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Burnside, James Gordon Bennett
J G B Burnside
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-11-16
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Burnside, JGB
Description
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44 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant James Gordon Bennett Burnside (b. 1909, 155209 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents, correspondence and photographs. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 619 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Reverend Canon Terence Alan Joyce and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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R.A.F. STATION
CONINGSBY
LINCOLN
TELEPHONE: CONINGSBY 281/2/3
28-2-44
Kay Darling,
News, News, had a word with the W/C & DV etc I should be on leave by this weekend, any chance of you getting some time off?
Ron came over last night and took the crew to a friend in Boston Dr. Somebody or other, what a wizard feed we had, Ron really laid it on as our finishing up "Do" & believe me it was really bang-on
Half expected a letter from
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you today but so far no luck.
Received the Insurance & will see Percy when I'm on leave.
Afraid I've nothing else in the news line, I really like being i/c of the section, bags to do & quite a feeling of satisfaction after doing it.
Good bless Darling & don't forget I love you very much.
Yours always
Jim XXX
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Letter from James Burnside to Kay
Description
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Writes he had spoken to the wing commander and should be getting leave, asks if she could get time off. Writes of crew going out with friend for good feed in Boston. Mentions issuance.
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J G B Burnside
Date
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1944-02-28
Temporal Coverage
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1944-02-28
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
England--Boston
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
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Two page handwritten letter
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EBurnsideJGBBurnsideKE440228
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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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Sue Smith
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF Coningsby