David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Boston]]> England--Lincoln]]> Russia (Federation)]]> Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)]]> England--The Wash]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Netherlands]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> 1943]]> 1944-02]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Michael Cheesbrough ]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-11]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-03-20]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway]]> 1942-12]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Ian Whapplington]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Grantham]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tilly Foster]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-08-04]]> 1944-08-08]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tilly Foster]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--York]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Scotland--Moray]]> France]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1940-10]]> 1943-04-16]]> 1943-09-28]]> 1944-07]]> Frank talks of his evacuation to the countryside near Croxton Kerrial when he was nearly five. He was accompanied by his two brothers and initially his mother. His sister was sent to Somerset. He enjoyed his time in the countryside and shares memories about the people who looked after him, his school, mealtimes and leisure time pursuits.
Frank reluctantly returned to Chingford in Essex two years after the end of the war. He missed the countryside and was bullied at school. At the aged of 15, he ran away to Croxton Kerrial, to which his parents subsequently agreed. He never saw his parents again.
He started work on a farm and met his wife. After four years in the Coldstream Guards, he married and worked on another farm in Croxton. Frank then moved to Londonthorpe to set up the shoot. The shoot rented the land from the Belton Estate. When the estate was bought by the National Trust, no shooting was permitted. He was taken on as keeper by Sir Montague Cholmeley. After retirement, the latter let him live rent free.
Frank has written a book, “London Evacuee to Countryman” and appeared in Sporting Shooter and Lincolnshire Life magazines.
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David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Julie Williams]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Melton Mowbray]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bury St. Edmunds]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Norwich]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Wales--Glamorgan]]> 1944-12]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]>