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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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[five ink stamps]
[postmark]
[underlined] MIT LUFTPOST AB KAIRO. [/underlined]
[underlined] Kriegsgefangenenpost [/underlined]
MRS. C. BAKER
CHARLTON
INYAZURA
S. RHODESIA
S. AFRICA
[postmark]
Absender:
Vor und Zuname: DONALD ARTHUR BAKER
Gefangenennummer: 665
Lager-Bezeichnung: M.-Stammlager Luft 3
Deutschland (Allemagne)
[page break]
29.8.42
My Dearest Mother, No mail from you since last I wrote but can’t really grumble as have had nearly all of them up to date. What do you think of the prospect for me farming after the war. I should have saved up some cash by that time as am getting paid all this time by the R.A.F. I figure I could do a couple of years apprenticeship under Harry first and then strike out myself. It is so difficult here to make up ones mind as we seem to be so out of touch and any information takes so long to come. However can you please write & tell me what you think or ask Dad or Harry to do so. Have mentioned this before but am doing so again in case you don’t get my other letters. Am keeping very well & parcels are coming through regularly. Expect Harry will be a father when you get this. I hope everything is fine and that the baby & Betty are O.K. No likelihood of the Baker clan becoming extinct is there. I trust you & Dad are bearing up & that the rest of the family is fine. Playing Cricket quite well it has been awfully hot recently. Please thank Mrs Parker for her P.C. Anthony is not here yet. Well Cheerhio [sic] dear Mother. Keep Smiling. Much love & best wishes from your loving son
Donald
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Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
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Writes that no letters had arrived and wondered what she thought about him taking up farming after the war. Writes of potential future plans. Is keeping well and parcels arriving regularly. Catches up with family news.
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D A Baker
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1942-08-29
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Handwritten prisoner of war letter form
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eng
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SBakerDA19210428v20094
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Poland
Poland--Żagań
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe--Manicaland Province
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1942-08-29
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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
prisoner of war
Stalag Luft 3