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England--Wellesbourne
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Wellesbourne [place]
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North, Geoffrey John
North, G J
North, Johnny
Description
An account of the resource
31 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey John 'Johnny' North, DFC, (173836, Royal Air Force) who served as a rear gunner on 428, 76 and 35 Squadrons flying Wellington, Halifax and Lancaster. He was called up in 1940 from his job as a tailor in Saville Row where he returned after the war. He was shot down on an operation to Duisburg on 21 February 1945. The collection contains his logbook, an account of his shooting down, capture and time as a prisoner of war, including documentation, forced march to another camp in 1945, liberation and repatriation. The collection includes membership documents for Royal Air Force Association, Pathfinders Association and Caterpillar Club as well as personnel documentation, Pathfinder badge correspondence and photographs of crew and squadron as well as other memorabilia.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Carole Bishopp and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-05-20
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North, G
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[inserted] 29. COURSE. GAYDON.
SMITH-JONES. BEATTIE. BENNETT. YACKIMAN. SEARLIE. SUTTIL. REID. MAIN.
RUSHTON. HILL. PENNACK. FREEMAN. DOCKERILL. BAKER. CARTWRIGHT. STOREY.
AGATE. CRAGG. ELSEE. BROCK. MONAHAN. HALLIDAY. RUDD. CREBBIN.
MANSON. BEGG. SCHELEMBURG. BUSH. RUSSELL. NASH. PATON. CUDMORE.
RADCLIFF. JACKSON. MORTON. HOARE. REICHART. JOHNSEN. SUTTERBY. REYNOLDS. [/inserted]
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P/O HOARE “WASHED OUT” ON WIMPEYS, W/O “HARRY” HARRISON TOOK OVER AS PILOT, ALL POSTED TO 428 SQUADRON 6 GROUP JAN 1943, YACKIMAN MISSING WITH C/O’S CREW, I JOINED AS REAR GUNNER. HALF WAY THRO [sic] TOUR CONVERTED TO HALIFAX’S SO JOINED BY “SLIM” YULE FLT ENGINEER “PETE” BENTLEY MID UPPER LATER W.O.P. FREEMAN GROUNDED WITH EAR TROUBLE REPLACED BY “TAFFY” (SURNAME FORGOTTEN), FINISHED TOUR SEPT 1943. ONLY CREW OF ORIGINALS TO DO SO. YULE AND BENTLEY [deleted] NOT [/deleted] RECREWED (NOT KNOWN WHO WITH), YULE LATER WOUNDED AWARDED DFM, NO TRACE OF BENTLEY.
(PHOTO SUPPLIED BY NEIL BUSH)
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Forty aircrew in five rows wearing tunic and side caps. In the background the end of a hut with slatted window. Names captioned at the bottom. On the reverse notes on subsequent history of several people in the photograph. Photograph was supplied by Neil Bush (Geoffrey North's crew navigator).
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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PNorthGJ1603
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--West Midlands
England--Wellesbourne
England--Warwickshire
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eng
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Andy Hamilton
Steve Baldwin
Title
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29 Course Gaydon
aircrew
RAF Gaydon
training
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Cheshire, Leonard
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard
Baron Cheshire
Description
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374 items concerning Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC. Collection consists of photographs of people, vehicles, places, aircraft, weapons and targets; documents including, private and service letters, signals, telegrams, intelligence reports, crew lists and official documents. Cheshire served on 102 and 35 Squadrons and commanded 76 and 617 Squadrons. The collection includes details of 617 Squadron's precision bombing operations. Also included are two sub-collections: one containing 21 photographs of Tinian and Saipan, the other consisting of 37 audio tapes of speeches given by Cheshire after the war.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by The Leonard Cheshire Archive and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘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.
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[RAF Crest]
22 O.T.U.
R.A.F. Wellesbourne Mountford,
Warwick.
Jan. 17/44.
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you because F/O Duffy, from this O.T.U., has been posted to your unit and speaks very highly of it.
As I want to to get back to ops and preferably on Lancasters, it would be a great honour to fly under you and a pleasure. Although this method of writing to you
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is quite improper, I hope you will forgive me under these circumstances, as I do so want to get onto operations again.
My first tour was with 425 squadron and consisted of thirty two trips – twenty two from England and ten from North Africa. I have been off ops for six months, Sir, and know it is time I went back again. The special work of your squadron does appeals [sic] to me. If necessary I could and have already a crew lined up who would like
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to be posted to your squadron. The majority of the crew would be R.A.F., myself being a Canadian.
Another thing, Sir, is this station is becoming an all Canadian outfit, and I do not want any part of it then.
My record here is good, Sir, and with no blacks, but even so I must get back on ops.
Please by kind enough, Sir, to answer this request in the affirmative I hope.
Yours respectfully
Ralph A Stutt F/O
51178 R.C.A.F.
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Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Flying Officer Ralph Stutt
Description
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Letter states that Stutt wants to get back on operations on Lancaster after six months off. Recounts that he completed a tour on 425 Squadron. In addition he does not like the fact that his current station is becoming all Canadian. Requests to join Cheshire's squadron.
Creator
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Ralph Stutt
Date
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1944-01-17
Format
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Three page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
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SCheshireGL72021v10023
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Canadian Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Warwickshire
England--Wellesbourne
Temporal Coverage
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1944-01-17
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Cheshire, Leonard. Correspondence
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IBCC Digital Archive
License
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Royalty-free permission to publish
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This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘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.
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Frances Grundy
425 Squadron
617 Squadron
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992)
Operational Training Unit
RAF Wellesbourne Mountford
training