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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.
Identifier
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Boldy, DA
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Transcription
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St. Paul’s School.
Jalapahar.
13/9/31/.
My darling Mummy.
Thank you for the letter and teligram [sic] wishing me for my birthday, and for the ruppees [sic] 10 which Daddy sent. I had a happy birthday. You will be glad to hear I am 4th for last months exams. I came 4th in Maths with 81 marks, that’s[sic] much better isn’t it. The weather has again got bad. If it is a good day on the 16th it will be a half holiday. We lost against St.Joseph’s for the Newton cup the score being 1-0, but we still have a chanes [sic]. Our under eleven team lost 3-0. There are only 71 days left for [one deleted letter] going home day. I am glad to hear you did so well in the conceat [sic]. I am ending now with love
from your loving
son David
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Description
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Letter from David Boldy to his mother telling her about day to day events at school, exam results and football scores.
Creator
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David Boldy
Date
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1931-09-13
Format
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One page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Text
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Identifier
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EBoldyDABoldyLM310913
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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India--Darjeeling
India
Temporal Coverage
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1931-09
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
Contributor
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Eileen Reddish
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