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Boldy, David
Dave Boldy
D A Boldy
Description
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334 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant David Adrian Boldy (1918 – 1942, 923995 Royal Air Force) and consists of his school reports, letters from school and photographs of family and locations in India, letters from training and service, and photographs from his social life and time training. It also includes newspaper cuttings and letters about him being missing in action. David Boldy was born and attended school in India and studied law at Kings College London. He volunteered for the Royal Air Force and trained as an air gunner in South Africa. He flew operations in Manchesters and Lancasters with 207 Squadron from RAF Bottesford. His aircraft failed to return from an operation to Gdańsk 11 July 1942. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Boldy and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.<br /><br />Additional information on David Boldy is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/102182/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.
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Boldy, DA
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[Air Ministry crest]
AIR MINISTRY,
WHITTINGTON ROAD,
WORCESTER.
F.831691/42/Accts.13
21 August, 1943
Sir,
[underlined] The Late Flight Sergeant D.A. Boldy [/underlined]
I am directed to inform you that as your son’s pay account showed a debit balance of 19s.6d. at the time of his death, there is no sum due to the Service Estate in respect of pay.
A sum of £4.16.0d. for Service Post War Credit is, however, payable in respect of your son, together with the sum of £4.5s.0d. which was found amongst effects making a total of £9.1s.0d.
Under the English Law of Intestacy, this amount is divisable equally between the parents of the late airman.
/arrangements
A.D. Boldy, Esq.,
c/o Landale & Clark, Ltd.,
Nalgolla,
Dacca,
India.
Arrangements are accordingly being made through the Controller of Royal Air Force accounts, Ambala, for the sum of £4.10s.6d. in respect of your share to be paid to you.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
W.L Bishop
for Director of Accounts.
[National Scheme for Disabled Men crest]
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Letter to the family of the late David Boldy from the Air Ministry
Subject
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World War (1939-1945)
Description
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Letter from director of accounts at the Air Ministry regarding disbursements to the family of the late Flight Sergeant David Boldy.
Creator
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Great Britain. Air Ministry
Date
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1943-08-21
Format
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Two page typewritten letter
Language
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eng
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Text. Correspondence
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EAirMinBoldyAD430821
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Temporal Coverage
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1943-08-21
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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Karl Williams
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Great Britain
killed in action