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Baker, Donald Arthur
D A Baker
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2018-11-13
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Baker, DA
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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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[postmark]
[postage stamp]
Mrs C. Baker,
“Charlton,”
Inyagura,
S. Rhodesia.
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[postmark]
[page break]
[Royal Air Force crest]
C/o High Comm. for S. Rhod. Etc.
5th January 1941.
My Dearest Mother,
Thanks for your letter received last week. Am glad to hear you are all fit and that you were having some decent weather. I only wish you could send some of the heat over here as it is getting bitterly cold. Saw snow for the first time on New Years Day and now there is about six inches of it on all the hills around here. We went for a route march the other day up one of the hills and had a snow fight but unfortunately the snow had frozen and a few fellows had their face cut and an officer had his jaw badly gashed while trying to stop the fray. However I came through unscathed. All the ponds are frozen
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and water freezes everywhere so it is quite dangerous walking. However the worst part of it is that we have to do P.T. outside in a vest and pair of shorts which nearly kills us.
Was supposed to have left for an E.F.T.S. near Hull last Tuesday but that was cancelled for a week so might get away on next Tuesday but the flying is held up badly with the weather so the fellows already there have the course prolonged. However I guess it will be pretty cold there too.
Went to a dance on New Years Eve which was a big success and I had a good time as there was quite a nice lot of girls there!!
Had a letter and Xmas card from Jack also a Rhod. Annual. Also had one of the
[page break]
latter from the Rhodesian Rlys.
Mark Blumberg went to Blackpool to take a Wireless Optr. A.G. course and Issy Kapstan is training for some Ground Staff job. Horace Gottlieb also went for the A.G course.
Well dear Mother I must close now as I must write to Jack and the Strachans.
Much love to all
from your loving son
Donald.
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Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
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Thanks her for letter and comments on weather and that it had snowed. Writes of going on a route march and having a snow ball fight. Mentions everything is frozen and doing P.T. outside. Had his move to elementary flying near Hull cancelled but hope to go soon. Flying held up by weather. Mentions going to dance on New Year's Eve and that he had received other letters. Catches up with news of family and friends.
Creator
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D A Baker
Date
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1941-01-05
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Three page handwritten letter and envelope
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eng
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SBakerDA19210428v20020
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Yorkshire
England--Hull
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe--Manicaland Province
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1941-01-05
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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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