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Baker, Donald Arthur
D A Baker
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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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c/o Rhodesia House
429 Strand.
London.
Saturday 7.5.41
My Dearest Mother,
No letters from you for nearly a month now. I have not written for two weeks but there has been absolutely nothing to write about. We wrote our wings exam last week and by todays results have managed to scrape through so now am all set to Operational Training Unit when [deleted] we [/deleted] I have done my 72 hours here which should take about 2 weeks as have done 50 here already.
Am glad to say that am keeping very fit. Last Tuesday I went down to London to get to Rhodesia House to see them about getting me off instructors course which I had been recommended for and Mr Baggett says it will O.K. as I shall be required to join the Rhodesian Squadron for which
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I am very pleased as I probably told you before am not at all keen on being an instructor. Rhodesia House has been slightly damaged by recent raids but not at all badly. It is really awful to see some of the damage that has been done, but the people there certainly seem to be able to take it. I managed to get a couple of hundred [deleted] weeks [/deleted] cigarettes from Rhodesia House which was very convenient.
Well dear Mother must close now with much love to you all
from
your loving son
Donald.
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Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Description
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Writes that he had had no letter from her for a month. Mentioned wings exam so now ready for operational training once he had completed his 72 hours flying. Writes that he went to Rhodesia house to see if he could get off the instructors course to which he had been recommended. He would be required to join the Rhodesia squadron which pleased him. Mentioned that Rhodesia house had been damaged in air raids and he had seen other damage in London but people seemed to be able to take it.
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D A Baker
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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SBakerDA19210428v20031
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1941-05
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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
Date
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1941-05-07
bombing
training