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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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Sept 17/44. My dear Joan, I am very fit and well trust you are the same. The weather is very nice here but it is cold first thing in the mornings and the days are drawing shorter. I shall be sorry if I have to spend another winter as a prisoner, all the fellows here are counting on being home by Christmas, it would be marvelous [sic]. I expect you will receive this letter about then. I had all my hair off last march but it is almost back to normal now, I shall soon have to have it trimmed again, it was much better in the summer having a bald head, it saved all the sand blowing into it. I received five letters from you last week. April 4, 8, 17 & 18 and March 29, one of them contained photo of [indecipherable words]. I thought it was David at first. I shall be very glad to receive some of him. Miss Redding was certainly very good to you. I haven't done much reading lately, I have been watching cricket most of the time. There are three fellows here I was at school with, Laurie Collins of Grimsby, Pete Gurnell of Scawby and Ray Colbeck of Scunthorpe, the last named is an army boy and gets letters from a girl in St Catherine's Rd Grantham. Who is this Dick who is missing, is it Dick Campling. A fellow next to me says it wont be long now, I hope he is right. Give my love to everyone especially to David, tell him I may see him one of these days. We are only getting a half a red cross parcel now I am afraid. All my love Walt.
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Title
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Letter from Wally Layne to his wife
Creator
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W H Layne
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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1944-09-17
Format
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One page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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ELayneWHLayneAJ440917
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Temporal Coverage
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1944-09-17
Contributor
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Jan Waller
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.
Description
An account of the resource
Writes he is fit and well and that weather was good but days drawing in. He would be sorry if he had to spend another winter as a prisoner. Talks of haircuts and mail he had received. Will be glad to get photo of baby and mentions friends at home. Says has been watching cricket and mentions friends in camp.
prisoner of war
sport