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Gill, Kenneth
K Gill
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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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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AIR MINISTRY
73-77 OXFORD STREET
LONDON, W.1.
Tel. No.:
GERRARD 01234, Ext . . .
Correspondence on the subject of this letter should be addressed to
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,
AIR MINISTRY [P.4 (Cas.) ],
and should quote the reference
P.430782/45/P.4.B.8
[stamped] 13 OCT 1945 [/stamped]
Your Ref. . . .
Sir,
I am directed to inform you that in view of the circumstances in which your son, Flying Officer K. Gill, D.F.C., was reported to be missing and believed to have lost his life, and in the absence of any evidence of his survival, his death has now been presumed, for official purposed, to have occurred on the 21st March, 1945.
I am to express the sympathy of the Department with you in your great loss.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
L. M. Church
for Director of Personal Services.
F. Gill, Esq.,
55, Kyffin Avenue,
Halton,
Leeds.
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Letter to Kenneth Gill's father from air ministry
Description
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Informs him that , in view of circumstance in which his son was reported missing and believed killed, in the absence of any evidence of survival, his death was now presumed to have occurred on 21 March 1945.
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Great Britain. Air Ministry
L M Church
Date
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1945-10-13
Temporal Coverage
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1945-10-13
1945-03-21
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Yorkshire
England--Leeds
England--London
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
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Text
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One page typewritten letter
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SGillK1438901v30077
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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
killed in action
missing in action