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Gorton, Harold
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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
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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.
1/10/43
Dearest,
It’s 11.15 p.m., & I’ve just left a party at the Mess – farewell for Basher, - but I want to write to you tonight so that you’ll have a letter on Monday.
The party was really surprisingly good. I’d put myself on Night flying so as to avoid it, because I thought it would be the usual drinking bout, but N/F was cancelled & so I stayed on. There was very little drinking, but lots of silly games like tug of war, horse fighting etc. Everybody joined in & we had lots of fun, but it got pretty rough after the Waafs left, & by the time I came away they’d started singing rude songs, so I’d had enough. Still, it was a good farewell to Basher, whom everyone likes.
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I must try & write my letters in bits, as there are lots of things I want to tell you, but can’t remember them when I sit down to write.
My battle dress was waiting for me when I came back from leave, & it’s been cleaned very well. The chief snag at the moment is that one of the pockets has been torn, but I think I’ll try & get the C.O.’s sewing meeting to do it, if I don’t take it home next week-end.
I think I’ll try & get a small electric fire, as it will really be very useful. If any questions are asked, I can always say I’ve got it for our home.
The more I think of it, the more I wish I could see you settled in a house of your own. I think I realised your difficulties at Newhouse more this leave than ever before, but even if everything
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were perfect there, it would still be much better for us to have our own place. I’ve been wondering what I can do about it, & the only think I can think of is to look at the adverts in the Manchester Guardian. I shall also have a look at the Bolton Evening News when I go home. It wouldn’t be very easy for you to move up to Lancashire, but if we can’t get a house in Abergavenny, we may as well have one there.
The Ops postings this month haven’t come through, so it looks as though the September postings will occur in October, & everyone be pushed a month back. I’m fifth, excluding those who are waiting for postings, so
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there will be two in November, two in December, & then myself in January. A lot can happen between now & then, however.
I hope the thrashing is going on O.K. Don’t work any harder than you can help, & take care of yourself, darling. I don’t mind so much your being ill when I’m there, because I can then be sure that you’re looked after properly, but I strongly object to your being ill when I’m away.
All my love, darling.
Keep cheerful, three months isn’t such a terribly long time.
Harold.
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Description
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He writes of the social activities at RAF Cark, domestic arrangements and expected timelines for postings.
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Harold Gorton
Date
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1943-10-01
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Four handwritten sheets
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eng
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EGortonHGortonLCM431001
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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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
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Tricia Marshall
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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1943-10
aircrew
entertainment
ground personnel
military living conditions
RAF Cark
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force