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Baker, Donald Arthur
D A Baker
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-11-13
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Baker, DA
Description
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187 items. Donald Arthur Baker (b. 1921) travelled from Southern Rhodesia to England in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force. Trained as a pilot in 1941 he was operational with 144 Squadron at RAF North Luffenham flying Hampdens. He was shot down on 5 November 1941 and remained a prisoner of war mostly in Stalag Luft 3 until 1945. He return to farm in Southern Rhodesia after the war. The collection contains letters to his mother throughout the war as well as other correspondence and documents including his prisoner of war log with photographs and notes.
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by June Baker Maree and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Southern Rhodesia Central Council Branch
OF THE
BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY
CHAIRMAN:
WM. BROWN ESQ.
ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY,
G.E. CLARKSON
HEADQUARTERS:
KING’S CRESCENT, SALISBURY.
TELEPHONE 3481. BOX 1406.
August 20th, 1942
Mrs C Baker
Charlton
[Underlined] INYAZURA. [/underlined]
Dear Madam,
This is to confirm the Message we have sent to you this morning through the Inyazura Post Office, quoting the message received from your son; please find copy of Cable below.
“Received message Senior British Officer, Stalagluft 3, on behalf of Donald Baker. Please transmit (quote) Charles Baker, Charlton Inyazura; No truth in any information of my death, am alive and very well. Love Donald.”
Although you had already received this good news, it is pleasing for us to be able to send you this recent news from himself.
Yours faithfully,
[Signature]
[Underlined] SECRETARY. [/underlined]
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Letter from Red Cross to Donald Baker's mother
Description
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Confirms that message was sent to her quoting a message from her son that said from senior British officer, Stalag Luft 3 on behalf of her son that there was no truth in any information of his death.
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Southern Rhodesia Council of British Red Cross
Date
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1942-08-20
Format
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One page typewritten document
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eng
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Text
Text. Correspondence
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SBakerDA19210428v20087
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe--Harare
Zimbabwe--Manicaland Province
Poland
Poland--Żagań
Temporal Coverage
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1942-08-20
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Anne-Marie Watson
prisoner of war
Red Cross
Stalag Luft 3