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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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[RAF Crest]
Sgt. Lamprey. P.H.
Sgt’s Mess. [sic]
R.A.F. Lindholme
Nr. Doncaster
[underlined] Yorks.[/underlined]
[Underlined] Tuesday. [/underlined]
Dear Unk etc.
This – before I really start – is not going to be one of those lengthy epistles that you seem to expect. In fact, if I get to the bottom of the page, I shall consider I have more than done my duty to you all. If you don’t like it you know what you can do. I would write it, but it would hardly look the thing in a polite letter. Not that there is any possibility of this degenerating into a polite letter.
Above - if your powers of perception are still functioning – you will note the new address. So far nothing out of the ordinary has happened. We have been subjected to all the indignities pertaining to the arrival at a new station. Every bleeder on the camp has signed our papers and we are once more officially on a unit. They have handed us out the usual “Giddy-up” talk about giving the Luftwaffe and Mr. Hitler all the urea we can drop in the back-garden. We like to hear that as it is a sign we shan’t be flying for Christ knows how long.
This place is one of the RAF’s best efforts
[page break]
as a camp – modern and comfortable. Someone must have made a hell of a mistake. The only bother is the grub which is about the worst I have struck – still we can stick that for a month or so we shall be here. After being stuck on camps that were six or seven miles from anywhere it is a change to be here. This blasted place is twelve.
However as I remarked it is not as bad as it could be and we are looking forward to a nice quiet time if only they will forget we are here. They have just put us through an intensive P.T. course that is supposed to harden us up but if it had wasted another day it would just about had us hard for ever – stiff and stark.
I am sorry I could not make the shop again before my leave was up but pressure of events were to blame. A nice round phrase that means F.A., still I had a nice time and hit Lindholme twelve hours late. Not that anyone worried about it.
I shall – as far as possible – give you a bit more gen as soon as I get organised. Remember me to all.
All the best.
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes that he is at a new station, Royal Air Force Lindholme. He comments that the station is modern and comfortable but that the food bad and it is a long way to the nearest town.
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Peter Lamprey
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-26
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Royal Air Force
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military living conditions
RAF Lindholme
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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Lamprey, P
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Sgts. Mess. [sic]
RAF. Ludford Magna.
Market Rasen
[underlined] Lincolnshire. [/underlined]
Dear Auntie,
If you think I have got time to print my letters from now on you are more than a little mistaken. From now on it is taking me all my time to keep alive. From now on I am afraid the letters will be more or less very short notes. From now on, what I don’t write about you will have to guess.
This place is in the hands of the builders (?) and we live more or less in the wild state. As usual we are miles from any civilised habitation
[page break]
although one of the aforementioned C.H. visited certainly sells the right stuff and when we do get time off there are decent arrangements made to get us to and from.
As you will realise there is nothing I can write about, where we go or what we do, what the weather is like, if any and the other news that you are not in the least bit interested in.
I hope everything is still running fine and fair. Remember me to Archie and I hope he soon gets back to his usual health. No doubt the chapel will do a bit of bitching at my writing but it doesn’t worry me so keep your mind above the naval [sic].
All the best
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to his Auntie
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Pete Lamprey writes from Royal Air Force Ludford Magna that letter writing might be more infrequent now and briefly describes his new camp. He mentions that he will not be able to write about what he is doing.
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Peter Lamprey
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-27
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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101 Squadron
RAF Ludford Magna
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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Lamprey, P
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Sgt’s. Mess.
R.A.F. Ludford Magna.
Market. Rasen.
[underlined] Lincolnshire.[/underlined]
Dear Unk and others.
The big advantage of having a bunch of friends (?) like you, is that my education is always of primary importance to you. In all the years of my correspondence with you the two big high-spots have been the discovery of spelling mistakes. What in hell you are bitching about just because I put an e before an i on one occasion. After what we did to the bloody [smudged] place [/smudged] there is hardly any need to spell it again as nobody wants what is left, unless they are building a rockery. Since returning from my few days of rest we have done Manhime [sic] (sort it out as you don’t like it spelled the other way), Milan twice and Peenemunde. The last place is a factory settlement – was a factory settlement – about the size of Guinness’s and we had nearly 600 kites on it. It is now a hole three times the size of Guinness’s. There was more
[page break]
shit unloaded there in an hour that [sic] flows down Barking Creek in a year. The last one on Milan was nearly as bad. We could see the whole town coming up at us as we turned away after bombing – it was brilliant moonlight and you could see the whites of their eyes. So taken by and large the last few trips have been right on the mark. The Italian do’s are nice and quiet, not being sociable types they do not welcome us with the fervour of our Hun friends. As always, the Hun always thinks you are up there to be shot at and the stupid perisher behaves accordingly.
When I get a little more time I shall endeavour to write a longer letter but events are rather pressing so the short note will have to do for this time. I shall attend to all the mounting scores in due course but until then the usual wishes etc.
All the best
[underlined] Pete.[/underlined]
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes about operations to Milan, Mannheim and Peenemunde. He writes that the operation to Peenemunde included 600 aircraft and they bombed a factory settlement.
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Peter Lamprey
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-28
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany
Germany--Mannheim
Germany--Peenemünde
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England--Lincolnshire
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101 Squadron
bombing
Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943)
RAF Ludford Magna
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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Lamprey, P
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R.A.F. Ludford Magna.
Market Rasen.
[underlined] Lincolnshire. [/underlined]
[underlined] Sunday. [/underlined]
Dear Unk - etc
Appealing to your sense of duty, I suppose, is impossible but if you think I am going to be concerned in a one-way letter service you are definitely up the spout. While I only have time off now and again from the successful prosecution of the war, you skulk on sunlit beaches and neglect me altogether. My friend (?), it will not do. If you want the gen I am sorely afraid you will have to show a little more of the old co-operative spirit and not some of the Navy way of “Ladder up, I’m aboard.”
Things generally are just dandy. Bags of no flying and keep ‘em on the deck. Just the sort of service the brave air-crews
[page break]
looking for [sic]. In fact if they would only scrub the flying business altogether I think I could really settle down at the life. Our last effort was Turin so you can guess how long we have been out of the air. If only they paid us proper union rates, with overtime and night work, it would be one of the over-crowded professions, as it is there are bags of room for volunteers – any offers?
The time off, so far, has not been utilised in its correct manner and the wine, women and song have definitely had the go-by. Not that we have reformed but circumstances prevailing prevent the full enjoyment of our leisure hours. We are all suffering from an insidious disease known as air-crew cramp, which shows itself in an abnormal craving for the flesh-pots and a hollow pocket. Still the big day is looming over the horizon and the disease will no doubt
[page break]
reach its crisis Thursday and pass away completely with the application of the usual remedy. Then I think I shall find me a nice WAAF with slim hips and a broad mind and go on another sortie.
I hope the rest of the brave warriors are going about their duly appointed tasks in a soldierly manner and letting the mugs do the hard bits. I should think that by now Moloney and Co. know what they are fighting for – I found out quite a while ago – its [sic] a good position in the NAAFI queue. Hope the rest of the mob are still looking busy when the man pops out. Remember me to all.
Love and kisses
Pete.
P.S. Any old reading matter will be very welcome as I am having a hard time at Solo.
P.
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes some general comments about life including a mention of an operation to Turin and how he spends his time off.
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Peter Lamprey
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Three page handwritten letter
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-29
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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England--Lincolnshire
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Italy--Turin
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101 Squadron
bombing
RAF Ludford Magna
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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Lamprey, P
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Sgts. Mess.
R.A.F. Ludford Magna.
Market Rasen.
[underlined] Lincolnshire. [/underlined]
[underlined] Dearest [/underlined]
Excuses, no matter how thought out are of no avail against the righteous wrath that your diabolical neglect has raised in my breast. Here am I – slaving to keep the Hun out of the next chapel meeting and how am I treated? Anyone would think I am an overseer the way you ignore me. This will definitely be the last of the brilliant essays unless I hear from some bright minder who can put more than two words together without making a mistake. If I happen to go more than a week without letting you know the
[page break]
latest exploits of the brave boys of Bomber Command there is a squawk that can be heard in China. Just get weaving and let us have a bit of the latest news.
For some reason or other they, the big shots, have kept us on the deck for quite a while. They might be giving our jolly old paperhanger a chance to pile the bricks up again ready for us to knock down – if he can find them. It was a pity the other boys went and done [sic] Rome. I should have enjoyed helping to put a few more ancient buildings in there. These Italian do’s are just what the doctor ordered – especially if you go in fairly late. We spent twelve minutes over Turin watching the place coming up piece by piece, a bit different to
[page break]
Gelsenkirchen that we bombed at 240mph and had three holes knocked in us inside two minutes. I’d rather do two Italian trips at ten hours a piece than one Happy Valley at five. The bloody Hun is too keen and he always seems to be peeved at something. If the silly bleeders only let us alone we could wipe the place out in a week and then all of us could go to bed at night. As it is he stays up – we stay up and if they aren’t careful it will develop into one of these “Vishus [sic] circles”.
Since starting this letter I have received what purports to be a letter from the home of incurables, therefore don’t read the start of this letter as it might upset you. If you have already done so – I hope it did. If Mr. Evans
page break]
cares to repeat his statement at some future date I will show him what the oldest working gunner on the squadron can do with the oldest non-working member on the scrounge. To Bro G. I send the usual salutations and leave the old chronometer in the capable hands of one of the old contemtuous [sic].
At the present moment I am in the throes of trying to repair my lighter so if you fiddlers receive a little parcel of bits it will be another little job to keep your fingers out.
Remember me to all. The sudden halt is a battle-order for tonight just coming up. All the best.
Pete.
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes about his latest exploits including operations to Turin and Gelsenkirchen. He ends the letter as he has received a battle order for that night.
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Peter Lamprey
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Four page handwritten letter
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-30
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Italy
Italy--Turin
Italy--Rome
Germany
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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101 Squadron
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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R.A.F Ludford Magna.
Market Rasen.
[underlined] Lincolnshire. [underlined]
[underlined] Sunday. [underlined]
Dear Unk etc others.
You will note with interest that I am foregoing my afternoon siesta to keep abreast of the flood of mail that has struck this war front. I extend the usual thanks for the Royal and letter but would like to point out that even Mr. Hunts [sic] threat to be in the “Harrow Tavern” will not deter me, as we are inured to facing grim things.
Since my last epistle we have spent a fairly quiet time and, for myself, only one invitation to
[page break]
a Bomber Command party. This one was held at Leipzig and was thoroughly enjoyed by all concerned except a few foreigners who were at home on the ground floor. Still I should imagine they have, by now, found enough bricks to finish their rockeries. That is if their rockeries are still there.
Other than the above, news is still [deleted] still [/deleted] conspicuous by its absence and it is a hard job to spin out a few words and make it look like a letter. The city lights beckoned last evening and I answered the appeal by gracing the town with my presence. A fairish time was had and but for the failure of currency would have
[page break]
developed into a memorable occasion. However we have rectified the account this morning and at any future date will be in a position that will enable us to do full justice to the matter under discussion. The promises that are being made in regard to the meeting to be held at the “H.T.” lead me to suppose that I had better put in a few nights [sic] hard practice.
Hope everyone is still in the best of health, although how anyone living in the lap of luxury can be otherwise. I not [sic] that Mr. Standivan is servicing planes and pray he may be permanently attached to Fighter Command. It will be less
[page break]
dangerous for us.
Remember me to all at home and will see you on Tuesday. 14th. Give my regards to all.
All the best.
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes about an operation to Leipzig and that lack of funds reduced enjoyment of a recent night in town but this situation would be rectified next time.
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Peter Lamprey
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Four page handwritten letter
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-31
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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England--Lincolnshire
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Germany--Leipzig
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101 Squadron
military living conditions
RAF Ludford Magna
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Lamprey, Peter
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An account of the resource
122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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R.A.F. Ludford Magna
Market Rasen
Lincolnshire.
[underlined] Sunday. [underlined]
Dear Unk etc.
I can stand any amount of the libel and slander that is usually contained in the scurrilous communications addressed to me from my so-called friends but, this ignoring of my best efforts in the matter of reciprocal correspondence is going just a shade too far. If you have broken your nib for Pete’s sake let your hair down and lash out and buy another. Damn the expense at a moment like this. History is being made and I am trying to write a true record of myself doing it, but must have the co-operation that you can
[page break]
[underlined] 2. [/underlined]
read in the foregoing – if you can read.
For quite a while now I have withdrawn my shoulder from the wheel and the war-chariot has, in consequence, stopped rolling. When I shall once more proceed to flay the Hun is problematical, but if it depended on me you could take your blackout down tomorrow for at least six months. This lull the carnage is right up my alley and if they can only keep it up until Uncle Joe reaches the channel ports it will do for the brave boys who have been taking the time out.
The nearest town has been having its full share of visitors in the last few days and local vice haunts have had a boom period. The boys have really got going on the road to ruin and if the money doesn’t run out first it is a dead cert that the
[page break]
[underlined] 3. [/underlined]
striking force of the squadron will be unfit to fly until the New Year. The only crime that has not been committed is rape and then only because the N.F.S. girls get them down faster than the intending gentlemen. As a matter of interest the only reason you are getting this letter is because the pubs are sold out.
As a corrective we were ordered for P.T. at 7.30 every morning but so far nobody has had the health and strength to get out of bed before eight. They can hardly stick us all on the hooks so there it is, at present, stalemate, while we are awaiting in trepidation the old mans [sic] next move. I am glad that it is impossible for me to fill this letter with accounts of recent flights over Germany but if they get me doing exercises [smudged] at [/smudged]
[page break]
[underlined] 4. [/underlined]
some unearthly hour in the mornings I’ll fill the letter with tales of sufferings that will be guara [inserted] n [/inserted] teed to make even your heart bleed.
I take this opportunity to thank Mr. Hunt in anticipation of what he will let me have when I make my long awaited visit to see some of the war workers of Britain. Mr. Hunt will of course realise that he is not included in this category now that the overtime has ceased. Being naturally cautious I am rather apprehensive about Bro. G’s long silence and hope he is not engaged in the composition of one of his devastating notes.
I am afraid that the date at the heading is slightly out as this is being finished on my return from Hanover. It was a poor show all round and we
[page break]
were driven off course on the way back and finished up over Rotterdam all alone where the Hun gave us everything he had except flowers. However we are back, safe but shaken so I’ll give this letter up.
Remember me to all.
Pete.
P.S. Two nickels enclosed. One for the old man.
P.
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey commences his letter reporting that there had been a lull in operations and several visits to town as a result. Authorities had instituted physical education but crews were resisting. Letter is concluded later after a bombing operation to Hanover where they were driven off course and attacked by the Germans over Rotterdam.
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Peter Lamprey
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Five page handwritten letter
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-32
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany
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101 Squadron
military living conditions
RAF Ludford Magna
-
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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Sgts. Mess. [sic]
R.A.F. Ludford Magna.
Market Rasen.
Lincolnshire.
Dear Unk. Others.
Despite my undoubted abilities as a literary virtuoso, there comes a time when the fount of inspiration suffers from a temporary exhaustion. One of the aforementioned periods is now in full swing so that, no matter what your expectations are, they are liable to be urealised. [sic] Nothing of any moment has occurred since last I wrote. They, the powers that be, were evidently shaken by the losses on the last affair and the squadrons are still sitting on the deck licking their wounds. From what we have heard they must have thrown every kite the Luftwaffe could muster
[page break]
into the air to stop us but, as usual, the brave boys of Bomber Command fought their way to the target and made the expected ferocious attack, that has, of late, been launched on all their objectives. Pause for cheers. This lull in the air war is giving the boys a chance to catch up on their sin and debauchery. A chance I might add that is being taken with both hands. For myself, I have got me a date for the night. It is expected she will fight for her honour but it will be the usual mock [smudged] battle. [/smudged]
You will be pleased to hear that I am now a Grade I W/OP.AG. with the usual increase in emoluments. My crown will be through in November – if my bloody harp don’t [sic] get in first. The undoubted success of the ex. Deputy Father will no doubt upset my old friend Mr. Hunt
[page break]
who I suppose, has given up his holiday work and returned to his own sleeping quarters round the folders farthest from the old mans [sic] box. With my brains and his bloody cheek I should be an Air-Marshal before Christmas. If I could only combine old Sams [sic] scrounging ability the job would be a piece of cake. One thing all my detractors should remember is the Bomber Boys rhyme.
While you are soundly sleeping
In your cosy little bed
You seldom spare a thought for us
Who stooge by overhead
And when the wireless tells you
Of our deeds, you only laugh
And nip off up the local
To sink another half
But just you heed our warning
This thing you shouldn’t do
For if we catch you laughing
We shall drop the shit on you.
[page break]
This small piece is usually printed in leaflet form and can be arranged to drop at the same time as the cookie both being signed “A Well Wisher”.
Hope life doesn’t hang, it is you who should do that. Remember me to Bro. G. my friends and others.
Kiss Auntie.
Love.
Pete.
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes that little has happened since his last letter as operations had been suspended due to high losses after recent operations. He reports that he is now a grade 1 ‘W/OP.AG’ which results in more money. He concluded with a poem, the “Bomber Boys’ rhyme.
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Peter Lamprey
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Four page handwritten document
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-33
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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aircrew
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military service conditions
RAF Ludford Magna
wireless operator / air gunner
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Lamprey, Peter
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An account of the resource
122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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R.A.F. Ludford Magna
Market Rasen.
Lincolnshire.
Dear Unk and Others.
The strain of war has prevented me from giving to my friends the undivided attention they richly deserve. However I am now embarking on another of my periodic epistles to give them the latest news from the war front. First I must appologise [sic] for my non-appearance last Tuesday but something over which I have no control wanted to go the pictures. Having let you down I feel so low that by going on my knees and reaching down I could shake hands with Mr Hunt - if I wanted to – which I don’t.
Last Thursday as ever was, we were issued with tickets for a performance
[page break]
at Mannheim. With our usual style we managed to draw a return ticket, although a number of the boys made a mistake and only took singles. We expect to be given the freedom of this place at any moment now having visited it on three occasions and put on a good show each time for the benefit of the local inhabitants. Not that we were welcome with the good fellowship one expects to find extended to bringers of light and fresh air.
Since the Thursday effort we have, praise the Lord, been earth bound. We were due to go places last night but at the last moment our supplications were heard and the weather turned fine. Bags of rain and ice and cloud and everything that makes the really keen aircrew rejoice. In any case I didn’t like the look of the target as the natives are known to be hostile.
[page break]
Not that you are in any way interested but just to make conversation, I can say I have enjoyed my leave and am now in the process of recuperating my strength in anticipation of the next one. With leave every six weeks I can picture myself being invalided out before I can bring this fracas to a successful conclusion. However, general dissipation is a lovely disease to catch and gives more satisfaction to the sufferer than most.
I am sorry I could not spend a few more hours at P.R. but will endeavour on my next visit to give you a full day and most of the night. That is if you are the men you think you are and know the women I hope you do.
Once again the letter is coming to a sudden halt as we are on tonight but somehow I
[page break]
don’t think we will go..
However remember me to all.
Cheers.
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey mentions that he has now been to Mannheim three times and that the previous night’s operation had been cancelled due to weather. He states that he had enjoyed his recent leave and that he had to terminate his letter as operations were on.
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Peter Lamprey
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Four page handwritten letter
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-34
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Germany
Germany--Mannheim
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IBCC Digital Archive
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101 Squadron
bombing
military service conditions
RAF Ludford Magna
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/372/6545/ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-35.pdf
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Lamprey, Peter
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An account of the resource
122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-02-24
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Lamprey, P
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R.A.F. Ludford Magna
Market Rasen.
Lincolnshire.
Saturday
Dear Unk Others etc.
The usual thanks are extended for the packet of mail I have just received. I note with pleasure that Sam has broken out again, although by the number of times he refers to my propensity for playing cards, I should imagine he is not having his usual luck and is angling for a few hints in case he ever has to play without his marked pack. Even Mr. Harbour managed to borrow a pen and dictionary and compose an epistle. My dear friend Mr. Hunt also sent something that I have been giving consideration to but I am afraid it will have to go to the Cypher
[page break]
Officer before it is intelligible. The only the part I can make out says “I think” so knowing Mr. Hunt it must be a forgery.
Things have not gone with the flowing ease usually found in my progects [sic]. (I hope to Christ that is spelled right or I will never hear the end). We started out for Berlin the other night but had to return before we hit the enemy coast as the kite went U/S. The number of boys that got the chopper that night has led us to think that it wasn’t a bad idea at that: we have often thought we were wearing out our welcome that side of the world but it has now become a certainty.
However since starting the rough draft of this epistle to the Philistines we have paid a visit to the Big City. It was the most ferocious attack I have been mixed up in. Nearly four hundred heavies bombed inside fifteen minutes and the place was
[page break]
[underlined] 3. [/underlined]
going like a torch when we turned away. It has fulfilled one of my big ambitions at last. The other one is the same show on Rome. All I hope is that the Italians keep going until I manage a trip there. On the way back we came over Sweden and they started pooping off at us. Its [sic]coming to a sorry pass when bloody neutrals start firing on men about their lawful business. It was a good job we had left all our bombs on the target or someone would have had a suprise. [sic]
We should start our leave in about ten days time [sic] – if the chopper doesn’t swing too close one of these nights. I broached the subject of the boys coming to London but I don’t think it can be managed this time. You must realise that while on a squadron we only get an opportunity to get drunk when we know we have at least forty-eight hours before we fly
[page break]
again as beer does go with flying in dangerous places. In fact, from what the rest of the crew are saying, the only way to get them altogether will be in a really big can. You will however be seeing me and think of the pleasure that will bring into your drab lives.
We have a new squadron commander who has been in charge of a girls [sic] school before coming here I think. Anyway he has got two wars on his hands now, one with Jerry and a bigger and better one with the aircrews. He wants us – us mind you - to do P.T. every morning of the week, wants to kill us I suppose. So far he has had a remarkable lack of success as we have bribed the P.T.I’s to leave us alone. Still I suppose a show-down is inevitable and we shall all finish up in durance vile, well it will be a bit quieter at any rate and they don’t shoot at you.
[page break]
There before you, you have my last and most recent doings. The N.F.S. girls in the nearest town have had a week singularly free from molestation at the hands of our gallant airmen. This has caused a bit of sorrow on the camp – and among the N.F.S., but arrangements are now in hand to see that the usual programme is carried out in future.
I was on Mannheim last night so write your own letters I’m going to bed.
Love
Pete.
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Peter Lamprey reports that his crew turned back with an un-serviceable aircraft from operation to Berlin but that he was subsequently involved in a ferocious attack on Berlin with four hundred planes bombing inside 15 minutes. On their return they flew over Sweden and were fired at. He is looking forward to leave in ten days time. He mentions that they have a new squadron commander who is keen on physical training. Concludes with mention that there was an operation to Mannheim the night before.
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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R.A.F. Ludford Magna
Market Rasen.
Lincolnshire
[underlined] Friday. [/underlined]
Dear Unk etc.
On more than one occasion I have had cause to flay certain people for the laggard way in which my best literary efforts have been answered. Do not put me in the awkward position of having to take your trousers down again for the ignoring of my letters. Since the last vitriolic attack I launched for this elementary violation of the principles of human decency, I have increased my vocabulary somewhat and can now rend you in various horrible ways. Therefore, should you neglect your obvious duty, I am afraid you will be properly up shit creek without a paddle.
So far, the movement for the permanent
[page break]
grounding of all air-crew personnel is having an unbelievable run of luck. It is now about ten days since I was last airborne and with a modicum of luck should make it at least a fortnight. This is not exactly what the doctor ordered but it will do until something better turns up.
This morning we were informed in an official communication from Group. H.Q. that we were heroes, stout fella’s and the cutting edge of the chopper that is to lay Herr Schicklegruber [sic] in the dust. This belated recognition of an obvious fact is due to the last effort we made on Peenemünde. Evidently we put the fear of hell into certain sections of the German war community with this show. Had the aforesaid G.W.C. possessed second sight they would have seen a certain crew up above who were in a much
[page break]
uneasier [sic] state of mind than they were themselves.
Since the foregoing was inscribed the last button has come off and we have once more been hurled aloft. This time it was to the old world town of Nürnberg. [Nuremberg] At one time the place was famous for its [sic] wood-carvings but it will in future be more famous for its wood ash, as it was a real good show with the whole town alight from end to end. We went in at the start of the attack and as we turned away the place just blew wide open with fire. It was a piece of cake over the target itself but we had a bit of a battle over Manneim [sic] with two F.W.’s. It was short and sweet and the new R.G. knocked shit out of one of them.
So the labourer having earned his corn he is now going to kip. All the best.
Pete.
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Peter Lamprey notes that they have been grounded for ten days and had received congratulations from Group Headquarters over the Peenemunde operation. He then describes an operation to Nürnberg when they were engaged by two fighters over Mannheim.
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Peter Lamprey
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-36
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany--Nuremberg
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101 Squadron
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Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943)
Fw 190
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RAF Ludford Magna
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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R.A.F. Ludford Magna
Market Rasen
[underlined] Lincolnshire. [/underlined]
Dear Unk. Others. Etc.
All right, I know. I haven’t written to you in heaven knows how long and you want to know why. Well you can just go on wanting as I can’t think of any excuse you are dumb enough to swallow – despite the scope it gives me. I can’t remember whether I wrote and told you that we were on Bochum and Kassel but if you can read between the lines you will know by now. Kassel actually was a piece of cake as Jerry never had a clue until we had unloaded the excreta and turned for home. However he has resorted to the vile and unfair tactics of following us home and bombing the runways as we go in to land so
[page break]
2
the excitement usually reaches its peak about ten foot from the deck these days. We wouldn’t care if he blew a hole in the concrete, but he just slings these six pound anti-personnel bombs in front of you and if the wheel should hit one it is just too bad for all concerned. So far he has been unlucky, except for putting the drome u/s to [sic] a couple of days.
There is a dearth of interesting news from this war front. The bright city lights have beckoned in vain for a number of nights and the way things are shaping will just have to go on beckoning. All when we had got us organised with a smart little pub with some of the usual fixings. It is a bitter blow and not the sort of treatment we were expecting. However the good weather cannot last forever and one of these nights we expect to
[page break]
3.
make a low level attack on a target where we shall be appreciated, always provided of course that the target is not covered and unapproachable.
Mr. Hunt will be glad to hear that I am not wasting my substance on riotous living these days, but if someone cares to explain the foregoing paragraph to him, he will see that it is only the exigences [sic] of the service that have caused the moral uplift not weakness on my part. I hope nobody shows old Sam this letter as it might give him bad ideas and he has enough of them to be getting on with.
[deleted] Eclo [/deleted] Enclosed you will find a few more nickels. They are free and what is more save me writing too much so I will have to keep up the supply. Give one of the Luftpost to the old man and tell him to treat it with respect and not do the first thing that comes into his mind.
[page break]
You might go out to the Minders Rest and remember me to the majority of the Chapel. Give my regards to the OPA’s. Engs. Elects. etc. etc. Keep the old finger out.
All the best
Pete.
P.S.
I should start my leave about the 30th so start saving up.
P.
P.P.S. I should like to see Bro. G again – I think this war must be driving me mad.
P.
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Peter Lamprey writes about bombing operations to Bochum and then Kassel after which German aircraft followed them home and bombed runway as they went in to land, subsequently putting the airfield unserviceable with anti-personnel bombs. In conclusion he mentions that he has leave coming up.
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-37
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RAF Ludford Magna
runway
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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Sgt’s. Mess.
R.A.F. Ludford Magna
Market Rasen
[underlined] Lincolnshire. [/underlined]
Dear Unk and others.
You will note - if your perception has improved – that I am back at the old game of printing my epistles. This, I might remark, is not because I like doing it, but just in case anything I might put in my letters could be misread and held as evidence against me. Another reason is, that I take it some of the members still have to spell out words of more than four letters.
Life is getting harder as we go forward. Just as I had got used to visiting our German cousins they go
[page break]
and slap us at Italy. Not but that it was a pretty fair trip but I am a bit of a stook [sic] with the language, I can say “Here it comes” in German but I couldn’t say it at Turin. Still I think they knew when it arrived. They bummed the trip up enough but I would rather do two of them than one over Happy Valley. We had a decent journey ourselves but evidently some of the boys fell by the wayside.
Otherwise things are fair to fine, but the visits to the city in the vicinity are necessarily curtailed owing to an acute shortage of what it takes to get by. Two nights out and we spend the rest of our time playing cards on the cuff. Even this is not the game it was.
I hope everything is more or less
[page break]
under control. I cannot tell as the news from P.R. is conspicuous by its absence. The fount of inspiration has dried up somewhat these days and the things I can write about would hardly interest you. Thanks be to Allah, the weather has come over on the side of the air-crew [sic] and stuck the old elbow in at flying. This is a smashing bad summer we are having. If any of the Chapel should have a full weeks [sic] rain for their holiday, I can almost guarantee an illuminated address from the boys – and I don’t mean the kind we usually deliver.
The old chronometer has gone for a burton. If you spoke nicely to Bro. G. and didn’t mention my name do you think he could do anything with it – not hock it but get it to go some
[page break]
other way.
Remember me to everyone and lets [sic] be hearing. Love and kisses
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
P.S. Does L.A.C. Ransom still want this job?
P.P.S. He can still f------- well have it.
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Peter Lamprey writes about an operation to Turin and comments that he would rather do two trips there rather than ‘Happy Valley’ where some crews had been lost. He remarks that bad weather has curtailed operations.
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Italy
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military living conditions
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RAF Ludford Magna
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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R.A.F. Ludford Magna.
Market Rasen.
Lincolnshire.
[underlined] Sunday [/underlined]
Dear Unk one and all.
Yesterday as ever was I received [sic] a short sharp note from you and as usual I extend my thanks etc. for it. I hope and trust all my friends at Park Royal are in the very best of health. That part is only to fill up space by the way and should be ignored. Although I don’t suppose anyone cares a hoot, I can make the statement that I am in the best of health and not be accused of lying.
As you will have noticed by the headlines in somebody else’s paper we have been engaged in giving the great British public a return for their “Wings for Victory” weeks. The last
[page break]
four trips have been to the Big City where we have been engaged in moving a few cultural monuments and civic buildings. It seems however, as if the folk below were not too pleased with our methods, but I’m happy to state that although a certain amount of opposition was encountered the job was done to, seemingly, everybody’s satisfaction.
Last night, being given over to riot and revelry, I am at the moment suffering from a head that is a bit soft round the edges, and by the feel of it stretches upwards about six feet. I had more beer last night than the Eighth Army get in a month, and feel like it. If this letter should at any time begin to ramble you will therefore have to excuse me as I can hardly be considered to be my usual self.
[page break]
My next leave should see me spending Tuesday 14th with you. I think, at the moment, it will be about dinner time before I get there as I have a wedding to attend in the morning. However I will more than likely ‘phone you beforehand. I have a few nickels but will fetch them along with me when I turn up.
I don’t know what else I can write about. The only stuff I can say is uninteresting and the interesting stuff I cannot write about. Hope the rest of the boys are doing well. Remember me to all at home.
Love.
Pete.
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Peter Lamprey writes that the last four operations were to the ‘Big City’ and that he is suffering a hangover after previous night’s revelry.
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Peter Lamprey
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-39
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany
Germany--Berlin
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101 Squadron
bombing
military service conditions
RAF Ludford Magna
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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R.A.F. Ludford Magna.
Market Rasen
Lincolnshire
[underlined] Sunday. [/underlined]
[deleted] Darling [/deleted]
Dear Unk.
Having borrowed Doug’s paper for the last few mornings you will have noticed that there have been no evening classes these last few nights. The last one I attended was held at a tunnel and was a piece of cake, but since then life has flowed in a pleasant backwater and the noise of war is stilled. Having nothing to write about you will realise that this letter will necessarily be rather brief. I could of course write about my wild doings in the local town but should hate to shock old Sam – something which is hardly possible in a normal
[page break]
way. We are rather unlucky in as much as the Skipper has been whipped into dock with a tempeture [sic] (that bloody word looks wrong but I daresay I shall hear from Hunty if it is).
We have been enjoying the start of the old English winter in this part of the world and spend our waking hours wading. What with [deleted] gea [/deleted] getting soaked by day while about our normal work and soaked at night for pleasure I would feel more at home on a sponge than a bed.
Since returning from leave we have managed to make our way into town on a few occasions but we have, so far, behaved ourselves. As soon as all the crew are fit however, we hope to stop all that nonsense and go town in our old way.
You might tell the old editor of the Royal that so far the
[page break]
Intelligence Officer hasn’t given me permission to write any articles for publication but I am writing to see a big shot who is due to come back off leave shortly.
Sorry for the brevity but will endeavour to write again in a day or two.
All the best
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes that his last operation was to a ‘tunnel’ and was a ‘piece of cake’. He reports his skipper is laid up ill and complains about the weather.
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Peter Lamprey
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-40
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
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RAF Ludford Magna
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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Sgts. Mess.
R.A.F. Ludford Magna
Market Rasen.
Lincolnshire.
Dear Unk.
This of course is a load of cock. Why in hell I write to a bunch of dumbells [sic] that so consistently ignore me is a mystery. At one time I said I should not be concerned in any one way correspondence effort but as usual my better nature has conquered. However this is a final warning so somebody had better pull their finger out. Either that or I transfer my efforts to another publisher and circulating library.
At present, repeat present, I am keeping fit and well. This is due, not to a slackening off of the reception always so generously accorded us on our visiting nights but more to the infallibility of the Skipper in picking the kites with the best set of motors. Last night, Monday, we visited our Essen playground and had shit knocked out of us. It has dawned on me at last the [deleted] a [/deleted] RAF is not universally popular as might be expected. Personally, after last night, I am inclined
[page break]
to ignore all future invitations to visit the place. They definitely do not like us. We limped home with the bloody kite looking like something picked up at a jumble sale. The first thing the stupid sods hit was the “Elson” [sic] and the back of the kite was like a s----house. Then they knocked the nose of [sic] and we f------- nigh froze. Definitely the future looks remarkably short if not sweet. However tonight we have the night off and even haven’t enough energy left to go to town. Money to burn and no urge. What life does to us poor brave air-crew.
If Bro. G. takes a mugs [sic] advice he will beat his boy over the skull with an axe when he comes on leave. Only fools and birds fly and he has no feathers, and even birds don’t fly at night. It is a mugs – spelt c. u. etc. – game. The log book looks very nice but after a few hot trips you know why they only give you twenty fags over the bar. Its [sic] just waste selling a bloke fifty.
Hope the rest of the crowd are staying the course and enjoying whatever life has to offer. Look after yourselves
Pete.
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes of his disapproval that he does not receive replies to his letters and of his sortie to Essen where his aircraft was heavily damaged resulting in them having to limp home.
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Peter Lamprey
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-41
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Germany--Essen
Germany
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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101 Squadron
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RAF Ludford Magna
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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[inserted] LAST LETTER [/inserted]
R.A.F. Ludford Magna
Market Rasen
Lincolnshire.
Dear Unk and others.
Once more the tumult and turmoil of war surrounds me and I am slowly recuperating from my leave. For the “Royal” that has just arrived I send my thanks as well as for the letter you forgot to enclose. By the time this letter reaches you, the festive season will have passed its peak and you will be lying, gorged and sated with overeating, behind the folder.
Things have, since we returned
[page break]
[underlined] 2. [/underlined]
been just too too [sic] divine and any talk of flying is liable to cause a few burst blood-vessels. We are hoping against hope that we shall turn out to be one of this wars [sic] forgotten legions. What with the things I have in hand and the things I have in mind, a six-month truce would just about enable me to get level.
The train back only ran two and a half hours late, so it looks as if the LNER are already looking forward to their normal peacetime schedule. I got back just in time to have the bar closed in my face and
[page break]
[underlined] 3. [/underlined]
crawled into my pit famished with drink starvation.
I hope the people I missed on my flying visit will accept my appologies [sic] and I hope to remedy the mistake on my next visit. Other than what I have written I don’t know anything more of interest to let you know. Should I by accident get mixed up in another informal visit to our German cousins I will let you have the usual tale.
Thanks for the good show on the 14th.
All the best.
[underlined] Pete.[/underlined]
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
‘Last Letter’
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Peter Lamprey writes about returning from leave and waiting for his next operation. The letter was annotated ‘Last Letter’.
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Peter Lamprey
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Three page handwritten letter
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-42
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1943
101 Squadron
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Lamprey, Peter
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An account of the resource
122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-02-24
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Lamprey, P
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[RAF Crest]
Tiree
[underlined] Hooray. [/underlined]
Next [underlined] Wednesday. [/underlined]
Dear Unk.
Things [underlined] I’ve [/underlined] learnt.
I’ve learnt to fire a rifle
and learnt to aim it straight
I’ve also learnt the main idea
and that is – how to wait
I’ve learnt to walk with swinging arms
with upright martial gait
I’ve also learnt the lesson
Airmen hang around and wait
I’ve also learnt to rise and shine
and never be up late
and as a side line also learnt
to stand about and wait
[page break]
I’ve also learnt to think alone
(an idea up to date)
but over all – I think I’ve learnt
the motto – just you wait.
I’ve learnt to wash and sew and darn
and houswives [sic] emulate
but there again – it all boils down
to how long you can wait.
I’ve learnt to do – just this or that
or how to concentrate
on doing nothing but the same
old hang about and wait.
So if my future letters lag;
just get the idea straight
take lessons from the Service and
learn how to bloody wait.
For Petes [sic] sake don’t read any more
[page break]
[underlined] 3. [/underlined]
[RAF Crest]
I notice with elation
and a certain mild relief.
Poetic perorations have
for sometime, come to grief
now surely all the brilliant thoughts
are not completely dead
there must be something running round
my dear friend Ashtons head.
I’d take a guess at what they are
but might be rather rude.
And do not want to cause a row
or otherwise intrude
upon the sacred silence that
for so long has endured
and find out to my chargin [sic]
that he’s not completely cured
(Still game? P.T.O. then).
[page break]
I take it that “Old Railings”
is the keenest in the shop
to get into the Service
and he hardly likes to stop
to say goodbye to all the lads
he’d like to be away
but if I know that blighter
he’d be back again next day.
So Harry Rumbolds doing fine?
Well that is nice to know.
a few more weeks in that there job
and he’ll have pots of dough.
Does Rusty still go off his nut
and wave his arms and scream
he doesn’t? Well I take it back
it must have been a dream.
I wonder to – is Archie in
his Home Guard outfit seen
[page break]
[underlined] 5. [/underlined]
still holding back the wicked Hun
from number two machine.
And dear old David Evans
does he still the laggard play
and roll in hours behind his time
on every other day
while Eddie Hunt -------
Words fail me.
(Marvellous ain’t [sic] it).
This nonsense struck me when I felt browned off so I just thought of you poor suckers (the spelling is right) working for a living while I laze on a sunlit beach watching a ninety mile an hour gale knocking hell out of the hut I’m supposed to sleep in tonight. At last we have got
[page break]
running water in the hut. It runs straight in the door and puts the fire out. Not [inserted] that [/inserted] the the [sic] fire is ever going - bar going out. The bloody coal wouldn’t burn if you bribed it. We’ve been on iron rations so long that my stomach has started to rust. I believe the boat has missed the blasted island and gone and charging straight on to America – it hasn’t been seen for four days. When he does show up they’ll fire on the perisher as an unknown vessel. There are two sane blokes left on the island – they’ve locked themselves up for safety. I’m still free. I used to wonder how the natives used to live on this island – now I wonder why. About all they can grow here is old. “NAAFI” still sells beer – but
[page break]
7.
but not to me. I’ve had some, that is my last resort. Poison. This is one occasion where Mr. Hunt and I see eye to eye. To drink is definitely dangerous.
I know a bloke in Inverness who wants to come here – he wants locking up.
Well this is your lot. Why in hell I write to such an unappreciative audience I don’t know – my inherent good nature letting me down. Tell Bert Smith I’ll be writing soon. Remember me to Fred. Cooper. Kiss the Guv’nor [sic] – I couldn’t stand it. Love to you all at home
Your loving nephew
Pete.
P.S. over.
[page break]
P.S. Does Beacham work there now or is he still on No 6.?
P.P.S. Tell brother George there’s a fellow here fought in the last war. He’s a decent bloke otherwise.
P.P.P.S. Tell brother Jack Id [sic] like to see him - in clink.
Och Aye
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
[Morse code ]
Know what it means?
Youre [sic] right it does.
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes about life at Royal Air Force Tiree including the bad weather and terrible beer. He includes a poem about what he has learned in the Royal Air Force and his friends back home.
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Peter Lamprey
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Eight page handwritten letter
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-43
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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Great Britain
Scotland--Argyll and Bute
Scotland--Tiree
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IBCC Digital Archive
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arts and crafts
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RAF Tiree
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Lamprey, Peter
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An account of the resource
122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-02-24
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Lamprey, P
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1384535. LAC. Lamprey.
Hut. X35. A. Sqdn.
No 1 Air Crew Wing.
RAF. Yatesbury.
[underlined] Wilts. [/underlined]
Dear Bill etc.
This long silence has more than likely baffled you but - as usual – I have a cast iron alibi. (RAF trained). For the past fortnight they have been toughening us up. Another fortnight like it and lay us up will be nearer the mark. Work starts at 7.55 am and finishes with the utmost regularity at 2100 hrs. Six days a week and lectures every Sunday as make weight. It has been almost impossible to find time to write one letter a week. As for going on the belt – that is
[page break]
[underlined] 2. [/underlined]
a thing of the past. A pleasant memory of the days of Invernessing. [sic]
This course is a terrific proposition. You have to learn more in three or four weeks than we learned on out previous course of 14 weeks. So far I am getting by, but if the pace gets any hotter I am afraid there will be an explosion and they’ll sort peices [sic] (sorry) of my skull out of the ceiling.
If Charlie is at Blackpool still, he should get a letter from me this weekend. He no doubt feels like a proper airman by now but after my letter he’ll realise the gap between us old sweats and the new intake. The same goes for the two goons, Moloney and Cherry. The reason for this rush of letter writing is a badly cut leg that will keep me limping for a
[page break]
3.
week and has allowed me to drop out of the last two P.T. periods. It happened when we were doing a bit of monkey business on a rope traverse. As usual – Joe had to be the one who went first and caught his thigh on a stretcher rod. The rest of the mob are not so much sorry as envious.
All the gang have been broken up and stuffed into different squadrons so there hasn’t been quite so much excitement flying around. They call us cadets now and the only excitement is when some softskull [sic] reminds you of it. There is a possibility of things getting a bit less hectic in the matter of work and I think there will then be an outbreak of debauchery.
I received your last letter and
[page break]
[underlined] 4. [/underlined]
contents safely. Thanks for everything. The news from the war front is very much the same as last time. Bags of flying hours and school. There are a number of nice fillies around but they think we are all nutty so there has been very little contact so far. However don’t worry – things can’t last like this and I should have a bit more to write about next time.
Tell Fred. Godspeed that I met George Parker (News of World) yesterday and he wants to be remembered. He is a Procedure Corporal down here. Lots of love and kisses to all.
All the best.
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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[RAF Crest]
Words by a miracle. Music “Little Brown Jug”
featured (my [underlined] only [/underlined] wish) by W. H. Ashton.
As I walk up at ten to right
I pride myself I’ve never been late
I say to the guv’nor [sic] constantly
Well Mr. Sheen, just count on me.
[underlined] Refrain [/underlined]
Ha Ha Ha He He He
A cleaver little minder I must be,
Brake on the wrapper – take it off the main,
Jolly good show – [underlined] its [sic] [/underlined] down again.
I feel so good and I feel so grand
As round the folder I take my stand.
The wheels turn round and the time flies by
I take another copy out of the fly
[underlined] Refrain [/underlined]
Ha Ha etc.
[page break]
2.
Now and again to the duct I race
To shove a bit of colour in the wrong place
And if a fly full goes down the pan
Theres [sic] always the third hand to carry the can.
Refrain: - Ha Ha [underlined] etc. [/underlined]
Shout to the fly hand “not that quire”
Back round the folder – lost the wire.
Try a bit of fiddlin’ – still wont [sic] go:
Send for a fitter – he wont [sic] know.
Refrain: - Ha Ha etc.
Jam in the folder – here another check
Do a bit of sprinting up the top deck
Turn all the handles looking very smart
Turning ‘em back where they were at the start
Refrain: - [underlined] Ha [/underlined] Ha etc.
Get a little wander – try a little draw
Still having bother – try a bit more.
[page break]
[underlined] 3. [/underlined]
[RAF Crest]
Here comes a big one – give it all you’ve got
Bang goes the reel and down comes the lot.
Refrain: - Ha Ha etc.
Look for the straw mark – try a bit of cheek
Give him the one that we found last week.
If it’s a poor one and looks rather thin.
Always let the fourth hand take it in
Refrain: - Ha Ha etc.
Paper in the folder – have another go
Alright brake hand “on the slow”
In goes the button – don’t get far
Got about eight strips round the wrong bar.
Refrain: - Ha Ha etc.
Getting on for dinner – what a bloody joke
“Have I got a lighter?” Lets [sic] have a smoke
What a lovely pickle – what am I to do
Leave it to the fourth like I always do
[page break]
[underlined] 4. [/underlined]
Refrain – Ha Ha etc.
Dear Mr Ashton, in reply to yours
What do you think of the libel laws?
I just hate to mention anybody’s name
But you were the guy who started the game.
Marvellous I think.
Heres [sic] hoping,
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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1384535. A. C. 2. Lamprey.
3 Wing. B. Sqdn. Hut. Z31
RAF. Camp. Yatesbury.
NR. Calne. Wilts.
Dear Bill – friends - Mr Hunt and a hell of lot of others.
Many thanks for the parcel. It was, as you must know, corn in Egypt. When the mob saw the fags I had to take refuge in the guard room and get put on charge for safety. This is no new thing as I am now doing jankers for being late back from leave. I am shovelling coal from the bunkers to the cookhouse, or thats [sic] what the W. O. thinks. The jankers here are the easiest way of spending an evening I’ve ever struck. They march you to the dump, point to the coal, point to the shovels and then pop it. So do we. At 9 o’clock I shall dirty my hands and sign off just like clockwork.
I struck very unlucky this week-end. Wangled a pass, and got home to the missus bright and early. Sunday night, started back full of vim and hope and arrived back at camp at 3, oclock [sic] in the morning after a twenty mile walk, well f----. We broke in, ducked the guards and slid into kip. Very pleased with ourselves. [missing word], up and found ourselves on a charge, they
[page break]
had checked up at 12 o’clock, hence the 4 days.
Its [sic] a good job the RAF are a dauntless band of heroes or we’d never try it again.
We have been following Eddie Hunts’ ideas and doing without beer for quite a while. There’s no beer or baccy for miles and I realise now why he always finds himself the enemy of mankind. I feel that way myself.
After all the talk and rumours it has finally boiled down to a twelve weeks [sic] course with flying in the last fortnight. The way they keep f---- us about I’ve seriously considered asking for my cards and if the Sergeant hadn’t asked me to parade with all the others I’d be back tomorrow.
They are a daft lot of perishers in our medical room, they think a hormone is a cry from a pregnant prostitute. If you have a pain over your wrist they give you ‘mist expect’ if its below you dab it with iodine. If they only knew of the wonderful cures that are affected by this treatment they’d shut up all ‘civvy’ hospitals. Mind you some of it might be the pact that sick-parade [sic] is a 6.30 and the cup of tea in bed has to be missed.
I’m sorry to hear of Fred Baulch, but he should have no trouble in getting fixed for the duration and get among the big money in munitions. He can help build me a plane (vide posters), or the way we are going, my grandson.
[page break]
[underlined] 3 [/underlined]
They seem to be getting very hot about p---- off without leave. One of the mob got 196 hrs [smudged] detention [/smudged] at Aldershot for being caught in London. A.W.O. so we shall have to look very innocent when we duck next time. Talk about a thrilling life, its one large game and only our honest open faces keep our bodies out of jail.
They are bashing about forty different [deleted] indecipherable word [/deleted] things at us all day and by this time I have finished I shall know everything about anything. What with Morse, radio telephony, wireless construction, generators and motors, secret instruction and what have you it will have to something unusual that I know nothing about. Something like air-gunnery.
How are the spotters doing these days of peace, it’s a sign the RAF shifted their best personnel south and I think a letter of thanks to the boys here is indicted. I notice that both spotters, Jack M. and Co have forgotten how to write, you can’t learn with one letter. It’s practise they need, only dont [sic] practise on me, I’ve had enough people doing that with all these courses. And Mr. Slipper, is he still shouting in a whisper? I wish he was my N.C.O I’d begin to enjoy life every day instead of only all the time. In any case it’s about time some of them there herbs got some service in, all the good jobs are getting full and the WAAFS - A.T.S etc [sic] worn out.
Things in the last line are moving towards a
[page break]
successful conclusion and off we shall go again for another round of pleasure in the flying field, and Mr. Hunt, all done on YMCA tea. No beer this voyage. Boy, that’s the way to find ‘em. Well its getting on for parade time and I must dirty my hands a bit. Look after yourself in these dangerous days, someone might do you down for your fags. Remember me to everyone that counts and to those that can’t.
Eight more weeks and I’ll be along to see you and shake hands with some honest workers, if any start up there in the meantime.
Remember me to the fitters etc. the Guv’nor [sic] and co. Tell Rusty I’ve got a spare bed one side of me if he wants to join.
Best of luck and see you one day.
Pete.
P. S. Remember me to the others when you write them. If Moloney gets called let me know and I’ll celebrate first and pray for him after. If he still wants to knock my block off I’ll take on after his first fortnight, [deleted] w [/deleted] he won’t get his hands above his waist.
See you in jail.
Pete.
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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[RAF Crest]
1384535. Lac. Lamprey. P.
Hut. X35. A. Sqdn.
No 1. Air Crew Wing.
RAF Yatesbury.
Wiltshire
[underlined] Wednesday. [/underlined]
Dear Unk and others.
Once again I struggle forward into another composition for your sole benefit. Once again I put pen to paper and let the easy livers see the seamy side of life in the service. And all for what.? Just so that some dumb clucks can keep on nestling down among their feathers while I hold back the Boche hordes single handed – or very nearly so. And what is more I have to write a
[page break]
bloody serial story of my adventures.
Well - as usual- life is pretty grim. The only light I can see in the distant future looks suspiciously like the tapers round my coffin. At the present moment I am nursing a bad shoulder and waiting for the result of an x-ray on it. This is the result of parachute training and happened ten minutes after going on parade Monday. The main idea is to jump ten feet from a platform and roll as you hit the deck. This baby – as usual – got caught up in the harness and hit the deck in a heap. The M.O. thinks it is a bad bruise but he didn’t ask my opinion. Personally it feels as if I have broken my bloody neck in about 10 places. There are more fellows hurt at this practice than
[page break]
[underlined] 3 [/underlined]
[RAF Crest]
are ever rubbed out by crashing. “Yatesbury Foot” is just another name for broken ankles or dislocated joints. The number of irks wandering around in plaster and slings makes the place look like a cripples [sic] convention. What with one thing and another I shall be glad to get in a rear turret over Germany for a bit of blasted safety.
I managed to get the old nut over the last week-end and hied [sic] for the hills. Trying to thumb a lift these days is like getting Eddy Hunt to buy a round of drinks. You can’t do it. The only bloody thing going my way was the wind. Still I managed it in the end and a good time was had by all. Things in that corner of the world are rubbing along pretty fair
[page break]
so far. The daughter has recovered from the little operation and is full of beans and life. As was only right the returned warrior was treated like the hero he is and everything came off according to plan. With a bit of luck and a slice of smart loaf working there will be a repeat performance next week.
The shoulder has unfortunately put paid to the celebration we were going to hold on getting through all our intermediate boards. I know so much about electricity now that my eyes light up when I see a pint of the real stuff. If the x-ray turns out o.k. I can celebrate my return to the scroungers light-duty corps. If the only way to get along is by a bit of lead-swinging I think I can count myself as
[page break]
[underlined] 5 [/underlined]
[RAF Crest]
one of Bro. G’s most apt pupils. After listening to his tales it seems as if we have many things in common – he won the last do and I am doing a similar job this time.
The course is – as all course are – just one long bind. When they stop telling you one thing some other feather plucker starts in on telling you something else. I think half the boys that pass through, do so in one valiant attempt to get away from the everlasting yap.
Since starting this enlightening epistle the M.O. has decided I am badly in need of a rest, so, at the present moment I am wearing a sling and looking like a badly battered remnant of the Luftwaffe.
[page break]
seven days [sic] light duty and an arm-sling. This war is ruining me for steady work. All I shall be fit for afterwards is out-talking Bro. G in the minders rest. Not but that I could always do that, I feel confident that the extra training I could out-talk both Bro. G and the half-minder Hunt at one easy sitting.
Flying has been at a minimum these last few days. This has enabled the boys to have their meals only once. Usually, half of them got them once at meal times and again during flying. Only the second time the grub was going the wrong way. The return journey on some of our trips looks like the main hall of a mortuary with all the exhibits
[page break]
[underlined] 7 [/underlined]
[RAF crest]
wishing they were really stiff. The pilots are all decent chaps but they must leave their guts in the lockers as nothing seems to upset them. Not that I want them upset while I am sitting in the back. I hate these daring sods, my type is the forty thousand night raider and fast home route. If my bloke ever tryes [sic] any of this low level stuff he will pick up a clump over the crust with the back end of my wireless set. Another pet aversion will be this daylight sweep business. I do my best work in the dark and shall take the greatest pains to emphasise this when I get crewed up.
Other than the previous blather I am enjoying my stay among the men
[page break]
who form the cutting edge of the RAF.
The cream of the youth of Britain. The men who dare etc. – All this from C.O’s last giddy-up talk. The way he bums us up makes me wonder if I ought to keep writing to ordinary people. Still, I will always remember that if I hadn’t joined the general melée someone else would have had to do it and we daren’t have it left like Bro. G. left the last one – half-finished.
I wrote to the three stooges and if they can still write I should hear from them this week. Not that anything they could write would be news. From the jobs they have picked I should think they will all get their snow –
[page break]
[underlined] 9 [/underlined]
[RAF Crest]
shoes and sun-helmets at any time. If Moloney is in England next spring it will only be as a corpse so he might just as well have a good time now. Charlie has found the delights of my old stamping ground and if he only goes about it right should be able to get his ticket on the grounds of General exhaustion after a month or so.
This letter seems to be a rambling a bit so I think I’ll pull out. If any of my friends wish to be remembered to me give them my address when they call in. Give my regards to the workers down there – both of them. Tell the rest of the mob I am well
[page break]
and happy – not that they care.
Look after yourself and keep your finger out. If I have to write again without a reply I shall get bloody wild.
All the best.
[underlined] Cadet. [/underlined] P. Lamprey.
P.S. Moloneys [sic] letter [word missing]
P.P.S. I must have mislaid it. Will send it next [underlined] time. [/underlined]
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes that he is nursing a bad shoulder from parachute training. He complains about life in general and notes flying has been at a minimum these last few days.
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Royal Air Force
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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1384535. L.A.C. Lamprey. P.
Hut. X.35. A. Sqdn.
No. 1. Air Crew Wing.
RAF. Yatesbury.
Wiltshire.
Dear Unk and others.
I should not at any time come the old acid about my letters. If your last note had not had you address on it there would have been nothing to read. However, knowing the trouble they had teaching you to write I don’t blame you easing off in your old age. Life in the bottleneck of the woods is just moving. At least they say it is, but even if it is I can’t notice it. If the place was any more dead it would begin to smell.
As a result of your pleas I have at last written to Bill Smith. This will
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leave you with nothing whatsoever to write about next time. Unless of course your past catches up with you and then you can copy the middle page of the News of. [sic]
The shoulder is a bit better now and I have left the sling off today. If I can only get my fingers round a pass I shall leave this letter and continue it after I return from another night of easy living. The bother will be getting away from the M.O.’s parade as I have had to report every day so far.
The boys did a pretty little six miles in the rain this morning while I stayed behind and cheered. A truly wonderful sight, if I might say so, when they returned. At present I am the most unpopular man in the hut and they are all waiting until I am better again so they can put me on my back at the
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earliest opportunity.
I received the parcel o.k. thanks very much. I don’t know where you get the idea from that I am a peruser [sic] of pornographic literature. Normally I like the action better than the printed word. If it is as good as life in some parts of England or Scotland it should be fairly interesting reading. At the present moment I am engaged in trying my luck with a bit of cookhouse stuff but all I have got so far is big meals. However time is on our side, and if the bloody rain would only lay off for a couple of nights I could show her a lovely view of the stars from the flying field.
Well luck smiled at me and after a bit of bull dozing, the flight passed me a week-end. Everything came off again and once more a good time was had by all.
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The trials of an airman trying to work his thumb on the highways of Britain would make ghastly reading. It is a tale of frustration and fired up feet. I nearly dislocated my elbow thumbing cars that only eased up enough to chase me up the bloody bank. However in the end perseverance won and I arrived safely.
They started us flying again this morning. I had only been up about ten minutes when I was frozen stiff. It took me about three hours to find my googles after we touched the deck. It’s not [smudged] airmen [/smudged] they want it’s Eskimos. The bother in the training kites is you can’t wear your flying gear and your parachute as well and with these pilots I’d wear my harness on the ground.
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The shoulder – according to latest medical advice – is getting on fine and bar for massage twice a day is a great help in keeping the war down to an easy speed. Looking back on things I have picked up more scars in two years than Bro. G. did in all his campaigning, and I haven’t got really going yet. I’d like to get going with the WAAF that does my shoulder but I am just another lump of beef to her. Nevertheless if the shoulder only keeps on wanting attention she will get so used to me that I could find her at night and she’d feel quite at home – only I’d want to do the massage.
This letter unfortunately has been hanging around for quite a while now ad I am afraid I shall have
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to make a valiant effort to get it finished. If anything exciting should happen in between now and the end of war not only will I write to you about it – I’ll illustrate the blasted letter.
You might let me know how the Three Stooges stand up to their invitation into the mysteries of war.
Remember me to the old RIP – Jack Denny – Uncle Jack and all the other stalwarts. Look after Rusty – if you find him any time. Remember me to the engineers and OPA’s.
Best of luck.
[underlined] Pete. [/underlined]
P.S. This time the letter is in.
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes that his shoulder is better and the sling is off and about cheering on his colleagues running six miles in the rain. He mentions pursuing ladies and the difficulties in hitching lifts. He says that flying has started again.
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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[RAF Crest]
1384535. LAC. Lamprey. P.
Hut. X35. A. SQDN.
No. 1. Air Crew Wing.
RAF. Yatesbury.
Wiltshire.
Dear Bill and So on.
Life – for a number of reasons – is grim. In fact, with a little slow music would be a tradgedy. *[sic] They – that August body the RAF – are sewing muscles on my frame with barbed wire. I have never rushed about so much in all my bloody puff. They make us run and jump and walk and what have you. By the time I get me to my pit I am usually fit to do anything but move.
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2.
[RAF Crest]
Not content with our bodies they are trying to improve what goes for minds with us cadets. I don’t know whether I told you we are now known as cadets. This fact however is not commented upon unless one is tired of life, being liable to cause endless friction among the boys. Having just been thrown back into circulation. By a stony-hearted M.O. I am saving all my feeble strength for a bang at a night out on the belt with a few of the other would be arse end Charlies. Plus of course, usual trimmings.
I dropped a line to Charlie over the week-end and gave him enough advice to get him fourteen days Jankers, which
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3.
[RAF Crest]
same - with the greatest joy - I hope he gets. It will get a little of the new shine off. If I only knew the other two goons [sic] address I’d do the same for them – with greater pleasure. By now that should just about learned how to put their hats on with one hand. All I hope is that I run into them before they are really fitted into their boots.
The feminine side of the war is fairly well represented here. Under training during the day and airmen at night. At present the little mob who I eddy around with are moving fairly steady but there are ominous signs of a terrific bend
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[RAF Crest]
coming off shortly as we have been picking the crop over. I am hoping to get the old nut over the wire this week-end and skid away to the hills. Thats [sic] if they don’t find something else for us to do – which by the way is one of their funny little games. The bother these days is that they check up on you four times a day and suddenly decide to send you flying. If you miss any flying hours you have to make them up after the rest of the mob have been posted to Yatesburys [sic] next stop wherever that might be.
I haven’t had a lot of time lately to get at the old ribbing game and
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[RAF Crest]
if Brother George and my old friend Hunty have missed my little remarks I should like them to know that they are not forgotten – I still have bad dreams. One of these days I shall be able to talk like Bro. G. And then they will make me a Group Captain or something equally as hot. I talk a bit now but the really big tales make me blush a bit so I’ll have to ask Bro. G. how he keeps a straight face all the time.
There are quite a number of our American friends flying round this part of the world. Some of them are pretty decent and bar for the fact they talk about the States twenty-six hours a day. Are
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[RAF Crest]
strong silent men. We ran into one the other night who had just been done up by a boy in the R.A.C [sic] and he took a very poor view of the British Army as a fighting unit. But from the look of things the B.A. hadn’t done so bad.
This letter has – as usual of late – been held up for a few hours while I have been poking a few more flying hours in. And what a bloody trip. It looked like a flying hearse when we hit the deck. All the U.T. Air Crew stretched out like a bundle of minders working a twenty-four. Even the pilot said it was just a little bumpy. I hope I never get aloft when its [sic] a little bumpier. If so – you can draw on my insurance right away. I have 84 hours
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[RAF Crest]
In my log book but if it had been eighty five I think they could have closed it for good.
For a while I am afraid this will have to do. I am now going to put my little nut on the Airmans [sic] wife and get some in. Remember me to the OPO’s, Eleots. [sic] Eng. Etc. If the old RIP[sic] is still at his larks treat him firm but even then he will like it. He wants people to treat him all the time. Thanks for all the doings. Best of luck
Pete.
*Personally I dont [sic] care a ---- how many spelling mistakes you find.
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes physical and other training and that they are now known as cadets. He mentions Women’s Auxiliary Air Force girls and that he will try and get off camp at the weekend. He catches up with friends, mentions that there a number of Americans around and comments on his last sortie which was very bumpy.
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Peter Lamprey
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-49
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Royal Air Force
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Lamprey, Peter
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122 items. The collection contains letters from Flight Sergeant Peter Lamprey (1384535 Royal Air Force) to 'Uncle Bill' W Gunton and his former colleagues at Waterlow Printers, Park Royal, London. The letters cover all his stages of training and operations at Royal Air Force Ludford Magna. A wireless operator / air gunner, he was killed, aged 36, on 14 January 1944 during an operation on Braunschweig when 101 Squadron Lancaster LM367 was attacked by a night fighter and crashed at Lautenthal. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Dereck Titchen and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /> A photograph of Peter and his final resting place appears in the Arthur Standivan collection <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/items/show/35884">here.</a><br /><br />Additional information onPeter Lamprey is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113449/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2016-02-24
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[inserted] 1st [/inserted]
1384535. A.C.2. Lamprey.
3 Wing B. SQDN. Hut. Z31.
RAF. Camp. Yatesbury.
[underlined] Nr. Calne. Wilts. [/underlined]
6th [underlined] week of terror. [/underlined]
Dear Bill. - Friends etc.
From the epistles received, very welcome, a certain amount of joy seems to have been caused by my misfortune. A slight shade of sympathy could be observed in one letter but I shall refrain from mentioning his name as he would most likely be kicked to death by the others. Far be it from me to wish this on anyone bar about three-qua [inserted] r [/inserted] rters of you. The advice I received was, as always, welcome but un-nessecary [sic] (necessary) f--- the spelling. I went sick on the Tuesday with a cracked rib that I got the Thursday before playing hockey. At present I look like a wounded soldier with strapping all round my chest, it gets me off drill and P.T. but beats me for
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ducking out of camp as I have to report every morning. The beauty of light duty is in the fact that one can lay on his back and watch the boys sweating blood on the square. A few remarks passed at the appropriate moment has a remarkable effect on them and I should not be surprised if an epidemic of burst blood vessels breaks out.
After next Friday we turn the corner on this course and move into the home stretch. Six more weeks and we shall be finished, we hope. Another couple of tests like those we had this week and I shall be finished before then. What with Morse at 18 w.p.m., [deleted] techna [/deleted] technical construction and all the joys of a W.O P.’s life, I’ve been looking for a handful of straw to stick in my hair. To crown it all the WAAFS have taken over the dishing up in the canteen. They must have kept canaries in Civvy Street the amount they give you. It wears you out having to keep going back for more.
I am glad to note that my letter has finally brought J.M. face to face with the facts of life
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[page break]
as lived in the RAF. It speaks volumes for my early training and general conduct that I have only been on the peg once. My look of innocence on these occasions when facing charges has generally got me off.
I am afraid he (J.M.) will be at a big disadvantage with his general hang-dog, habitual criminal cast of countenance. Mind you, one more crack like his last letter will most likely get that removed, or at least altered. As for his future, if it is as I have prayed for, he should at least never suffer from lack of work, especially dirty work. He is best at that.
Moving to the next on my list Mr Standivan. I might point out that the addresses I have, were got by grim application to my duty as an Airman. If he thinks I am going to let him be a “running on minder” in the service he has a false idea of my generosity. I have not relinquished the addressees but have them filed for future night operations.
I am sorry to hear Harry B. has had a nasty shake up and hope he is soon back doing his bit. It would
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[page break]
be a bit awkward if he was told to take it a bit easier.
There has been quite an influx of some of my old pals from Blackpool into the camp - full of hope - full of the urge to get on - full of ideas as to how they will soon be sergeants. I give them one week and they will be normal airmen again. Dodging the column and beating it for the woods every time the opportunity offers. Still they came loaded with fags and as these are as hard to get as 14 days [sic] leave, we continue to tell them that this is a smashing place.
So Herbert is thinking of taking a WOP. course. Well he might as well have a good a time as anyone [deleted] indecipherable letter [/deleted] else. When you write tell him its [sic] a lovely job, easy, bags of leisure, nothing to learn. Why should I suffer alone, misery likes company. He is fed up with balloons is he? Well – well he’ll enjoy himself here there’s [sic] no balloons, only plenty of gas.
The beauty of this course, is the things they try
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[page break]
and teach you. You learn all the useful things, like the lowest place in the fence and when the W.O. is on orderly duty by yourself. One thing I have learned is never call “abondance declaré” [sic] as someone always yells “flight” and the b------ school breaks up and kitty vanishes.
The WAAFS. are taking over a lot of duties once performed by the boys and there seems to be a load more of them moving in. After a week here they know the difference between a service and a ceremonial belt. One happens on the flying ground and the other on the square. My little one is on night-shift this week only this time its [sic] official. She’s half-dumb and thinks a full-pack is nine-inches.
You will realise that being ‘hors-de-combat’ [sic] I have had no occasion to rub up against the Sergeant and from a purely outsiders [sic] point of view consider he treats the boys too leniently. They want a fortnight of hard work really, to get them fit. This letter therefore can contain no inside information and
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is just a review of old news.
NAAFI. has had marvellous supplies of rotten beer this week. Every night the boys have bought it in the hope it would taste better if you got used to it. The one good thing about this hot weather is you don’t get flys [sic] falling in it and swimming about. If they do fall in they die of sudden and severe poisoning. My honest – upright and God fearing friend will no doubt be glad to hear we are beginning to lose our taste for the stuff, I shall very likely vote against a wet outing if I drink NAAFI beer long enough and then Mr Hunt and myself can sit and drink [deleted] of [/deleted] our milk together.
Well, I suppose I must draw this letter to a close, the news is short but there may be more next time. Thank J. Honey. for his letter, Eddie Hunt and thanks for the good wishes etc. Remember me to F. Batchelor – B. Smith and Herbert.
Tell the Spotters to look out for a bloke waving his hand out of the rear-turret. It won’t
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[page break]
be me but it will give them something to do. I still pray for J.M. but he hasn’t broken it yet, so I might ease up until he gets called and I can be certain someone will have a try.
Remember me to the Guv. etc [sic] and keep your nose close to wheel. Best of luck
Pete.
P.S.
Lend Rusty your pen he has lost he’s. [sic]
P.
P.P.S. When I get the strapping off I shall have a bash at London and will let you know.
P.
P.P.P.S. Let Bert have the enclosed.
P.
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Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
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Peter Lamprey writes about a cracked rib he received playing hockey and being on light duties. He talks a little about his training and that there is six weeks to go on the course. He mentions that some old acquaintances from his basic training have turned up and that the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force have taken over many jobs as well as adding some information about his social life.
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Six page handwritten letter
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eng
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ELampreyPGuntonW[Date]-50
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Wiltshire
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Peter Lamprey
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IBCC Digital Archive
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ground personnel
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF Yatesbury
sport
training
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force