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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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2017-07-17
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[underlined] NO. 35 SQUADRON FLYING PROGRAMME FOR 8th JUNE, 1946 [/underlined] Serial 104
A/C Letter Captain and Crew Spares or Passengers Details Call Meal Briefing Buses Take Off Duration of Flight
F W/C CRAIG (1) VICTORY PARADE - 1430 0910 1030 1200 2 hours
N F/O LAMB (2) FLY-PAST
C F/L MATHERS (3)
A S/L BEETHAM (4)
D F/L CLARINE (5)
H F/O HAMPSON (6)
M F/L PENNINGTON (7)
R F/O ROBINSON (8)
S P/O LEADON (9)
P S/L HARRIS (10)
G F/L GREIG (11)
L P/O CHESHIRE (12)
RESERVE AIRCRAFT: - “E” and “O”
OFFICER i/c W/C CRAIG
DUTY NAV. OFFICER F/L BARNES
DUTY SIGS. OFFICER F/L WALTON
S.D.O F/L DAWSON
NUMBER OF BUSES : 3 (THREE)
WING COMMANDER, COMMANDING,
NO. 35 SQUADRON.
[inserted] This Photostat supplied by Alan [indecipherable word] in January 1986 [/inserted]
[page break]
[photograph]
[underlined] VICTORY DAY FLY PAST. [/underlined]
[underlined] 8th JUNE 1946. [/underlined]
Bomber boys were bang on the target
RAIN and poor flying weather nearly “scrubbed” the R.A.F. Victory flypast over London yesterday, writes a “Sunday Chronicle” reporter who flew in the wedge formation of the Lancaster bombers belonging to the famous No. 35 Pathfinder Squadron.
But, despite the poor visibility, I saw from 1,300 feet the surging Victory crowds.
Whitehall and Trafalgar Square were a sea of white faces framed in splashes of colour from flags and bunting. Along The Mall, the blue square of the R.A.F. marching column was just coming up to the Saluting Base – at what seem a snail’s pace.
The fly past of 307 planes which may be one if the last formation flights by R.A.F. and Fleet Air Arm planes for some years, was led by a tubby Battle of Britain Hurricane, piloted by the Unknown Warrior of the R.A.F.
His identity will never be known because he will symbolise all living and dead Fighter Command pilots.
The timing Was Split-Second
It was an operation of split-second timing.
The Lancaster Formation left the ground at Graveley, Herts, aerodrome at 30 second intervals.
They flew over Cambridge, turned at [indecipherable word] to Colchester, and over the mud flats of the Colne Estuary to Maldon.
They were guided by the un-seen hand of ground control interrogation, used in operations to spot German aircraft in the Battle of Britain.
At Romford the sky darkened, at Leyton fine rain started falling, and the weather worsened steadily during the run up to London.
As the planes left Buckingham Palace and passed over Kew, the leader, Wing-Commander A. J. I. Craig. D.S.O D.F.C. shouted through the inter-comm “Good show, chaps, the weather couldn’t have been worse, but you were bang on the target”. It was just like the old days coming back from a raid on Germany.
Crack Squadron To Fly In U.S.
The pilot of my plane was Flight Lieutenant Ken [indecipherable word], who won the D.F.C. on his second operation, and twice brought home his plane with the nose smashed in.
His only other passenger was a pretty W.A.A.F., L.A.C.W. Jeanne Forbes. She earned her trip by working overtime for two months on the squadron’s V-Day preparations.
But is not the last Victory Fly Past of No. 35 Squadron. On July 3 they leave for America as the only representative of the R.A.F. in the U.S. Army Air Force Day and Victory celebrations in New York, Washington and other American cities.
Meteors flew ‘blind’ in Victory flypast
During the fly-past the Tempests were ordered to break from line because the Meteor jet planes, the world’s swiftest fighters, were coming in very fast, and, owing to the weather, could not see anything ahead.
Vampires came in about 300 [indecipherable word] north of the line, again owing to weather conditions.
All aircraft landed at their [indecipherable word] stations except one Spitfire Squadron which landed at [indecipherable word] instead of Middle Wallop owing to the weather.
Highlights of the flypast by the R.A.F. and Fleet Air Arm was the [indecipherable word] formation of the Meteors. They were cheered to the echo of thousands of watchers – mainly under umbrellas – perched on rain-swept rooftops or hanging precariously from windows. Millions [indecipherable word] in the saturated streets were [indecipherable word] by the display.
Rain fell steadily and visibility was poor when the lone Hurricane fighter, flown by an anonymous Battle of Britain pilot, led the [indecipherable word] at exactly one o’clock.
[photograph]
[underlined] ”C” FOR CHARLIE COMES IN FROM THE “DO” [/underlined]
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Victory day flypast
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Item 1 is a list of the aircrew from 35 Squadron who took part in the Victory day flypast.
Photograph 1 is 12 Lancasters in formation at the Fly past. It is captioned 'Victory Day Fly Past 8th June 1946'
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting referring to the fly past.
Photograph 2 is an aircraft landing. It is captioned '"C" for Charlie comes in from the "Do".'
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1946-06-08
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eng
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Photograph
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SMathersRW55201v10007
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--London
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1946-06-08
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One printed sheet, two b/w photographs and one newspaper cutting on a scrapbook page.
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Georgie Donaldson
Steve Baldwin
35 Squadron
Lancaster
Pathfinders
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Mathers, Ronald. Album
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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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SMathersRW55201v1
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2017-07-17
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[underlined] D.G.P.1. [/underlined] Copy: - A.N.P.
C.A.S. wishes the following message to be sent to all R.A.F Units and formations which took part in the Victory Parade:-
“I wish to offer my very sincere congratulations to all those, on the ground and in the air, officers and other ranks, men and women, who showed the world on Victory Day that the spirit, the discipline and the skill of the Royal Air Force is as high as it ever was.
TEDDER.
Marshall of the Royal Air Force”
[underlined] 12th June, 1946. [/underlined]
[signature]
[underlined] P.A. to C.A.S. [/underlined]
-2-
[underlined] P.A. to C.A.S. [/underlined][inserted] [initials] 14/6 [/inserted]
C.A.S’s message has been signalled to all Commanders-in-Chief at home and overseas. It has also been sent to the Commandant R.O.C., D.G.G.D. Matron-in-Chief and D.W.A.A.F.
Arrangements have also been made for it to be promulgated in A.P.Os.
[signature]
(D.HARRIES)
J.O.P.( I )
[underlined] 14.6.46 [/underlined]
[page break]
[underlined] SQUADRON TRIANGLE and TRAFALAR SQUARE. [/underlined]
[photograph]
[underlined] NELSON TURNED HIS BACK BUT NO DOUBT SOMEONE WAS LOOKING. [/underlined]
[inserted] A – Mike Beetham E. Gil Hampson. G. [indecipherable name]
R – Robby Robinson P Shorty Harris
[indecipherable words] – S. Paddy Leadon. L Frank Cheshire. [/inserted]
THE SPHERE
[photograph]
THE LANCASTERS FLY OVER CENTRAL LONDON – MACHINES OF NO. 35 SQUADRON ABOVE THE CITY AS THEY HEADED FROM FAIRLOP AERODROME TO THE SALUTING-BASE IN THE MALL: A prelude to the fly-past which, despite the increasingly poor visibility, was a spectacular feature of the Victory Day celebrations and was rehearsed beforehand with the most exacting efficiency. The Lancasters – machines which played such a vital part in the distruction of German industry – were led by Wing Commander A.J.L. Craig, D.S.O., D.F.C., the R.A.F.’s youngest Wing Commander. The great dissimilarities in the speeds of the various types of aircraft in the procession – they ranged from 150 m.p.h. to the 350-m.p.h. cruising speed of the jets – was a problem, but this was solved by so timing the convergence of the units that when the Hurricane was over the saluting-base the Meteors were still 65 miles away
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Victory day flypast
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Item 1 is a letter from 'Tedder' to all participants in the Victory Day flypast.
Photograph 1 is a flypast of 12 Lancasters taken from the ground. It is captioned 'Squadron triangle and Trafalgar Square' and underneath 'Nelson turned his back but no doubt someone was looking'.
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting referring to 35 Squadron and with an air-to-air photograph of six Lancasters over London. The cutting has the aircraft and Captains annotated in handwriting.
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1946-06-12
Language
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eng
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Photograph
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SMathersRW55201v10008
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--London
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1946-06-08
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One letter, one b/w photograph and one newspaper cutting on a scrapbook page.
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Georgie Donaldson
Steve Baldwin
35 Squadron
aircrew
Lancaster
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Mathers, Ronald. Album
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An account of the resource
45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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SMathersRW55201v1
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2017-07-17
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The RAF goes to New York
From Daily Mail Correspondent
New York, Wednesday.
PUNCTUAL to the second, 16 Lancaster bomber of 25 “Pathfinder” Squadron swooped down on Mitchell Field, Long Island, this afternoon and received a generous warm-hearted welcome.
The Lancasters were due to arrive at 4 p.m. New York time from Newfoundland, and at 3.55 a great cry went up from hundreds of American Air Force men, civilian workers, and hangar hands: “Here they are – dead on time.”
The roar of the Lancasters’ 64 engines drowned their cheers as the famous British squadron, in the tightest possible formation, sailed straight down the centre of U.S. Army Air Force’s great field.
The R.A.F. flyers then gave a breath-taking exhibition of “peeling off” as they broke formation and came in singly to make their landing.
‘PROUD OF YOU’
Led by 24-year-old Wing Commander A.J.L. Craig, D.S.O., D.F.C., the Lancasters touched down smartly behind each other on the first lap of their happiest mission – Operation Goodwill.
Soon all 16 were neatly lined up in front of operations control, and 200 R.A.F. men, forming up in ranks, stood to attention as the American Air Force band played “God Save the King.”
Speaking on behalf of General Karl [indecipherable name], Lieut-General T. Stratemeyer, commanding officer, U.S. Air Defence Command, said:
“Our people are proud of the R.A.F. They will want to thank you and many will step forward personally to do so. God bless you.”
[inserted] IT'S A BIT OF A LINE, BUT WE WERE DEAD ON TIME. [/inserted]
[photograph]
RAF’s NEW YORK WELCOME
After the Anglo-American bickering that has been going on regarding the Loan, it is pleasant to see this reminder of the Anglo-American unity that helped to win the war. The RAF received a warm welcome at Mitchell Field, Long Island.
[page break]
[underlined] MITCHEL FIELD. N.Y. [/underlined]
17th – 21st JULY 1946.
[photograph]
[underlined] THE GUARD OF HONOUR (or a banquet of Snowdrops). [/underlined]
[photograph]
THE WINGCO IS INTRODUCED TO THE BASE COMMANDER.
L. To R. W/C CRAIG, G/C COLLARD, Col. L.E. PARKER.
[photograph]
SQUADRON PARADE FOR WELCOMEING ADDRESS
In the background – the Wingco’s kite & behind it, the G/C’s “York” transport.
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The RAF goes to New York
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Item 1 is a newspaper cutting refers to the punctual arrival of 16 Lancasters of 35 Squadron at Mitchel Field, Long Island. It is captioned 'Its a bit of a line, but we were dead on time'. Item 2 is a newspaper cutting 'RAF's New York Welcome' with a photograph of officers shaking hands. The photographs are captioned 'Mitchel Field. N.Y. 17th-21st July 1946'. Photograph 1 is an American guard of honour watched by a large crowd, some on top of a brick building. It is captioned ' The Guard of Honour (& a bouquet of Snowdrops)'. Photograph 3 is three officers shaking hands in front of airmen and a Lancaster. It is captioned 'The Wingco is introduced to the Base Commander. L to R. W/C Crane, G/C Collard and Col L.E. Parker'. Photograph 4 is the guard of honour and a line of airmen in front of a Lancaster. It is captioned 'Squadron parade for welcoming address In the background - the Wingco's kite & behind it, the G/C's "York" transport.'
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1946-07
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Two newspaper cuttings and four b/w photographs
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eng
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Photograph
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SMathersRW55201v10014
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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United States
New York (State)
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1946-07
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Steve Baldwin
Georgie Donaldson
35 Squadron
aircrew
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
Pathfinders
York
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Mathers, Ronald. Album
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An account of the resource
45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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SMathersRW55201v1
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2017-07-17
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[photograph]
[page break]
[missing letters].F. THRILLS [missing letter]EW YORK
[missing letters]m Johnson Turner
[missing word][italics] Chronicle special cor[missing letters]ent with the Lancaster [missing letters]all mission now in U.S. [/italics]
[missing word] YORK, Saturday. – The [missing word] thrill for New Yorkers [missing word] was the spectacular [missing letters]ion flight of the 16 R.A.F. [missing letters]sters over the city’s sky[missing letters]rs.
[missing letters]ough the crews were unused [missing word] violent air currents that [missing word] in America at this time [missing word] they handled their planes [missing letters] ficently as they roared down [missing letters] ngth of Manhattan in the [missing letters] at possible formation.
[missing letters]tain’s youngest Wing-Com[missing letters]er, Alan Craig, D.S.O. D.F.C.
“This was one of the most [missing letters]alt formation flights the [missing letters]ron have ever made. I was [missing letters]g as much as five hundred [missing letters]n the most violent bumps.”
[missing word] add to the crews’ discomfort [missing word] interior of the planes were too [missing word] to touch and most of the men [missing word] bathing trunks.
MONDAY, JULY 22, 1946 and Morning Post Printed in LONDON and MANCH[missing letters]
[photograph]
LANCASTER BOMBERS of the famous Pathfinder Squadron No. 35 in flight over the East River, New York, last Thursday. These R.A.F. planes have been sent on a good will mission to the United States.
[underlined] 18 JULY 1946. [/underlined]
[photograph]
The crew with Eddy (centre), Tommy, Self, Jack, Paddy, Ted, Tedney, Chalrie
Bronxite in RAF on Goodwill Visit
The Bronx has a Yank in the R.A.F. He is Tech Sgt. Edward S. Machonis, 728 Elton Ave, who has been placed on detached service with Squadron 35 of the Royal Air Force, now on a good will tour of the United States.
Because of his rating as chief operator of the Army communications service at Mitchel Field, the sergeant was assigned to brief the crews of the giant four motored Lancaster bombers on American communication data.
He was flown to Gander Field, Newfoundland, to meet the 16 bombers on their flight from England.
“I was taken up to Newfoundland by Squadron Leader Pearson, who preceded the main flight.
It was my job to see they were thoroughly informed about radio ranges and communication facilities that would be encountered during their trip,” he said.
Crews Were Briefed
The visiting airmen were grouped in a hangar on the field, and the 24-year-old American sergeant presented the information to them. Following his talk, he invited questions.
With all routine matters taken care of, the flight to New York continued. “We had prefect weather coming down. It couldn’t have been better if we personally ordered it,” the sergeant said.
The 207 officers and enlisted men of the British Squadron were welcomed at the Long Island airport on Wednesday by civil and Army officials, which included Col. L. R. Parker, base commander of the field: Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, Gen. Jimmie Doolittle and Frederick Reinicke, New York City Commissioner of Aviation.
[photograph]
Tech. Sgt. Edward S, Machonis
Flew Over City
On Thursday, the 16 huge bombers flew over the city as the first mission of their tour. Sgt Machonis, supervising the radio communications, lauded the cooperation and efficiency of the crews.
“Their lead navigator,” he said, “told us we would be over the Empire States building at exactly 1.20 p.m. We hit it right on the second.”
Headed by Wing Commander Allan J. I. Craig, the Lancasters will tour the States as guests of the Army Air Forces and will hold the position of honor [sic] in an aerial review to be held on Air Force Day, Aug. 1, over Los Angeles. On Aug. 18, the squadron will arrive at Mitchel Field and will then return to England.
Sgt Machonis, who lives with his Australian wife, Iris, and their nine-months-old baby Michael, is not impressed with the unusual duty that has been assigned to him.
The sergeant has been in the Army over four years and intends to make a career of it.
[photograph]
A good load for an equally good kite Crew and Passengers
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The Royal Air Force at Mitchel Field
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Photograph 1 is a line of airmen and a guard of honour in front of a Lancaster. Item 1 is a newspaper cutting referring to the arrival of the Lancasters over New York. Item 2 refers to the arrival of the Lancasters and includes an air to air shot of 12 Lancasters over New York. It is dated 18 July 1946. Item 3 is a newspaper cutting 'Bronxite in RAF on Goodwill Visit'. A native of the Bronx is on detachment to 35 squadron. The cutting refers to the arrival of 35 squadron in New York. Photograph 2 is seven airmen captioned 'The crew with Eddy (central) Tommy, Self, Jack, Ted, Tedney, Charlie'. Photograph 3 is 12 airmen standing in front of a Lancaster captioned 'A good load for an equally good kite Crew & Passengers'.
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1946-07-18
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eng
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Photograph
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SMathersRW55201v10017
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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United States
New York (State)
New York (State)--New York
Temporal Coverage
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1946-07
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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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Three b/w photographs and three newspaper cuttings on a scrapbook page.
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Georgie Donaldson
Steve Baldwin
35 Squadron
aircrew
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
-
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Mathers, Ronald. Album
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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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SMathersRW55201v1
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2017-07-17
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[missing letters]Y. JULY 19, 1946 23
WINGS OF PEACE OVER NEW YORK
[photograph]
HIGH, WIDE, AND HANDSOME. Here on goodwill mission, dozen four engined Lancaster bombers fly over New York, giving inkling of the might that was blended with U.S. warbirds to produce victory in air over Europe. Shot of British planes was made by News aerial fotog flying above formation.
[page break]
[photograph]
[underlined] BEER AND HOT DOGS AT THE PONY RACES [/underlined]
[photograph] [photograph]
[underlined] THE SWIMMING POOL MITCHELL FIELD. L to R:- PETE, JERRY , PENNY & I [/underlined]
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Wings of Peace over New York
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Item 1 is a newspaper cutting with a photograph of 12 Lancasters over New York. Photograph 1 is a group of airmen seated in tiered rows. It is captioned 'Beer and Hot Dogs at the Pony Races'. Photograph 2 and 3 are four airmen seated at a round table with a parasol. Behind is a swimming pool and diving board. It is captioned 'The swimming pool Mitchel Field, L to R Pete, Jerry, Penny and I.'
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1946-07
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eng
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SMathersRW55201v10018
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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United States
New York (State)
New York (State)--New York
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1946-07
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One newspaper cutting and three b/w photographs on a scrapbook page
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Georgie Donaldson
35 Squadron
entertainment
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
Pathfinders
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Howard, Irene
I Howard
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31 Items. An oral history interview with Irene Howard née Green (1925 - 2018), Civil Defence Warden Service and war damage compensation documents, identity cards and ration books as well as various Christmas greetings and photographs of family. She worked in a factory in Manchester during the war and as an Air Raid Precaution Warden. Her house was bombed in December 1940.
The collection was donated by Irene Howard and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Howard, I
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-01-12
2017-03-30
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[Crest]
LANCASHIRE CONSTABULARY,
(Air Raid Precautions Department),
PRESTON, 8th May, 1945
LANCASHIRE CIVIL DEFENCE WARDENS’ SERVICE
SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY
1. Now that the Stand-down of the Wardens’ Service in Lancashire has taken effect from the 2nd May, 1945, and has been closely followed by the cessation of hostilities in Europe, I should like to place on record my very deep appreciation of the magnificient [sic] work done by all member of the Lancashire Civil Defence Wardens’ Service.
2. We remember with pride the work performed by the Wardens in close liaison with the Police from 1938, to the present time, especially during those anxious days when the County was the target of enemy activity. In most cases your duties were performed after long hours at business or essential industry, in a manner which can only be described as depicting the greatest loyalty. All members of the Service have shown themselves to be willing and cheerful under most trying conditions.
3. In addition, many tasks have been undertaken by you in relation to the general public, and I realise and appreciate you have spent many hours of your time in this phase of public welfare. I can only say that I deeply and sincerely thank you for the wonderful support I have received from all members of the Wardens’ Service.
4. The team spirit has carried you forward on the peak of efficiency, and the traditions of the County of Lancaster have been worthily upheld by you all. I am most grateful to you and I trust that with the passing of the Lancashire Civil Defence Wardens’ Service you will carry the spirit of comradeship into the years of peace for the mutual benefit of the County and Country.
5. I would also like to take this opportunity of wishing you all every success in the peace years which now lie before us.
[Signature]
Chief Constable of Lancashire.
TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE WARDENS’ SERVICE
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Lancashire civil defence warden's service
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Letter of appreciation to all members of the Lancashire civil defence warden's service. Includes Special order of the day after the service had stood down from 2 May 1945 and offers appreciation of work done. States that work was in close cooperation with Police since 1938, especially when country was under attack, and acknowledges many hours were also spent in public welfare.
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Great Britain. The chief constable of Lancashire
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1945-05-08
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One page printed document
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eng
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Text. Correspondence
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MHowardI19250926-170330-07
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Preston (Lancashire)
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1945-05-02
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Georgie Donaldson
Air Raid Precautions
civil defence
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Maddock-Lyon, Roy. Scrap book
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Maddock-Lyon, R
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2016-03-21
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20 pages. The scrap book contains items about Roy Maddock-Lyon's aircraft being shot down over Holbæk in Denmark 14 February 1945 and his subsequent evasion. It contains correspondence, photographs of the wreckage of his aircraft ZA-X, and what happened to his crew.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning John Grayshan and Albert Berry. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/211033/">John Grayshan</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202051/">Albert Berry</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database.</p>
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From: Sgt. F. Maddock-Lyon (2205669), No 10 Squadron, R.A.F..
To: [indecipherable word] Air Attache, Stockholm.
Date: 22nd February, 1945.
[Underline] Report on crash of 10 Squadron in Denmark on the night of the 14th/15th February, 1945, and subsequent escape of certain members of the crew to Sweden.[/underlined]
Sir,
I have the honour to submit the following report.
2. On the night of the 14th/15th February we were detailed for a special operation which entailed crossing Denmark. The crew consisted of:-
P/O. J. GRAYSHAN (Pilot)
F/S. A.J. BERRY (navigator)
P/O. S. [indecipherable] (Bomb aimer)
F/S. P.F. ANDREWS (W/T. operator)
F/S. N.L. MILLS (Mid upper gunner)
Sgt. R. MADDOCK-LYON (Engineer)
F/S. J. PAYNE (Rear gunner)
3. We set course from base (10 Squadron) at 1010 hrs. for Flamborough Head at 1000 ft.. This height we maintained until 0060N was reached and we then climbed to 15,000 ft. to the Danish Coast, when we again climbed to 16,000 ft., which we maintained over Denmark to Point ‘A’. At the time I was making my log out when suddenly there was blinding flash, followed by a terrible bang. I immediately looked through the astrodome to see what damage had been done and I saw a fire begin on the port wing in the centre and rear behind the inboard engine. Before [deleted][indecipherable word][/deleted] I could feather the inboard engine the flames had enveloped the whole wing, so the pilot gave the order to “Prepare to bale out”. I put the pilot his parachute on and put my own on. Then he gave the order “Bale out”. During this time he had put the plane into an almost vertical descent. I
Roy’s initial interrogation report (a,b,c.) from Malmo.
[page break]
went down to the front escape hatch (under the navigator’s table) and found that the door was jammed or frozen. Then there was a tearing of metal and the next I remember is floating down to earth with my parachute open, [underline] minus [/underlined] flying boots, gloves and helmet. On landing in about 6” of mud I collected my parachute and Mae West and harness and covered them with mud as best I could as I was very dazed and headed for the road which was about 160 yards away. I went to Point ‘B’, where they washed and fed me and put me to bed.
4. Next morning I awoke and outside the house were about 12 German soldiers studying parts of the plane, especially [underline] Article ‘N’ [/underlined]. At 1600 hrs. person ‘Z’ arrived and told me he would come for me at 2000 hrs. to take me to point ‘C’. I told him about article ‘N’ and next morning he told me it had been taken care of. (During this or future time I did not see any of the crew except one body which was carried on a stretcher covered up, so I could not see his face.) ‘Z’ then told me we were going to point ‘D’ and I was to go in civilian clothes, which I did. At ‘D’ I was shown by [sic] room (16th February) and taken care of by person ‘Y’.
5. Next day, 17th February, person ‘X’ came for me and I was taken to contact ‘N’ at point ‘E’, where I got article ‘N’. Person ‘Y’ came for me and took me to ‘F’, where I remained until 1715 hrs. on 19th February. During this time ‘V’ took me round and showed me various places taken over by the Gestapo and military authorities and told me of sabotage done by the Resistance Movement. Details of these places will be given when required.
6. At 1715 on the 19th February I left ‘F’ and returned to point ‘E’ where at 1815 I was taken to point ‘G’. ‘U’ then took me to point ‘N’, where I remained until 2115, when I was taken for some food by ‘T’ as ‘U’ had left. The boat was going from ‘E’ to point ‘J’ but I left at point ‘K’, which is in Sweden,
7. I promise the statement here is the truth of my activities in Demark from 2030 on the night of the 14th February to the morning of the 20th February 1945.
(Sd.).. Maddock-Lyon (R.A.F.)
[signature]
Sergeant.
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Report on crash of aircraft of 10 Squadron in Denmark on the night of 14th/15th February 1945, and subsequent escape of certain members of the crew to Sweden
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A detailed report on the flight over Denmark, the explosion on the aircraft and evacuating the damaged aeroplane. The subsequent evasion to Sweden is also described.
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Roy Maddock-Lyon
Date
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1945-02-22
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Two typewritten sheets on an album page
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eng
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Text
Text. Diary
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SMaddockLyonR2205669v10014
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Denmark
Sweden
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1945-02-14
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Georgie Donaldson
Steve Baldwin
10 Squadron
aircrew
crash
evading
flight engineer
Resistance
shot down
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Maddock-Lyon, Roy. Scrap book
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Maddock-Lyon, R
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2016-03-21
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An account of the resource
20 pages. The scrap book contains items about Roy Maddock-Lyon's aircraft being shot down over Holbæk in Denmark 14 February 1945 and his subsequent evasion. It contains correspondence, photographs of the wreckage of his aircraft ZA-X, and what happened to his crew.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning John Grayshan and Albert Berry. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/211033/">John Grayshan</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202051/">Albert Berry</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database.</p>
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[photograph]
The graves of Jonny and Red Berry
[page break]
[photograph]
Caterpillar Club Membership Card.
[newspaper cutting]
Over 20,000 ‘Escapers’
MEMBERSHIP of the Caterpillar Club, Britain’s most famous “escapers” organisation, has topped the 20,000 mark after six years of war.
Membership is confined to those who have made forced descents by parachutes. Nearly 10,000 men have had their claims ratified within the last nine months. Among them are a large number of P.o.W.
Among the members are Wing Commander Bader, two V.C.s – Squadron Leader J. B. Nicholson and Flight-Lieutenant Reid – and Air Vice-Marshall Bennett, the Pathfinder chief who landed in Sweden.
Members are planning a big V-celebration when the war prisoners return home.
Over 20,000 Escapers.
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The graves of Johnny and Red Berry. Roy Maddock-Lyon's Caterpillar Club membership card and a newspaper cutting
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Item 1 is an image of the graves of F/O Grayshan and Serg Berry, captioned 'The graves of Jonny and Red Berry'.
Item 2 is a Caterpillar Club membership card issued to Sgt Roy Maddock-Lyon, captioned 'Caterpillar Club Membership Card.'
Item 3 is a newspaper cutting referring to 20,000 'Escapers' belonging to the Caterpillar Club, captioned 'Over 20000 Escapers.'
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One photograph, one printed card and one newspaper cutting on an album page
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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SMaddockLyonR2205669v10017
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Denmark
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Georgie Donaldson
aircrew
bale out
Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986)
Caterpillar Club
final resting place
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
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An account of the resource
529 items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer James Douglas Hudson, DFC (755052 Royal Air Force) who joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1939 and trained as an observer. While on route to Malta in August 1940 his Blenheim crashed in Tunisia and he was subsequently interned for two and a half years by Vichy French in Tunisia and Algeria. After being freed he returned to Great Britain and after navigator retraining completed a tour of 30 operations on 100 Squadron. The collection contains letters to and from his parents and from French penfriends while interned in Tunisia and Algeria, newspaper cuttings of various events, logbooks and lists of operations, official documents and photographs. A further 23 items are in two sub-collections with details of navigator examinations and postcards of Laghouat Algeria.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Elizabeth Smith and Yvonne Puncher and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning Louis Murray and Harry Bowers. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202827/">Harry Bowers</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/220410/">Louis Murray</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database.</p>
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-06-16
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Hudson, JD
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RESCUED FROM NORTH AFRICA INTERNMENT CAMP
BURNLEY BOYS HOME AFTER GREAT ORDEAL
RELEASED from interment in French North Africa by the recent invasion by American and British forces, several local men have arrived home this week and been joyfully welcomed by their families.
Among them are Marine George Latham, 40, Travis-street, Burnley, and Ordinary Seaman George Taylor 30, Grasmere-street.
Both were on board H.M. Cruiser “Manchester”, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on August 13th, while escorting a Malta convoy. The crew most of whom were uninjured, reached the North African coast, and were interned in a combatants’ camp in the Sahara, where for three months they suffered privations from overcrowding, bad sanitation and insufficient food.
LANDED HOME IN SHORTS
Marine Latham reached home yesterday wearing a pair of shorts, a shirt and an Army greatcoat. O.S. Taylor arrived in Burnley on Wednesday, in good time to celebrate his 20th birthday yesterday.
In interviews with an “Express” reporter, both men paid sincere tribute to the work of the Red Cross, though the parcels were generally rifled before the men got them.
“We would all have been invalids but for the parcels”, said O.S. Taylor. Though their homes are only a few minutes’ walk apart, the men had never met until they were informed in letters from home that they were in the same camp.
TERRIFIC FLIGHT
Fully recovered from his double ordeal of the Mediterranean convoy battle and later the terrible conditions prevailing in the internment camp at Laghouat, O.S. Taylor told an “Express’ reporter his amazing story.
“The Manchester’ was part of the escort for a big convoy for Malta,” he said, “and we had a terrible fight in the Mediterranean. I was on desk loading our gun for most of the time and I had a marvellous view of everything, including the sinking of the aircraft carrier ‘Eagle,’ which went down in about 15 minutes.
“We were attacked by ‘planes from about dinner-time one day until dusk, and had some remarkable escapes. We gave as good as we got though, and a lot of ‘planes were shot down. We got some sleep that night, but a dawn it all began again. Bombers, dive-bombers and torpedo-carrying ‘planes of all kinds came over. and there were sub-marines about too. One actually surfaced quite near, and we opened up on her. I believe we hit her too.
“In the Straits of Pantelleria the E-boats attacked us. We sank several by gunfire, but one of them got us with a torpedo, and we got orders to abandon ship. We were only about five miles from the shore then. I got into a Carley float, and just as dawn broke we were spotted by a French ship which took us in tow.
“We were jolly glad to get on dry land,” continued O.S. Taylor. “The local population received us in a friendly way and gave us fruit. We thought our troubles were over. Then we were all collected together and put on the train and spent about a week travelling across Tunisia and Algeria. Finally we got to a terminus of some kind and were transferred to motor ‘buses for the last stage of the journey to Laghouat, which is well inside the Sahara.
“BEAU GESTE” FORT
The actual camp is like the fort in ‘Beau Geste’ more of a fortified town than anything. It was already crowded when we arrived. The crew of the ‘Havoc’ were there and a lot of R.A.F. chaps too. Some of them had been there two years, ever since France capitulated.
“Conditions generally were terrible. We slept 48 in a room designed for 24 native troops. There was a water supply only a short time each day, and the heat and the flies make life unbearable. It was a good job we had our surgeon-commander and a few sick berth fellows with us, as there was a lot of illness of various kinds. Two fellows died during the three months we were there. We couldn’t keep clean, for one thing, as we had no soap.
“The grub was terrible, mostly macaroni and a kind of bread which tasted as bad as it looked. Our sardine ration worked out at one sardine per man every 10 days. We were given wine to drink, potent stuff it was too, but not very pleasant to the taste.
“Things got gradually worse, and for eight weeks there were no cigarettes at all. Previously we had missed a lot of cigarettes altogether. Finally we mutinied and refused to parade for counting. This had the desired effect, and there was some improvement afterwards.”
CAMP “UNIVERSITY”
“We had to amuse ourselves as best we could during the day,” said O.S. Taylor. “A ‘university’ was started, and I attended for mathematics and English. There were also some splendid lectures by various officers, particularly by one who served in the French Foreign Legion. Some of the fellows also got up a pantomime, which was as good as anything I have ever seen.”
Describing the scene when the news of the invasion came through on the wireless, O.S. Taylor said that it was on a Sunday morning when they heard a sudden yell from a group of lads who were listening to the wireless. When it was finally established that the news was authentic, everyone went mad and there was “some fun with the guards.” Red Cross parcels appeared, and there was general rejoicing. On the following Thursday they were all sent to Algiers and put on board a liner. reaching Scotland with incident. Everyone was granted a month’s leave, which is expected to be extended over Christmas.
TWICE TORPEDOED
Marine Latham, who had been torpedoed previously, and spent 9 1/2 hours on a raft before a small French vessel picked them up, was formerly employed at Ormerod Whitaker’s Oak Bank Mill. He joined the Royal Marines three years ago as a musician. He is well-known in local dance band circles as a trumpeter.
Whilst on active service he was attached to the fire control squad, and when the order to abandon ship was given he assisted in the work of lowering rafts and boats before jumping overboard, and with another member of the crew clambering aboard a spare raft.
As a souvenir of his adventure he has brought home a knife he made out of a piece of his iron bed. This was to cut the bread with which they were issue in Laghouat.
Marine Latham has been granted six weeks’ leave, four for overseas service and two for survivors’ leave.
Sergt. Observer J. Douglas Hudson, whose parents live at 191, Halifax road, Nelson, has also arrived home after spending two years in a Moroccan prison camp.
Able Seaman Arthur Turner (24), 137, Waids House-road, Nelson, another internee in Morocco, is expected home shortly. He has been torpedoed on three occasions.
Junior Third Officer Ellis (21), so of Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis, 15, Meredith-street, Nelson, was interned on October 23rd in Morocco, but his parents have had no communication from him since.
Another local man who it is hoped will arrive home shortly is Mr. W H. Clemence, 18, Wood-street, Brierfield of the Merchant Navy. Before being called up he was employed in a mill at Harle Syke.
News is awaited of Flight Sergt. Observer John Walsh, one of the three serving sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walsh, 14, Brockenhurst-street, Burnley, Flight Sergt. Walsh was interned at Mediouna, near Casablanca, after his Beaufigher of Coastal Command was shot down. According to one report, internees from Mediouna were taken on board United States vessels, but no further details have been forthcoming.
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O.S. G. TAYLOR
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MARINE G. LATHAM
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Rescued from North African Internment Camp - Burnley Boys Home after great ordeal
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Account of release of two Burnely men (Ordinay Seaman G Taylor and Marine C Latham) amongst French North Africa nternees freed by American Forces. Both had been aboard HMS Manchester which was torpedoed in Mediterranean on August 13th. Tells of battle on convoy, incarceration in "Beau Geste" fort and conditions. Notes others released including Sergeant Observer J Douglas Hudson arrived home.
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
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529 items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer James Douglas Hudson, DFC (755052 Royal Air Force) who joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1939 and trained as an observer. While on route to Malta in August 1940 his Blenheim crashed in Tunisia and he was subsequently interned for two and a half years by Vichy French in Tunisia and Algeria. After being freed he returned to Great Britain and after navigator retraining completed a tour of 30 operations on 100 Squadron. The collection contains letters to and from his parents and from French penfriends while interned in Tunisia and Algeria, newspaper cuttings of various events, logbooks and lists of operations, official documents and photographs. A further 23 items are in two sub-collections with details of navigator examinations and postcards of Laghouat Algeria.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Elizabeth Smith and Yvonne Puncher and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning Louis Murray and Harry Bowers. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202827/">Harry Bowers</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/220410/">Louis Murray</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database.</p>
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R.A.F.’s LOSSES
Two Brothers Killed in Action
Two brothers, both of whom had shot down six German aircraft and damaged several others, are reported killed in action in the Air Ministry’s casualty list, No. 46, issued to-day. It contains the names of 314 officers and airmen.
The brothers, both of whom had received the D.F.C., were Pilot Officer C. A. Woods-Scawen and Flying Officer P. P. Woods-Scawen. Both were born at Karachi. It is believed that they had flown together.
C. A. Woods-Scawen was born in 1918, and his award was announced on September 3, when it was stated that in June he was shot down 25 miles inside French territory but got back to his squadron. Up to then he had been shot down six times, and tribute was paid to his “unabated courage and enthusiasm” and his outstanding qualities as a resourceful and determined leader. P. P . Woods-Scawen was born in 1916, and when his D.F.C. was awarded in June it was stated that once when heavily outnumbered he attacked a large formation of Germans with hesitation and shot two down. His ‘plane was hit and he was slightly wounded, but he escaped by parachute and rejoined his unit. It was added that he had shown “great courage, endurance, and leadership”.
The list gives a total of 49 officers and airmen killed in action and 48 wounded or injured. Those missing total 85. The number killed on active service is 48, Of ten previously reported missing three are now safe and seven are prisoners. A sergeant of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is reported missing and two pilot officers were killed on active service.
The names of nine D.F.C.s, one A.F.C., and one D.F.M are included in the list.
KILLED IN ACTION
Aeberhardt, 42781, P/O R. A.C.; Balmer, 745574, Sgt. J.H.; Bell, 90051, F/O J.S.; Berry, 563426, F/Sgt. F.G., D.F.M.; Bonseigneur, 42791, P/O C.R.; Briggs, 751402. Segt. W.; Brook, 648603. Sgt. D.; Burrow, 551597. Sgt. J., Davies, 632374, Sgt. H.; Davis, 90131, F/O C.R., D.F.C.: Clifton. 41902, P/O J.K.G.; Corker, 751198, Sgt. W. J.C.; Cranston, 751938, Sgt. T.G.J.; Dickinson, 740861, Sgt. J.H.; Fletcher, 800635, Sgt. J.G.B.; Gouldstone, 812360, Sgt. R.J.; Haigh. 566171, Sgt. C.; Hanson, 33363. F/O D.H.W.; Higson, 70305, F/O K.H.; Hogg, 77977, P/O D.W.; Hood, 746840, Sgt. C. L.G.; Hunter, 40178, F/O F.M.
Jacobson, 1050704, A/C N.; Jenkins, 41930, P/O D. N.O.; Johnson, 79241, P/O C.E.; Jones, 905466, Sgt. R.H.G.; Kenner. 73032, P/O P.L.; King, 32199, Sq, Ldr. E.B.; Love, 523064, L/A/C W.; Maffett. 80814, P/O G.H,; Noble, 742128, Sgt. D.; Owles, 748693, Sgt. A.E.; Pendred, 37999, Actg F/Lt. S.C.; Pinkham, 37208, Actg. Sq. Ldr. P.C., A.F.C.; Price, 41060, P/O J. F. S.P.; Reynolds, 41803, P/O J.H.; Ridley, 565201, Sgt. M.; Starr, 34181, Sq. Ldr. H.M.; Stenhouse, 39904, F/O W.A.; Trueman, 40766, P/O A.A.G.; Tune, 581552, Sgt. H.A.; Wakeling, 741505, Sgt. S. R.E.; Waterston, 90197, F/O R.Mc.; Webster, 37436, Actg. F/Lt. J.T. Wilcox, 70830, F/O E.J.; Williams, 745324, Sgt. L.A.; Winter, 43372, P/O D.C.; Woods-Scawen, 40778, P/O C.A., D.F.C.; Woods-Scawen, 40452, F/O P.P., D.F.C.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, NOW PRESUMED KILLED IN ACTION
Brig, 563033. Sgt. F.J.R.; Orchard, 540259 A/C J.; Woods, 580401, Sgt. W.B.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED IN ACTION, NOW REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION
Coleman, 39781, P/O W.H.; Poole, 42722, P/O FT.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, NOW REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION
Atkinson, 33418, P/O H.D., D.F.C.; France, 580739, Sgt. E.B.H.; Jones, 590727, Sgt. G.W.; Lewis, 580549, Sgt. G.; Murray, 759321, Sgt. A.G.; Parvin. 581118. Sgt. F.F.; Pirie, 42077, P/O H.G.R.: Prentice, 812244, Sgt. M.A.
WOUNDED OR INJURED IN ACTION
Acworth, 40496, P/O R.A.; Alexander, 42178, P/O J.W.E.; Barrett, 42181, P/O R.B.; Bell-Salter, 41895, P/O D.B.; Boulter, 37757, F/O J.C.; Bowring, 90105, F/O B.H.; Braithwaite, 05161, Wing Cdr. F.J.St.J.; Brown, 590264, F/Sgt F. S.; Bunker, 40668, P/O R.H., D.F.C.; Carbury, 40288, F/O B. J.G.; Carpenter, 42191, P/O J. M.V.; Cottam, 77790, P/O H.W.; Coward, 39412, P/O J.B.; Davies, 808429, Sgt. L.; Duckers, 552182, Sgt. P.W.; Eliot, 42490, P/O H.W.; Elkington, 44184, P/O J.F.D.; Ellacombe, 43031, P/O J.L.W.; Else, 741332, Sgt. P.; Forbes, 37499, F/Lt. A.S.; Gowers, 40166, P/O A.V.; Green, 813076, Sgt. W.J.; Henderson, 74719, P/O J.A.McD.; Hillary, 74677, P/O R.H.; Hunt, 42754, P/O D.W.; Joubert, 81618, P/O C.C.O.; Kellett, 90082, Sq. Ldr. R.G. Lees, 29257, Sq. Ldr. R.B.; Lockhart, 74708, P/O J.; McLure, 82167, P/O A.C.R.; Matheson, 39363, Act. F. Lt. C.; Morris, 40132, F/O E.G.; Mounsdon, 42871, P/O M.H.; Pinckney, 72520, P/O D. J.C.; Plummer, 39753, F/O R.P.; Ritchie, 90198, F/O I.S.; Robinson, 39569, Act. F/Lt. A.I.; Rutter, 42574, P/O R.D.; Sheen, 39474, F/O D. F.B., D.F.C.; Smith, 40859, P/O D.S.; Stewart-Clark, 78535, P/O D.; Sutton, 41962, P/O F.B.; Thomson, 39398, F/O R.L.; Townsend, 33178, Actg. Sq. Ldr P.W., D.F.C.; Walker-Smith, 741213, Sgt. F.R.; Westmacott, 40488, F/O I.B.; Worrall, 42291, P/O P.A.; Wynn, 81375. P/O R.E.N.E.
DIED OF WOUNDS OR INJURIES RECEIVED IN ACTION
Allen, 740664, Sgt. J.W.K.; Duncan, 581442, Sgt. H.H.; Fleming, 74672, P/O R.D.S.
MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED IN ACTION
Jones, 525815, L/A/C J.C.; Hull, 37285, Actg. Sq. Ldr. C.B., D.F.C.; Little. 741292, Sgt. J.McG.; Meades, 536703, Sgt. S.E.; Shalley, 746984, Sgt. D.F.; Smitheram, 41074, P/O J.C.; Weaver, 70719, Actg. F/Lt. P.S.
MISSING
Arthur, 42090, P/O C.J.; Baker, 935961, Sgt. B.; Baker, 751839, Sgt. J.; Bann, 581165, Sgt. J.; Bayliss, 44057, P/O G.L.; Bentham, 552444, Sgt H.; Berry. 39959, F/O E.R.; Borg-Banks, 41659, P/O T.H.; Bowers, 743077, Sgt. H.; Bruce, 39853 F/O D.C.; Carter, 628721, Sgt. H.W.; Child, 616033, L/A/C A.G.; Churchill, 41255, P/O R.S.A.; Clarke, 743056, Sgt. J.C.; Coghlan, 37719, Actg. F/Lt. J.H., D.F.C.; Coverley, 70142, F/O W.H.; Cox, 747188, Sgt. R.C.R.; Cunningham, 90194, F/Lt. J.L.G.; Cutts, 40804, P/O J.W.; D’Arcy, 561093, Sgt. B.M.; Davis 44271, P/O D.H.; Dean, 975058, A/C 2 H.W.; Dickson, 626161, Sgt. G.M.; Doulton, 90235, F/O M.D.; Dunkels, 42822, P/O C.O.; Dunnington, 612371, Sgt. H.; Dymond. 580059, Sgt. W.L.
Edmeads, 751841, Sgt. A.C.H.; Fawcett, 41005, P/O. N.B.; Fitzpatrick, 79540, P/O. W.E.; Francis, 42211, P/O. C.D.; Garvey, 741796, Sgt. P.K.; Gibson, 751217, Sgt. A.; Gordon, 42120, P/O W.H.G.; Hall, 510251, L/A/C E.A.; Hamilton, 39316, F/Lt. H.R.; Hibbert, 538174, A/C 1 G.; Hill, 567598, Sgt. M.; Hillcoat, 90256, Actg. F/Lt. H.B.L.; Hogg, 33486, P/O. R.M.; Hood, 26110, Sq. Ldr. H.R.L.; Howard, 566374, Sgt. H.G.H.; Hudson, 755052, Sgt. J.D.; Hynes, 41707, P/O. T.G.; Inskip, 581339, Sgt. I.; Johnson, 520406, Sgt. J.I.; Johnston, 580546, Sgt. N.R.; Jones, 536553, L/A/C. C.P.; Lampard, 615948, L/A/C. C.D.; Lawes, 567002, L/A/C. W.F.; Lovett, 37543, Actg. F/Lt. R.E. D.F.C.; Macdonald; 74679, P/O. D.K.; Martin, 633385, L/A/C. E.; Maxwell, 967872, Sgt. W.; Moody, 81046, P/O H.W.
Newson, 755404, Sgt. F.H.; Norris 565646, F/Sgt. H.N,; O’Reilly, 535507, L/A/C. J.P.; Parvin, 33441, P/O. J.H.K.; Pearce, 742651, Sgt. E.A.; Pigg, 39678, F/O. O.St.J.; Randall, 905742, Sgt. D.W.G.; Reay, 626591, A/C. 1 G.; Rhodes, 42529, P/O. R.A.; Rhodes-Moorhouse, 90140, F/Lt. W.H., D.F.C.; Riddick, 1004679, Sgt. D.C.B.; Rigby, 532880, Cpl. G.A.; Riley, 741996, Sgt. C.P.; Riley, 550943, Sgt. E.A.H.; Ringwood, 629710, Sgt. E.A.; Rolls, 615888, Sgt. H.; Rushmer, 90192, F/Lt. F.W.; Sawyer, 638724, Sgt. F.C.; Sherriff, 362116, F/Sgt. W.D.; Smith 755623, Sgt, J.S.; Stephenson, 550132, Sgt. J.W.; Stiles, 639949, Sgt. R.C.E.; Sully, 581542, Sgt. A.P.; Thomas, 37332, Actg. Sq. Ldr. F.G.R.; Wainwright, 581127, Sgt. L.H.; Walker, 615619, Sgt. A.E.; Webb, 966677, A/C. 1 D.C.; Westmoreland, 741143, Sgt. T.E.; Wicker, 746715, Sgt. R.M.; Willcox, 590740, Sgt. R.J.
MISSING, BELIIEVED KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Attwood, 643865, Sgt. C.A.V.; Ayres 610542, A/C. 1 W.A.; Gates, 643900, Sgt. F.A.E.; Hartnell, 568749, Sgt. R.S.; Heseltine, 563144, Sgt. R.; Richardson, 740461, Sgt. R.T.; Stephens, 967065, Sgt. E.J.; Tompkins, 565827, Sgt. R.J.; Turner, 741188, Sgt. E.G.
KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Ambrose, 73040, P/O. R.; Barrell, 864073, Actg. Cpl. A.R.O.; Bott, 742082, Sgt. N.K. Burridge, 646963, A/C. 1 H.L.; Campbell, 638834. A/C. 1 D.; Clarke, 770819, A/C 1 A.W.; Crowdle, 900919, A/C. 1 T.P.; Eastoe, 754751, Sgt. E.R.; Emery, 958357, A/C. 2 D.A.; Fairfield, 1358170, A/C. 2 W.; Fletcher, 42828, P/O A.W.; Graves, 632826, Sgt. E.A.; Gregory, 569989, L/A/C. G.T.; Griggs, 1252107, A/C. 2 D.B.; Harrison, 747970. Sgt. C.W.C.F.; Haviland, 76571, P/O R.H.; Herring, 42605, P/O. S.J.; Hopwood, 903368, Sgt. H.C.R.; Howard, 905610, L/A/C. W.H.; Imeson, 514385, Cpl. B.A.G.; Ives, 904303, Sgt. H.G.; Kirk, 1103925, A/C. 2 A.
Laidlay, 79740, P/O. J.R.J.; Larkin, 906240, A/C. 2 F.L.; Loham. 365473, F/Sgt. W.H.G.; Loomes, 748020, Sgt. G.H.; Lowry, 944933, A/C. 2 J.; Macassey, 42136, P/O. M.E.B.H.; McConnell, 34023, Sqdn. Ldr. R.H.S., D.F.C.; Milway, 1256132 A/C. 2 O.E.; Mole, 776021, L/A/C. A.H.; Moon, 909698, A/C. 2 R.; Munro, 43336, F/O. K.; O’Reilly, 27139, F/Lt. M.P.; Ryall, 901751, A/C. 2 ( Air Cadet) G.W.; Sadler, 90937, Actg. P/O. D.A.; Shackleton, 343404, L/A/C. H.A.; Smith, 644581, A/C. 2 J.W.S.; Steele. 550484, Sgt. A.; Teviotdale, 748400, Sgt. E.A.; Thompson, 742868, Sgt. K.; Walker, 1007477, A/C. 2 F.; Watt, 755255, Sgt. J.A.; Whiffen. 747997, Sgt. R.J.; Williams, 748354, Sgt. R.; Wood, 581423, Sgt. F.W.K.; Williams, 758155, Sgt. H.; Yorke, 31255, F/O. P.D.L.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE, NOW REPORTED KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Gwynne, 742137, Sgt. J.D.
WOUNDED OR INJURED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Arnold, 972725, A/C 2 J.O.; Bain, 39480, Actg. F/Lt. W.P.; Baker, 1153997, A/C 2 R.C.J.; Brown, 626429, A/C 1 W.K.; Cavender, 906332, A/C 2 R.R.G.; Costin, 1182824, A/C 2 B.; Cox, 918517, L/A/C C.H.; Crawford, 351789, Sgt. F.P.; Denby, 638979, Cpl. G.C.; Dicks, 620604, A/C. 1 W.C.H.; Edwards, 943459, A/C 2 R.H.; Hamblion, 974821, L/A/C C.W.G.; Johnson, 907870, A/C 2 TM.; Marshall, 70447, F/Lt. F.W.; Ross, 82429, P/O. D.G.; Smalley, 632821, Sgt. L.G.; Speed, 614009, Sgt. F.O.; Weeks, 91228, P/O. P.C.
DIED OF WOUNDS OR INJURIES RECEIVED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Alway, 77382, Actg. F/Lt. E.J.; Dudley, 1182877, A/C 2 G.W.L.; Harris, 39331, F/Lt. F.B.; Holdaway, 1173749, A/C 2 F.A.C.; Smyth, 33550, P/O. T.N.; Terry, 801454, Sgt. A.W.
DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Angell, 1004023, A/C 2 M.; Barnes, 1305022, A/C 2 A.J.; Cooper, 632264, L/A/C A.; Dench, 621994, A/C 2 M.V.C.; Horobin, 963047, A/C 2 A.J.; Jones, 963923, A/C 2 E.; Keogh, 613956, L/A/C H.P.G.; Leman, 951530, L/A/C C.T.W.; Morton, 1005871, L/A/C T.R.; Naylor, 1007682, A/C 2 D.; Sorbie, 625465, A/C 1 A.; Suter, 944760, A/C 2 D.A.; Wallington, 512076, Sgt. W.F.; Wilmott, 846488, L/A/C E.V.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, NOW REPORTED SAFE
Chapman, 614035, A/C 1 J.; Lewis, 42465, P/O W.N.; McIntosh, 644566, A/C 2 W.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, NOW REPORTED PRISONER OF WAR
Beardsley, 565475, Sgt. G.; Grey-Smith, 39460, F/O. G.E.; Hallifax, 33404, P/O. N.D.; McKenzie 40405, P/O. R.C.D.; Roberts, 90897, P/O. R.; Taylor-Gill, 590406, F/Sgt. J.D.T.; Whiting, 581047, Sgt. D.A.
ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE
MISSING
Fuller, A 39913, Sgt. J.E.
KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Hoadley, A 39919, P/O. H.M.; Priestly, P/O. J.S.
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D.F.C. BROTHERS KILLED IN ACTION
NINE D.F.C.s, one A.F.C., and one D.F.M. are included in 319 officers and airmen named in the 46th Air Ministry casualty list.
Two of the D.F.C.s are brothers. Pilot Officer C.A. Woods-Scawen and Flying Officer P.P. Woods-Scawen are reported killed in action. They were born at Karachi and educated at Salesian College, Farnborough.
The list, other than wounded, is:-
KILLED IN ACTION
Aberhardt, 42781, P.O., R.A.C.; Balmer, 745574, Sgt. JH.; Bell, 90051, F.O J.S.; Berry, 563426, Flt.-Sgt. F.G., D.F.M.; Bonseigneur, 42791, P.O. C.R.; Briggs, 751402, Sgt. W.; Brook, 648603, Sgt. D.; Burrow, 551597, Sgt. J.; Davies, 632374, Sgt. H.; Davis, 90131, F.O., C.R.; D.F.C.; Clifton, 41902 P.O. J.K.G.; Corker, 751198, Sgt. W.J.C.; Cranston, 751938. Sgt. T.G.J.; Dickinson, 740861, Sgt. J.H.; Fletcher, 800635, Sgt. J.G.B.; Couldstone, 812360, Sgt. RJ.; Haigh. 566171, Sgt. C.; Hanson, 33363, F.O. D.H.W.; Higson. 70305, F.O. K.H ; Hogg, 77977, P.O. D.W.; Hodd, 746840, Sgt. C.L.G.; Hunter, 40178, F.O. F.M.; Jacobson, 1050704, A/C. 2nd Cl.N.; Jenkins, 41930, P.O. D.N.O.; Johnson, 49241, P.O. C.E.; Jones, 905466, Sgt. R.H.G.; Kenner, 73032, P.O. P.L.; King, 32199, Sqd. Ldr E.B.; Love. 523064. Ldg. A/C. W.; Maffett, 80814, P.O. G.H.; Noble, 742128. Sgt. D.; Owles. 748693, Sgt. A.E.; Pendred, 37999, Act. Flt. Lt S.C.; Pinkham, 37208, Act. Sqd. Ldr. P.C.; A.F.C.; Price, 41060, P.O. J.F.S.P.; Reynolds, 41803, P.O. J.H.; Ridley. 565201, Sgt. M.; Starr, 34181, Sqd. Ldr. H.M.; Stenhouse, 39904, F.O. W.A.; Trueman, 40766, P.O. A.A.G.; Tune, 581552, Sgt. H.A.; Wakeling, 741505, Sgt. S.R.E.; Waterston, 90197. F.O. R.McC.; Webster, 37436. Act. Flt. Lt. J.T.; Wilcox, 70830, F.O. E.J.; Williams, 745324, Sgt. L.A.; Winter, 43572, P.O. D.C.; Woods-Scawen, 40778 P.O. C.A.; D.F.C.; Woods-Scawen, 40452, F.O. P.P., D.F.C.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING NOW PRESUMED KILLED IN ACTION.
Brig, 563033. Sgt. F.J.R.; Orchard, 540259, A/C J, Woods, 580401. Sgt. W.B.;
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED IN ACTION, NOW REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION.
Coleman. 39781. P.O. W.H.; Poole. 42722. P.O. F.T.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING NOW REPORTED KILLED IN ACTION.
Atkinson. 33481, P.O. H.D., D.F.C.; France, 580739, Sgt. E.B.H.; Jones, 590727. Sgt. G.W..; Lewis, 580549, Sgt. G.; Murray. 759321, Sgt. A.G.; Parvin. 581118, Sgt. F.F.; Pirie, 42077, P.O H.G.R.; Prentice, 812244. Sgt. M.A.
DIED OF WOUNDS OR INJURIES RECEIVED IN ACTION.
Allen, 740664, Sgt., J.W.K.; Duncan. 581442. Sgt. H.H.; Fleming, 74672, P.O R.D.S.
MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED IN ACTION.
Jones, 525815, Ldg. A/C C.J.C.; Hull, 37285 Actg. Sqdn. Ldr. C.B. D.F.C.; Little, 741292, Sgt. J.McG.; Meades. 536703, Sgt. S.E.; Shaller. 746964, Sgt. D.F.; Smitheram, 41074, P.O. J.C.; Weaver, 70719, Actg. Flt. Lt. P.S.
MISSING.
Arthur, 42090, P.O. C.J.; Baker, 935961, Sgt. B.; Baker, 751839, Sgt. J.; Bann, 581165, Sgt. J.; Bayliss, 44057, P.O. G.L.; Bentham. 552444, Sgt. H.; Berry, 39959, F.O. E.R.; Borg-Banks, 41659, P.O. T.H.; Bowers, 743077, Sgt. H.; Bruce, 39853. F.O. D.C.; Carter, 628721, Sgt. H.W.; Child, 616033, Ldg A/C A.G.; Churchill, 41255, P.O. R.S.A.; Clarke, 743056, Sgt. J.C.; Coghlan, 37719, Actg. Flt. Lt. J.H., D.F.C.; Coverley, 70142. F.O. W.H.
Cox. 747819. Sgt. R.C.R.; Cunningham, 90194. Flt-Lt. J.L.G.; Cutts, 40804. P.O. J.W.; D’Arcy, 561093, Sgt. BM., Davis, 44271, P.O. D.H.; Dean, 975058, A/c 2 H.W.; Dickson, 626161. Sgt. GM.; Doulton, 90235. F.O. M.D.; Dunkels, 42822, P.O. C.O.; Dunnington, 612371, Sgt. H.; Dymond 580059, Sgt. W.L.; Edmeads, 751841, Sgt. A.C.H.; Fawcett, 41005, P.O. N.B.; Fitzpatrick, 79540. P.O. W.E.; Francis, 42211, P.O. C.D.; Garvey 741796, Sgt. P.K.; Gibson. 751217. Sgt. A.; Gordon. 42120. P.O. W.H.G.; Hall, 510251, Ldg. A/C E.A.; Hamilton, 39316, Flt. Lt. H.R.; Hibbert, 538174, A.C G.; Hill, 567598, Sgt, M.; Hillcoat, 90256. Actg. Flt. Lt. H.B.L.; Hogg, 33486, P.O. R.M.; Hood, 26110 Sqdn. Ldr. H.R.L.; Howard, 566374, Sgt. H.G.H.; Hudson, 755052, Sgt. J.D.; Hynes, 41707. P.O. T.G.
Inskip, 581339, Sgt. I.; Johnson. 520406, Sgt. J.I., Johnston 580546, Sgt. N.R.; Jones, 536553, Ldg. A/c C.P.; Lampard, 615948, Ldg. A/c C.D.; Lawes, 567002. Ldg. A/c. W.F.; Lovett, 37543, Act. Flt-Lt, R.E.; D.F.C.; Macdonald, 74679. P.O. D.K.; Martin. 633385. Ldg. A/c E.; Maxwell, 967872, Sgt. W.; Moddy, 81046, P.O. H.W.; Newson, 755404, Sgt. F.H.; Norris, 565646, Flt.-Sgt. H.N.; O’Reilly, 535507. Ldg. A/c J.P.; Parvin. 33441. P.O J.H.K.; Pearce, 742651, Sgt. E.A.; Pigg, 39678, F.O. O.St.J.; Randall, 905742, Sgt. D.W.G.; Reay, 626591, A/c G.; Rhodes, 42529, P.O. R.A.; Rhodes-Moorhouse. 90140. Flt-Lt. W.H., D.F.C,; Riddick, 1004679, Sgt. D.C.B.; Rigby, 532880, Cpl. G.A.; Riley, 741996, Sgt. C.P.; Riley, 550943, Sgt. E.A.H.; Ringwood, 629710. Sgt. E.A.; Rolls. 615888. Sgt. H.; Rushmer, 90192, Flt-Lt. F.W.; Sawyer. 638724 Sgt. F.C.
Sherriff, 362116, Flt Sgt. WD.; Smith, 755623,. Sgt. J.S.; Stephenson, 550132, Sgt, JW.; Stiles. 639949. Sgt. R.C.E.; Sully, 581542. Sgt. A.P.; Thomas, 37332. Act. Sqd. Ldr. FG.R.; Wainwright, 581127, Sgt. LH.; Walker 615619, Sgt. A.E.; Webb, 966677. A/C D.C.; Westmoreland. 741143, Sgt. T.E.; Wicker, 746715, Sgt. R.M.; Willcox, 590740, Sgt. R.J.
MISSING BELIEVED KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Attwood, 643865, Sgt. C.A.V.; Ayres, 610542. A/C WA.; Gates, 643900. Sgt. F.A.E.; Hartnell, 568749, Sgt. R.S.; Heseltine, 563144, Sgt. R.; Richardson. 740461, Sgt. R.T.; Stephens. 967065, Sgt E.J.; Tompkins, 565827, Sgt. R.J.; Turner. 741188 Sgt. E.G.
KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Ambrose. 73040, P.O. R.; Barrell, 864073, Act. Cpl. A.R.O.; Bott, 742082, Sgt. N.K.; Burridge 646963, A/C. H.L.; Campbell, 638834, A/C D.; Clarke, 770819, A/C A.W.; Crowdle, 900919, A/C T.P.; Eastoe, 754751, Sgt. E.R.; Emery, 958357, A/C 2 D.A.; Fairfield, 1358170, A/C 2 W.; Fletcher, 42828, P.O. A.W.; Graves, 632826, Sgt. E.A.; Gregory, 569989, Ldg. A/C G.T.; Griggs, 1252107. A/C 2 DB.; Harrison, 747970, Sgt. C.W.C.F.; Haviland, 76571, P.O R.H.; Herring. 42605, P.O. S.J.; Hopwood. 903368, Sgt. H.C.R.; Howard. 905610. Ldg. A/C WH.; Imeson, 514385. Cpl. B.A.G.; Ives, 904303, Sgt. H.G.; Kirk, 1103925, A/C 2 A.; Laidlay, 79740; P.O. J.R.J.; Larkin, 906240, A/C 2 F.L.; Loham, 365473 Flt. Sgt. W.HG.
Loomes. 748020, Sgt. G.H.; Lowry. 944933, A/C 2 J.; Macassey, 42136. P.O. M.E.B.H.; McConnell, 34023, Sqdn Ldr. R.H.S., D.F.C ; Milway, 1256132, A/C 2 O.E.; Mole, 776021 Ldg. A/C A.H.; Moon, 909698. A/C 2 R.; Munro 43336, F.O. K.; O’Reilly, 27139, Ft. Lt. M.P.; Ryall, 901751, A/C 2 (Air Cadet) G.W.; Sadler, 90937, Act. P.O. D.A.; Shackleton. 343404, Ldg. A/C H.A.; Smith, 644581, A/C 2 J.W.S.; Steele. 550484. Sgt. A.; Teviotdale, 748400. Sgt. E.A.; Thompson, 742868. Sgt. K.; Walker, 1007477, A/C 2 F.; Watt, 755255. Sgt. J.A.; Whiffen. 747997. Sgt. R.J.; Williams. 748354. Sgt. R.; Wood. 581423. Sgt. F.W.K.; Williams. 758155. Sgt. H.; Yorke. 31255. F.O PD.I.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED “MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE,” NOW REPORTED “KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE.”
Gwynne, 742137, Sgt J.D
DIED OF WOUNDS OR INJURIES RECEIVED ON ACTIVE SERVICE.
Alway 77382. Act. Flt. Lt. E.J.; Dudley, 1182877, A/C 2 G.W.L.; Harris, 39331, Flt. Lt. F.B.; Holdaway, 1173749, A/C 2 F.AC.; Smyth. 33550, PO T.N.; Terry. 801454. Sgt. A.W
DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Angell. 1004023, A/C. 2 M.; Barnes, 1305022. A/C 2 A.J.; Copper, 632264, Ldg A/C. A.; Dench. 621994. A/C. 2 M.V.C.; Horobin, 963047, A/C. 2 A.J.; Jones, 963923, A/C. 2 E.; Keogh, 613956, Ldg. A/C. HP.G.; Leman, 951530, Ldg. A/C C.T.W.; Morton, 1005871, Ldg. A/C. TR.; Naylor, 1007682 A/C. 2 D.; Sorbie, 625465. A/C. A.; Suter, 944760, A/C 2 DA.; Wallington, 512076. Sgt WF.; Wilmott, 846488. Ldg A/C EV
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED “MISSING.” NOW REPORTED “SAFE”
Chapman, 614035. A/C J.; Lewis, 42465, P.O W.N.; McIntosh. 644566, A/C. 2 W.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED “MISSING.”, NOW REPORTED “PRISONER OF WAR”
Beardsley, 565475, Sgt. G.; Grey-Smith, 39460. F.O. G.E.; Hallifax, 33404, P O. N.D.; McKenzie. 40405. P.O. R.CD.; Roberts, 90897, P.O. R.; Taylor-Gill, 590406. Flt. Sgt. JD.T.; Whiting, 581047, Sgt. DA.
ROYAL N.Z. AIR FORCE
MISSING
Fuller, A 39913, Sgt. J.E.
KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Hoadley, A 39919, P.O. H.M.; Priestley, P.O. J.S.
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RAF Losses
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Two newspaper cuttings with casualties including that Sgt J D Hudson is missing
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
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529 items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer James Douglas Hudson, DFC (755052 Royal Air Force) who joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1939 and trained as an observer. While on route to Malta in August 1940 his Blenheim crashed in Tunisia and he was subsequently interned for two and a half years by Vichy French in Tunisia and Algeria. After being freed he returned to Great Britain and after navigator retraining completed a tour of 30 operations on 100 Squadron. The collection contains letters to and from his parents and from French penfriends while interned in Tunisia and Algeria, newspaper cuttings of various events, logbooks and lists of operations, official documents and photographs. A further 23 items are in two sub-collections with details of navigator examinations and postcards of Laghouat Algeria.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Elizabeth Smith and Yvonne Puncher and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning Louis Murray and Harry Bowers. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202827/">Harry Bowers</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/220410/">Louis Murray</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database.</p>
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2015-06-16
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Bombed Bremen From 50 Feet
[Picture]
Sergeant Norman J. Giblin, R.A.F.V.R., awarded the D.F.M, now missing.
DARING R.A.F. bomber crews who carried out raids on Bremen, one in daylight and from a height of 50ft., are in a list of awards for gallantry.
They are: -
Pilot – Officer Waples, R.A.F. R.A.F.V.R., No. 21 Squadron, and Pilot-Officer Alister Stewart Ramsay, R.A.F.V.R., No 105 Squadron who receive the D.F.C.; Sgt. Gerald Douglas Prior Quinn, No. 106 Squadron, who gets a bar to his D.F.M.; and Flt-Sgt. Frederick John Patterson and Sgt. Norman Joseph Giblin, R.A.F.V.R., No. 21 Squadron. and Sgt. Robert Hesketh Nuttall, No. 115 Squadron, who get the D.F.M.
Sergeant Giblin was born at Preston in 1920. His father lives at Withington, Manchester. He was a local government officer before enlisting in the R.A.F.V.R. in April, 1939, as air observer.
Pilot-Officer Waples, Flt-Sergt. Patterson, and Sergt. Giblin were pilot, wireless operator-air gunner, and observer of a plane which successfully bombed Bremen from low level last month.
On the return journey the plane was attacked by two fighters, but Flt-Sergt. Patterson, by his timely and accurate instructions, enabled the pilot to take successful avoiding action. Then the aircraft was attacked by three fighters, but Flt.-Sergt. Patterson destroyed one and assisted his pilot again by giving him invaluable evasive instructions.
The parents of Sergeant Giblin, who live in Old Moat-lane. Withington, have been informed that he is missing. They are confident he will “turn up”, for it is not the first time he has failed to return from an operational flight. Last November he dropped into the North Sea, but was picked up by a convoy and came home safely.
Sergeant Giblin, who is 20, was educated at St. Bede’s College, Manchester, and was an accountant in the Manchester Corporation Electricity Department. His father, Mr J.J Giblin, is a Corporation bus guard.
THROUGH BALLOON BARRAGE
Pilot-Officer Ramsay and Sergt. Quinn were the air observer navigator and wireless operator air gunner of the leading aircraft of a formation which made a daylight bombing attack on Bremen on July 4. Flying through a balloon barrage and meeting with most determined and accurate fire from the ground, they attacked the town centre from 50 feet up.
Sergt. Quinn was wounded in the leg, but remained at this post, maintaining wireless watch and assisting Pilot-Officer Ramsey materially in navigating the aircraft safely back to its base.
Sergt. R. Hesketh Nuttall was rear gunner in an aircraft which attacked Bremen one night this month.
D.F.C FOR NIGHT FIGHTER
The D.F.C. also goes to Wing Commander David Francis William Atcherley of No. 25 squadron. He has carried out a large amount of operational flying at night and has destroyed three enemy aircraft at night. His father lives at York.
Sgt. Henson, though shot in the neck during a daylight attack on Merville Aerodrome, remained at the controls for an hour and landed his machine safely. The observer stopped the flow of blood from Henson’s neck by placing his thumb over a vein.
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Bombed Bremen from 50 feet
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RAF bomber crews who carried out attacks on Bremen, one in daylight and from height of 50 feet are listed for gallantry awards. Goes on with lists and describes actions of Pilot Officer Waples 21 Squadron, Pilot Office Alister Stewart Ramsay, 105 Squadron, Distinguished Flying Cross. Sergeant Douglas Prior Quinn. 106 Squadron, Flight Sergeant Frederick John Patterson and Sergeant Norman Joseph Giblin, 21 Squadron who were awarded Distinguished Flying Medal. Account of action for award of Distinguished Flying Cross for night fighter Wing Commander David Frances William Atcherley, 25 Squadron and Distinguished Flying Medal for Sergeant J K Henson.
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eng
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OHudsonJD173116-151001-030005
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany
Germany--Bremen
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106 Squadron
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Distinguished Flying Medal
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Joseph, David
D Joseph
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22 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant David Joseph (1576383, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, log book, memoirs, correspondence and a list of prisoners of war at Stalag Luft 4. He flew operations as a pilot with 76 Squadron from RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor until his aircraft was shot down on 18 March 1944 on an operation to Frankfurt and he became a prisoner of war. The collection also contains a letter to Mrs Ramsay about the loss of her son, Flying Officer Kenneth Ramsay and photographs of his final resting place. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Brian Joseph and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br />Additional information on Kenneth Grant Ramsay is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/223173/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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2018-05-22
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[Canada Crest]
IN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE No. J22060 (DPC)
Department of National Defence
OTTAWA, 29th March, 1950.
Mrs. Winnifred Ramsay,
7790 Cartier St.,
Vancouver, B.C.
Dear Mrs Ramsay:
It is with regret that I refer to the loss of your son, Flying Officer Kenneth Grant Ramsay. A report has, however, been received from our Missing Research and Enquiry Service concerning your son.
Investigating Officers of this Service have ascertained that two woodcutters had found your son’s body in the woods near Niederehe. Niederehe is thirty-seven miles west of Koblenz. He had been buried in the local cemetery.
Our Investigating Officers were informed that other members of the crew had parachuted safely at Nohn, 1 3/4 miles north east of Niederehe. On making enquires at Nohn, witnesses stated that they knew of at least three crew members landing at Nohn. They remembered the names of two of these crew members as being Wirth and Joseph.
[COPIED Archives stamp]
In view of the fact that your son’s body was located less than two miles from where other members of the crew has parachuted safely, he must have lost his life in the parachute descent.
In accordance with the agreed policy of the Nations of the British Commonwealth that all British aircrew buried in Germany would be moved to permanent British Military Cemeteries located in Germany, your son was moved to the permanent British Military Cemetery eleven miles north west of Duisburg, Germany. The cemetery is known as the Rheinberg British Military Cemetery. Your son was laid rest in plot II, row E, grave No. 25.
[inserted] Phoned persons who have [indecipherable word][signature][/inserted]
….2….
RCAF G32B
200M-6-49 (5941)
[page break]
– 2 –
This British Military Cemetery will be reverently cared for and maintained in perpetuity by the Imperial War Graves Commission (of which Canada is a member). The Commission will also erect a permanent headstone at your son’s resting place.
It is my earnest hope that you will be comforted with the knowledge that your son’s resting place is known and that it will be permanently maintained, and I would like to take this opportunity of expressing to you and the members of your family my deepest sympathy in the loss of your gallant son.
Yours sincerely,
[undecipherable signature]
for (W.R. Gunn)
Wing Commander,
R.C.A.F Casualties Officer,
for Chief of the Air Staff.
[COPIED Archives stamp]
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Letter to Mrs Ramsay referring to the loss of her son
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A letter to Mrs Winifred Ramsay referring to the death of her son, Kenneth Grant Ramsay and giving details of his final resting place.
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EGunnWRRamsayW500329-0001,
EGunnWRRamsayW500329-0002
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1950-03-29
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1944-03-18
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Georgie Donaldson
Steve Baldwin
76 Squadron
aircrew
final resting place
killed in action
navigator
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22 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant David Joseph (1576383, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, log book, memoirs, correspondence and a list of prisoners of war at Stalag Luft 4. He flew operations as a pilot with 76 Squadron from RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor until his aircraft was shot down on 18 March 1944 on an operation to Frankfurt and he became a prisoner of war. The collection also contains a letter to Mrs Ramsay about the loss of her son, Flying Officer Kenneth Ramsay and photographs of his final resting place. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Brian Joseph and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br />Additional information on Kenneth Grant Ramsay is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/223173/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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2018-05-22
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DAVID JOSEPH; WORLD WAR II RAF PILOT AND PRISONER OF WAR
Introduction
David’s early RAF career is still being researched, but we have comprehensive set of material and information from Jan 1944, including his original flying log book, copy diaries made by fellow prisoners, letters from one of his crew, and various books and articles. We also have his “wings”, medals, inscribed “caterpillar club” broach, and the original letter to his parents advising David was missing in action.
The following notes are drawn from the material, and include some direct quotations from it. The prime sources are
1. Of Ploughs, Planes and Palliasses, by Percy Carruthers, a fellow RAF POW’s story of survival of camps and forced marches. It includes a reference to David by name, and others from his crew.
2. To See the Dawn Breaking, by Bill Chorley, an official RAF historian, a history of 76 squadron. It records all their bombing missions include those David was on.
3. The Army that Didn’t March on It’s Stomach, by Cecil Room, an original diary of forced march from Feb to April 1945. David was the group of pow’s on this march.
4. The Last Escape, by John Nicholl and Tony Rennell, written in 2002 based on research and interviews with WWII pow’s.
5. Letters from Ted Giles, flight engineer on Davids Halifax Bomber crew, and also a pow, at times in the same camps as David and also repatriated together.
6. David’s log book Jan-March 1944 with 76 Squadron, recording the planes, crew, and missions.
7. A photocopy from the original postmans list of pow’s in Gross Tychow, 1944
For any amateur historian or student projects, the material is superb historical evidence, fascinating, sobering and emotional, and brings vividly to life the hardship, heroism, camaraderie and sheer will to survive of the pow’s, many of them like David barely turned 20 years old.
Brief Edited Highlights of David Experiences
1. From training to operations.
David joined the RAF in October 1941 aged 18 years 8 months, with Service Number 1576383, and was finally decommissioned on 2nd Feb 1946. His training included spells in Canada and he qualified as a pilot and was awarded his wings, an achievement commemorated in an inscribed silver cigarette box given to him on his 20th birthday in Feb 1943 by the workforce at N.C. Joseph Ltd.
David was posted to 76 Squadron, Bomber Command in Jan 1944, a Halifax bomber base at Holme-on-Spalding Moor, and one of many RAF bases in Yorkshire, (The village church has a commemorative stained glass window to squadron members lost
[page break]
in action). He began operational flights with them on 20th Jan, piloting the four-engined bombers including missions to Berlin, Trappes, Le Mans, and Stuttgart.
2. Shot down and captured
On the night of 18th March en-route to Frankfurt in Halifax LW 655, the plane was severely damaged by streams of gunfire from an unseen attacker, and the crew were forced to bail out. As pilot, David was last to jump, by when the plane was spiralling down out of control. David’s Canadian navigator, Ken Ramsay was killed during or immediately after the parachute descent, but the rest of the crew survived (and thus became members of the Caterpillar Club of airman whose lives were saved by silk parachutes). They all landed near to Niederehe and Nohn.
Ken’s family never knew where he lay until 1984, when David in retirement researched and tracked the grave through the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is at the Rheinberg war cemetery 15 miles north of Krefeld.
David set off on foot towards the West and bumped into one of his crew, Ted Giles, who was using the same hedgerow for cover!! They were put up in a barn and fed by some French farm labourers the next day, but set off again on foot as soon as night fell only to be captured by armed police in an unknown village. After a few hours in the local cells, they were shipped off to Dulag Luft IV Interrogation Centre at Frankfurt, and from there to Luft III Sagan. This was the scene of the famous “Great Escape” and although David’s group were only there for a few hours and not directly involved, the timing was coincidental with the escape activities as it was on the 23rd March that 50 Airman from Sagan were shot as reprisal for the escape.
3. Hydekrug POW camp
Next David and his group were shipped on to Luft VI Heydekrug, “bleak and cold and inhospitable in the barren wastes of Lithunia”, which was to be their “home” through to July. Stories abound of tunnelling, trigger happy guards, regular searches by Gestapo who stole the prisoners’ personal possessions and food, great ingenuity, deliberate disruption by the pow’s of daily roll-calls, sport and self-created entertainment, and a lethal home-brew fermented from raisins, prunes and sugar received in red-cross parcels.
In June 1944 news of the allied forces D-day successes left Germany fighting on two fronts, and give pow moral a great boost. “The long hard winter had passed, we now had sunshine with us and more to look forward to, plus hope to sustain us. Within the next ten months we were to discover that we needed every bit of both we could muster, and every ounce of food we could find, just to survive.”
By early July, heavy artillery fire from the westward advancing Russian army could be heard in the camp, as the Red Army swept the front line through Poland and ever closer to the border with Germany. The German’s attitude to the pow’s hardened dramatically.
On 13th July Luft VI Heydekrug was evacuated. There was no transport and men could only take what they could carry, and they were marched to the railway station.
[page break]
Here the group spilt, some including Ted Giles going to Thorn in Poland, the rest with David among them beginning a trek during which they suffered unbelievable horrors.
4. “Baltic Cruise”, the Insterburg.
Crammed into cattle truck, they arrived that night a Memel, a Baltic seaport on the west cost [sic] of Lithuania. 900 men were forced into the two holds of the “Insterburg”, “a dilapidated, old and dirty coaster of about 1500 tons”. There was no light or ventilation once the hatches were shut, no food, no drink except for one bucket lowered by rope occasionally, no sanitation, and dysentery was rife and spread fast. The journey lasted 60 hours ending at Swinemunde at the mouth of the river Oder, and an important base for the German Navy..
As the men were unloaded, they were forced to remove their boots and were handcuffed together in pairs, then forced at bayonet point into yet more cattle rail trucks. At that point an allied bombing raid began and the trucks jumped into the air, vibrated and splintered from the blasts.
Eventually the train set off, and “most were in a bad way, and some slumped on the floor, tongues parched and gasping for breath; but the wagons were so crowded no one could bend down to help them.”
But the worst was still to come.
5. Hitler Youth. Bayonets, alsations and “The Run Up the Road”
After an overnight journey, the train halted “on a long lonely stretch of track beside a pine forest. A sign announced the name of a tiny station, Kiefheide”. The original guards got out and were replaced by “lines of vicious looking young men in white uniforms, brandishing unsheathed bayonets.” They were marine cadets from the Hitler Youth, teenage Nazis reared on adulation for Hitler. “We saw hate in their eyes,” and kept in the trucks again overnight, “we slept little, kept awake by the sounds of steel blades being sharpened on grinding wheels and laughter as the boasted how they would teach the Terrorfliegers a lesson tomorrow.”
Kept shut in the trucks until the following afternoon of 19th July, the prisoners were finally hounded out still manacled, struggled to retrieve their boots, and made to stand in lines beside the track. Then they were marched out onto a road, to be confronted by double lines of cursing shouting marine cadets, fixed bayonets, alsation dogs, and guards with machine guns at the ready. The German plan was apparently to incite the men to panic and run, to be shot down “while trying to escape.” There were even cameras on tripods to record it all.
Remarkably the prisoners kept their discipline and maintained a fast walking pace until in frustration the German major began yelling at his troops “Alles laufen. Make them run. Make them run until they drop.” Blood oozed from cut flesh and the smell of it enraged the snapping dogs. Men fell to the ground, tripping over or simply too exhausted to carry on. The marine cadets closed in around them.”
[page break]
And yet the prisoners still kept in ranks, shouted encouragement to one another, and the stronger moved to the outside of the line to protect the injured and the weaker in the centre. “There were many acts of courage amidst the confusion.”
6. Gross Tychow, Stalag Luft IV.
They arrived at the gates of Gross Tychow, Stalag Luft IV, in the German province of Pomerania, after 6 days without food, water, sleep or sanitation, “an exhausted, scared and subdued bunch. The Germans sat outside eating food they had taken from our packs.” And still it was not over, as to go through the gates they were forced to run a forty metre gauntlet of guards in two lines with bayonets fixed, jabbing incessantly at them. Then they were forced to lie on the ground and were strip searched.
This camp became a byword for brutality. POW numbers in the camp grew to 10,000, severe cold and snow set in, there was very little food and Red Cross Parcels only got through rarely. There is evidence that preparations and training were made by the Germans for organised shooting of prisoners.
Initially there was no accommodation, then dog kennels 14 feet by 8 feet and only 4 feet high each with 10 men. Finally barrack huts were available, and we have a photocopy of the postmans list which includes David and 4 of his crew, plus Jeff Longford another Stratford man and school contemporary at KES with David.
Camp numbers swelled dramatically as “hordes of weary dishevelled soldiers, mostly British with some Russian and other Nationals all arriving on foot from the East. They were footsore and limping, dirty, ill-clad, very hungry and exhausted.”
7. The Death March from Gross Tychow to Fallingbostel.
By 6th Feb 1945 the advancing Russian army was only 15 miles away, and the RAF prisoners were forced to set off out of the camp on foot, “herded out onto road and to the fields and woods, in snow, frost, rain and sun, to experience frostbite, hunger, thirst, blisters, swollen limbs, spastic muscles, colitis, dysentery, pneumonia and many other afflictions.” It was the start of a massive exodus that would see “the arteries of Germany clogged by millions of displaced people heading west in varying degrees of terror and horror.”
The journey covered 380 miles over 8 weeks, and is fully documented in Cecil Room’s diaries and Percy Carruthers book.
7th Feb “rain and sleet, we shall be sleeping in wet blanket tonight.” “Bloody awful night, no room in barn and again no food from Jerry.”
8th Feb “we see how long the column is. 2000 men three abreast takes up a lot of roads.”
“I break the ice in a puddle to get a moderately clean cup to water.”
[page break]
13th Feb “we purchase a small sheep from a farmer, and the boys slaughter it. Divided among 600 men and my share is as big as a sugar lump.”
“the dysentery situation was also deteriorating. Many were too weak to go any further, and burning wood to make charcoal and eating it in large quantities. Thanfully [sic] it did seem to ease the burning rawness and soothe tortured bowels.”
15th Feb “a day of 25 miles and no food. The evening was intensely cold under a clear sky portending frost and body numbing temperatures.” There were no buildings to sleep in and the night was spent in the open. “Most of the boys were in such an advanced stage of physical fatigue they just folder up on the wet ground where they were standing.”
“the ground we slept on was digusting,[sic] the snow was the colour of khaki from human excrement from those further up the column who had gone before. That night allied bombers came over the area again, not too far away an anti-aircraft battery was firing, and big chunks of shrapnel were coming down from the flak. It was terrifying. We had no helmets to protect us. But what was happening made me so angry, I was determined to survive. Come hell or high water, I was going to get home. This was without doubt the worst night of my life.”
16th Feb, (Davids 22nd birthday) “we awoke to see everything and everybody covered with white frost. How some had survived the night I shall never know.”
“this was another day of total abstinence from food. We did receive some drinking water late in the day.”
By the 15th March, they had covered 288 miles, “I can count the ribs easily now and don’t suppose I’m more than six and half stone. In the 37 days so far, our food supply from the Germans has been 2 loaves, 4/5 of pound of margarine, 4 ounces of meet [sic], and two and half Red Cross food parcels.” The only extras were from stealing, bartering (twelve cigarettes for two cattle cakes), hacking flesh of dead horses on the roadside, raiding the fields for root crops to gnaw on, occasionally finding grain and potato stores.
“I looked at my own forearm and saw it as a piece of meat. My own arm for Christ’s sake. I would wonder if I could bite into it and not hurt myself.”
“so little water was issued that men drank water or snow from the ground or from ditches others had used as latrines. Dysentery was so common and severe that wherever our column went, there was a trial of bloody movements and discarded underwear.”
As the health and strength of the prisoners slumped, the doctors with them were a scource of strength and survival despite desperate lack of equipment and medicines. They walked at the rear of the column encouraging and supporting the weakest. They scraped lice off patients bodies to listen to their chests with bare ear pressed to the skin. All they had to lance hundreds of abscesses was a razor blade.
Often a pep talk was all they could offer. “The human body is the toughest device ever built. You fellows are young, far stronger than you realize. You can take an
[page break]
unbelievable amount of punishment and make a snappy comeback. Hundreds of men have already done it, and you will too.”
“Each man on that march had a moment or several when they faced utter despair. Each had to find his own medicine within himself or die.”
There are no formal records of the numbers, but eyewitness accounts suggest a minimum of 150 of the RAF prisoners died along the way.
8. Fallingbostell. Hell, Chaos, and Freedom.
The march ended on 28th March, when the prisoners were yet again loaded into rail cattle trucks at Ebstorf, packed 80 to a truck and left locked in overnight and it was “truly hell. We were all so tired and the very sick were totally worn out. The number of men capable of standing up all night was very few indeed. This resulted in bodies being heaped on each other, exhausted.”
A two and a half hour, 70 kilometre journey followed to Fallingbostel, between Hamburg and Hannover, where the group was spilt between two camps, David’s going to Stalag 357. Remarkably here he met up again with Ted Giles, whose group has been transported in from Thorn in Poland. “To say that I was delighted to see David was a gross understatement, but he has experienced a grim journey, very evident in his appearance.”
The camps in Fallingbostell were hugely overcrowded, numbers rising daily as more pow’s, refugees, concentration camp inmates and slave labourers all of every nationality poured in from the east. There were French, Russian, British, American, Serbs, Indians, Yugoslavs and many other minorities.
The compounds were shanty towns, and there was no food. “I was so frigging hungry there. We received potatoes and a green stew that was made up of boiled grass and boiled sugar beets. All it did was fill a space, there was no nutrition in it.”
Information about the advance of British and US troops was conflicting and confusing, and hopes of early release into friendly hands were not realised. On 6th April the RAF prisoners were ordered to leave the camps and to see off marching yet again, this time to the North East away from the advancing allied forces. There were various groups, some returned to the camp as their guards disobeyed orders, and one was tragically mistaken for German soldiers and shot at by allied Typhoon fighter planes. Some, including David and Ted Giles’s continued marching, and for the next few weeks were caught up in “the utter chaos of a scarred landscape, full of people who seemed to have nowhere to go, but who filled the roads trying to get there.” At times they were overtaken by retreating German soldiers, and at others were in the front line battle zones.
Finally in late April or the first few days of May, David and Ted Giles were together when the British Army caught up with their group, and freedom was quickly followed by starting the journey back to the UK via Brussells [sic] on VE night 8th May. Frankly we were too exhausted to join in the fun.
[page break]
They were taken to the reception centre at RAF Cosford, to be re-kitted and de-briefed. At the end of the program David and Ted Giles “suggested they be sent on a refresher course and then on operations in the Far East. The Medical Officer’s reply was not encouraging!!”
9. Reflections
David weighed an emaciated 6 stone on his return home, carried stomach ailments, bayonet wound scars and a hatred of alsations for the rest of his life. His legs remained pencil thin. No doubt there were deep mental and emotional scars too, but like many of his fellow pow’s he rarely spoke of his experiences, just once taking for hours to Beryl (who he met in the autumn of 1945 whilst recuperating) on a drive down from Stratford to Biggin Hill to see Beryl’s parents.
But in many respect David was one of the lucky one. 76 squadron alone lost 775 crewmembers killed in action, David’s navigator Ken Ramsay among them. And David’s cousin “little David” Silverman was killed on operations when his Lancaster went down. And not forgetting that 150 of his fellow prisoners did not survive the “Death March”.
The so-called “Baltic Cruise” and the “Run up the Road” were the subject of a Foreign Office letter dated 27th Jan 1945 requesting a full investigation as war crimes breaching the Geneva Conventions.
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David Joseph; World War II RAF Pilot and Prisoner of War
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Includes David Joseph's service in the RAF, his training in Canada and his operations on Halifaxes at RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor and his movements after being shot down 18 March 1944 and becoming a prisoner of war.
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eng
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B[Author]JosephDv1
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Royal Air Force
Wehrmacht
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Canada
France
Germany
Great Britain
Lithuania
Poland
England--Yorkshire
France--Le Mans
France--Paris
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Ebstorf
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Krefeld
Germany--Nohn
Germany--Stuttgart
Poland--Świnoujście
Lithuania--Klaipėda
Poland--Toruń
Germany--Bad Fallingbostel
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1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
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Georgie Donaldson
Steve Baldwin
76 Squadron
animal
bombing
Caterpillar Club
displaced person
Dulag Luft
fear
final resting place
Halifax
Lancaster
memorial
prisoner of war
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor
Red Cross
sanitation
Stalag Luft 3
Stalag Luft 4
Stalag Luft 6
the long march
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Joseph, David
D Joseph
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22 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant David Joseph (1576383, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, log book, memoirs, correspondence and a list of prisoners of war at Stalag Luft 4. He flew operations as a pilot with 76 Squadron from RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor until his aircraft was shot down on 18 March 1944 on an operation to Frankfurt and he became a prisoner of war. The collection also contains a letter to Mrs Ramsay about the loss of her son, Flying Officer Kenneth Ramsay and photographs of his final resting place. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Brian Joseph and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br />Additional information on Kenneth Grant Ramsay is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/223173/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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2018-05-22
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[Crest]
In the years when our Country
was in mortal danger
DAVID JOSEPH
who served from 6th June 1940.
gave generously of his time and
powers to make himself ready
for her defence by force of arms
and with his life if need be.
[signature]
THE HOME GUARD
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David Joseph's Home Guard Certificate
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A certificate dated 'from 6th June 1940' awarded to David Joseph for his time in the Home Guard.
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eng
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MJosephD1576383-180522-21
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Great Britain
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1940
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Georgie Donaldson
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Civilian
civil defence
Home Guard
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Saunders, Sandy
Arthur Courtenay Saunders
Arthur C Saunders
Arthur Saunders
A C Saunders
A Saunders
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Seven items. The collection consists of a log book, an oral history interview and extensive medical records as well as photographs and a report. Dr Arthur Courtenay "Sandy" Saunders (1922-2017, 295329 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) received extensive burns after an aircraft crash in September 1945 and underwent experimental maxillo-facial surgery, as a member of the Guinea-pig Club.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Sandy Saunders and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-02-01
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Saunders, AC
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COMPANY COMMANDERS REPORT [inserted] 94 [/inserted]
1st Month This Cadet works hard yet is easy going and does not realise the importance of discipline and command. Hard work and experience should give him the confidence that he requires.
4 Sep 43 [initialled]
2nd Month He is young and impetuous but has guts and determination although he has still a lot to learn in man management and discipline. He must be willing to accept all orders with a smile and then will be in a better position to command.
He has a fair tactical knowledge. 23 Sep 43.
3rd Month
4th Month
5th Month
6th Month
[signature]
Major,
Officer Commanding “A” Company,
165th Officer Cadet Training Unit (G.P)
COMMANDING OFFICER’S REMARKS
Category D
He is impetuous, but has guts determination and works hard. Inclined to a little impetuous at present. His sense of discipline should improve with experience.
[signature]
LIEUT.COLONEL.
COMD 165TH INF. O.C.T.C
Date 28 SEP 1943
Cadet’s Initials and date [indecipherable] 29/9/43
(15301) Wt.19789/310 40,000 7/40 A.& E. W. Ltd. Gp.698
(16360) Wt.32091/1056 40,000 11/40 A.& E. W. Ltd. Gp.698 Forms/B.2616/1.
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Sandy Saunders' Officer Cadet Report
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Report written by Major W Lacy, Sandy Saunders' commanding officer on his progress as a cadet. He is described as 'young and impetuous but has guts and determination' and is told to develop greater discipline.
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W Lacy
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1943-09-28
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One typewritten sheet
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eng
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MSaundersAC295399Arm-170201-02
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British Army
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1943-09
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Georgie Donaldson
Steve Baldwin
aircrew
training
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Staves, Malcom Ely. MacArthur, DA
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Four items concerning Flight Lieutenant DA MacArthur including an extract from his log book.
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2016-02-26
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MacArthur, DA
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Tragedy of Legion official
THE ROYAL British Legion’s county treasurer for Humberside, Mr David McArthur, has died within hours of moving to Warwickshire to be nearer his daughter.
He had been due to retire from his post later in the year because of his decision to set up home with his wife in the Midlands.
Mr MacArthur collapsed and died only a day after bidding farewell to friends on Humberside.
Mr MacArthur (68), had been county treasurer for the past 20 years and was president of the Willerby, Kirkella and Anlaby RBL branch since 1976.
He was a former treasurer of Haltemprice Urban District Council, retiring in 1974 on local government re-organisation.
Mr MacArthur, of Woodlands Drive, Anlaby, was a navigator on Lancaster bombers during the 1939-45 War and joined the British Legion on discharge.
HDM: 17/6/82
Mayor at funeral service
THE MAYOR of Beverley, Coun. John Gray, and the borough council’s chief executive, Mr Jim Thomas, attended the funeral service for Mr D.A MacArthur, the former treasurer of Haltemprice Urban District Council, which took place at Pebworth, near Stratford upon Avon, on Monday.
David Alexander MacArthur (68) entered local government with Cheltenham Borough Council and joined Haltemprice in May, 1940.
Towards the end of 1941 he volunteered for service with the RAF and as navigator in a Lancaster bomber squadron he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
On demobilisation he returned to Haltemprice and shortly afterwards took over as treasurer of the council, a post he held until his retirement upon local government reorganisation in 1974.
Mr MacArthur joined the Willerby and Kirkella branch of the Royal British Legion in 1946 and had served as committee member since that time.
He also served as treasurer, for many years as chairman and since 1966, as President. In addition he was the county treasurer for 20 years until his death. His 36 years of loyal service were recognised with the Legion’s highest honour – a National Certificate of Appreciation.
Members of the Willerby and Kirkella branch of the Royal British Legion, as well as former council colleagues, also attended the funeral service, at which the address was given by Maj. G.Pilsbury, county chairman.
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D A MacArthur newspaper cuttings
Tragedy of Legion Official
Mayor at funeral service
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Three newspaper cuttings referring to the death of DA MacArthur.
1 - intimation of DA MacArthur's death
2 - Tragedy of Legion Official. David MacArthur was county treasurer and died at the age of 68.
3 - Mayor at Funeral Service. David MacArthur was former treasurer of Haltemprice Urban District Council. The article refers to his wartime career and the award of a Distinguished Flying Cross.
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1982-06
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Three newspaper cutting on a single sheet
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eng
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Text
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LMacArthurDA[Ser#-DoB]v10009
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Stratford-upon-Avon
England--Warwickshire
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1942-06-06
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Georgie Donaldson
aircrew
Distinguished Flying Cross
Lancaster
navigator
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Arrowsmith, Les. Flight
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15 pages of newspaper cuttings relating to 1930's aviation. It includes record breaking flights, and aircraft types including the Hurricane, Battle and Ju 52.
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Arrowsmith, HL
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2016-09-22
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AIR BOMBERS rule the Waves To-Day
[picture]
The famous Wright aeroplane, with its engine of only 12 horse-power, which heralded the Air Age.
Major
J. G. STRUTHERS, D.S.C.
Who contributes this article, was one of the most successful of British war-time air aces.
Decorated in 1917 after 2,000 hours’ flying, he spent most of his time locating and destroying from the air enemy submarines. He writes with unrivalled knowledge of the vulnerability of surface and under-sea craft in air attack.
THAT one of the most wonderful creations of science, manned by the finest personnel in the world, the battleship, should be doomed is a tragedy.
The fact, however, must be faced and our losses cut at once. She has had her day, and a glorious one it has been, but the decline that began in 1914 has been rapid, and now the battleship is one of our greatest liabilities.
All surface vessels are vulnerable to attack from three dimensions : the air ; below the surface ; and on the surface – the danger being in the order given. The larger the vessel the more vulnerable to attack, and the mere venturing forth in war time of such a vast and costly fortress as a battleship is attended by such varied dangers as to be a nightmare to those responsible for her safety.
[underlined] Escape Impossible [/underlined]
ONCE the battleship was supreme ; now, relays of aircraft carrying tons of bombs and aerial torpedoes, super-speed skiffs capable of 75 knots and carrying torpedoes, and submarines would be on her track, each of them capable of sending the £7,000,000 masterpiece to the bottom. Escape from them all would be impossible.
What are you doing ? We continue to spend many millions on big ships while starving our vital defence, the air arm.
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Air Bombers rule the Waves To-day
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An article written by Major J. G Struthers. He argues against the practicality of large battleships which can easily be destroyed by aeroplane, fast torpedo boats and submarines. He suggests that money would be better spent on aircraft and submarines than battleships.
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Major JG Struthers
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One newspaper cutting on a scrapbook page
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eng
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Text
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SArrowsmithHL571013v10007
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Georgie Donaldson
aircrew
bombing
submarine
-
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Appleton, Noel
Noel Appleton
N Appleton
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An account of the resource
5 items. Two photographs and correspondence concerning Noel Appleton DFC (1920 - 2008, 414980 Royal Australian Air Force) and the award of his Distinguished Flying Cross. He conpleted a tour of operations as a pilot with 166 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Jane Louise Reynolds and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-08-25
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Appleton, N
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[Commonwealth of Australia Letterhead]
IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO FILE NO 1213/6713/P.2.
19th July, 1945.
Flying Officer N. Appleton, D.F.C.
(Aus. 414980),
No. 1656 C.U.
R.A.F. Station,
Lindholme,
Doncaster,
[underlined] Yorks. [/underlined]
Dear Appleton
I have just received the good news from Air Ministry that you have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
2. Please accept my heartiest congratulations on this award.
3. With this note I am forwarding a small piece of D.F.C. ribbon, in case you are unable to obtain this locally.
Kindest personal regards,
Your sincerely,
[signature]
Air Vice Marshal.
Air Officer Commanding.
(Encl.)
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Letter to Noel Appleton from Royal Australian Air Force
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The letter refers to his award of a Distinguished Flying Cross, offers congratulations and includes a medal ribbon.
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1945-07-19
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One typewritten sheet
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eng
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EWingleyKMAppletonN450719
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
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1945-07
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Georgie Donaldson
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Australia. Royal Australian Air Force
aircrew
Distinguished Flying Cross
RAF Lindholme
-
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Attwood, Stanley Gordon
Attwood, S G
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An account of the resource
19 items. The collection concerns Stanley Gordon Attwood (1924 - 1983) and includes photographs and newspaper cuttings that mainly relate to a documentary made in 1969 about a Lancaster aircrew of 50 Squadron reunited after 25 years.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Andrea Giles and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-09-24
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Attwood, SG
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DOWN TO EARTH
[Picture]
Flight Sergeant Eric Gledhill made his final trip as engineer in RAF Waddington’s Lancaster when he flew in an air display in Cheshire.
The trip to Woodford was an appropriate one for was to the place where hundreds of the bombers were built during the war.
On his return to Waddington, Flt Sgt Gledhill, who will soon be leaving the RAF, was met by Wing Commander John Maud, acting Station Commander, who produced a bottle of champagne to be shared with the other crew members.
Flt Sgt Gledhill has been engineer on the Lancaster since it started flying at Waddington, and has had the responsibility of ensuring that the aircraft has been fit to fly on the many displays throughout the country.
Above, Wing Commander John Maud, third right, toasts Flt Sgt Eric Gledhill after his last trip in the Waddington Lancaster.
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Down to Earth
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A newspaper cutting about the last flight of Flight Sergeant Eric Gledhill in Lancaster KM-B from RAF Waddington to a display at Woodford, Cheshire and back. In the photograph are seven airman and a woman.
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One newspaper cutting from a scrapbook
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eng
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SAttwoodSG1814420v10035
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Civilian
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Georgie Donaldson
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
aircrew
flight engineer
Lancaster
RAF Waddington
-
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Redgrave, Henry Cecil
H C Redgrave
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An account of the resource
187 items. The collection concerns Henry Cecil Redgrave (743047, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, letters and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 207 Squadron from RAF Waddington. He was killed 13/14 March 1941. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pam Isaac and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Henry Cecil Redgrave is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/119457/">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Redgrave, HC
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[Crest]
The CARE and MARKING of WAR GRAVES
Imperial War Graves Commission,
Wooburn House,
Wooburn Green,
High Wycombe, Bucks.
February, 1942.
[page break]
During the war of 1914-18 the marking and care of the graves of those who fell were entrusted by the people and Governments of the Empire to the Imperial War Graves Commission. War Cemeteries were laid out in all parts of the world, and the graves were marked by headstones of a simple pattern – the same headstone for all, of whatever rank, symbolizing equality of sacrifice. These Cemeteries have been universally recognised as places of beauty, and the uniform headstone as mark of honour reserved for those who gave their lives for others. The photograph below shows these headstones and a War Cemetery. It is proposed to follow the same practice in this war.
(1) Abroad, cemeteries will be formed and the same pattern of headstone will be erected, wherever the forces of the British Commonwealth have been engaged.
(2) In the United Kingdom, in addition to Military Cemeteries, there are reserved plots in public cemeteries, and in some cases there are single burials in cemeteries or in churchyards. The Commission are prepared to mark with the same standard headstones all War Graves, not only
[photograph]
[page break]
[photograph]
in these Military Cemeteries and Service Plots, but also in those cases of single and private burial where the relatives wish their dead to the share this distinction with their comrades who rest in foreign lands.
The headstones cannot, however, be erected now, either abroad or in the United Kingdom, owing to shortage of labour, to lack of transport and to the risk of damage by air raids. As a temporary measure the graves are being marked wherever possible by specially designed wooden crosses, by the Shield of David in the case of Jewish graves, or by other appropriate form of memorial. The Commission will, nevertheless, write to you shortly to obtain from you, first, the full particulars to be recorded on the headstone, if the grave is known, so that everything may be ready to make and erect it as soon as the opportunity comes, and, secondly, the details to be recorded in permanent printed Registers. [inserted] LETTER NOW ENCLOSED [/inserted]
The Commission’s funds are provided by the Governments of the Empire, and no charge is made for either the temporary marking or the headstone. In the case of privately owned graves, care is being taken to ensure that the wishes of relatives are ascertained before the temporary marking is erected.
(3) As in the last war, many are missing and have no known grave. Other arrangements will be made for their commemoration ; after the late war, for example, the names of all sailors who had no grave but the sea were inscribed on memorials such as that shown in the above photograph. In these cases also the Commission will invite you to help them by supplying the necessary particulars.
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The Care and Marking of War Graves
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A document describing the activities of the Imperial War Graves Commission.
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Imperial War Graves Commission
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Two printed sheets
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eng
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Text
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MRedgraveHC743047-151002-060001,
MRedgraveHC743047-151002-060002
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-02
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1942
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Georgie Donaldson
final resting place
memorial
-
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Redgrave, Henry Cecil
H C Redgrave
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An account of the resource
187 items. The collection concerns Henry Cecil Redgrave (743047, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, letters and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 207 Squadron from RAF Waddington. He was killed 13/14 March 1941. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pam Isaac and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Henry Cecil Redgrave is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/119457/">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Redgrave, HC
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- copy -
March 13 1941.
On the night of March 13, 1941, shortly after the alert had sounded at 20.43, an air battle took place over the city and a British bomber was brought down.
A fighter plane dived on a bomber which was flying from east to west over the south part of the city. A thrilling action was watched by thousands of people.
The fighter steadied behind the bomber and fired three bursts of machine gun bullets into it. The bomber, which was carrying lights, did not reply, but quickly lost height and crashed at Whisby Moor.
Four of the crew of the plane, a Manchester, were killed and two injured.
There was doubt whether the fighter was British or German.
End
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March 13 1941
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A brief account of the shooting down of Harry Redgrave's Manchester aircraft over Lincoln by a fighter. It states that four of the crew were killed and two injured when it crashed. Concludes with the statement 'There was doubt whether the fighter was British or German.'
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One typewritten sheet
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eng
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Text. Service material
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MRedgraveHC743047-151002-08
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
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1941-03-13
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Georgie Donaldson
aircrew
crash
Manchester
shot down
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Allen, Jim
J H Allen
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18 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant James Henry Allen DFC (b. 1923, 179996 Royal Air Force). He flew a tour of operations as a pilot with 578 Squadron. The collection consists of a number of memoirs, photographs and a diary. It includes descriptions of military life and operations and his post-war life and work.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Steve Allen and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-12
2019-02-05
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Allen, JH
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[underlined]THE MIRACLE OF ASKHAM BRYAN as told by C.J. Dudley (Navigator) [/underlined]
[underlined]Date: [/underlined] The night of 21st January 1944
[underlined]Aircraft: [/underlined] Wellington LN 487
[underlined]Crew: [/underlined] Sgt. J. (Jimmy) Allen (Pilot)
Sgt. C.J. (Joe) Dudley ( Navigator)
Sgt. N.Phillips (Phil) (Bomb-Aimer/2nd Pilot)
W/O Cohen ( Wireless Operator)
Sgt. Ron (Geordie) Stobbs (Engineer)
Sgt. Eric G. Dunton ( Mid-Upper Gunner)?
W/O Louis Wooldridge (Rear-Gunner)?
The flight was a flight was a night exercise towards the end of flying training at 15 O.T.U. Harwell. Flying at 15,000 feet with the countryside below in complete darkness, the normally deafening roar of the two engines suddenly changed to a tremendous rushing sound. The pilot reported that both engines show high revs but that we were losing height rapidly. He asked the Navigator for a position and was told that we were over the centre of York. The pilot then sent out the distress signal ‘May-day, Mayday! and then reported over the intercom that the lights of an aerodrome have been switched on and that he was aiming for it. By then he realised that there was no power in the engines and that the revs were being produced by the windmill effect on the propellers as we fell rapidly through the air. He then ordered everyone to their crash positions. My position, with Sgt. Phillip(?) was against the main spar bulkhead facing rearwards. Here I replugged in my intercom. We then hear the Pilot report that he had lost sight of the airfield light but that he had at last manged to get the aircraft straight and level. I asked him what our height was and he replied that it was 4000 feet and that he was about to switch on the landing lights.
The next second we heard loud exclamations from the gunners and the pilot felt a couple of bumps, a smell of mud flying around, a sense of being spun around, a smell of petrol, and then silence and stillness. Phil and I scrambled out of the astro-drome escape hatch onto the [deleted]port[/deleted] [inserted] starboard [/inserted] wing then onto the ground. There was little left of the wing and its engine has rolled away infront of the aircraft and was burning itself away merrily. The landing light was still shining bright and lighting up the scene. We were in a muddy field with petrol pouring from the wing onto the squelchy grass. Sgt. Allen was standing on the wing and began calling the roll. Everyone answered except W/O Louis Wooldridge. We all ran to the rear of the aircraft where we found Louis spreadeagled on the grass under the rear turret which stood about eight feet above us. At last
[inserted] OTU = Operational Training Unit [/inserted]
[page break]
Jimmy Allen’s calm professional efficiency broke down. “I’ve killed old Wooly!” he cried out in great anguish. Geordie, the Engineer, rose to the occasion and with great presence of mind and not a little courage climbed back into the aircraft in order to retrieve the Very Pistol and fire off a red flare to attract rescuers. His enterprise was a little too enthusiastic however, for instead of coming out of the fuselage with the pistol he inserted it onto its socket and fired it vertically out of the top of the aircraft. We took one horrified look as the brilliant flare soared into the air, paused , and began to fall back towards the fuselage. There was not a breath of wind. Each of us grabbed one of Louis’ limbs and we ran like hell to get as far from the aircraft as possible, until the flare still burning bright landed and fizzled out, in the grass only a foot or two from the canvas covered fuselage. Silence reigned except for the gush of petrol from the wing.
We laid Wooly on the grass about 50 yards from the aircraft as Geordie clambered happily out of the escape hatch. Wooly then sat up, looked around and said, “What’s happened?” to which Eric Dunton, (I think) replied with great exasperation. “You can see what’s bloody well happened!” Wooly looked back at his turret and immediately exclaimed “What about me rations?” (The tin of chocolate and raisins that was issued to every crew-member on long flights). “You go and get – your own bloody rations!” was Eric’s vehement reply.
By then Geordie’s flare had been seen by a local Anti-aircraft crew who soon arrived with torches and led us back to their camp, and then to R.A.F. Rufforth for some much needed sleep. Sgt. Allen was able to telephone the C.O. at Harwell, whose reaction was not to ask if anyone has survived by only to curse the pilot for destroying his best aircraft.
Next day we return to the aircraft to assess the situation, We found that we had flown at ground level through a wood on the outskirts of York. It was the sight of the flight past and taking off our wings as the pilot switched on the landing lights that brought the cries of amazement from the pilot and gunners. We had then slid across a large marshy field of grass until one engine touched the ground and spun us round 180 degrees. Not one of the crew was even slightly injured, not even Louis Wooldridge. How he had arrived unconscious beneath the rear turret we never found out, but wondered if he had jumped or fallen out with his intercom still plugged in, for we were certainly not expecting to land so suddenly. But whatever the
[page break]
reason he was only knocked out for about one minute, or less, i.e. the time it took to call the roll.
Climbing back into the aircraft to rescue my charts, log, [inserted] and also the pilots parachute [inserted/] and sextant I discovered that our leather gauntlets had been stolen. As it was R.A.F. policy never to replace lost or stolen gauntlets (taking it for granted that they must have been sold on the black market), I was obliged to fly the rest of the war with only my silk inner gloves to keep me warm.
Why did Jimmy Allen tell me that we were 4000feet when in fact we could’nt have been more than a couple of feet above the ground? The answer lies in the construction of the altimeter, This was no more than an aneroid barometer, which was very slow to react to changes in atmospheric pressure. We had descended 15,000 feet in 3 or 4 minutes, leaving the altimeter with its built-in time-lag reading nearly a mile above our true height.
We never discovered why both the Wellington’s engines should suddenly fail completely and simultaneously, without warming. No-one would believe that it could happen but it did, and I believe, has happened on several occasion since then. Nor have I ever heard of any other air-craft falling three miles at night with no engine power whatever, and landing safely of its own accord in a dark and muddy field with all the crew walking away completely unharmed.
At the end of the official enquiry, which found no fault in anyone’s actions, nor any reason for the loss of the aircraft, each member of the crew was asked if they wished to change to another crew, and all of us, with the exception of W/O Cohen, who was entering his second tour of operations and was hoping for a crew as experienced as himself, had no hesitation insaying that we wished to continue flying together with Sgt. Allen as our skipper. In the weeks that we had been with him before the crash we had all been deeply impressed by his flying skill and his outstanding ability as captain, in the realisation that he could do everyone’s job in the crew at least as well as we could ourselves, and we all had complete confidence in each other. During the events of 21st Jan, we had all been equally deeply affected by Jimmy Allen’s calm and efficient professionalism in a situation of extreme danger, and by his remarkable skill in handling the stricken aircraft. We knew that he was a captain who would never panic, never act wildly or foolishly, always skilfully in command of every situation no matter how desperate. Not every bomber captain inspired such
[page break]
confidence. Above all perhaps we felt that anyone who was not only as skilful but as [underlined]
lucky [/underlined] as Jimmy Allen, - as the whole crew – had to be where our future lay.
We took on a new W/Op (Sgt. Ron Adams) and within a few days transferred to a Halifax Conversion unit, and then on to 578 Squadron at Burn in Yorkshire. Here we flew 39 operations over Europe specialising in very accurate attacks on small tactical targets. Our crew was particularly successful, our log and bombing photographs always on display, and we completed the tour flying day and night without any of the crew sustaining any injury of any kind, inspite [sic] of much damage to our aircraft, ( which managed to survive and fly many more operations.
By the end of the tour, flying day and night under great stress, our nerves pretty well worn through, we had come almost to hate the sight of each other. Nevertheless we all volunteered to go on another tour of special duties, provided that we could keep together as a crew. But the R.A.F. decided to send us all on our separate ways. While on the Squadron at Burn, three of the crew, - Jimmy Allen, Norma Phillips and myself, were commissioned [sic], and in January 1945 we read that every member of the crew, except for Eric Dunton, who, in spite of being proven many times to be the best gunner on the Squadron, had never had the opportunity to fire his guns at the enemy, had all been awarded the D.F.C. or D.F.M.
[signature]
Colin Joseph Dudley
Flight Lieutenant R.A.F.V.R. (Ret.)
27th September 1987
[page break]
Detail of crew members
Pilot Fg Off J H Allen (179996)
Navigator Plt Off J C Dudley (182392)
Bomb-aimr F Sgt N M Phillips (1389293)
Wireless Op F Sgt R E Adams (1454844)
Flt Engineer Sgt K Stobbs (1592671)
Mid-upper Gunner Sgt E G Dunton (2204493)
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The Miracle of Askham Bryan
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The story of a complete engine failure in Wellington LN 487 over York at 15,000ft at night. The aircraft was over York and crash-landed safely. The rear-gunner had been knocked unconscious but was unhurt, as were the rest of the crew.
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Joe Dudley
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1987-09-27
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Five typewritten sheets
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eng
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Text. Memoir
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ELingHTNDudleyCJ891201
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--York
England--Yorkshire
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1944-01-21
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Georgie Donaldson
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IBCC Digital Archive
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578 Squadron
aircrew
crash
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Flying Medal
Halifax
navigator
Operational Training Unit
pilot
RAF Harwell
RAF Rufforth
training
Wellington
wireless operator
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Allen, Jim
J H Allen
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An account of the resource
18 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant James Henry Allen DFC (b. 1923, 179996 Royal Air Force). He flew a tour of operations as a pilot with 578 Squadron. The collection consists of a number of memoirs, photographs and a diary. It includes descriptions of military life and operations and his post-war life and work.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Steve Allen and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-12
2019-02-05
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Allen, JH
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PASSING OVER
Silver fish above the clouds,
Rising, falling in the sun,
Floating through the endless sky
In an aura of silent thunder.
They change, and change again,
Arranging up and down, and back and forth,
A shoal of fish against the stream,
Interbalancing in rise and fall.
Three miles below a microscopic breed,
As in a falling spell, now sense and omnipresent throb.
Stronger now – Crescendo! Louder yet!
Oh roar Roar Roar The CLAMOUR!
Dying, dying, gone away,
Linger on the greying day
The rumble of unnumberable guns.
………………………………………………………………..
But those above can hear no sound.
The gently ears have long shut out
The never-ending crash, the savage rave,
That like great trumpets on the Day of Judgment,
Shakes the immaculate plain of Heaven.
Among these palpable and thinking men,
Encased within their fiery cans,
The obliterating rant has overgrown infinity
And now becomes a silence,
Only to return again
In halfway hours of hungry sleep.
And then the throbbing blast that now
They cannot hear will roar again,
Reincarnated in the sleepless dreams
Of airmen lying in their tin-hut beds,
Wearied, worn, and praying for cessation.
Colin Joseph Lundley
1944
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Passing over
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Poem describing the hardship of wartime service, stressing the emotional strain of operations and the longing for rest.
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Colin Joseph Dudley
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1944
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One typewritten sheet
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eng
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Text
Text. Poetry
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MAllenJH179996-160512-09
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Georgie Donaldson
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IBCC Digital Archive
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aircrew
arts and crafts
military living conditions
military service conditions
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Cheshire, Leonard
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard
Baron Cheshire
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An account of the resource
374 items concerning Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC. Collection consists of photographs of people, vehicles, places, aircraft, weapons and targets; documents including, private and service letters, signals, telegrams, intelligence reports, crew lists and official documents. Cheshire served on 102 and 35 Squadrons and commanded 76 and 617 Squadrons. The collection includes details of 617 Squadron's precision bombing operations. Also included are two sub-collections: one containing 21 photographs of Tinian and Saipan, the other consisting of 37 audio tapes of speeches given by Cheshire after the war.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by The Leonard Cheshire Archive and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘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.
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[Air Ministry logo]
AIR MINISTRY,
ADASTRAL HOUSE,
KINGSWAY.
W.C.2.
9th September, 1944.
Dear Wing Commander Cheshire,
May I be allowed to add my very warm congratulations to those of countless others who, with more claim, will be writing to you on your supreme and crowning distinction.
You will not remember me, but I remember you very well, and I hope you will forgive a somewhat impertinent reminiscence. I visited Marston Moor about a year ago with an Air Ministry Committee, and you conducted us round your station. Some indication of your operational record was of course patent to the eye, and my curiosity led me to ask the Air Commodore Base Commander how such a young group Captain fared in the less exciting tasks of administration. The eulogy was only tempered by a melancholy observation in regard to your persistent efforts to return to the field of greater hazard, and the loss which this would mean to your station and to his command.
Sacrificing your rank you returned to operations, and your subsequent achievements have added lustre to the Royal Air Force and your generation. As the war in Europe draws to its close the debt which this country and the world owes to you and the like of you is realised even more widely and intensely. As a civilian member of the Air Ministry – quorum pars parva fui – since its early days – may I be permitted to voice something of the pride and gratitude I am sure all my colleagues feel. Sir Arthur Street, the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, wishes in particular to be associated
Wing Commander G.L. Cheshire, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
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with what I am trying to convey, and I fear I may be doing less than justice to what he would say himself. You may know that one of his sons is one of your gallant comrades of Bomber Command for whom, alas, there will be no return.
May I also send you again on behalf of all my colleagues my very best wishes for continued health, success and high endeavour.
Yours sincerely,
[signature] J.H. Barnes [/signature]
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Letter to Leonard Cheshire from J H Barnes
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Congratulatory letter on Air Ministry headed paper, which goes on to praise Leonard Cheshire for insisting on continuing hazardous situations and dropping a rank to continue on operations. Suggests that Cheshire is greatly admired in the Air Ministry for his achievements and wishes him the best for the future.
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J H Barnes
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1944-09-09
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Two page printed letter
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eng
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EBarnesJHCheshireGL440909
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--London
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1944-09-09
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Royalty-free permission to publish
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Eileen Reddish
David Bloomfield
Georgie Donaldson
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992)
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Service Order
RAF Marston Moor
Victoria Cross
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Cheshire, Leonard
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard
Baron Cheshire
Description
An account of the resource
374 items concerning Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC. Collection consists of photographs of people, vehicles, places, aircraft, weapons and targets; documents including, private and service letters, signals, telegrams, intelligence reports, crew lists and official documents. Cheshire served on 102 and 35 Squadrons and commanded 76 and 617 Squadrons. The collection includes details of 617 Squadron's precision bombing operations. Also included are two sub-collections: one containing 21 photographs of Tinian and Saipan, the other consisting of 37 audio tapes of speeches given by Cheshire after the war.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by The Leonard Cheshire Archive and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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From : A.O.C. HQ. No 5 Group.
To : Conningsby Base, R.A.F. Station, WOODHALL.
A.407. 10th. JUNE (Personal for Officer Commanding) The following message has been received from A.O.C.-in-C Bomber Command. Please give my congratulations to all concerned in the attack on Saumur Tunnel. The results speak for themselves of the astonishing skill and efficiency shown.
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Note from Air Officer Command 5 Group
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To officer commanding Conningsby Base RAF Woodhall Spa passing on congratulations on success of Saumur tunnel operation.
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A.O.C. No 5 Group
Date
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1944-06-10
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One typewritten document
Language
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eng
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Text
Text. Service material
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MCheshireGL72021-181210-010002
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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France
France--Saumur
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1944-06-08
1944-06-09
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Cheshire, Leonard. Bombing of the Samur tunnel (8/9 June 1944)
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Royalty-free permission to publish
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This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘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.
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Ashley Jacobs
David Bloomfield
Georgie Donaldson
5 Group
617 Squadron
Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944)
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
RAF Coningsby
RAF Woodhall Spa
Tallboy