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Lamprey, Peter
Description
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-02-24
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Lamprey, P
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Sgt’s. Mess.
R.A.F. Ludford Magna.
Market. Rasen.
[underlined] Lincolnshire.[/underlined]
Dear Unk and others.
The big advantage of having a bunch of friends (?) like you, is that my education is always of primary importance to you. In all the years of my correspondence with you the two big high-spots have been the discovery of spelling mistakes. What in hell you are bitching about just because I put an e before an i on one occasion. After what we did to the bloody [smudged] place [/smudged] there is hardly any need to spell it again as nobody wants what is left, unless they are building a rockery. Since returning from my few days of rest we have done Manhime [sic] (sort it out as you don’t like it spelled the other way), Milan twice and Peenemunde. The last place is a factory settlement – was a factory settlement – about the size of Guinness’s and we had nearly 600 kites on it. It is now a hole three times the size of Guinness’s. There was more
[page break]
shit unloaded there in an hour that [sic] flows down Barking Creek in a year. The last one on Milan was nearly as bad. We could see the whole town coming up at us as we turned away after bombing – it was brilliant moonlight and you could see the whites of their eyes. So taken by and large the last few trips have been right on the mark. The Italian do’s are nice and quiet, not being sociable types they do not welcome us with the fervour of our Hun friends. As always, the Hun always thinks you are up there to be shot at and the stupid perisher behaves accordingly.
When I get a little more time I shall endeavour to write a longer letter but events are rather pressing so the short note will have to do for this time. I shall attend to all the mounting scores in due course but until then the usual wishes etc.
All the best
[underlined] Pete.[/underlined]
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Title
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
Description
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Peter Lamprey writes about operations to Milan, Mannheim and Peenemunde. He writes that the operation to Peenemunde included 600 aircraft and they bombed a factory settlement.
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Peter Lamprey
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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Text. Correspondence
Text
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-28
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Germany
Germany--Mannheim
Germany--Peenemünde
Italy
Italy--Milan
England--Lincolnshire
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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.
101 Squadron
bombing
Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943)
RAF Ludford Magna