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Title
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Smith, A C
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-06-07
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Identifier
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Smith, AC
Description
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27 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Allan C Smith (1459147 Royal Air Force) and contains documents, correspondence and photographs. He flew operations as a navigator with 166 Squadron and became a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by C Smith and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Transcription
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15/12/44
Dear Allan.
Just a few lines in answer to your Card which we got this morning, I hope these few lines finds you in the best of health as it leaves us all here. We had a letter from Maurice this morning to say he cannot get home for Xmas, But will be home for the new year, he has lost the sight of his left eye also he has a bullet wound in his right arm and one in his left leg but he is in hospital in Scotland. We have also had one from Walter he is in Italy with the Parachute Troops I have had a letter from your Mother and Auntie Lydia this morning also one from your Kathleen I have sent Maurice your address and a P.O.W. Letter so I suppose you will be getting one from him before long. I hope you are getting along very well in Germany, and that you will soon be home again. Well Allan I shall have to close as I want to get post, but I will say thank you very much for your most Welcome Card, So here,s [sic] wishing you a
[page break]
Merry Christmas and May you Spend the next one at home Cherrio [sic] for the Present and write back from Jean, Pat and Uncle Herbert.
[underlined] 62 [/underlined]
28th March 1945
FROM (SENDER’S FULL NAME & ADDRESS)
MR. HERBERT MATE
WINDSOR Farm.
BLACKMORE 007.
LINTHWAITE.
HUDDERSFIELD.
YORKSHIRE.
ENGLAND.
U.K.
PRISONER OF WAR POST
[ink stamp]
[postage stamp and postmark]
AIR MAIL
Par Avion
RANK & NAME: SGT. A. C. SMITH.
PRISONER OF WAR NO.: 263625
CAMP NAME & NO.: STALAG IVB.
COUNTRY: GERMANY
[ink stamp]
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Title
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Letter to Allan Smith from Uncle Herbert
Description
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He tells Allan about family news and wishes him Merry Christmas.
Creator
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Uncle Herbert
Date
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1944-12-15
Format
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One handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Text
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Identifier
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EMateHSmithAC441215-0001, EMateHSmithAC441215-0002
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Huddersfield
England--Yorkshire
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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Pending text-based transcription. Under review
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Temporal Coverage
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1944-12-15
aircrew
prisoner of war