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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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Cork,
Friday.
Dearest,
I hope your cold is quite cured now despite the bad weather we’ve been having. It’s been pretty cold here, but I’ve been able to keep warm. I’m writing this in the Mess in front of a red hot log fire, & the fire will have warmed my room [deleted] before [/deleted] by the time I get there.
Gilligan is away on commission leave. It came through while I was away. It is back dated 9 months, but he has to wait 2 ½ months before he gets his F/O & then that will be back dated. Funny isn’t it?
I was a bit shaken
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yesterday to learn that all the Flying Control blokes have been made F/Lts. We’re all feeling pretty cheesed about it, because theirs is a pretty poor job & they’re all quite new officers – just got their F/Os. The only one who deserves it is an ex W/O who has done 1000 operational hours.
Otherwise, there’s not much news. I start O.C. night flying tomorrow, [deleted] indecipherable word [/deleted] but Thursday will be my last night, so it shouldn’t be much trouble.
As usual, I’ve done no work since I’ve been back. We shall have no pupils until next Thursday, & I haven’t been near
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an aeroplane yet.
One good thing I’ve discovered is that I can read Law during the day in the Education Block where there’s a reading room that no one goes into during the day. That’s quite useful as the Mess is impossible for reading, & I’m not supposed to light my own fire before 6.0 p.m.
Let me know when you’ve any news.
All my love,
Harold.
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Description
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He writes about life at RAF Cark, other officers who have been promoted, and studying for his law exams.
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Harold Gorton
Date
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1943
Format
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Three handwritten sheets
Language
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eng
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EGortonHGortonLCM431119
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.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Andy Hamilton
Title
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Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Temporal Coverage
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1943
aircrew
military living conditions
promotion
RAF Cark