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Title
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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>.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-05-30
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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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Gorton, H
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Transcription
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Cark,
Sunday.
Dearest,
I got your letter & the hairbrush today. Thank you very much. They should have arrived yesterday afternoon, but all our mail went to Arnside by mistake, so we got it today.
Thank you for the brush. I should have written to ask for it, but I thought you’d just include it with the washing when it was ready. I’m sorry you had to make up a separate parcel.
The letter was particularly welcome. You don’t say anything about your flu, so I hope it is
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better now.
I hope you’re keeping quite warm in this weather. It’s a good job your [sic] in “our” room & not the other, even if you have company. I must say I wish I was with you tonight, instead of sitting in the Flight Office at midnight.
I’ve been thinking that I’ve been expecting too many letters from you, & forgetting how inconvenient it is at Newhouse. From now on, darling, write as much as you feel like, but post your letters only when it’s convenient, perhaps once a week when you
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or Grace go to Abergavenny.
The Bank statement for Nov. 30 was £126..0.0. Reasonable, I think, considering the heavy expenses we’ve had.
You remember the fuss we had last Christmas about Income Tax – two lots, one of £15..9..0, that we paid, & the other £3..8..3 that we didn’t pay? The Air Ministry Income Tax people have just written to say I still owe the £3.8..3 – they’ve checked the matter with the Bath people, so they’re going to deduct it from my pay. I think it’s probably all right this time, so I’m not going
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to question it, especially since I’m pretty certain they’re not charging me enough tax as it is.
You remember our talking about Coleman last week? McMaster met him in Cleveleys R.A.F. hospital, where he’s been sick for months, since June, I think. Do you remember Doig, the Canadian, commissioned about 12 months ago? He’s now a Squadron Leader on Ops! And Pullen is also a S/Ldr with D.F.C. + Bar! Makes you think, doesn’t it?
All my love,
Harold.
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Description
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He writes of his colleagues promotions and includes details of his finances, his bank statement and income tax.
Creator
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Harold Gorton
Date
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1943-12-12
Format
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Four handwritten sheets
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EGortonHGortonLCM431212
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Cumbria
Rights
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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
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Title
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Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
Temporal Coverage
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1943-12
aircrew
promotion
RAF Cark