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Simpson, Henry
Henry Evan Wade Simpson
H E W Simpson
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2019-03-13
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Simpson, HEW
Description
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42 items. Collection concerns Henry Evan Wade 'Harry' Simpson DFM (1806333 Royal Air Force) a flight engineer on Lancaster of 166 Squadron whose aircraft failed to return on 7/8 June 1944. Collection contains his flying logbook, correspondence, documents and photographs. <br /><br />Additional information on Harry Simpson is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/121329/">IBCC Losses Database.</a><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Jean Simpson and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Ref. No. P. 418222/44/S14Cas (a) 3
The Under Secretary of State for Air presents his compliments to Mr. H.W. Simpson. and begs to forward herewith photographs of cross marking the gave of No 1806333, Sergeant Henry Evan Wade Simpson, (D.F.M).
These have been received from the Army Graves Service, who are responsible for the temporary marking of war graves.
Temporary crosses will be replaced in due course by permanent headstones to be erected by the Imperial War Graves Commission. Details of the inscription on the temporary cross will be carefully checked at that stage and any errors rectified before the permanent headstone is erected.
Air Ministry, London, S.W.1 12th November, 1948.
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[photograph of grave marker]
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Title
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Note accompanying photograph of grave
Description
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To Henry Simpson's father enclosing photograph of grave of Sergeant Henry Evan Wade Simpson DFM.
Date
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1948-11-12
Format
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One page printed document
Language
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eng
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Text. Correspondence
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EAirMinSimpsonHW481112-0001
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--London
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1948-11-12
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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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Great Britain. Air Ministry
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Jan Waller
final resting place
killed in action