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Title
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McBean, Lachie
Lachlan William McBean
Lachlan W McBean
Lachlan McBean
L W McBean
L McBean
Description
An account of the resource
117 Items. Collection concerns Lachlan William "Lachie" McBean (1924 - 2019, 430629 Royal Australian Air Force). He was a pilot whose crew had just finished their course at a Heavy Conversion Unit when the European war ended. Collection consist of an oral history interview and photographs of people, places and aircraft.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lachlan McBean and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-10-22
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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McBean, LW
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Title
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Man sleeping
Description
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Head and shoulders portrait of a man wearing unbuttoned battledress with pilot's brevet asleep. Captioned 'Asleep in the troop train Retford to Brighton'.
Format
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One b/w photograph mounted on an album page
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PMcBeanLW16010080
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Retford
England--Brighton
England--Sussex
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
aircrew
pilot
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Spatial Coverage
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England--Retford
Title
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Retford [place]
Description
An account of the resource
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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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/660/9221/EGortonHGortonLCM440517.2.pdf
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Title
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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>.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-05-30
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.
Identifier
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Gorton, H
Transcribed document
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Transcription
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TEL. SILVERSTONE 252
OFFICERS’ MESS,
ROYAL AIR FORCE STATION,
[deleted] SILVERSTONE, [/deleted] [inserted] Scampton, [/inserted]
[deleted] NR. TOWCESTER. [deleted] [inserted] Lincs. [/inserted]
[deleted] NORTHANTS [/deleted]
[Royal Air Force crest]
17/5/44
Dearest,
I haven’t got any envelopes or labels at present, but I am writing this evening in the hope that I can borrow an envelope.
I hope your journey passed off O.K., and that Grace met you at the Junction. Mine wasn’t very good. It took about ten minutes of wandering round the station after you’d gone before I found a porter & got the luggage stowed away.
The journey to Lincoln was O.K. except that I had to change at Retford. I reached Lincoln at 4.0 & couldn’t get transport for my luggage until 6.0. By then there was a mob of at least a hundred, all with three or four pieces of luggage, so that I had to organise the whole thing (there
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would have been a mad rush & a complete shambles otherwise), and so did not reach Scampton until 8.0 p.m – on the second journey of the transport.
Derek & an observer & I are sharing what used to be the sitting room of [inserted] one of [/inserted] the married quarters. It’s a bit crowded for three, but I expect we shall cope O.K. The Mess is very comfortable, but like this room, is also crowded.
The course here seems to last for three weeks at the outside & is a piece of cake – no P.T., scarcely any drill, lectures or games from 8.45 – 4.30 and one day off a week.
From here we seem to be certain to go to Swinderby, Winthorpe, or Wigsley, so that Lincoln would be a very convenient headquarters for you
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3.
That Ford of Freddie’s was sold when he got home, but he apparently hadn’t the sense to let me know. Perhaps you’ll look out for one at home & I’ll do the same here.
I expect you’ve felt as despondent today as I have at losing you Cheer up, pet, & enjoy yourself at home.
That’s all for now, except thanks for everything.
All my love,
Harold.
P.S. The gen I’ve given you is derived from a member of 79 course. I’ll get the pukka gen tomorrow when they give us the usual introductory talks.
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Description
An account of the resource
He writes of his arrival in Lincoln for his posting to RAF Scampton for a three week course.
Creator
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Harold Gorton
Date
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1944-05-17
Format
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Three handwritten sheets
Language
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eng
Type
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Text. Correspondence
Text
Identifier
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EGortonHGortonLCM440517
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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England--Lincoln
England--Retford
Great Britain
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Lincolnshire
Rights
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Title
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Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Temporal Coverage
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1944-05-17
aircrew
mess
RAF Scampton
training