IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> Italy--Naples]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1944-12-25]]> Right - half-length image of two airmen wearing tunics and side caps outside a brick building with door. Captioned 'Outside the mess hall, Canada'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1941-10]]> J F Nolan]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Claire Monk]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1945-05-23]]> 1945-05-15]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Roger Dunsford]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> France]]> France--Normandy]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Birkenhead]]> England--Leeds]]> England--Oxford]]> New Zealand]]> Wales]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1944-02-17]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1944-02-17]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1944-02-17]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1944-02-20]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1943-09-10]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1943-09-11]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1943-09-11]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1943-09-11]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1943-09-11]]> Right - newspaper cutting 'Yorkshiremen in casualty list'. Mentions that Flying Officer Kenneth Gill was presumed dead after a raid on Bremen. It was his 45th operation and he had previously attacked Tirpitz.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1945-03-21]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> England--Worcestershire]]> England--Worcester]]> 1946-05-29]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1933-12]]> Caption refers to bottom left photograph of Kenneth Gill and two women standing on steps to house with one woman holding a baby.
On the reverse 'F/O K Gill DFC, ret to Mrs V Gill, 23 Sycamore Ave, Malton'.]]>
F Scrimshaw]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1944-07]]>
R Thomas]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1943-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1942-01]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Paul Ross]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> After training in York, Bettie was promoted to corporal and became a wireless operator. Following her posting to Trowbridge in Somerset she then went to the War Office Training Board in Leeds and then back to her unit on the Isle of Man. She was due to begin training for a commission when she became pregnant. Jim was posted to South Africa as a wireless operator and on his return became a pilot. Jim did 54 operations with Bomber Command.
Bettie lived in Doncaster with her parents when she had her first child, while Jim was away bringing prisoners of war back home. He was demobbed during that time and went back working for BP. Bettie and Jim lived in Stanwell for 18 months before moving to Nottingham for Jim’s work. He was promoted to administrative Director for BP at the refinery in Scotland. After spending time in Scotland they moved back to Purley, London. Jim left BP and worked for an American company in England until his retirement. The family then lived in Dorset, Minorca and finally Lincoln.
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Heather Hughes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> British Army]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> South Africa]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man]]> England--London]]> England--Nottingham]]> England--Doncaster]]> England--Trowbridge]]> England--York]]> England--Leeds]]> England--Wiltshire]]>
Annie Moody]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> England--Leeds]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France]]> France--Paris]]> Canada]]> Nova Scotia]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> Great Britain]]> ]]> Heather Hughes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> Pending OH summary. Allocated T Holmes]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Second generation]]> Great Britain]]> Nigeria]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--London]]> England--Leeds]]> J Roberts and Company]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Leeds]]> 1927-08-07]]>