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Wareing, Robert
R Wareing
Description
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258 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Robert Wareing DFC* (86325 Royal Air Force) and contains his flying logbooks, prisoner of war log book, memoirs, photographs, extensive personal and official correspondence, official documents, pilots/handling notes, decorations, mementos, uniform badges and buttons. He flew operations as a pilot with 106 Squadron. After a period of instructing he returned to operations on 582 Squadron but was shot down and became a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Andrew Wareing and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-10-05
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Wareing, R
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[postmark]
Mrs Robert Waring [sic],
56, West Common Gardens,
Scunthorpe,
[underlined] Lincs. [/underlined]
[PASSED BY CENSOR No 15122]
[signature]
[page break]
F/O C M Walkden
Bramshott Military Hospital
Bramshott.
Sept 11, 1944.
Dear Mrs Wareing:-
This is just to let you know that I have recently been in close contact with your husband. We were prisoners in the same hospital.
The majority [inserted] (including your husband) [/inserted] were evacuated by the Germans further inland on Aug 28, but myself and a few others required further medical treatment so were kept behind. Since then I have had the good fortune to be recaptured and returned to England. I hope your husband may have had the same good fortune now.
If not, you will be anxiously wondering how he is. He had burns on his face, hands and one leg. His face was completely cleaned up and was unmarked when he left, and the other burns were rapidly improving. Otherwise he was quite well and had a good appetite. His biggest
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Title
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Letter to Mrs Wareing from F/O C M Walkden
Description
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Writes giving details of her husband, his evacuation by the Germans as a prisoner and mentions the condition of his burns which were rapidly improving..
Creator
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C M Walkden
Date
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1944-09-11
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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One page handwritten letter and envelope
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EWalkdenCMWareingJ440911
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
England--Scunthorpe
England--Hampshire
England--Liphook
Temporal Coverage
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1944-09-11
Rights
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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
prisoner of war