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Chadwick, Roy. 1940s
Description
An account of the resource
69 items. Photographs of people, places and aircraft
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Roy Chadwick and eight people in front of a Lancaster
Description
An account of the resource
Six men and three women standing in line. All men wear suit and tie and the man third from right has a mayoral chain. The women wear coats and hats. Roy Chadwick is in the middle of group. In the background the starboard inner engine and part of the fuselage of a Lancaster. On the reverse 'Lancaster May 1943. Roy Chadwick's writing at Wings for Victory Lancaster 1943, Mary Margaret also'.
Date
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1943-05
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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PChadwickR19040092, PChadwickR19040093
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Lancaster
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1943-05
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947)
Lancaster
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Chadwick, Roy. 1940s
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An account of the resource
69 items. Photographs of people, places and aircraft
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People, including Roy Chadwick, under the nose of a Lancaster
Description
An account of the resource
Seven men and two women stand under the nose of a Lancaster. Two men standing nearer the camera wear suits and bowler hats and one a mayoral chain. Five men wearing suits and ties and two women wearing coats and hats stand in line. In the background a fence and buildings. Captioned 'At Lancaster for a "Wings for Victory week, May 1943, […….] Mayor of Lancaster, Roy Chadwick. Mr and Mrs Chadwick photo'.
Date
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1943
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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PChadwickR19040068
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Lancaster
Temporal Coverage
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1943
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947)
Lancaster
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Chadwick, Roy. 1940s
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An account of the resource
69 items. Photographs of people, places and aircraft
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Review of a Wings for Victory march past
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A group of dignitaries including a mayor, an air force officer (saluting) and several other men and women on a reviewing stand with an ensign behind them. On steps behind and to the sides a large group of spectators in formal dress or uniform. Captioned 'Lord Derby with the Lord Mayor of Lancaster at Wings for Victory March Pst 1943. Roy Chadwick, Mary and Magaret (L)'.
Date
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1943
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One b/w photogrph
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Photograph
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PChadwickR19040021
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Lancaster
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1943
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947)
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Chadwick, Roy. 1940s
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An account of the resource
69 items. Photographs of people, places and aircraft
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A group of dignitaries in front of a Lancaster.
Description
An account of the resource
Three men in dark suits and hats, the left hand one wearing a mayoral chain walking toward the camera. Behind a group of men and women and in the background a Lancaster in a fenced enclosure. Captioned 'Wings for Victory Week at Lancaster 1943. The Mayor of Lancaster, Roy Chadwick, designer of the Avro Lancaster and official. Second row: an officer, Mary Chadwick, Mr Lewis National Savings Campaign Senior Officer. Third row: Margaret Chadwick. The Lancasters were put on show in all the big cities and money was given for the war effort through savings certificates'.
Date
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1943
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One b/w photograph
Type
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Photograph
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PChadwickR19040020
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Lancaster
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1943
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947)
home front
Lancaster
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Title
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Evans, Ernest Darwin
D Evans
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An account of the resource
71 items. An oral history interview with Darwin Evans (1921 - 2017, 1049547 Royal Air Force) and photographs, including several of Lancaster nose art, Lancaster W4783 AR-G George, and crashed or damaged aircraft. Darwin Evans served as an assistant to the Navigation Officer in 1 Group.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Darwin Evans and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-11-01
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Evans, D
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Permission granted for commercial projects
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Title
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18 aero-modellers
Description
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A group of 18 aero-modellers standing in a line and holding their models. On the reverse is 'October 1942'.
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Two b/w photographs
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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PEvansD1706, PEvansD1707, PEvansD1708, PEvansD1709
Coverage
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Lancaster
England--Lancashire
Date
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1942-10
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-10
arts and crafts
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Wynn, Ian Archer
I A Wynn
Description
An account of the resource
146 Items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer Ian Archer Wynn (1908 - 1943, 146838 Royal Air Force). After training as ground crew he remustered as a flight engineer and flew operations with 100 Squadron. He was killed 25 May 1943 on an operation from RAF Grimsby to Düsseldorf. Collection consists of a diary, a memorial book, an official report on what was his final operation, photographs of his crew, his family and the squadron as well as official correspondence from Air Ministry and British Red Cross, letters of condolence and a large number of letters from Ian Wynn to his wife Kathleen. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Patrick Anthony Wynn and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on Ian Archer Wynn is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/126116/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-07-13
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Wynn, IA
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[underlined]Tuesday[/underlined]
26. Kirkby Terrace
Halton
Nr [underlined] Lancaster [/underlined]
My dear [underlined] Kathleen [/underlined]
Thanks for your letter of yesterday I would have written straight back, but Pauline & I had arranged to walk into the next village where some friends are having a week in an Hotel there & I didn’t get the chance & in a way Im [sic] glad I didn’t because when I first read your letter I felt very done but Ive[sic] thought & thought it all over since & I can see plenty of hope, perhaps even more hope than before. Theyve [sic] only found 3 Kathleen well this is what I feel. There were 7 in the crew - they’d
[page break]
obviously been badly shot up & crashed but theres [sic] no reason why 4 shouldn’t have jumped safely - I cant see if they’d [underlined] all [/underlined] crashed whey[sic] they haven’t found them all and it may be that these 3 were already hit - & couldnt [sic] jump & so wouldn’t know anything about it. I [underlined] know [/underlined] - this is looking facts in the face my dear that Ian [underlined] may [/underlined] be the 3rd, but I’m equally sure he isn’t, you know Ive always said he jumped for it & until I know definitely otherwise I shall always believe it. & nothing will shift me from that. I know that the crews stick together till the last possible second [underlined] but [/underlined] no skipper would allow them [underlined] all [/underlined] to crash if there was no need, that’s madness - its not courage - its far braver to [indecipherable word] & come through to fight again. No! my dear - in spite of the grim
[page break]
3
news you sent I still feel that Ian will come through - I [underlined] cannot [/underlined] (& heaven knows Ive thought round & round it all ever since I got your letter I see why theyve only found 3 if they all crashed. It’s horrible to talk about I know - & seems worse written than said, but if they’d [underlined] all [/underlined] crashed why haven’t they found them all. NO! I just wont have it - 4 jumped & Ian was one of them - & I’m standing by that - & praying hard that I’m right & you must do the same. Oh I know its easy enough for me to talk - its not my man - & not my future laid in ruins but you know my thoughts are always with you & if praying & hoping can help, then Im sure Im trying to do my share. I’m not
[page break]
just saying all this to try and help you Kathleen I really do feel that it’s a very possible explanation of it all. Jack agrees with me - & says we must all go on hoping & believing that Ian is safe.
Now my dear I’m going to close - Ive got visitors for the day [indecipherable word] & I must do a spot of shopping so that means Lancaster & getting away shortly & I’m still in my “pit muck”.
Let us know if you hear anything more, [undecipherable word] you – in the meantime just remember you are ever in our thoughts - & go on believing hard that everything is allright [sic] – Love to all & much love to you.
Yours,
[underlined] Till [/underlined]
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Letter to Kathleen Wynn from Till
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Letter offering hope that some of the crew jumped and that husband Ian will come through.
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Four page handwritten letter
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eng
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E[Author]TWynnK[Date]
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Lancaster
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Roger Dunsford
Steve Baldwin
missing in action
-
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England--Lancaster
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Lancaster [place]
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An account of the resource
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/660/9175/EGortonHGortonLCM440119.1.pdf
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Gorton, Harold
Description
An account of the resource
136 items. The collection concerns Squadron Leader Harold Gorton (1914 - 1944, 120984, Royal Air Force) and contains eight photographs and 126 letters to his wife and family. Harold Gorton studied at Oxford, and throughout his time in the RAF he continued studying law. He completed a tour of operations as a pilot in 1941 and was then posted as an instructor to RAF Cark. He returned to operations with 49 Squadron stationed at RAF Fulbeck in 1944. He was killed 11/12 November 1944 during an operation to Harburg.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Mair Gorton and Ian Gorton, and catalogued by Barry Hunter. <br /><br />Additional information on Harold Gorton is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/108964/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-05-30
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Gorton, H
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Cark
Wednesday
Dearest,
I didn’t intend to write tonight – you’re not due for a letter until tomorrow! – but I’ve been thinking of you so much all day & then I got your letter this evening when I came back from my day off, so that I am putting law on one side until I’ve written to you.
I’m not sure whether it’s a good thing for me to have a day off on my own, although I don’t like going about with the others much. The trouble is that I start thinking, & I’m not sure that the results of my thinking are good.
In the first place it makes me wild to think of you cooped up there in a place you dislike, & yet able to move only at the pleasure of the MOLI –
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2
(Ministry of Labour & Interference!) As I go about I see so many women who seem to be happy & comfortable, & it makes me feel that it’s my fault that you aren’t the same.
In addition, the job prospect doesn’t seem very rosy. I’ve done a good deal of reading adverts lately – I looked at the T.E.S. in Lancaster today but won’t bother you with them as you’re already seeing it.
The conclusions I’ve come to are as follows:
[circled 1] The jobs MOLI will let you take aren’t the ones you want.
[circled 2] Other jobs that would be suitable often demand qualifications you haven’t got, even if MOLI would let you take them.
[circled 3] Even if you did get a job you liked, you might, remembering your Bath experience, find yourself moved from the frying pan
[page break]
3
to the fire. Perhaps I’m being unduly pessimistic, but I’ve been feeling that way all day, so, please forgive me, darling. (It’s so difficult to [underlined] write [/underlined] these things properly, isn’t it?)
My conclusions from all this will probably shock you, & I don’t want you to take them too seriously. I’m only trying to make you knock down the Aunt Sally I’m putting up!
[circled 1] Apart from the difficulty of living with your Mother & Grace (N.B. this difficulty always seems smaller to me when I’m away from Newhouse, so please make allowances for that), you are actually living in greater comfort than you could be anywhere else – good food, a comfortable house, the occasional use of a car etc.
[circled 2] We’re neither of us growing any younger, & as you say, the war, with all the attendant
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discomfort that it implies, will probably last for another couple of years.
[circled 3] [underlined] If we are [/underlined] going to have a family, now is the time to start one, because
(a) we probably shan’t be so well off immediately after the war as we are now, apart from the fact [deleted] (b) [/deleted] that we should get extra allowance & so on, plus the fact that we should be saving Income Tax at 10/- in the £.
(b) I’d sooner be living with you when we did have a baby, because I should consider it as much mine as yours, but on the other hand, [inserted] at Newhouse [/inserted] you would not be on your own in case of trouble.
(C) I don’t suppose the material difficulties – clothes, prams, maternity homes etc. – will be any easier for some time after the war.
(d) We’ve only had a year’s married life on our own, I agree,
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but if we leave this family business much longer, we’re going to be elderly, to say the least, before the child (or children) is able to leave us to ourselves in peace, & that doesn’t seem to me to be a good thing.
Will you please forgive me darling if I’ve said anything that has caused you the slightest pain. I’ve never thought of this family business in this way before & I want you to see what you think of it. I’m not even suggesting that we should have a baby. Quite honestly I don’t think I’ve [underlined] any [/underlined] right at all to suggest it. I’m only bringing this up in case you were intending to have one eventually, because if you say you don’t ever want to have one that’s [underlined] perfectly O.K. by [/underlined] me, & no question about it. Have I made myself clear?
The real trouble is that
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because you were so kind as to marry me (for which I can never be sufficiently grateful), and have been so patient with me ever since, I’ve got the idea that I can unload on to you any ideas I please. Now that I’ve got it off my chest, you can forget all about it.
All the above, incidentally, is because I’ve been thinking about you more than usual today, which is because I bought you a birthday present this morning – so you’ll have to take the rough with the smooth!
I went to Ulverston to buy your present. Unfortunately my train from Cark was late, so that I didn’t catch the next train back to Lancaster, where I wanted to get some more shopping done. As a result I got into Lancaster at 12.30, & by the time
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I’d looked at the T.E.S., all the shops were closed – early closing day. So I went to a flick instead & came back after tea.
I’m sending the present in your biscuit tin when I can get some paper & string. I’ll have to send it early, because I’m going to Dalachy on Sunday or Monday, but I don’t suppose you’ll mind that.
I don’t know whether you’ll like it. If the colour is wrong I can probably change it for a more suitable colour, but beyond question it’s the best they had in the shop. It’s what I call a real present, or at least it’s intended to be so – something not essential, but a pleasure to have. You don’t need to worry about the expense, because I’ve deliberately cut down my smoking so that the money I’ve saved is paying for the present.
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The main point, which I hope you’ll appreciate, darling, is that I love you so much that I sometimes feel at my wits’ end for ways of telling you, & this present is just a very small token of the love I’m sending with it.
Your letter today was like a drink of water to a thirsty man, & I’ll now proceed to answer it.
Your telegram, of course, did not arrive – at least, not yet. Abergavenny doesn’t seem to be very good at telegrams, does it? This letter was the first intimation I’d had that you knew I’d passed. You obviously saw the paper, as you counted the names. That’s more than I did, as I didn’t bother once I’d seen my name in the list. As a matter of fact, it has made me wish I could take the next exam now, as this new stuff
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seems so easy in comparison with Contract & Tort.
I got back to Cark at 7.45 a.m. – in good time for breakfast. As for the fellow & girl I saw in the train at Hereford, if you must go into details! the safety factor as far as I was concerned was not that they were asleep, but that they were both fully clothed! But, as you say, nuff said!
I agree with you about the shock officers are going to get after the war. I notice it myself very much, & am afraid I shan’t like it when I’m a mere nobody in a shop or café!
Your weather must have been similar to ours. Today [deleted] was [/deleted] [inserted] is [/inserted] the first day we’ve done any flying since Friday – really solid clamps all the time since then. The Fortress people aren’t away
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yet, but are hoping to go tomorrow.
We had a bit of excitement last night, because one Nav. aircraft took off when the weather cleared, & came back in a clamp as bad as ever. It landed in a field outside Lancaster. The aircraft was damaged, but the crew were only shaken. Lucky, weren’t they? Apparently they saw some lights & thought they were at Cark!
I am definitely going to Dalachy now, & am very pleased. It will be my first visit to Scotland, and, as Dalachy is one of Banff’s satellites, I should be able to meet some old acquaintances, if there are any left! If I have time, I shall try to go over to Dyce to see Shaw, as Aberdeen is not far away.
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I’m glad you’re getting the T.E.S., as it’s a hopeless business trying to get a job without it.
I’m feeling very fit indeed, thank you, & hope you are too.
Re the certificates, I entirely agree. That’s just the amount I was wanting us to invest. So I now pass to you for action!
All my love, darling. If only we could be together again! I’m cheesed with this b- war.
Harold.
P.S. I’m gradually coming to the conclusion that I’m not fated to be killed in this war. After expecting to be dead by December ’41 (after 3 months on Ops) & then finding myself pushed into instructing, & after having
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flown 1300 hours without ever having been in difficulties or in danger, & after trying unsuccessfully for a year to get on to Ops, & now finding myself booked for another spell of instructing, I have now come to the conclusion that I shan’t be killed in this war. Is this a case of “famous last words”, or an actual prophecy, I wonder? Time alone will tell.
Look after yourself, darling,
Harold.
P.S. Got a very nice letter of congratulations from that tutor who lived in Jarrow. He says he thinks my passing the exam is a good show.
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He considers the prospects of living together and starting a family. He writes of an aircraft landing in a field in Lancaster because of the weather, with some damage to the aircraft but no casualties. He also writes of his impending course at RAF Dallachy.
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Harold Gorton
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1944-01-19
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12 handwritten sheets
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eng
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
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Tricia Marshall
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Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
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1944-01
aircrew
love and romance
RAF Cark
RAF Dallachy
training