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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>.
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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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F/Lt. H. Gorton,
Officers’ Mess,
R.A.F. Wigsley,
Nr. Newark,
Notts.
Wed. 10.30 p.m.
Dearest,
The journey here was quite uneventful, & the car behaved itself very well. This station is more dispersed than any I’ve seen, but fortunately I was able to get a bicycle. The living quarters are poor – 30 officers in one big room, but on the other hand, we are only fifty yards from the Mess.
I haven’t seen Blunsdon yet, but he is on the station, & has been living out in Lincoln all the time, coming in on a motorbike.
I thought it wouldn’t be very nice in Lincoln, & propose
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trying to find digs in Saxilby, a small town, (a little less than Brackley), about four miles away.
I cycled out there this evening but didn’t have much success. The best I found was a Mrs. Sharp, who has an army lieutenant & his wife & baby staying with her for a fortnight. They came in yesterday, so won’t be gone until the 20th, whereas I was thinking that perhaps you’d be ready to come by the end of next week at the latest.
I’ll let you know any further developments.
All my love,
Harold.
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Description
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He writes of his arrival at RAF Wigsley.
Creator
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Harold Gorton
Date
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1944-06-07
Format
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Two handwritten sheets
Language
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eng
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Text
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Identifier
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EGortonHGortonLCM440607-020001,
EGortonHGortonLCM440607-020002
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
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.
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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
Temporal Coverage
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1944-06
aircrew
military living conditions
RAF Wigsley