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Gorton, Harold
Description
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136 items. The collection concerns Squadron Leader Harold Gorton (1914 - 1944, 120984, Royal Air Force) and contains eight photographs and 126 letters to his wife and family. Harold Gorton studied at Oxford, and throughout his time in the RAF he continued studying law. He completed a tour of operations as a pilot in 1941 and was then posted as an instructor to RAF Cark. He returned to operations with 49 Squadron stationed at RAF Fulbeck in 1944. He was killed 11/12 November 1944 during an operation to Harburg.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Mair Gorton and Ian Gorton, and catalogued by Barry Hunter. <br /><br />Additional information on Harold Gorton is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/108964/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-05-30
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Gorton, H
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OFFICERS’ MESS,
ROYAL AIR FORCE,
CARK,
NORTH LANCASHIRE.
TELEPHONE GRANGE 390.
30/9/43
Dearest,
It was simply grand getting your letter this lunch time, & it cheered me up no end.
I thought I should be very keen & ready for work when I came back, as I’d had such a good leave & was feeling so fit, but everything seems to turn to dust & ashes now that I’ve left you. I wish I could go back & chop some wood for you & then have a game of bridge this evening, but actually, I’m on night flying, & have spent the afternoon in bed.
The weather hasn’t been good since I’ve been here; we’ve had very little flying weather, & I doubt if we shall fly tonight. It was a good job I didn’t get back on Monday night because everyone said the weather was
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terrible, & I should have got wet through walking to the camp.
Basher [deleted] , [/deleted] has been posted to a staff job at Plymouth! It looks like promotion for him, but he doesn’t want to leave.
Wyver’s little boy has had a slight hernia, & has had to go to Morecombe for an operation. Bad luck, isn’t it.
Wyver was wild yesterday when he discovered that the C.O. had taken this cartoon (the cartoonist has been here again) to hang up in the Mess. Pretty cool, wasn’t it to walk of with it & others without so much as a by your leave.
Anyway, I found it in the bar today, & have hidden it until Wyver comes back from his day off.
I expect I shall be O.C. night flying tomorrow for a week. I shan’t mind, as I shall be able to get home on Friday for the concert that evening, but it is rather a bore, as the nights are
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so long now.
I’m sorry you didn’t sleep well on Monday. You shouldn’t worry about me, as I’m really looking after myself pretty well, & am very fit, thanks to you & the leave.
It strikes me that it’s a good thing you didn’t stay on at W. Twerton, or you might be occupying a coffin instead of your successor.
All my love darling,
Harold.
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Description
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He writes of his flying duties, the weather and his colleagues.
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Harold Gorton
Date
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1943-09-30
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Three handwritten sheets
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eng
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EGortonHGortonLCM430930
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
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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.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Emma Bonson
Title
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Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Cumbria
Temporal Coverage
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1943-09
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF Cark