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Title
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Layne, Wally
Walter Henry Layne
W H Layne
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-06-07
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Identifier
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Layne, WH
Description
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100 items. The collection concerns Walter 'Wally' Layne (b. 1916, 963012, 40348 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, prisoner of war diary, personal and official correspondence and photographs. He flew operations as a wireless operator with 97 Squadron and became a prisoner of war after being shot down.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by D Layne and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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RAF/O.1904.
M.MCC/PW.
27th February, 1945.
Mrs. A. J. Layne,
97, Harlaxton Rd.,
Grantham,
Lincs.
Dear Mrs. Layne,
[underlined] Pilot Officer W. Layne. [/underlined]
We thank you for your letter of the 23rd of February, and are glad to know that you have had a recent postcard from your husband.
We think that the Air Ministry's information that your husband was interned at Stalag 357 was most certainly earlier than the date of the postcard your husband wrote. However, we think that until you hear from your husband again, it would be safer to address your letters to Stalag 357, as it is possible that your husband's move to Stalag Luft 111 did not take place.
In any case, letters and parcels
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would be forwarded, and as Stalag Luft 111 was in a district which was overrun by the Russians, it is certainly safer to send your letters to Stalag 357.
We hope that you will very soon hear from your husband again, and we should be interested to have whatever information he may send you.
Yours sincerely,
p.p. E.M. Thornton. Director. [signature]
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Title
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Letter to Mrs Layne from the Red Cross
Description
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Thanks her for her letter. Advises her to continue to address letters to Stalag 357 in case his move to Stalag Luft 3 did not take place.
Creator
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British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem
E M Thornton
Date
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1945-02-27
Format
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Two page typewritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EThorntonEMLayneAJ450227
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Temporal Coverage
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1945-02
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.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Sue Smith
prisoner of war
Red Cross
Stalag Luft 3