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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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Transcription
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St. Pauls School.
Jalapahar.
10.4.32.
My darling Mummy.
Thank you for your letter. I came 1 [underlined] st [/underlined] in Latin with 71 marks. You will be very sorry to hear that we are in quarantine for chicken pox. There is going to be a fair this Saturday [sic] on our big field. The days are simply flying. I am sending you the position of the class for the first 3 exams, the 4 [underlined] th [/underlined] exam has not been corrected yet. Last evening there was a [deleted] big [/deleted] fire down the cud and it lasted till [deleted] the [/deleted] about 12 o-clock to-day, then at half past 10 there was another fire wich [sic] stopped 10 yards from Miss Shelvetons house. I have got 9 of those nestles pictures and I am sending them inside this letter. What is the name of the girl collecting them..?.. It has been terribly hot to-day.
[page break]
I helped to put the fords fire out. The whole hillside was one man of Black. I am the [deleted] h [/deleted] leader of a patrol of Scouts. What kind of photos does your camera take? The days are going very fast, we have already been in school a month.
I am ending now with love from
your loving son
[underlined] David [/underlined]
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David Boldy
Date
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1932-04-10
Identifier
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EBoldyDABoldyLM320410
Temporal Coverage
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1932-04
Description
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Letter from David Boldy to his mother. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, telling her of his activities and hobbies.
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text. Correspondence
Text
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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India
India--Darjeeling
Contributor
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Anita Reine
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 mother