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Title
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North, Geoffrey John
North, G J
North, Johnny
Description
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31 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey John 'Johnny' North, DFC, (173836, Royal Air Force) who served as a rear gunner on 428, 76 and 35 Squadrons flying Wellington, Halifax and Lancaster. He was called up in 1940 from his job as a tailor in Saville Row where he returned after the war. He was shot down on an operation to Duisburg on 21 February 1945. The collection contains his logbook, an account of his shooting down, capture and time as a prisoner of war, including documentation, forced march to another camp in 1945, liberation and repatriation. The collection includes membership documents for Royal Air Force Association, Pathfinders Association and Caterpillar Club as well as personnel documentation, Pathfinder badge correspondence and photographs of crew and squadron as well as other memorabilia.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Carole Bishopp and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-05-20
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North, G
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[embossed stamp]
Royal Air Force,
Graveley,
Hunts.
Ref: 35S/C.68/174/P.1. 12th March, 1945.
Dear Mr. North,
I am enclosing a certificate for the permanent award of the Path Finder Force Badge to your Son, which no doubt you would like to keep for him.
I regret that we still have had no news of your Son’s crew.
Yours faithfully,
[signature]
Flight Lieutenant, Adjutant,
for,
[underlined] Squadron Commander [/underlined]
Mr. R. North,
Karind Boundstone,
[underlined] Farnham, Surrey. [/underlined]
[inserted] [underlined] Acknowledged 17 . 3 . 45. [/underlined][/inserted]
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Title
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Letter to Geoffrey North's father concerning pathfinder badge
Description
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Letter to R North from RAF Graveley covering enclosure of certificate for permanent award of Path Finder Force badge. Note of regret that there is no new of his son's crew.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. 35 Squadron
R North
Date
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1945-03-12
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EBarrNorthR450312
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Cambridgeshire
England--Surrey
England--Farnham
Temporal Coverage
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1945-03-12
Rights
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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.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Andy Hamilton
Format
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One-page typewritten document
missing in action
Pathfinders
RAF Graveley