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Title
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Batty, Dennis
Arthur Henry Dennis Batty
A H D Batty
Description
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Twelve items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Arthur Dennis Batty DFM (1920 - 1941, 619060, Royal Air Force) and consists of his diary, letters and documents. He flew operations as an air gunner with 226 Squadron. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Christine Aram and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on Dennis Batty is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/201592/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-10-01
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Identifier
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Batty, AHD
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Transcription
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F/SGT. D. BATTY.
SGTS MESS.
CGS
RAF.
CASTLE KENNEDY.
STRANRAER
[underlined] SCOTLAND [/underlined]
[inserted] Dennis last letter to me. [/inserted]
Dear Mother,
I received the paper & cigs today, thanks a lot, I am getting used to this now & have my first exam tomorrow on Sights etc. it promises to be tough but I think that I have it weighed up OK.
Some good news, I shall manage to get Home on Monday the 11th of August late at night if everything goes OK. I am going to
[page break]
Belfast this Monday if I can get for 2 days but I couldn’t get home & back I time.
Well, I am now continuing I left this off last night, I had the exam today & think I got through OK, but still have another fortnight or so to go yet Well give my love to all, I’m getting pretty lazy here so I will finish now, must write to Joan Winnie & Rose so Au Revoir,
Love to all,
[underlined] Dennis [/underlined]
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Title
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Letter from Dennis Batty to his mother
Description
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Reports arrival of paper and cigarettes. mentions taking exam and he will be able to get home for a leave. Continues next day, writes of taking exam that day and others in the future. Annotated 'Dennis last letter to me'.
Creator
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A H D Batty
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EBattyAHDBattyGV41XXXX-01
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Scotland
Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway
Scotland--Stranraer
Scotland
Great Britain
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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
Contributor
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Steve Christian
air gunner
Air Gunnery School
aircrew
RAF Castle Kennedy
training