo young peoples club and playing rugby. Concludes writing about his accommodation.
Creator
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D A Baker
Date
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1940-06-08
Format
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Two page handwritten letter and envelope
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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SBakerDA19210428v20003
Spatial Coverage
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe--Bulawayo
Zimbabwe--Manicaland Province
Temporal Coverage
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1940-06-08
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Civilian
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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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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
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