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Fry, Harold Leonard
H L Fry
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2020-03-04
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Fry, HL
Description
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Forty-four items and two sub-collections with twenty items. The collection concerns Harold Leonard Fry (413129 Royal Air Force) who flew as a Lancaster navigator on 467 Squadron. He was killed on operation to Berlin on 1 January 1944. Collection contains correspondence including between his father, authorities and the air ministry, documents and photographs. In addition an account of the discovery, recovery and identification of his crew and their aircraft in 1997-2003. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Barton and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0">Additional information on Harold Leonard Fry </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0">is available via the</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW22772577 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":200,"335559740":276}"> <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/108192/">IBCC Losses Database.</a></span>
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159, South Park Drive,
ILFORD, Essex.
1st December, 1944.
The Controller,
Savings Certificate Branch,
G.P.O.,
Manor Gardens,
LONDON, N.7.
Dear Sir,
I should be glad if you would kindly send me one of your forms S.B.No.4. relating to procedure on death of certificate holder of National Savings Certificates, as I require to deal with certificates bought by my son who unfortunately is now presumed to have lost his life in air operations last January.
My son’s Registered No. is AU.42988. I am sorry to trouble you in this matter but could not obtain a copy of the Form from the local Head Office to-day.
Yours faithfully,
[underlined] P.S. [/underlined] My son’s Christian names are Harold Leonard.
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Letter from Harold Fry's father to RAF central depository
Description
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Asks for them to arrange to send his son's personal effects to his address.
Creator
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L Fry
Date
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1944-03-13
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Buckinghamshire
England--Essex
England--Slough
England--London
England--Berkshire
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1944-03-13
Format
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One page typewritten letter
Language
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eng
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EFryLHollidaySC440313
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
Contributor
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Steve Christian
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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.
killed in action