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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>.
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. 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.
Identifier
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Boldy, DA
Transcribed document
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Transcription
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St. paul’s [sic] School.
Jalapahar
Darjeeling.
June 12 th 1927.
My dear Mummy and Daddy,
How are you?
I am quite well and happy. Today is Ramands [sic] birthday. Thank you for yore [sic] letter. How are Pompon and dorgey [sic] and the other to [sic] cats. We playd [sic] with chattergi’s [sic] team and they beat us by 99 runs. I have lots of fun in school.
We went to the pictures on saturday [sic]. I hope you have a nice time in Dacca. [deleted] Tell [/deleted] I hope it is not to [sic] hot in Dacca. Stephen is quite well. I hope you arrived at Dacca. I am going to Rondevous [sic] Hotle [sic]. Has Daddy got the puppy from uncle ocy [sic]. Grant has got a fountain pen as well. I have still got my watch
[page break]
and so has Stephen. Now I must end my letter. With lots of love and kisses from David.
[A line of X’s]
[Drawing of a figure on a horse]
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Description
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Letter from David Boldy to his parents in Decca. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to sports and pastimes. Contains a drawing.
Creator
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David Boldy
Date
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1929-06-12
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text. Correspondence
Text
Identifier
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EBoldyDABoldyAD-LM270612
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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India
India--Darjeeling
Temporal Coverage
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1929-06
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.
Title
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Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Contributor
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Janice Waller
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