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Searle, Rex. Album 1
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2017-07-25
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Searle, ROJ
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74 items. The album contains photographs and papers relating to Rex Searle's pre-war family life as well as his wartime and postwar service.
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Rex Searle and his brother and sister
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Three photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a boy and girl in the garden captioned 'Burnard & Valerie'.
Photo 2 is Rex Searle in RAF uniform, his brother and sister with their grandparents.
Photo 3 is a postcard of sailing boats on the Thames at Kingston.
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Three b/w photographs from an album
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eng
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Photograph
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PSearleROJ17030014
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Kingston upon Thames
England--Surrey
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Searle, Rex. Album 1
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-07-25
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Searle, ROJ
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An account of the resource
74 items. The album contains photographs and papers relating to Rex Searle's pre-war family life as well as his wartime and postwar service.
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Bucking Bronco Motor Car
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Two photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is the car with five or six people in it, captioned 'Old Fisher's Bucking Bronco'.
Photo 2 is the car on its back wheels, captioned 'At the Sparks and YMCA fete in the Tolworth recreation ground'.
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Two b/w photographs from an album
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eng
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Photograph
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PSearleROJ17030012
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Civilian
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
England--Kingston upon Thames
England--Surrey
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England--Kingston upon Thames
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Kingston upon Thames [place]
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This page is an entry point for a place. Please use the links below to see all relevant documents available in the Archive.
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Lapham, Rosemary
R Lapham
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Lapham, R
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An account of the resource
100 items. An oral history interview with Rosemary Lapham, the daughter of Roy Chadwick, family correspondence, congratulations on being honoured, personal documentation as well as photographs of family, acquaintances and aircraft. The collection also contains a thank you letter from Barnes Wallis to Roy Chadwick and a note from Arthur Harris to Robert Saundby about the in-feasibility of the Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation, some conceptual aircraft drawings and other mementos.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosemary Lapham and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2015-06-22
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[indecipherable word]
Bramsholt
South Bank
Surbiton
[underlined] June 4th [/underlined]
Dear Roy & Mary.
I felt I must just write on Bee’s behalf & my own to congratulate you both – Roy for the honour bestowed upon him by the King, & you for having such a clever hubby. We heard Roy on the wireless some time ago & thought his voice came through very well indeed.
[page break]
How are the girls – I expect they are quite grown up. We hear about you sometimes from Ethel, & often think of the good old days spent in Hale.
Our very best wishes to you both.
Yrs V. Sincerely
Mabel. (Howard [inserted * [/inserted])
* You might wonder which Mabel !!
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Letter to Roy and Mary Chadwick
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Letter congratulating them on honour bestowed on Roy Chadwick by the King and asking after the family. Signed Mabel [...]
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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E[Author]MChadwickR-MXX0604
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Surrey
England--Kingston upon Thames
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Steve Baldwin
Steve Christian
David Bloomfield
Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947)
George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952)
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Curnock, Richard
Richard Murdock Curnock
R M Curnock
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Curnock, RM
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2016-04-18
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92 items. An oral history interview with Warrant Officer Richard Curnock (1924, 1915605 Royal Air Force), his log book, letters, photographs and prisoner of war magazines. He flew operations with 425 Squadron before being shot down and becoming a prisoner of war.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by Richard Curnock and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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The Kriegie August 1986
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News-sheet of the RAF ex-POW Association. This edition covers the large Canadian reunion of 1985 at Calgary, the Annual Dinner at Lords, Recco report of ex-POW activities, requests for help, Alan Bryett's lectures, the Association's AGM and annual reunion, Book reviews, advance notice of the Southampton reunion, two donations from the Larry Slattery Memorial Fund to a County Primary School band and to Merida - a 17 year old from Wiltshire, a reunion at RAF Hendon, news and photograph of the Blenheim restoration, the newly formed RAF Historical Society, the Dedication Parade and Service held at Windsor, a story about a German girl from Heydekrug who had moved to Brazil and a cartoon exhorting members to pay their subs.
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The RAF ex-POW Association
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1986-08
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12 printed sheets
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eng
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Text
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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-017
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Canada
Alberta--Calgary
Alberta--Banff
Alberta--Lake Louise
England--London
Australia
Victoria--Melbourne
Queensland
England--Manchester
England--Great Yarmouth
England--Taunton
Ontario--Cornwall
Lithuania--Šilutė
England--Doncaster
England--Brighton
England--Pulborough
England--Kingston upon Thames
Scotland--Aberdeen
England--Fordingbridge
England--Bristol
England--Nottingham
England--Princes Risborough
England--Olney
England--Southampton
England--Cheshire
United States
Texas
Poland--Żagań
Germany--Bad Fallingbostel
Victoria
England--Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead)
Poland
Great Britain
Ontario
Alberta
Germany
Lithuania
England--Berkshire
England--Buckinghamshire
England--Gloucestershire
England--Hampshire
England--Norfolk
England--Somerset
England--Surrey
England--Sussex
England--Lancashire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Yorkshire
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IBCC Digital Archive
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10 Squadron
158 Squadron
7 Squadron
aircrew
arts and crafts
bale out
Blenheim
entertainment
Halifax
Lancaster
memorial
mess
navigator
Pathfinders
prisoner of war
RAF Duxford
RAF Hendon
RAF Melbourne
shot down
Stalag 8B
Stalag Luft 3
Stalag Luft 4
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Nogal, Jozef
J Nogal
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-11-29
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Nogal, J
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An account of the resource
58 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Jozef Nogal (b. 1911, Polskie Siły Powietrzne) and contains his prisoner of war log, documents, objects and photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 305 Squadron and became a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Wanda Elizabeth Atkey and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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J. Nogal [censored]
I was born in Posieke District Bialyste[sic], Poland 17th March 1911 of Polish Nationality.
My father Franciszek Nogal deceased January 1931
My mother Franciszka Nogal (Zalewska) deceased May 1935
both parents of Polish Nationality.
I attended schools at Wyszkow on River Bug District Warsaw. My father was employed by Polish Railways. I have two brothers and two sisters. My elder brother, Tadeuz Nogal, married with three children lives in Warsaw holding an executive post at Head Office of Polish Railways. His address is 87 Oliwska Steet, Warsaw 9.
My younger brother, Franciszek Nogal, married with one son is in charge of Railways Signalling System at Breslaw, Silesia, and lives at 44 Staszyon Baune, Breslaw.
Sister Kaziniere Maria married to railwayman Jan Malon, lives at Siedlec 6 Roza Street, has four children.
Younger sister Vanda married to Stationmaster Wladyslaw Pudlo, with two children, lives at 30 Podhalanska Street, Nowy Sacz District Krakow.
I left school at 18 to volunteer to Polish Air Force. 1930 I became a Pilot with rank of Non-Commissioned Officer and was posted to one of the squadrons at Warsaw. After five years flying I applied to the Air Ministry for permission to join Officers’ Training College. Permission was granted and after exams I joined the College. My training lasted three years. At the end of that period I was promoted to Second Lieutenant (Pilot Officer) and
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was posted to Lwow (Lemberg) South East of Poland where I was till the beginning of war 1939. I took part in short battle of Poland flying in reconnaissance squadrons. 18th September 1939 when all was over I flew to Rumania and landed near Czerniowice where I was disarmed and sent to Detention Camp at Tulcea. On the 22nd of October I escaped to Balcio which is a small fishing port on Black Sea where on the 5th November that year I boarded Greek ship Papagos and was on my way through Constantinople, Malta and Marseilles to join Polish Air Force in France.
13th November I arrived at Lyon. Through Winter 1939 and early Spring 1940 I was put in uniform again in the rank of Sous-Lieutant and was at Lyon Bron training to fly various types of French aircraft in preparation to join Polish Squadrons but in May 1940 I was sent on loan to French Air Force and was posted to No. 301 base at Chateaudun. There our main job was to protect the base against German sorties and evacuate aircraft and equipment to the South of France.
At the end of May I left France, flying from Marseilles to Algiers where I received an order from the Polish Authority in England to report as soon as possible to that Country, where Polish Squadrons had already been organised. As a result of that order I left Algiers by train to Oran and Casablanca, from Casablanca by boat to Gibraltar and again by boat to Liverpool. After a short rest at Blackpool I have [inserted] BEEN [/inserted] posted to R.A.F. Station, Benson, Oxfordshire for refresher course.
In December 1940 I joined Polish Squadron 305 at Syerston, Nottingham. On 3rd May 1941 I was shot down over Germany and taken prisoner of war.
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1945 – after the war – I returned to England where I was stationed at various R.A.F. units in Great Britain, until I was demobilised in 1949. Meantime, in 1948, I married Miss Jean Margaret Glindon at the Registry Office, Epsom.
After my demobilisation I was employed by Messrs. E.L. Wallis & Son Solicitors, as Clerk/Interpreter at Hereford. My wife at that time lived with her widowed mother at Cheam, Surrey, working as a Hairdresser.
In 1949 our daughter Wanda Elizabeth was born.
By the end of September that year they moved to Kingston, taking a flat at 37 Lancaster Close. Two months after, I left Hereford and joined my family in Kingston, finding myself a new job with Moss Bros. London. March 1951 I changed my job again and joined Phillips Furnishing Stores, where I am up to the present time. I am responsible here for Central Merchandise Office, which consists of Buying Office, Wages Department, Petty Cash and General Office Manager, etc. etc.
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Jozef Nogal's Autobiography
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Jozef's autobiography. He flew with the Polish Air Force and escaped to Romania after the German's invaded. He further escaped to France and flew there against the Germans until he was instructed to head for the UK. He was shot down and taken prisoner. After the war he returned to the UK and continued flying with the RAF. He details the various jobs he took in civilian life.
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Jozef Nogal
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Great Britain
England--Kingston upon Thames
Poland--Białystok
Poland--Warsaw
Romania--Tulcea
France--Marseille
France--Lyon
France--Châteaudun
Algeria--Algiers
Algeria--Oran
Morocco--Casablanca
Gibraltar
England--Liverpool
England--London
England--Surrey
England--Lancashire
Poland--Kraków
Ukraine--Lʹviv
Ukraine
Coverage
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Polskie Siły Powietrzne
Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Memoir
Format
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Three typewritten sheets
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BNogalJNogalJv10001, BNogalJNogalJv10002, BNogalJNogalJv10003
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Frances Grundy
305 Squadron
aircrew
escaping
pilot
prisoner of war
RAF Benson
RAF Syerston
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Baker, William Benjamin
Biff Baker
W B Baker
Description
An account of the resource
45 items. The collection concerns William Benjamin "Biff" Baker DFC (Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents art work and and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner with 115 and 626 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Pamela Baker and catalogued by Nigel Huckins and Peter Adams.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-11-28
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Baker, WB
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LANCASTER RIDDLED, WON HOME
Landed on Open Bomb-doors
By Daily Mail Reporter
WITH one of her crew dead and most of the others wounded, "Y for Yoke" Lancaster bomber, riddled with bullets and damaged by fire, struggled home from the raid on Berlin on January 31.
Then the undercarriage could not be lowered, but the bomber landed on her still-open bomb-doors.
Over Berlin "Y for Yoke" was making a bombing run when a German fighter opened fire from close range. The first burst killed the wireless operator and wounded both gunners.
The pilot, Flying Officer W. Breckenridge, a native of Glasgow, put the bomber into a dive, and then resumed his bombing run.
[missing word] bombs had just been dropped when the enemy fighter attacked again and the navigator, Warrant-Officer J. Meek, of Vancouver, was badly wounded.
Two More Attacks.
The pilot again shook off [missing word] fighter, but two minutes lat[missing letters and word] enemy machine came in [missing word] This time bullets crashed into [missing word] cockpit, grazing the pilot's legs.
Then a fourth attack was ma[missing letters] and the bomber was again riddled with bullets, but the pilot succeeded in shaking off the enemy machine for good.
Turning for home the crew found that the oxygen and hydraulic systems, the engine-room panel, the elevator and rudders, the rudder trimmers, and the "inter-comm" had been damaged. The petrol tank was holed and the bomb-doors would not close.
The wounded rear-gunner, Sergeant J. Schwartz, of Windsor, Ontario, recovering consciousness, struggled out of his turret but collapsed.
Pilot-Officer W.V. Baker, of New Malden, Surrey, the mid-upper-gunner, although badly shaken by a shellburst took Sergeant Schwartz's place and the bomb-aimer went up into the astrodome.
Hit, Carried On
Warrant-Officer Meek had a nasty bullet wound in his left shoulder, but he refused to leave his job and he mapped out a course for the pilot.
Over the North Sea the ele[missing letters] system caught fire, but Pilot-Officer Baker and the flight-engineer Sergeant A.F. Stevenson, of [indecipherable word] Banffshire, put out the flames.
The crippled "Y" for Yoke" made the nearest airfield and [missing words]
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Newspaper cutting - Lancaster riddled won home
Description
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Relates story of Lancaster on operation to Berlin being hit by night fighter fire which wounded crew and damaged aircraft. Returning home with wounded crew and belly landed.
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Daily Mail Reporter
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1944-01-31
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Germany--Berlin
Great Britain
Scotland--Glasgow
Canada
Ontario--Windsor
British Columbia--Vancouver
England--Surrey
England--Kingston upon Thames
Ontario
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Text
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One newspaper cutting
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NBakerP161128-01
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Sue Smith
air gunner
aircrew
bombing
killed in action
Lancaster
navigator
pilot
wireless operator
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Lovatt, Peter
Dr Peter Lovatt
P Lovatt
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117 items. An oral history interview with Peter Lovatt (b.1924, 1821369 Royal Air Force), his log book, documents, and photographs. The collection also contains two photograph albums. He flew 42 operations as an air gunner on 223 Squadron flying B-24s. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1338">Album One</a><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2135">Album Two</a><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Nina and Peter Lovatt and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-09-27
2019-09-03
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Lovatt, P
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A Reminiscence of the Flying Characteristics of Many Old Type Aircraft
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A detailed analysis of very early aircraft and their flying characteristics.
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Air Marshall Sir Ralph Sorley
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Great Britain
England--Felixstowe
England--Eastbourne (East Sussex)
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Monaco
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Jordan
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Chile
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England--Great Yarmouth
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Royal Air Force
Royal Navy
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eng
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Text
Text. Memoir
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82 typewritten sheets
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1971-08-16
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IBCC Digital Archive
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MLovattP1821369-190903-75
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Pending text-based transcription
aircrew
Anson
B-17
B-24
Battle
Blenheim
C-47
Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947)
Defiant
Dominie
Fw 190
ground crew
Halifax
Harvard
Hudson
Hurricane
Lancaster
Lincoln
Lysander
Magister
Manchester
Me 109
Mosquito
Oxford
Photographic Reconnaissance Unit
pilot
Proctor
RAF Boscombe Down
RAF Eastchurch
RAF Hendon
RAF Henlow
RAF Martlesham Heath
RAF North Killingholme
RAF Pembrey
RAF Prestwick
RAF West Freugh
Spitfire
Stirling
Swordfish
Tiger Moth
training
Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
York
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Leedham, Alma
Alma Lucy Muriel Leedham
A L M Leedham
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Leedham, A
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Four items. An oral history interview with Alma Lucy Muriel Leedham (1922 - 2020, 455833 Royal Air Force), memoirs of herself and her husband Warrant Officer Terence Leedham an armourer who also served on a number of bomber command stations. She served as a driver in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force stationed at RAF Scampton and East Kirkby.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alma Leedham and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2016-05-14
2017-05-26
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Alma Leedham
I was born in Fulham, London on 26th June 1922. I am now 91 years old and trying to put into words some of the things that have happened during the years so far. I had no sisters and just one brother. Graham was two years younger than me and from the age of 6ys I was made responsible for his safety. London was a wonderful place in those days. We were allowed to wander off and visit Museums and anything that was ‘Free of charge’.
.We [sic] learnt to swim in the Thames and were constantly going over the bridge into Putney for the start of the Oxford & Cambridge boat race each year. When I was 11 years old the family moved to Kingston-on-Thames. Because I had been run over by a car when I was 9yrs old I did not go to school for several weeks (in those days it was not considered important for a girl to do well at school – she would grow up and get married). I was just 14yrs and 1 month when I left school and got a job as an apprentice dressmaker. I made tea, washed up and went out to buy buns for the ladies tea break during which time, I also had to take material to another shop where buttons and belt buckles were made to order. I was there for about 6 weeks, earning 5 shillings per week and I got the sack for sliding down the banisters.of [sic] the 3 storey workshop. Apart from getting another job on the way home, not a lot happened until War was declared in September 1939. By then I was 17yrs of age and working as a Progress Chaser at Hawker Aircraft where the Hurricanes were being built. I stayed with them until near the end of 1941 when I decided to join the RAF
Learning to drive at Blackpool was not easy. There were 3 girls to each car and, when 4 of our ”Teachers” were picked up on a smash-and-grab raid by the Police, we had to start from “scratch” in North Wales which, at that time of year, was really beautiful with all the many rhodedendrons [sic] in full bloom. Three weeks on cars followed by another 3 weeks on lorries found most of us having passed all tests. Our half days were spent on classroom work where we learnt all about what went on under the bonnet
Early in June 1942 I was posted to RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire where as WAAFs we were billeted in what had been originally, the married quarters. There were 3 of us to a room. Kath Williams (known as Bill), Vivian Winsome and myself. I think there were at least two more girls in the upstairs bedroom. (I little knew then that my second daughter would be born in the same house, No 18,. Some years later) Of course we only used the house for sleeping and our meals were served in the main cookhouse which also served as a cinema in the evenings. Driving all types of vehicles and meeting all sorts of people was soon part of the daily round. At that time Squadrons using the 4 hangers were 83 Sqdn who were in the process of changing from Wellingtons to Lancasters and 49 Sqdn who were flying Manchesters. Manchesters only had 2 engines and so, apparently, were not able to travel the required distances to Germany and were taken out of use. 83 Sqdn had been posted down south where I think they became part of the Pathfinders and, 57 Sqdn from Feltwell in Norfolk arrived as their replacement. It was then that I was transferred from a general driver in the MT Service area to 57 Sqdn as a tractor driver; taking the bombs from the Bomb Dump to the kites (as the planes were called in those days).. My house mate, Vivian, worked in the Bomb Dump and each morning she would have 6 bombed up trolleys (2 bomb loads) ready for me to take to the aircraft that would
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Be flying that night and I would leave for the dispersal points where the armourers would be waiting to take one 4,000 bomb and 2 loads of incendiaries for each aircraft. I soon got to know quite a few of the Ground Crews and to cut a long story short, among them was the man who was destined to become my future husband. Lofty Leedham (he was 6’2”) as he was known then was a Flight Sergeant in charge of the guns and turrets and the men who worked on them. Our boss was Warrant Officer Cook but, to tell you about him would make my story a great deal longer. It was quite a while before I discovered that Lofty’s Christian name was Terry. Our first date was on 6/06/43 and early in July Terry came down to Kingston-on-Thames to meet my Mum & Dad. In the August, only a month later 57 Sqdn was moved to East Kirkby where A Flight of 57 became part of the newly formed 630 Sqdn. We got married on 12th September from my parents home in Kingston-upon-Thames. Due to “rationing” and a shortage of everything, our wedding took place with me wearing a borrowed wedding dress but, we did manage with the help of neighbours, who gave us their food coupons, to have a small Wedding cake. Because the arrangements we had made for our honeymoon collapsed, we spent the next week living with my parents and going to London most evenings to see some of the shows. We did manage to see the Beverly Sisters and Danny Kaye before going back to East Kirkby where arrangements had been made for us to live “Off Camp”. the farm/pub where we slept was homely and was also very handy, as the bottom end of the farm was the boundary of the RAF perimeter and it was just a case of lifting our bikes over the railing and cycling round the Airfield to where we worked. It was then that I was put on night duty, so we were almost just passing each other, either to go to work or to come home each morning and evening. But that didn’t last for long when the discovery that I was !expecting! got me sent home to Mum & Dad. So I was no longer a member of the RAF. When in August of the following year our first daughter, Lesley, was born, we managed to find ‘Living Out’ accommodation in Lincoln which was some way from being ideal. Being back at RAF Scampton was like going home for us. We eventually were given the opportunity to taking over one of the Married Quarters with the provision that we clean it up and make it liveable. That was when we moved into No 18. and where our second daughter, Valerie was born, almost exactly 2 years after Lesley. (just 4 days difference). This was quite soon after we had found a nine month flatcoat (like a golden retriever only black). We called him “N*****” after Guy Gibson’s dog. He was a birthday present for Lesley. In those days we didn’t have much money so we were very pleased when the local butcher gave him to us. His history was that he had been bought by a couple for their son who had unfortunately been killed in Germany and they were unwilling to keep the dog. N***** spent many years with us but there were times when we had to leave him with my parents. For instance, when Terry was posted to the middle East and Singapore. I often had to wait a long time for a married quarter to become available but when I was able to take the girls to where ever Terry was serving I had to leave N***** with my family and go. . . N***** was always so pleased to see us each time we came home. The years passed and when we were living near Salisbury and the girls were starting to go to school there were no married quarters available, so we bought a caravan and got permission to live in the grounds of the nearby School of Chemical Warfare where Terry was in charge of “Working with Chemicals” . . Soon after we moved into the married quarter. I discovered that I was expecting another baby who arrived in the January and was our son, Richard. We now had three Children. . The next posting was Singapore and
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I waited 15months [sic] before getting a trip on the Asturius, (troopship) with the girls to join him. . The Suez Canal was not available for us in those years so, a trip round the bottom end of Africa lengthened our journey to Singapore. Terry met the ship on the harbour and took us to our new home in Serangoon Valley. (All this was written some time ago and I am now trying to make some sort of finish. (Terry died 25years [sic] ago and my memory is not quite what it was . . . . I am now 93 years old. .
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Alma Leedham's memoir
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Tells of early life in London, joining the Woman's Auxiliary Air Force in 1941 and training as a driver. Relates experiences at RAF Scampton and then with 57 Squadron as a tractor driver pulling bomb trolleys. Subsequently went to East Kirkby. Married Terence Leedham who was an armourer on 57 Squadron in late 1943. Left the Woman's Auxiliary Air Force on expecting her first child. Continues with family history at RAF Scampton and postings to the middle east and Singapore.
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A Leedham
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Three page printed document
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eng
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Text. Memoir
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BLeedhamALeedhamAv1
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Civilian
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Great Britain
England--London
England--Lincolnshire
England--Kingston upon Thames
England--Surrey
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1942-06
1942-09-12
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Steve Baldwin
49 Squadron
57 Squadron
630 Squadron
83 Squadron
animal
bomb dump
bomb trolley
ground personnel
Lancaster
love and romance
Manchester
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF East Kirkby
RAF Scampton
service vehicle
tractor
Wellington
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force