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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
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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[date stamp]
[underlined] Kreigsgefangenenpost [/underlined]
[inserted] [underlined] MIT LUFTPOST AB KAIRO [/underlined] [/inserted]
[three ink stamps]
[date stamp]
An MRS. C. BAKER
CHARLTON
Empfangsort: INYAZURA
Strasse: SOUTHERN
Kreis: RHODESIA
Land: SOUTH AFRICA
[underlined] Gebührenfrei! [/underlined]
[date stamp]
Absender:
Vor- und Zuname: P/O DONALD A. BAKER
Gefangenennummer: 665
Lager-Bezeichnung: M.-Stammlager Luft 3
[underlined] Deutschland (Allemagne) [/underlined]
[date stamp]
[page break]
24:8:1943.
My Dearest Mother, Only one letter from you since last writing, June 15TH, but as I know you write regularly they should come through, in time. I was rather amused at what you had to say at Anthony’s remarks about Miss Chris Knowles. It does seem bad us grumbling at voluntary work for us but his opinion is really quite general here. Very likely it is the people who receive her orders for things for prisoners who are responsible for sending us poor literature etc. I don’t know if I will have lost my “amiable disposition” that you mention, but Im [sic] sure that we cannot help changing a lot after two years confinement. I think we mostly become more quiet as I’ve notice that, and rowdy fellows are not really very popular. They get on ones nerves so I do think that we become more tolerant. It’s the only way to get along living in the same room with the same fellows doing the same thing day after day & month after month. That’s why I like a change of camp because there’s a change of scenery & for the first few days a new place is comparatively delightful because of new things to look at. I don’t think I’ll be moved again before the end of the war. One cant help getting depressed at times but we derive a certain amount of satisfaction even from the German news these days & new prisoners are our only source of home news. This letter sounds like complaining the whole time, but I didn’t mean it that way. Only I know you’re interested in what this is like. However I should think the effects will wear off with time & seeing you all again in peace. Much love, dear Mother. Donald
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Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Description
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Mentions arrival of latest letter and complains about poor literature which a person sends. Writes about character of people in camp and why he liked to change camps. Does not think he would move again before the end of the war. Mentions getting depressed and lack of home news.
Creator
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D A Baker
Date
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1943-08-24
Format
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Handwritten prisoner of war letter form
Language
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eng
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Identifier
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SBakerDA19210428v20124
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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Poland
Poland--Żagań
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe--Manicaland Province
Temporal Coverage
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1943-08-24
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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