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Title
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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.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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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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Permission granted for commercial projects
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Transcription
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F/O. F.N. Lawrence,
Officers Mess,
RAF. Station.
Melbourne,
Yorks.
24th Jan. 1944.
Sir,
I have recently heard that you have returned to operations, and I wish to know I you have a vacancy for a Wireless Operator on the Squadron.
I had the pleasure of being under your command at Linton-on-Ouse until April 1943, when I was posted to Melbourne.
I have recently returned to this Squadron after a walking tour on the Continent and I am now a ‘spare body’.
Therefore, if you have a vacancy Sir, would you please inform me.
I have the honour to be
Sir,
Your obedient Servant
F.N. Lawrence F/O
Wing Commander G.L. Cheshire, D.S.O. D.F.C.
Officers Mess,
RAF. Station,
Coningsby,
Lincs.
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Title
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Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Flying Officer F N Lawrence
Description
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Asks if Cheshire has vacancy for wireless operator on his squadron. Served under him at RAF Linton-on-Ouse and recent returned after evading on the continent.
Creator
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F N Lawrence
Date
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1944-01-24
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Text. Service material
Identifier
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SCheshireGL72021v10018
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
England--Yorkshire
Temporal Coverage
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1944-01-24
Is Part Of
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Cheshire, Leonard. Correspondence
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
License
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Royalty-free permission to publish
Rights
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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.
Format
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One-page typewritten letter
Contributor
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Claire Monk
aircrew
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992)
evading
military ethos
RAF Coningsby
RAF Melbourne
wireless operator