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Whitehead, Tom
T Whitehead
Description
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31 items and an album sub collection. Collection concerns Warrant Officer Tom Whitehead (b. 1923) who served as a rear gunner with 428 Squadron operating from RAF Dalton in Yorkshire. He was shot down over Duisburg and became a prisoner of war. Collection includes his prisoner of war logbook, official correspondence to his mother, official documentation, letters from the Caterpillar Club, German prisoner of war propaganda, 14 editions of the Red Cross prisoner of war newspaper and photographs of Royal Air Force personnel including himself.
Album in sub collection consists of 47 pages of prisoner of war related photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pamela Hyslop and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-03-07
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Whitehead, T
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RECORD OFFICE,
ROYA AIR FORCE,
GLOUCESTER,
DATE 12TH April 1943
Telephone No : SPRINGWALL (GLOUCESTER) 2204
Yours Ref: C7/1502391
[Customs and Excise Date Stamp 9 Aug 1945]
Dear Madam
I regret to inform you that our son, No.1502391 Sergeant Tom WHITEHEAD of No. 428 (Royal Canadian Air Force) Squadron, Royal Air Force, is missing, the aircraft of which he was the air gunner having failed to return to its base on the night of 8th/9th April 1943 from an operational flight.
This does not necessarily mean that he is killed or wounded. I will communicate with you again immediately I have any further news and would be obliged if you, on your part, would write to me should you hear anything of your son from unofficial sources.
May I assure you of the sympathy of the Royal Air Forde with your anxiety.
I am,
Dear Madam, Your obedient Servant,
R Williamson
For Air Commodore,
Air Officer i/c Records,
ROYAL AIR FORCE.
Mrs J. Whitehead.
Jaumfields Farm,
Littlemoss,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
Lancashire.
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Letter to Tom Whitehead's mother from Royal Air Force Records Office
Description
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Informs her that her son is missing, his aircraft failed to return on night 8/9 April 1943. States that he will write once they have any further information,
Creator
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E Williamson
Date
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1943-04-12
Language
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eng
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EWilliamsonAWhiteheadJ[Mo]430412
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Civilian
Royal Canadian Air Force
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Great Britain
Temporal Coverage
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1943-04-08
1943-04-09
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One-page typewritten letter
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Claire Monk
air gunner
aircrew
missing in action