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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-09-06
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Valentine, JRM
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Hendon NW 4
7.30pm Aug 17 1941
J.R.M. Valentine,
“Eaglehurst,”
The Crescent,
[underlined] Ramsey [/underlined]
Isle of Man.
[page break]
No. 7.
Lido,
August 17th
Have made a cake which I will send off to you tomorrow. Yesterday the gardener came & did more tidying up. Incidentally he dug in all that rubbish you had piled up [deleted] I e [/deleted] under the tree the other day, and now behold the potatoes have sprouted gaily & I shouldn’t be surprised if we get a crop off them in midwinter. The blackberries are just coming into their own, we had some windfall apples for lunch today. Hope the parcel of socks & the book which I posted yesterday arrive O.K. Barbara is home again now, but still no word from Mrs S.
Yours as always
Ursula.
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Postcard from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Description
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Writes that she has made cake which she will send and describes gardening and arrival of blackberries. Sending parcel of socks and book..
Creator
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U M Vaklentine
Date
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1941-08-17
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Two sides handwritten postcard
Language
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eng
Type
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Identifier
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EValentineUMValentineJRM410817
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man
Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Ramsey (Isle of Man)
England--London
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1941-08-17
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Title
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-09-06
Rights
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Valentine, JRM
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No 32 Lido Thursday 18.9.41
My dearest, I wonder if this is the last letter I shall write to you at Jurby? I wish it could be. Your letter received this morning, written on Monday was not a bit hopeful, but we've been having such perfect weather here, & this morning The Times said that yesterday's weather was “exceptionally clear” so I'm hoping against hope that perhaps you've been able to work off the arrears of bombing after all. I wonder if you'll be able to let me know one way or the other, or if you'll just walk in (or not) on Saturday evening. I expect you'll wire.
[page break
I'm afraid my yesterday's letter will have arrived late again & left you letterless another day. I'm awfully sorry about it, but they've suddenly introduced the winter collection timetable according to which the last post goes at 4.15 instead of 6.30 pm. So I'm afraid I was caught out. However it shan't occur again.
I have collected a few more fish into my Savings Group net, a family of old fogies who live at the other end of the Grove & who always cluck over Frances when they see her. It's another 6/6 a week anyway. I bought this notepaper from Woolworths & perceive that it has deteriorated seriously in quality.
[page break]
It's more like blotting paper than writing paper. Mrs S.will be leaving here on Monday as she now has her permit for the school in B'ham, so I do hope that she will still have the opportunity of making your acquaintance. My new char, Mrs Stark has started off promisingly by failing to appear on the second day. I rang her up & she said she had a 'flu cold & a temperature, & would come back on Monday. The worst of it is that if she doesn't come I shall have wasted these few days when I might have got hold of someone else, & on Monday I shall be deprived of Mrs S.as
[page break]
well. However there's just a chance that she's speaking the truth & will actually come back, so I suppose I must wait & see.
Two more large parcels arrived today containing all sorts of surprises, for instance soap flakes (stacks of) salad cream, bay rum & sweeties. Thank you so much, my darling one. You certainly do look after your family efficiently. The bottles arrived intact, & Mrs S was lost in admiration of your system of packing. If you happened to see any Kiwi, it's always useful, but this request probably comes too late. All my love to you, my own darling. Frances has now learnt to blow raspberries & has great fun with it. Yours always Ursula
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Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Description
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Wonders if this will be last letter to him at Jurby and hopes good weather will allow him to complete bombing training. Reports that Mrs Stenzel will leave next Monday. Mentions problems with new daily help and that his parcels containing soap flakes, salad cream, bay rum and sweets had arrived.
Creator
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U M Vaklentine
Date
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1941-09-18
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Four page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EValentineUMValentineJRM410918
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1941-09-18
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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