Bill Lanning]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Great Britain]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> England--Kent]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> France]]> France--Morbecque]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Calais]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-12-23]]> Brian Wright]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Algeria]]> Egypt]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Poland]]> North Africa]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Algeria--Blida]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Italy--Brindisi]]> Poland--Warsaw]]> 1940]]> 1942]]> 1943-11-27]]> 1944]]> 1945-08]]> 1944-09]]> 1945]]> Brian Wright]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tilly Foster]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Manchester]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1939]]> 1944-08]]> 1946]]> 1948]]> Charles M Ameresekera]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Sri Lanka]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> France]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Neuss]]> France--Calais]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941-09-30]]> 1941-11-03]]> 1941-12-13]]> 1942-02-20]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1942-09-26]]> 1942-11-30]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-11]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-08-16]]> 1944-10]]> 1944-11]]> 1944-12]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1951]]> 1953]]> 1955]]> Charles M Ameresekere]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Sri Lanka]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> France]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Germany--Neuss]]> France--Calais]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941-09-30]]> 1941-11-03]]> 1941-12-13]]> 1942-02-20]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1942-09-26]]> 1942-11-30]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-11]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-08-16]]> 1944-10]]> 1944-11]]> 1944-12]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1951]]> 1953]]> 1955]]> 1962]]> 1970]]> 1974-03-20]]> Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jackie Simpson]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Finland]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Donald then trained at Rothesay as a submarine detection (ASDIC) operator before joining HMS Essington. He served on the Arctic convoys and recalls surviving a torpedo attack in the English Channel and being shelled from Guernsey whilst hunting a submarine.
After the war Donald entered the church and became a Royal Air Force Chaplain and he tells amusing stories of his RAF service. His first posting was to RAF Halton, where his wartime medal ribbons earned him respect, despite arriving late on parade with oily hands from a recalcitrant bicycle chain. Then he moved to RAF Innesworth where he arranged a guard of honour for a friend's wedding, which impressed his Air Chief Marshall.
Donald was then posted to Aden, describing accommodation, training, and service anecdotes. From Aden, he was posted to RAF Cranwell where he set up a Sunday School, taught cadets to dive and took them to Cyprus to assist in some marine research. He recalls travelling around the Mediterranean to perform pipeline inspections and to referee boxing matches.
His final post was administering Bomber, Fighter and Coastal Commands, for which he flew around numerous RAF stations.
He also describes flying in a Vulcan and a Victor with his pilot brother and speaks of his emotion on visiting the National Arboretum and reading the names of the dead from HMS Blackwood, which was hit by the torpedo that missed Essington.
In later life he received the Ushakov medal and the Légion d'honneur.]]>
Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Navy]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Cyprus]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Scotland--Rothesay]]>
Claire Bennett]]> This Interview was recorded by Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Poland]]> North Africa]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Oberursel]]> Poland--Żagań]]> 1940]]> 1941-06]]> Dan Ellin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Chris Cann]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Lincoln]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Middle East--Jerusalem]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> Germany]]> Germany--Kiel Canal]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941-09-01]]> 1942]]> David Kavanagh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Wales--Glamorgan]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> At the outbreak of war, he left the Post Office and was employed building naval vessels at a boat yard on the Thames in Chertsey. It was here that he first heard about RAF Air Sea Rescue, which he successfully enrolled into. Following training at various establishments he was posted to Newhaven on High Speed Launch 190 as a gunner.
Lawrence describes rescue operations: a Spitfire leading them to an airman in a dinghy; a Wellington aircrew rescued close to Le Havre on 17 July 1943; a German wireless operator who baled out from a downed Ju 88 and his parachute being divided amongst the crew, and finally rescuing the United States serviceman T G Giles who baled out of a P-38.
Occasionally they would come across mines that had broken free. These would be guarded until the Navy arrived and detonated them. This would result in the surface being covered in stunned fish which the crew would be able to scoop up.]]>
David Meanwell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Ian Whapplington]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> British Army]]> Royal Navy]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Chertsey]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> England--Newhaven]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> France]]> France--Le Havre]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Surrey]]> 1943-07-17]]> 1944-03-16]]>
David Meanwell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Ian Whapplington]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Denise Boneham]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> England--Devon]]> England--Ilfracombe]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> ]]> Don Falgate]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Text. Diary]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Netherlands]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Belgium--Houffalize]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Le Havre]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Bremerhaven]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Heilbronn]]> Germany--Homberg (Kassel)]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Rheydt]]> Germany--Siegen]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Netherlands--Vlissingen]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Donald Cochrane]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jeremy Patton]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> France--Dunkerque]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Caen]]> France--Calais]]> France--Dieppe]]> France--Evreux]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> France--Maintenon]]> France--Paris]]> France--Rennes]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> France--Lyon]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hasselberg (Bavaria)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-03-31]]> 1944-05-03]]> 1944-05-04]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> On the reverse 'These enclosed with GLIMLAMP March 1997']]> Dwight Eisenhower]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> Laura Morgan ]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. 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Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Hull]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> England--Durham (County)]]> England--Leicestershire]]> Burma]]> Germany]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> England--Berkshire]]> France]]> France--La Rochelle]]> France--Lille]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Caen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> France--Paris]]> France--Creil]]> France--Falaise]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> France--Brest]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> Italy]]> Italy--Bari]]> Denmark]]> Denmark--Copenhagen]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Chantilly Forest]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> Gary Rushbrooke]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Merville (Nord)]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Pointe-du-Hoc]]> France--Merville (Nord)]]> 1943]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1945]]> Gemma Clapton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Ian Whapplington]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--London]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Norway]]> Norway--Bergen]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Ostend]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Gill Barnes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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