Mark Hilton]]> Vaugh Thomas Hilton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Belgium]]> Germany]]> Poland]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Ladbergen]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Merseburg]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Germany--Stade (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Ulm]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944-10-07]]> 1944-10-09]]> 1944-10-26]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-10]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-26]]> 1944-12-01]]> 1944-12-02]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-17]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-12-28]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1945-01-02]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-22]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-05]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1942-02-20]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-04-02]]> 1945-04-04]]> 1945-04-08]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1946]]> Reg Wilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Reg Wilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> England--Runnymede]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Mühlberg (Bad Liebenwerda)]]> Germany--Eichstätt]]> England--Torquay]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Manchester]]> Scotland--Gourock]]> Canada]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> United States]]> Georgia--Albany]]> Florida--Lakeland]]> Florida--West Palm Beach]]> Ontario--Trenton]]> Lake Ontario]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> Manitoba--Brandon]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> England--Harrogate]]> England--Bournemouth]]> England--Whitley Bay]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Douglas (Isle of Man)]]> Scotland--Elgin]]> Scotland--Findhorn]]> Scotland--Forres]]> Germany--Ramsen]]> England--York]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> England--Flamborough Head]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--IJssel Lake]]> England--Chigwell]]> England--Kew]]> England--Norwich]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Florida]]> France]]> Georgia]]> Ontario]]> New Brunswick]]> Germany]]> Nova Scotia]]> Netherlands]]> North America--Niagara Falls]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Devon]]> England--Essex]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Surrey]]> Manitoba]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1943-10-09]]> 1943-11-11]]> 1943-11-12]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-25]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-11-27]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> Reg Wilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Craven Arms]]> England--London]]> England--London]]> England--Peterborough]]> Germany--Lübeck]]> England--Runnymede]]> England--Wetherby]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> Germany--Mühlberg (Bad Liebenwerda)]]> England--London]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Colditz]]> Germany--Torgau]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Neuss]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> Sweden--Stockholm]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Denmark--Copenhagen]]> Poland]]> Germany]]> Denmark]]> Sweden]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Bishop's Stortford]]> Reg Wilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> Russia (Federation)--Leningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Oberursel]]> Europe--Elbe River]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> France--Dunkerque]]> England--London]]> England--Romford]]> England--Brighton]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Caen]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Falaise]]> France--Paris]]> Poland--Warsaw]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> France--Ardennes]]> Poland--Vistula River]]> Europe--Oder River]]> Germany--Riesa]]> Germany--Mulde River Region]]> Germany--Eichstätt]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Danube River]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Remagen]]> Germany--Rhineland]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Germany--Torgau]]> Poland]]> France]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Netherlands]]> Russia (Federation)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Essex]]> England--Sussex]]> Germany--Hof (Hof)]]> Reg records his operational experiences the day he baled out. His captors were friendly but the food was awful. They were taken by bus to a station in Berlin to catch a train to Frankfurt. The transit camp had good food helped by Red Cross parcels. He was not impressed with the railway wagons nor the camp when they arrived. He describes camp life in detail. He meets colleagues that he trained with and from his squadron. However much of his diary concerns food and camp life. There is a little about studying and sporting activities, principally football. He states the quality of the sporting activities was very good. Drama, plays and musicals were successfully organised. The Russians were treated the worst by the Germans and suffered from no Red Cross parcels. He discusses the other nationals in the camp, including Italians, French and Poles.
Cooking fires figure strongly in his thoughts and the operation of the blower using a wheel to blow air through a fire.
 In January the Germans received news that Reg was now commissioned but before he could be transferred the camp was evacuated to Bavaria by train. The book also contains a receipt issued to Reg for his RAF watch, six poems by six authors about camp life, photos of his girlfriend, his parents and May, Doris and Vera, his sisters, four detailed sketches of camp buildings and interiors, sketches drawn by Reg, a Christmas card for 1944 and ‘the Last Flight of Old Flo’, his Halifax going down in flames over Berlin. ]]>
Reg Wilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> deu]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Artwork]]> Photograph]]> Text. Poetry]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> Switzerland]]> Germany--Bavaria]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Switzerland--Geneva]]> 1944-01-25]]> 1944-01-26]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-08]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-09]]>
A A Gill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Darryl Harrison]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> Scotland--Highlands]]> Scotland--Fort George]]> England--Kirklees]]> Norway]]> Germany]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Burma]]> China]]> China--Hong Kong]]> China--Shanghai]]> 1938]]> 1944-12-07]]> 1945-03-21]]> 1946-04-03]]> 1947-10]]> 1947-12-07]]> Fred Weston]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Arnhem]]> 1944-09]]> He describes individual operations in detail. He and his crew were transferred to Faldingworth where the condition of their aircraft was poor. These were quickly replaced with new aircraft. His crew were successful and survived their 30 operations never to meet up again.
He concludes his memoir with seven tailender tales.]]>
Bill Freeman]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Dewsbury]]> Canada]]> England--Stafford]]> Wales--Tredegar]]> England--Northampton]]> England--Grimsby]]> France--Rouen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Denmark--Frederikshavn]]> France--Maintenon]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Dieppe]]> France--Orléans]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Aachen]]> France--Paris]]> England--Lincoln]]> France--Le Havre]]> Poland]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Caen]]> France--Vierzon]]> France]]> Germany]]> Denmark]]> France--Reims]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Sussex]]> 1943-04-05]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04-10]]>
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