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Title
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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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7 Wallace Court,
300, Marylebone Road,
London, N.W.1.,
October 16th 1937.
My own darkling Daddy,
Thank you ever so much for your letter and all your news. I am sorry to hear from old Uncle Cyril is down and out and do hope he strikes luck. Your letter to him was very nice and you would hardly have done anything else. The squash we play is entirely different to what you used to play in Darjeeling. Mum says there was a gong and a net etc, but there is none of that here. We asked the professional but he could not enlighten us. My boil is quite allright [sic] now Thank God. Yes car accidents here are disgraceful. More people have been killed on the road, than in Japan, not China though.
After our work yesterday we went to the Stuarts. We then went ice skating with them, it was grand fun. I could skate as I got on to the rink but the only thing that annoyed me was [deleted] my legs [/deleted] the bending of my ankles from side to side as I had not quite got into balancing straight on the blades. There was a tremendous crowd there and twice the bell rang for everyone to get off and the professionals danced. It was jolly good fun. We were back past midnight and consequently up late this morning. Steve will not write this
[page break]
Airmail as he has gone to play hockey at Wembley for St. Mary’s 1st XI against Middlesex hospital. It is a friendly match. But it is jolly good for Steve and they will see that Steve’s certificates are not all eyewash.
I am getting on in my work. There is only month left for my exam. The weather is still fine and there has hardly been any rain. It is [deleted] still [/deleted] cool now but by no means uncomfortable. The other day Steve played squash with another Student but the other fellow was only a beginner. He also went to a minor operation but left after a while not because he felt sick of stomach but because his head began to swing, probably on account of the ansathetic. [sic] The other day Mum had her perm and though the girls being novices it was not expertly done, it was quite sweet and I much preferred it to any [deleted] other [/deleted] of the sets in the other perm she had. Well no more to-day, God bless & keep you & bring you back safely to us, with lots of love & kisses, from your
loving son
[underlined] David [/underlined]
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Letter from David Boldy to his father about family relatives in London, sports, health issues and having exams in a months’ time.
Date
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1937-10-16
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text. Correspondence
Text
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EBoldyDABoldyAD371016
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1937-10
Creator
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David Boldy
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Title
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Letter from David Boldy to his father
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Civilian
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Gemma Clapton
sport