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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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Gorton, H
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Fiskerton
Wed. 20/9/44
Dearest,
This is just a short note to let you know how much I miss you. As yesterday, I am writing this after getting up (10.45 a.m.), so as to make sure I have time for it.
Last night was the fourth night running that we flew, so we are hoping for a stand down tonight. As you can imagine, I haven’t been able to go & see Spalford this week, but will do so at the first opportunity. The tomatoes ought to have come on very well, as we’ve had a good deal of sunshine in the past few days.
I haven’t finished “Cornish Childhood” yet, as I haven’t had much time for reading, but will send it as soon as possible.
Yesterday the Flying Control officer from Cark paid Fiskerton a visit. Everyone who was there in January (of the staff pilots & instructors) is now in training for ops or on ops. Gibb & Price are still there, & everything otherwise
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2
is much the same.
All my love, darling,
Harold.
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Title
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Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Description
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He writes of his flying and colleagues from Cark.
Creator
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Harold Gorton
Date
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1944-09-20
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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EGortonHGortonLCM440920-010001,
EGortonHGortonLCM440920-010002
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
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1944-09
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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
aircrew
pilot
RAF Cark
RAF Fiskerton