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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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Gerrard [underlined] 9234 [/underlined]
[underlined] (Casualty Branch) [/underlined]
P 409001/5/43/P.4.A.2.B. [underlined] 77, Oxford Street, [/underlined]
London, W.1.
1 October, 1943.
Madam,
I am commanded by the Air Council to express to you their great regret on learning that your husband, Warrant Officer Walter Henry Layne, Royal Air Force, is missing as the result of air operations on the night of 23rd/24th September, 1943, when a Lancaster aircraft in which he was flying as wireless-operator / air-gunner set out to bomb Mannheim and was not heard of again.
This does not necessarily mean that he is killed or wounded, and if he is a prisoner of war he should be able to communicate with you in due course. Meanwhile enquiries are being made through the International Red Cross Committee and as soon as any definite news is received you will be at once informed.
If any information regarding your husband is received by you from any source you are requested to be kind enough to communicate it immediately to the Air Ministry.
The Air Council desire me to convey to you their sympathy in your present anxiety.
I am, Madam,
Your obedient Servant,
[signature] Charles Evans [/signature]
Mrs, W.H.Layne,
“Stoneleigh”
Barrowby High Road,
Grantham,
Lincolnshire.
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Title
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Letter to Wally Layne's wife from the RAF casualty branch
Description
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Informs her that her husband was missing as a result of air operations to Mannheim on night 23/24 September 1943.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Casualty Branch
Date
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1943-10-01
Format
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One page typewritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EEvansCLayneAJ431001
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
England--Lincolnshire
England--Grantham
Germany
Germany--Mannheim
Temporal Coverage
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1943-10-01
1943-09-23
1943-09-24
Contributor
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Robin Christian
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
aircrew
bombing
Lancaster
missing in action
wireless operator / air gunner