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Gill, Kenneth
K Gill
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-07-09
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Gill, K
Description
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One hundred and sixty-four items plus another one hundred and fifteen in two sub-ciollections. The collection concerns Flying Officer Kenneth Gill DFC (1922 - 1945, 1438901, 155097 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents, photographs and family and other correspondence. <br />He flew operations as a navigator with 9 Squadron before starting a second tour with 617 Squadron. He was killed 21 March 1945 having completed 45 operations.<br /><br />The collection also contains two albums. <br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2114">Kenneth Gill. Album One</a><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2117">Kenneth Gill. Album Two</a><br /><br />Additional information on Kenneth Gill is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/108654/">IBCC Losses Database.</a><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Derek Gill and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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[Royal Air Force badge]
F/O. GILL. K.
R.A.F. SYERSTON.
NR. NEWARK.
NOTTS.
June. 7th/44.
Dear mum & dad.
Hello again, hope you're all keeping well and David has stopped thinking about poor N*****.
I arrived back alright, leaving Leeds at the unholy hour of 7.50 a.m. and arriving here at 11.30 a.m. The train didn't stop at Newark so I hitched back from Grantham; I didn't mind really the ride was quite enjoyable and I heard the news a bit sooner.
It certainly is great to think that we're in France again, it looks like we'll smash them this time alright. So far we've not been called upon for action but if we are there'll be a fight for aircraft, the boys are just rarin' to go, every one of them.
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I think the radio will be burning it's valves out it’s on nearly all day so that we don't miss any little bit of news; when the communiques come through the anteroom is as silent as a grave, everybody listening intently to hear the progress of the lads over there.
Let's hope this is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending of the last World War; if we could all have that assurance then no sacrifice would be too great.
Our lads coming back on Tuesday morning said you could literally walk across the channel on landing craft, it must have been a very impressive sight I'd like to go and see for myself.
Well I havn't [sic] any news for you this time so I'll close. I really did enjoy my leave mum & dad thanks to you both.
Goodnight and God Bless You,
Your Loving Son
Ken. [kisses] David [kisses]
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Letter from Kenneth Gill to his parents
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Writes of journey back to camp. Mentions it was good that they were back in France and that they had not been called upon for action. Writes of radio being on constantly for communiques and hopes that this was the beginning of the end of the war. Makes some comments on invasion forces.
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K Gill
Date
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1944-06-07
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1944-06-07
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Great Britain
England--Nottinghamshire
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Two page handwritten letter
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SGillK1438901v30043
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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
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Sue Smith
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Syerston