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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1942
GIRAUD LEADS FRENCH FIGHT IN TUNISIA
Allies Racing To His Support
PARATROOPS THE VANGUARD
British First Army Advances
General Giraud, who made a dramatic last minute escape from Vichy France last Sunday, is reported to be leading the French garrisons who are fighting German troops in Tunisia.
Allied troops, pouring into Tunisia from advanced bases, are racing to his support.
British and American paratroops are in the vanguard of the advance of Algeria. Hundreds of them dropped down to capture the aerodrome of Bone, strategic base only 35 miles from the Tunisian border.
An American communiqué last night indicated that Allied troops, having consolidated their forward positions in Algeria, are making a rapid advance into Tunisia.
RED CROSS PARCELS
Held Up by North African Fighting
The Red Cross and St. John War Organisation state they have been advised by the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva that all Red Cross sailings from Lisbon through the Mediterranean have been suspended.
The Red Cross regrets that they are not in a position for the moment to make any statement other than that the maintenance of supplies for prisoners of war is receiving their closest attention.
In the meantime next-of-kin are recommended to continue sending to the Red Cross their quarterly parcels.
8th ARMY DRIVES WEST OF GAZALA
Next Stop Benghazi
R.A.F. STARTS NEW BLITZ FROM ADVANCED BASES
From OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
WITH ADVANCED G.H.Q., Saturday
Gazala, last defensive position before Benghazi, has now been passed by the Eighth Army as it speeds after the broken remains of Rommel’s Afrika Korps.
All Cyrenaica for more than thirty miles west of Tobruk is clear of Axis forces. More German prisoners have been taken in Tobruk.
On the inland road, twenty miles south of the coast, the Eighth Army has brushed past the Axis rearguards at El Adem and fanned out into the desert in full cry for El Agheila, at the base of the Gulf of Sidra.
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Three articles: Giraud leads French fight in Tunisia, Red Cross parcels and 8th Army drives west of Gazala
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Article 1. Headlines: Geraud leads French fight in Tunisia, allies racing to his support, paratroops in vanguard, British first army advances. general Giraud who escaped from Vichy France is reported to be leading French garrison fighting German troops in Tunisia. account of allied troops with British and American paratroops in vanguard racing to support him. Article 2. Headline: red cross parcels held up by North African fighting. Advises that all red cross sailings from Lisbon through Mediterranean have been suspended. Article 3. Headline: 8th Army drives west of Gazala, next stop Benghazi, RAF starts new blitz from advanced bases.
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1942-11-15
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v10028
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Tunisia
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Valentine, John. Ursula Valentine's newspaper cutting scrapbook
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THE TIMES SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14 1942
RECAPTURE OF TOBRUCK
SOLLUM AND BARDIA ALSO OCCUPIED BY EIGHTH ARMY
TROOP-CARRIERS FILLED WITH GERMANS SHOT DOWN IN SEA
Tobruk is again in the hands of the Eighth Army, and Sollum and Bardia have also fallen.
Six large Axis troop-carriers, filled with Germans, have been shot down into the Mediterranean while flying north from Tunisia.
PACE OF PURSUIT
130 MILES IN TWO DAYS
From Our Special Correspondent
21st Panzer division, 90th Light division, 164th Light division. Tenth Italian Corps. – Brescia division, Pavia division, Folgore division. Twentieth Italian Corps. –Ariete armoured division. Littorio armoured division, Trieste division, Twenty-first Italian Corps. – Trento division, Bologna division.
“Prisoners captured number 30,000, including nine generals. The amount of tanks, artillery, anti-tank guns, transport, aircraft &c., destroyed or captured.
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Recapture of Tobruk
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Article. Headlines: recapture of Tobruk, Sollum and Bardia also occupied by eighth army, troop-carriers filled with Germans shot down in sea mentions six large aircraft shot down flying north from Tunisa, pace of pursuit 130 miles in two days. Sketch map showing landings area in Morocco and Algeria.
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1942-11-14
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v10027
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Libya
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1942-11
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Valentine, John. Ursula Valentine's newspaper cutting scrapbook
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THE TIMES SATURDAY OCTOBER 10 1942
MORE BRITISH TO BE CHAINED
FIERCER GERMAN THREATS
ITALIANS JOIN IN PLOT
The German High Command have gone on to make fiercer threats of “reprisals” against British prisoners, declaring that if the British authorities fetter German prisoners they will fetter three times the number of British prisoners. The Italians announce that they have begun, or will shortly begin, harsh measures against British prisoners.
The German announcement, issued yesterday afternoon, stated:-
Following the declaration of October 7, 1942, that reprisals will be instituted against the chaining of German prisoners taken by the British on the beaches of Dieppe and on the Island of Sark, the British reply contained only subterfuges and referred to statements by prisoners who had not been tied up. The reply states further that the British authorities do not and will not approve the chaining. The German High Command declared itself not satisfied with this hypocritical statement, and as a consequence on October 8, at noon, 107 British officers and 1,269 n.c.o.s and men were manacled after they had been told the reason.
Army padres, hospital personnel, wounded and sick prisoners have not been manacled.
On October 8 the British announced that as from October 10, at 12 o’clock, the same number of German prisoners in British hands will be manacled. If this measure comes into force the German High Command will issue orders that on October 10, as from 12 o’clock, three times as many British prisoners in German hands will be manacled.
ITALIAN ALLEGATIONS
The Italian broadcast announcement alleged that four British fighters had machine-gunned some first-aid units of the Folgare Division on October 7; that on September 30 an Italian officer and six airmen went out into the desert in a lorry to recover lost material and were shot in the act of surrendering to a larger force of Australians, who were accompanied by a British officer and a Frenchman; and that the following discovery was made at Tobruk:-
A document which fell into our hands, issued on the occasion of the attack on Tobruk, said that the 10th platoon would detach a section to attack dug-out No. 1,082, and that those who were found there should be completely liquidated without discrimination.
This behaviour, with which one must link previous attacks on hospital ships and ambulance seaplanes, contracts sharply with the action of Italians when they learn of the presence of an ambulance column in the desert engaged in picking up enemy wounded abandoned by their own detachments, or when they order their troops to save numerous enemy crews, as has happened in the Bay of Tobruk.
Our more than justified reprisals will thus be rendered inevitable.
REASONS FOR AXIS “REPRISALS”
MEGALOMANIA AND SPITE
FROM OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT
From the first it was clear that the German High Command had ulterior motives in chaining British prisoners on the flimsiest of pretexts. The Italian announcement strongly suggests that the measures were prepared well in advance, and were concerted between the senior and junior partners of the Axis. It is true that Mussolini usually hastens to copy Hitler in all things, believing that his prestige demands it; but there appears to be more than simple copying in this case.
To manufacture a pretext, the Italians go back to a document allegedly discovered during the British raid made on Tobruk nearly a month ago, on the night of September 13-14. If the imagined incident were so bad, why have the Italians not described it before now? As it is, the enemy which has so often boasted of “wiping out hostile units,” now declares that he will ill-treat prisoners because – on his word, and his alone – the British were ordered to wipe out an Italian unit. To this charge he adds allegations of a later date, which again lack substance.
GERMAN “HONOUR”
The enemy’s attitude in the whole barbarous affair defies normal standards of analysis. It arises, first and foremost, from the megalomania of the German High Command. According to them, the German army’s honour is sustained when German soldiers hang and shoot civilians; these excesses are declared to be necessary acts of war. But that same “honour” is insulted as soon as a German soldier makes allegations about what happened among soldiers struggling together; and the insult has to be avenged on 1,376 officers and men captive in their hands. Prisoners of war become hostages.
The German High Command are acting in the knowledge that they hold more British prisoners than we hold German – 90,000 British to 23,000 German. With the Italians the balance is heavily on the other side; we hold 262,000 Italians and Italy holds 25,000 British. But the Germans care nothing for what happens to Italians. They only reckon that they themselves have the whip hand against the British.
The outstanding question is why, out of their abiding megalomania, they should decide that this is the moment to try the whip. Having no public opinion in Germany likely to speak in protest, they think purely in military-political terms. In Germany itself, the leaders are inflaming hatred against Britain, and are at the same time declaring their power against Britain: the allegations of British cruelty and the savage “reprisals” fit in to this propaganda.
Beyond this is the anger of the German High Command at the frequent and, to us, highly valuable raids on the Continent. They are therefore suggesting that when British soldiers “behave like bandits,” the prisoners of war in their hands will be made to suffer. Seldom has the ruthless and evil force against which we fight more clearly shown its face.
GETTING SHACKLES READY IN CANADA
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
OTTAWA, Oct. 9
Preparations are being made for shackling early to-morrow afternoon of 107 German officers and 1,269 men in Canadian prison camps unless the Germans, by noon to-morrow, remove the fetters from Canadian and British prisoners captured in the Dieppe raid.
[inserted] October 19th 1942 [/inserted]
Imperial and Foreign
PRISONERS IN CHAINS
NO REPLY FROM GERMANY
From Our Diplomatic Correspondent
The German Government have not yet replied to the British statement that we should unfetter the German prisoners of war if they would unfetter the British prisoners. The statement was communicated to the Swiss Government, the Protecting Power, early last week, and was passed on by Switzerland to Berlin last Thursday.
All that has come from Germany is a “comprehensive survey of British brutalities” issued by the German High Command; a document of 15 closely type-written pages which produces more allegations about the treatment of prisoners and then goes on to still wilder and wider charges against British methods of warfare by land, sea, and air. The British Government are disregarding this outburst, although it reveals more clearly than before the ulterior motives which led the Germans to undermine the privileged position of prisoners of war.
TWO PURPOSES
The document has two main purposes – to fan hatred against Britain, and to use the allegations for a wider threat against prisoners of war of all allied countries. It announces that all these prisoners will have reprisals brought upon them.
“Inhuman treatment of German prisoners, or treatment violating international law, on any front, which includes Soviet Russia, will from now on have to be paid for by the whole body of prisoners taken by Germany without distinction of nationality.”
The allegations against Britain are presented in terms of the most virulent hatred. The British Government are accused of making statements “as stupid as they are incredible,” “deliberate falsifications of facts,” “lies,” “untruthful and carefully invented,” and so on. Long statements by German soldiers are inserted. For example: “Corporal Albert Doerr said concerning the Dieppe raid, ‘On the field to which we were led lay several men of the Todt organization, all fettered. The people I saw all had their hands tied behind their backs. Before me was a man of the Todt organization with his thumbs tied together behind his back and the cord was around his neck so that when his hands were tired the cord dragged down his back, making it difficult for him to breathe.’”
After more allegations of that kind, the German High Command declares that these men can be questioned afresh by the Protecting Power.
Then come violent denunciations against Britain for arming civilians in Crete and for shelling a ship after German soldiers had been ordered below. When the German soldiers jumped overboard, “they were machine-gunned until all were hit.” The document comes back to Crete for the complaint that British troops, from the United Kingdom as well as from Australia and New Zealand, “behaved not like soldiers but like convicts.” “The details, proved by sworn statements, were so ghastly that they could not be published before now.” The fighting in Libya provides a further field for similar outcries.
The document is instructive in only one sense. It is designed as the background, and the excuse, for any further German measures against prisoners of war.
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British prisoners in chains
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Three articles about reprisals against British prisoners of war if German prisoners are fettered. Claims that Germans captured at Dieppe were chained. First: More British prisoners to be chained, fiercer German threats, Italians join the plot, Italian allegations were that British fighters had machine-gunned Italian first aid units and other allegations. Second article: reasons for axis reprisals, megalomania and spite, German honour, getting shackles ready in Canada. The last was in reprisal for German threats. Third article: prisoners in chains, no reply from Germany after British statement that they should unfetter German prisoners if they would unfetter British prisoners.
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1942-10-10
1942-10-09
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v10020
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British Army
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France--Dieppe
Libya
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Ontario
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1942-10
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Valentine, John. Ursula Valentine's newspaper cutting scrapbook
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AFTER BIR HAKEIM
Although Rommel recovered after his definite reverse in the early days of the campaign, the tide of battle still seemed to run our way until after the evacuation of Bir Hakeim. From that moment the German armour, sweeping up northwards, called the tune and we paid the piper. Our armoured strength was such that the general impression was that we wished to join battle, and to that end manoeuvred our forces to bring the enemy to combat. Rommel gave orders that on no account was battle to be joined, and his tanks cleverly avoided engagements except on a minor scale.
Then suddenly last Saturday, in a period variably reported as from three to six hours, we threw away our chances of victory. One fundamental of German tank tactics is to use tanks not so much for actual combat but more in conjunction with anti-tank guns as a species of supplementary artillery.
The last campaign was full of instances when our armour was lured into anti-tank traps. In spite of such warnings, last Saturday the bulk of our armoured force ran into such a trap. The Afrika Korps, well equipped with anti-tank guns, particularly the most effective – 88-millimetre – and also the five and four centimetre gun, and these used with tanks armed with 75s and 50s as a support, shattered our armoured might on the bloody field west of Knightsbridge.
27-MILE PERIMETER
It must be emphasized that Tobruk was practically indefensible against a really determined and heavy attack. During the whole eight months when it stood out so gallantly last year it was never attacked by an overwhelming force. The mere fact that the outer perimeter of the defences – the town’s main defences that is to say – are no less than 27 1/2 miles long shows how impossible it would be to defend it if a sufficiently large and heavy force were sent in to the attack. Once a deep penetration has been made in this ring there is little else to keep out the enemy.
Our frontier force is large, well equipped, and strongly dug in. Our infantry, which is a liability after the armour has been defeated unless behind strong defences, has been got out cleverly to just such a position, sufficiently far away from the enemy to make any attack difficult.
Our commanders, who take the long view, are not despondent. They are convinced that the next time the pendulum swings it will go in our favour, and the swing will be deeper. All that is required is to bring our armaments up to the necessary strength, and to profit by the mistakes made in this campaign.
Our fighting men were splendid throughout, whether tank men, infantry, or artillery. Our air support, too, was excellent, and better directed than ever before.
BRITISH LOSSES IN ARMOUR
ROMMEL’S TACTICAL SUPERIORITY
USE OF DIVE-BOMBERS
From Our Military Correspondent
The disaster which has occurred at Tobruk is not as great as some others we have suffered, but its suddenness makes the shock heavier than that of almost any of them. It is all the worse because the signs point to an error of judgement, a miscalculation, as the cause, unless, of course, it was humanly impossible to evacuate the place before it became beleaguered.
The last time Rommel reached Tobruk he was almost at the end of his tether. This
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time it has been only too evident from recent events that he was in possession of great tactical superiority. There has been more than a suggestion that he had gained air superiority.
Dive-bombing seems to have largely decided the issue at Bir Hakeim, and it is probably that it has been to a great extent responsible for the fate of Tobruk. The other big factor has been the losses in our armour, and perhaps in our repair machinery, suffered just over a week ago in the battle near Knightsbridge, and the reinforcements presumably received by the enemy.
The only justification for locking up a large force in Tobruk, supposing that there was a possibility of extricating it, would seem to have been if a prompt counter-offensive were intended; and the time available was to be measured in days rather than weeks. If such were our plan, we have been anticipated.
AXIS FORCES STRETCHED
Even those who were most deeply alarmed by the decision to hold Tobruk on this occasion had expected nothing so sudden as this. In the light of what has happened confidence in our ability to hold the frontier must necessarily be tempered with caution. But speculation on that point is useless. It is a matter of equipment and communications. On the face of it, in view of the season and the extent to which the enemy’s force has been stretched, it would be premature at least to describe the situation as grave.
The enemy will derive advantage from the possession of Tobruk, but that is a minor matter by comparison with the loss of invaluable trained troops and of equipment brought to the scene of action at the cost of great sacrifice. If it will take him some little time to get any benefit from Tobruk, it will take us much longer to replace what has been lost.
Once more we have to begin all over again, but because there has been a landslide that is no reason to expect an avalanche.
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Fall of Tobruk
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First partial article: after Bir Hakem account of recent activity in desert campaign mentioning German tank tactics. 27-mile perimeter, mentioning that Tobruk was indefensible against really determined attack, Second article. British losses in armour, Rommel's tactical superiority, use of dive bombers. Includes sketch map of area. Sub- headline: Axis forces stretched.
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1942-06
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v10011
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Wehrmacht
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Libya
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North Africa
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1942-06
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THE TIMES MONDAY JUNE 22 1942
FALL OF TOBRUK
PERIMETER BREACHED BY AIR AND TANK ATTACK
DEFENDERS’ DETERMINED RESISTANCE
BARDIA REPORTED IN ENEMY HANDS
The War Office confirmed early this morning that Tobruk has fallen.
The German and Italian High Commands claim that the fortress was captured yesterday morning. Earlier British announcement said that the enemy, attacking in great strength, had penetrated the defences on Saturday, and, in spite of determined resistance, had occupied a large area within the perimeter.
The Axis reports stated that 25,000 prisoners and much booty had been taken and that Rommel’s forces had pressed eastward and occupied Bardia and Bir el Gobi.
SHEER WEIGHT OF METAL
DEFENCE LINES CRUSHED
From Our Special Correspondent
LIBYAN FRONT, June 21
The Libyan battle suddenly took a new turn yesterday. After a pause of two or three days the enemy attacked Tobruk in full force and achieved such successes as to render it impossible to hold that port Attacking in a north-easterly direction the enemy penetrated the outer perimete[missing letter] defences to a considerable depth.
The assault started soon after the firs[missing letter] light yesterday, when enemy aircraft fle[missing letter] over in large numbers and opened a concentrated bombing attack as the gun stationed round the defences rained in [missing word] hail of shells. When this barrage die[missing letter] down, tanks, believed to be the bulk o[missing letter] the enemy’s armoured strength, comin[missing letter] up from the El Adem and Ed Duda directions, drove through the defences, crushing down the gallant and determined resistance by sheer weight of metal. Following the tanks, infantry in lorries, with machine-guns, consolidated the gains while tanks drew off to refuel and replenish their ammunition; the tanks then went in again and made further advances.
By nightfall great gaps had been made in our defences and the enemy troops were preparing their dispositions to renew the attack to-day. Round the western side of the perimeter, it is believed, the Italian troops were formed up, not so much to join in the attack as to prevent a break-out in that direction and also to hold any positions taken. Undoubtedly Rommel threw all his forces into this attack.
ROMMEL’S MANOEUVRE
The attack on Tobruk came suddenly after two or three days in which there had been relatively little fighting but a considerable movement of troops. The Eighth Army was regrouping, taking up new positions, and gathering together the units scattered in the confusion of the battle last week-end. Rommel, the morning after the Free French forces had withdrawn from Bir Hakeim, dispatched his armoured units to the north-east, with the intention of resuming the drive against El Adem, Acroma, and then Tobruk. Greater success greeted his arms than had been the case in the opening days of the campaign, and after bitter fighting the first objectives were taken.
It might then have been expected that he would go “all out” for Tobruk. By an exceedingly dashing and skilfully executed manoeuvre the threatened allied garrisons of the Gazala sector – the South Africans and the 50th Division – had been withdrawn safely eastwards, leaving the enemy no opposition along the western perimeter of Tobruk; our two strong points south of Tobruk had fallen; and the bulk of the Eighth Army had moved in the direction of the Egyptian frontier. There seemed to be nothing to hold up the immediate attack on Tobruk.
Instead the enemy columns advanced towards the frontier, as if to attack our new positions there, and came within striking distance of our forward troops. Not till then did he turn his attention to Tobruk, withdrawing his advanced columns from the frontier. What his losses were in yesterday’s attack is not yet known but they may have been considerable.
VICTORY OF PRESTIGE
The capture of Tobruk is not only a victory of prestige for the enemy, of which the most will be made, but it will also give him clear lines of communication along the coastal road.
There are many well-informed people who consider that our defence of Tobruk last year, glorious though it was, was a mistaken policy, on the ground that the cost in various directions of keeping the garrison supplied far outweighed any advantages gained. This time no decision had been taken whether or not Tobruk would be defended. If there seemed a good prospect that we could be ready to counter-attack within a short space of time, it was thought that steps would be taken to reinforce the garrison and hold Tobruk. On the other hand there was no inclination to embark again upon a lengthy and costly defence.
Rommel forced our hand and made up our minds for us by striking with all his strength before the defences were perfected. The presence in this area of new heavy American bombers and of units of the American Navy, combined with the probability that our Mediterranean Fleet will before long be reinforced by the return to service of ships damaged in last year’s engagements give ground for hope that Tobruk will not be of much use to the enemy as a port.
Whether Rommel is in a position to follow up this latest success by marching on to Egypt is a matter for speculation. Exactly what his present strength may be is difficult to tell; but it is clear that we inflicted considerable damage in the earlier engagements, and these have now been increased by losses before Tobruk.
As the enemy is in possession of the battlefield, he will be able to recover a number of his own damaged tanks and some of ours. This will help him to build up his armoured strength; but in the meantime we shall be able to get up reserves from our bases and also to bring back to the field tanks which were too badly damaged for repair in the forward areas and had been sent back to the workshops.
The fall of Tobruk constitutes the crowning disappointment of a campaign which, after giving rise to high hopes that at last a decision would be reached in Libya, has now gone against us. The disappointment may be tempered by the consideration that in this see-saw of desert warfare the only way in which a lasting victory can be won is by the possession of overwhelming armoured and mobile superiority, sufficient not only to beat the enemy on the battlefield but to follow him up and destroy him. In the vast desert spaces, with few facilities for maintenance and supply, it is always the most mobile and most hard-hitting force that wins. Its tanks armed with a considerably heavier gun than ours and also equipped with much thicker armour, the Afrika Korps was able to recover from what was nearly a knock-out blow, delivered solely by the skill and dash of our tank commanders.
It might have been a vastly different story if after the third day of the battle all our remaining armour had been thrown in to administer the [italics] coup de grâce [/italics] to the enemy, who was visibly reeling, whose supplies were running short, and whose transport columns had suffered heavy losse[missing letter] and were utterly disorganized.
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Fall of Tobruk
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Sub headlines: perimeter breached by air and tank attack, defenders determined resistance, Bardia reported in enemy hands. Article contains account of fall of Tobruk to German forces on 21 June 1942. States 25000 prisoners and German forces in Bardia and Bir El Gobi. Sections: Sheer weight of metal, defence lines crushed, Rommel's manoeuvre, victory of prestige.
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The Times
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1942-06-22
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v10010
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Wehrmacht
British Army
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Libya
Libya--Tobruk
North Africa
Libya--Bardiyah
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1942-06-21
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Valentine, John. Ursula Valentine's newspaper cutting scrapbook
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131 items contained in a scrapbook. Mainly newspaper cuttings of events from May 1942 to 1945.
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THE TIMES SATURDAY JUNE 20 1942
V.C. FOR COLONEL KEYES
COMMANDO RAID ON ROMMEL’S H.Q.
POSTHUMOUS AWARD
The posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant-Colonel G.C.T. Keyes, aged 24, the eldest son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, who lost his life during a daring Commando raid on General Rommel’s headquarters in Libya in November, 1941, is announced in the [italics] London Gazette [/italics].
The official announcement says that the award, which has been approved by the King, is made to:-
Major (temp. Lieutenant-Colonel) GEOFFREY CHARLES TASKER KEYES, M.C., The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), R.A.C.
Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes (the citation states) commanded a detachment of a force which landed some 250 miles behind the enemy lines to attack headquarters, base installations, and communications.
From the outset Colonel Keyes deliberately selected for himself the command of the detachment detailed to attack what was undoubtedly the most hazardous of these objectives – the residence and headquarters of the General Officer Commanding the German forces in North Africa. This attack, even if initially successful, meant almost certain death for those who took part in it.
He led his detachment without guides, in dangerous and precipitous country, and in pitch darkness, and maintained by his stolid determination and powers of leadership the moral of the detachment. He then found himself forced to modify his original plans in the light of fresh information elicited from neighbouring Arabs, and was left with only one officer and an n.c.o. with whom to break into General Rommel’s residence and deal with the guards and headquarters staff.
UP TO FRONT DOOR
At zero hour on the night of November 17-18, 1941, having dispatched the covering party to block the approaches to the house, he himself with the two others crawled forward past the guards, through the surrounding fence, and so up to the house itself. Without hesitation, he boldly led his party up to the front door, beat on the door and demanded entrance.
Unfortunately, when the door was opened, it was found impossible to overcome the sentry silently, and it was necessary to shoot him. The noise of the shot naturally aroused the inmates of the house, and Colonel Keyes, appreciating that speed was now of the utmost importance, posted the n.c.o. at the foot of the stairs to prevent interference from the floor above.
Colonel Keyes, who instinctively took the lead, emptied his revolver with great success into the first room and was followed by the other officer, who threw a grenade. Colonel Keyes, with great daring, then entered the second room on the ground floor, but was shot almost immediately on flinging open the door, and fell back into the passage mortally wounded. On being carried outside by his companions he died within a few minutes.
By his fearless disregard of the great dangers which he ran and of which he was fully aware, and by his magnificent leadership and outstanding gallantry, Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes set an example of supreme self-sacrifice and devotion to duty.
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V C for Colonel Keyes
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Commando raid on Rommel's HQ, Posthumous award. Account of award of Victoria Cross to Lieutenant Colonel G C T Keyes for his part of a raid on Rommel's headquarters in Libya in November 1941 and an account of the action.
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1942-06-20
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v10009
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British Army
Wehrmacht
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Libya
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1941-11
1942-06
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Victoria Cross
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
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89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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Fort Capuzzo
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A sign post made from a barrel and rocks with landmines pilled at its base. The sign post indicates the way to Derna, Tobruk and Ein el Gazala. Behind is a CMP Information Post, tents and a tall structure with a five pointed star.
Identification kindly provided by Daniele Moretto.
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Photograph
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PSeaggerA16010125
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British Army
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North Africa
Libya
Libya--Musaid
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
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89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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Derna
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Derna dock with a sunken ship in the distance. Further behind are low hills with a long wall. In the foreground a sole pedestrian is walking by.
Identification kindly provided by Alby Anderson of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.
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Photograph
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PSeaggerA16010111
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Civilian
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North Africa
Libya
Libya--Darnah
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
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89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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Fort Capuzzo cemetery
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A cemetery with three rows of crosses arranged formally. Behind is a tall memorial structure.
Identification kindly provided by Gian Paolo Bertelli.
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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PSeaggerA16010107
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Wehrmacht
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Libya
Libya--Musaid
final resting place
memorial
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
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89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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Benghazi church altar
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A church altar identified on the reverse as being at Benghazi.
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eng
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Photograph
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PSeaggerA16010084, PSeaggerA16010085
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Civilian
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North Africa
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Libya--Banghāzī
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
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89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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11 men on a Crusader tank
Captured German [sic] Tank. near Tobruk
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11 men in desert uniform arranged on a tank. On the reverse 'Captured German [sic] Tank. near Tobruk'.
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eng
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Photograph
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PSeaggerA16010080, PSeaggerA16010081
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Royal Air Force
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North Africa
Libya
Libya--Tobruk
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
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89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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Fieseler Storch
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Damaged Luftwaffe observation aircraft. On the reverse 'Jerry craft captured near Tobruk'.
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eng
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PSeaggerA16010075, PSeaggerA16010076
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Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe
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North Africa
Libya
Libya--Tobruk
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
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89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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Arch of the Philaeni
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Arco dei Fileni (Arch of the Philaeni) on the Libyan coastal road at Ras Lanuf. Inscription reads 'Alme Sol, possis nihil urbe Roma visere maius' (Oh almighty Sun, you will never look upon a city greater than Rome).
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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PSeaggerA16010064
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Civilian
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Libya
Libya--Ra's Lanuf
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
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89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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Buerat El Hsun
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A road sign at the entrance to the settlement of Buerat el Hsun. The sign also says 'Out of bounds Houses booby trapped Keep Out'
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PSeaggerA16010045
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Civilian
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North Africa
Libya
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Seagger, Alan. Album 01 General
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Seagger, A
Description
An account of the resource
89 photographs of scenery, aircraft and service life taken in Italy and the Middle East.
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Beinina Airport
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Destroyed Luftwaffe aircraft at Benina airport. On the reverse 'Benina Airport'.
Format
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One b/w photograph
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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PSeaggerA16010017, PSeaggerA16010018
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Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe
Spatial Coverage
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North Africa
Libya
Libya--Banghāzī
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Thompson, Keith G
K G Thompson
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95 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Keith Thompson DFC (1238603 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents, photographs and training material as well as his navigation logs. He flew operations as a navigator with 101 and 199 Squadrons.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Mark S Thompson and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-09-07
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Thompson, KG
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Permission granted for commercial projects
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Keith Thompson's time on 115 Squadron
Description
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115 Squadron badge.
Three colour postcards of Malta, two of Grand Harbour Valetta, one captioned Maltas stone buildings and one of a horse powered carriage.
A colour postcard of a military cemetery captioned 'Tobruk, Knight Bridge Cemetery near El Adam'.
Four postcards of Gibraltar, one of the Rock with Viscount on airfield captioned 'Rock from airfield, Gibraltar', one of street scene captioned 'Main street Gibraltar' and one of gates in town wall captioned 'South Port Gates, Gibraltar'.
A colour postcard of part of the Rock and a beach captioned 'Gibraltar's water catchment area'.
Page annotated 'No 115 Sqdn, Watton & Cottesmore. May '67-Sept 69. Made my first visit to Berlin & other places in Germany since the war. Went to Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus & El Adem, Libya'.
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Five b/w photographs and three colour photographs on an album page
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Gibraltar
Libya
Malta
Libya--Tobruk
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PThompsonKG15010147
115 Squadron
final resting place
RAF Cottesmore
RAF Watton
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/976/16154/LManningR52870v1.1.pdf
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Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Log Book
Description
An account of the resource
The Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Log Book covering the period 15 June 1941 to the 16 August 1963. Manning qualified first as an Air Gunner on the 4 July 1941 and second as a flight engineer on the 1 September 1941. He was commissioned on the 4 July 1943 as a Pilot Officer and promoted to acting Flight Lieutenant in April 1944, and again to acting Squadron Leader in March 1946. He reverted to Flight Lieutenant in April 1947 but was made substantive Squadron Leader in April 1956 in the Engineering Branch. He retired 16 August 1963. There are very few entries relating to his time as a Gunner. Most entries are as Engineer.
He was stationed at RAF Stormy Down; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Linton-on-Ouse; RAF Leeming, RAF Aqir, RAF Fayid, RAF Marston Moor, RAF Snaith, RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor, RAF Cottesmore, RAF Finingley, RAF Scampton, RAF Binbrook, RAF Henlow, RAF Seletar, RAF LLandow, RAF Swaton Morley, and RAF Medmenham. He flew in the following types manly as Engineer ; Arvo Tutor, Armstrong Whitworth Ensign, Handley Page Hannibal, Hawker Hart, Handley Page Heyford, Douglas DC 4 and 5, Handley Page Harrow, Handley Page Halifax, Miles Magister, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, Avro Lancaster, Fairey Battle, Airspeed Oxford, de Havilland Mosquito, Avro Lincoln, Handley Page Hastings, Gloster Meteor, Avro Anson, Vickers Valletta, Vickers Wellington, Percival Prentice, Bristol Britannia and Handley Page Victor. He flew with 10 Sqaudron, 462 Squadron, 51 Squadron, and 614 Squadron. He was awarded the DFC. Pilots he flew with were Richards, Sobinski, Lewin, Turnbull, Hacking, Godfrey, Trip, Peterson, Lloyd, Bell, O’Driscoll, Allen, Declerk, Gribben, Gibsons, Wyatt, Clarke, Snow, Hardy, Haydon, McDonald, Murray, Jones, Dennis, Fisher, Connolly, Cheshire, Woolnough, Cat, McIntosh, Pope, Alcock, Smythe, Williams, Freeman, McKnight, Gillchrist, Moore, Faulkner, Carr, Espie, Brown, Price, Wiltshire, Spence, Symmons, Kirk, King, Burgess, Wilson, Pugh, Johnson, Reynolds, Roberts, Ringer, Minnis, Lowe, Everett, Renshaw-Dibb, Mathers, Sullings, Flower, Jarvis, Chopping, Widmer, Yates, Day, Spires, Huggins, Watts, Haycock, Owens, Liversidge, George , Banfield, Hunt, Porter, Goodman, Ayres, Shannon, Laytham, Lord, Rhys and Blundy,
War time operations were to Sharnhorst and Gneisenau, Cologne, St Nazaire, Kiel, Paris, Aysen Fjord, Terpitz, Trondheim, Hamburg, Mannheim, Essen, Osnabruck, Tobruk, Heraklion, Maleme, Lens, Colline Beaumont, Bourg-Leopold, Trappes, Mont-Fleury, Abbeville, Nucourt, Le Harve, Boulogne. Post war destinations were to RAF Netheravon, RAF Hemswell, RAF Scampton, RAF Lindholm, RAF Marnham, RAF St Eval, RAF Aldergrove, RAF Wyton, RAF Stradishall, RAF Binbrook, RAF Bagington, RAF Waddington, RAF Topcliffe, RAF Upwood, Kai Tak, Changi, RAF Pembrey, RAF Llandow, RAF Filton, and RAF Bruggen.
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Manning, Reg
Reginald Manning
R Manning
Description
An account of the resource
Six items, concerning Pilot Officer Reg Manning DFC (567647 Royal air Force) including his flying log book and photographs. He served as an air gunner and flight engineer with 10 Squadron, 462 Squadron, 51 Squadron, and 614 Squadron.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Reg Manning.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-06-28
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Manning, R
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Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Description
An account of the resource
The Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Log Book covering the period 15 June 1941 to the 16 August 1963. Manning qualified first as an Air Gunner on the 4 July 1941 and second as a flight engineer on the 1 September 1941. He was commissioned on the 4 July 1943 as a Pilot Officer and promoted to acting Flight Lieutenant in April 1944, and again to acting Squadron Leader in March 1946. He reverted to Flight Lieutenant in April 1947 but was made substantive Squadron Leader in April 1956 in the Engineering Branch. He retired 16 August 1963. There are very few entries relating to his time as a Gunner. Most entries are as Engineer. He was stationed at RAF Stormy Down; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Linton-on-Ouse, RAF Leeming, RAF Aqir, RAF Fayid, RAF Marston Moor, RAF Snaith, RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor, RAF Cottesmore, RAF Finningley, RAF Scampton, RAF Binbrook, RAF Henlow, RAF Seletar, RAF LLandow, RAF Swanton Morley, and RAF Medmenham. He flew in the following types manly as Engineer; Avro Tutor, Armstrong Whitworth Ensign, Handley Page Hannibal, Hawker Hart, Handley Page Heyford, Douglas DC 4 and 5, Handley Page Harrow, Handley Page Halifax, Miles Magister, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, Avro Lancaster, Fairey Battle, Airspeed Oxford, de Havilland Mosquito, Avro Lincoln, Handley Page Hastings, Gloster Meteor, Avro Anson, Vickers Valletta, Vickers Wellington, Percival Prentice, Bristol Britannia and Handley Page Victor. He flew with 10 Squadron, 462 Squadron, 51 Squadron, and 614 Squadron. He was awarded the DFC. His pilots on operations were Warrant Officer Peterson, Flight sergeant Whyte, Warrant Officer O'Driscoll, Sergeant Declerk, Flight Sergeant Clarke, Sergeant Gibbons, Sergeant Wyatt, Flight Lieutenant Freeman, Flight Sergeant McKnight, Pilot Officer Gillchrist, Flight Sergeant Moore, Warrant Officer Skinner, Warrant Officer Faulkner, Flying Officer Carr and Flight Sergeant Espie. War time operations were to Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Cologne, St Nazaire, Kiel, Paris, Aasen Fjord, Tirpitz, Trondheim, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Essen, Osnabruck, Tobruk, Heraklion, Maleme, Lens, Colline Beaumont, Bourg-Leopold, Trappes, Mont Fleury, Abbeville, Nucourt, Le Havre, Boulogne, Gibraltar, Kasfereet. Post war destinations were to RAF Netheravon, RAF Hemswell, RAF Scampton, RAF Lindholme, RAF Marnham, RAF St Eval, RAF Aldergrove, RAF Wyton, RAF Stradishall, RAF Binbrook, RAF Baginton, RAF Waddington, RAF Topcliffe, RAF Upwood, Kai Tak, Changi, RAF Pembrey, RAF Llandow, RAF Filton, and RAF Bruggen.
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Temporal Coverage
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1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1942-02-12
1942-02-14
1942-02-15
1942-02-16
1942-02-22
1942-02-23
1942-02-26
1942-02-27
1942-03-03
1942-03-04
1942-03-30
1942-03-31
1942-04-27
1942-04-28
1942-04-29
1942-05-03
1942-05-04
1942-05-06
1942-05-07
1942-05-19
1942-05-20
1942-05-30
1942-05-31
1942-06-01
1942-06-02
1942-06-03
1942-06-04
1942-06-05
1942-06-19
1942-06-20
1942-06-22
1942-07-11
1942-07-12
1942-07-18
1942-07-19
1942-07-20
1942-07-21
1942-07-24
1942-07-25
1942-09-03
1942-09-15
1942-09-16
1942-09-17
1942-09-18
1942-09-29
1942-09-30
1942-10-05
1942-10-06
1942-10-12
1942-10-13
1942-10-18
1942-10-19
1942-10-23
1942-10-24
1942-10-27
1942-10-29
1942-11-05
1942-11-07
1942-11-23
1943-07-24
1943-07-26
1943-07-27
1943-07-29
1943-08-01
1944-05-10
1944-05-11
1944-05-12
1944-05-27
1944-05-31
1944-06-01
1944-06-06
1944-06-11
1944-06-12
1944-06-23
1944-06-24
1944-07-15
1944-07-17
1944-09-11
1944-09-17
1945-06-19
1944-06-05
1944-07-18
Format
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One booklet
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Germany
Great Britain
Egypt
Middle East--Palestine
Singapore
China--Hong Kong
England--Yorkshire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Rutland
England--Norfolk
England--Bedfordshire
England--Buckinghamshire
England--Wiltshire
England--Cambridgeshire
England--Gloucestershire
England--Cornwall (County)
England--Suffolk
England--Warwickshire
Wales--Carmarthenshire
Belgium
Belgium--Leopoldsburg
Greece--Crete
Greece--Ērakleion
Libya
Libya--Tobruk
Norway
Norway--Trondheim
France
France--Saint-Nazaire
France--Paris
France--Lens
France--Colline-Beaumont
France--Soligny-la-Trappe
France--Abbeville
France--Nucourt
France--Le Havre
France--Boulogne-sur-Mer
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Mannheim
Germany--Essen
Germany--Osnabrück
Germany--Stuttgart
Gibraltar
Norway--Aasen Fjord
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
Northern Ireland
North Africa
France--Ver-Sur-Mer
Scotland--Shetland
China
Greece
Great Britain
Great Britain
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
England--Durham (County)
Greece
Greece--Maleme
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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LManningR52870v1
10 Squadron
1652 HCU
1668 HCU
462 Squadron
51 Squadron
614 Squadron
air gunner
Air Gunnery School
air sea rescue
aircrew
Anson
Battle
bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942)
bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944)
Cook’s tour
Distinguished Flying Cross
flight engineer
Gneisenau
Halifax
Harrow
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lincoln
Magister
Me 110
Meteor
Mosquito
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Oxford
promotion
RAF Aqir
RAF Binbrook
RAF Cottesmore
RAF Filton
RAF Finningley
RAF Hemswell
RAF Henlow
RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor
RAF Honington
RAF Kasfereet
RAF Leeming
RAF Lindholme
RAF Linton on Ouse
RAF Marham
RAF Marston Moor
RAF Medmenham
RAF Middleton St George
RAF Pembrey
RAF Scampton
RAF Snaith
RAF St Eval
RAF Stormy Down
RAF Stradishall
RAF Swanton Morley
RAF Topcliffe
RAF Upwood
RAF Waddington
RAF Wyton
Scharnhorst
tactical support for Normandy troops
Tirpitz
training
V-1
V-weapon
Wellington
Whitley
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Clark, Denise
D Clark
Description
An account of the resource
Seven items including letter of sympathy for loss, photographs of people and squadron personnel as well as reconnaissance photographs of Tripoli.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Denise Clark and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-10-02
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Clark, D
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Title
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Tripoli
Description
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Reconnaissance photograph of harbour area. There are many ships, some of them identified as Anna Maria, Ariosto, Atlas, Bengasi, Beppe, Bosforo, Delia, and Pisani. Five ships have been enclosed by blue line. There is a breakwater along right side. Captioned 'M722, 6.2.42, Tripoli, P41'. On there reverse 'Tripoli'.
Date
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1942-02-06
Format
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One b/w photograph
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PClarkD1506, PClarkD1507
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Libya
Libya--Tripoli
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1942-02-06
Conforms To
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Geolocated
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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.
aerial photograph
reconnaissance photograph
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Clark, Denise
D Clark
Description
An account of the resource
Seven items including letter of sympathy for loss, photographs of people and squadron personnel as well as reconnaissance photographs of Tripoli.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Denise Clark and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Clark, D
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Title
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Tripoli (motor transport dump)
Description
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Reconnaissance photograph with a shoreline running from bottom left to middle right with sea at top and land below. Buildings cover the land; military storehouses near Via Cannizzaro e Via Giuseppe Colombo are outlined in blue. Captioned 'M702 22.1.42 Mellaha, Tripoli'. On the reverse 'Tripoli (Motor Transport Dump)'.
Date
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1942-01-22
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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PClarkD1504, PClarkD1505
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Royal Air Force
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Libya
Libya--Tripoli
North Africa
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1942-01-22
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Geolocated
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IBCC Digital Archive
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aerial photograph
reconnaissance photograph
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Wrigley, James
J Wrigley
Description
An account of the resource
27 items. The collection concerns James Wrigley (1920 - 2010, 1029740 Royal Air Force) and contains an interview with his widow, Alice Wrigley, photographs, his log book, decorations, and a photograph album of his service in the UK and and Far East. The collection also contains a log book made out to Rascal, his mascot or lucky charm. James Wrigley completed 47 operations as a wireless operator with 97 and 635 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Susan Higgins and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-07-09
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Wrigley, J
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Arab with two camels
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A postcard of an arab leading two camels on a sandy desert. Behind are palm trees. On the reverse is a message to James Wrigley's wife.
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One printed postcard with handwritten message.
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eng
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Photograph
Text
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PWrigleyJ1716, PWrigleyJ1717
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Civilian
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Libya
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Wrigley, James. Album
Description
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Photograph album containing 51 photographs of James Wrigley's family, training and post war service in the United States and the Far East with 97 Squadron.
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Wrigley, J
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2017-07-09
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Sergeants Mess Abingdon and Tripoli
Description
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Photograph 1 is a group of airmen drinking beer, captioned 'Sgt's Mess, Abingdon, 1945.'
Photograph 2 is the roofs of Tripoli, captioned 'Tripoli-Libya Old Town . 1955'
Date
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1945
1955
Format
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Two b/w photographs from an album
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PWrigleyJ17040018
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Libya
England--Oxfordshire
Libya--Tripoli
North Africa
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1945
1955
aircrew
mess
RAF Abingdon
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Interview with Leontina Giovanetti
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Leontina Giovanetti (b. 1913) reminisces about her early life with three sisters, her father who was a typographer and photographer and her mother a house-wife. Describes musical training at the Milan conservatory, stressing the demanding attitude of her teachers, and praises her mother who was prepared to endure many hardships so to give a proper education to all her daughters. Describes briefly the 1918 flu pandemic, when she was quarantined, and remembers daily life in post-war Milan: hard life, class and gender divide, rigid upbringing and strict discipline were tempered by widespread solidarity and appreciation for music. Talks about her career as a performer in casinos and cafés; while she was in Rome she listened to Benito Mussolini’s addresses and was impressed by his command of public speaking. Leontina met her husband in Bengasi while under contract as a performer but left the colony at the start of the war while pregnant. Describes the bombing of Milan, mentions the resistance of her son to go down into the shelter and the tense atmosphere inside, where people patiently waited for the all clear signal. Mentions a Jew hidden by her father and recounts wartime anecdotes about the town of Pievepelago: draft-dodgers and close links with emigrants to America. Discusses the morality of bombing.
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Zeno Gaiaschi
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2018-08-13
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00:41:58 audio recording
Language
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ita
Type
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Sound
Coverage
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Civilian
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Italy
Italy--Po River Valley
Italy--Rome
Italy--Milan
Libya
North Africa
Libya--Banghāzī
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IBCC Digital Archive
Lapsus. Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo
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AGiovanettiJL180813
PGiovanettiJL1801
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Pending OH transcription
bombing
entertainment
faith
home front
Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)
perception of bombing war
shelter
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Title
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-09-06
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Valentine, JRM
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Start of transcription
Lido
Wed. 26.11.41
My darling Johnnie,
I wonder what is happening to you today – probably you are simply waiting about, as usual. Though maybe important things are happening and the next months or even years being decided for us. Anyway, I do hope they operate on you, whatever the effect may be on your flying career, because a thing like that can become really dangerous if neglected too long. All my thoughts and best wishes are with
[page break]
2.
you, my own darling husband.
This morning I received your letter with P.O.’s for 30/- and a tirade on Peter. I can and will deal with the former, for which many thanks, but as to the latter, there is not much I can say. It’s alright for you, you can simply dislike and despise him, and leave it at that. But I can’t however much I may share your feelings about the military service question, because he’s my brother, and while Mother is away I feel I have more than a sister’s duty towards him. So
[page break]
3.
please try not to bring the subject up again, because it only puts me in a most uncomfortable position, which I can do nothing about. It is not [underlined] my [/underlined] duty to urge him to join up, and I’m not going to say anything about it, altho’ of course I should be very pleased if he did.
A parcel arrived yesterday from Auntie Mary containing a pair of socks for you. I have written to thank her and have sent a photo of Frances in her christening gown. I explained that you couldn’t write just now as you were going into
[page break]
4.
hospital, but perhaps you cold drop her a line later.
Frances has blotted her copybook properly over this weighing business. She has gone [underlined] back [/underlined] to 20 lbs this week, from 20 lbs. 3 oz. It may, of course, be her tooth, which is [underlined] almost [/underlined] through. I’m really going to try to take her to a clinic as soon as I can. Yesterday & today I gave her spinach for lunch, & today she really took it quite well, so that’s a minor triumph.
I had already taken your shoe to be repaired. The man didn’t say much but accepted it philosophically.
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5.
The milkman has let me have 3 pts both yesterday & today, which is very decent of him. He asks me to pay cash for one pint so that he needn’t book it, otherwise the management might reduce his surplus supply, if they say he was letting me have 3 pts.
My WAAF is going on 7-days leave next Monday. She’s married & her husband is with the army in the middle east. I’m getting awfully nervous about this great battle in [deleted] Ly [/deleted] Libya. It’ll certainly be very important if we win it, but I’m afraid we’re suffering heavy casualties.
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6.
I’m longing to hear from you & to know what they’ve decided to do to and with you, if anything. I do so hope you’ll ring me up if you get an opportunity.
With all my love and best wishes
Yours for always
[underlined] Ursula [/underlined]
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Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Description
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Writes hoping they operate on him whatever the effect on his flying career. Thanks him for money and complains about his poor view of her brother's unwillingness to join up. Continues with gossip and baby news. Concludes with domestic news and that she is concerned over war news of battle in Libya.
Date
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1941-11-26
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Six page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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EValentineUMValentineJRM411126
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Libya
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1941-11-26
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Ursula Valentine
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Title
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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
Date
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2016-04-18
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Description
An account of the resource
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 March 2007
Description
An account of the resource
The news-sheet of the RAF ex-POW Association. This edition covers the award of an OBE to the Association's President, the Prisoners of War memorial at Hendon, Trooping the Colour, the annual parade of the Air Cadets, a visit to RAF Cranwell, Lunches, the Long March Re-enacted, the retirement of Robbie Stewart, an obituary for Frank Harper, requests for lost friends, Book reviews, and Recco report on ex-POWs
Creator
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The RAF ex-POW Association
Date
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2007-03
Format
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16 printed sheets
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-010
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
United States Army Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
England--Hampshire
England--High Wycombe
Germany--Hannover
Germany--Mannheim
Malta
Germany--Duisburg
Belgium--Antwerp
Belgium--Brussels
Germany--Luckenwalde
Poland--Żagań
North Africa
Libya--Banghāzī
Poland
Libya
Germany
Belgium
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
England--Buckinghamshire
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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102 Squadron
103 Squadron
138 Squadron
139 Squadron
150 Squadron
18 Squadron
207 Squadron
32 Squadron
50 Squadron
625 Squadron
7 Squadron
77 Squadron
78 Squadron
83 Squadron
9 Squadron
97 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
Anson
Blenheim
bomb aimer
ditching
Dulag Luft
flight engineer
Halifax
Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984)
Hurricane
Ju 88
Lancaster
Me 109
memorial
mine laying
navigator
Pathfinders
pilot
prisoner of war
RAF Cosford
RAF Cranwell
RAF Halton
RAF Marham
RAF Northolt
RAF St Eval
RAF Wittering
Red Cross
Special Operations Executive
Stalag Luft 3
Stalag Luft 4
Stalag Luft 7
Stirling
the long march
Typhoon
Wellington
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Title
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Curnock, Richard
Richard Murdock Curnock
R M Curnock
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Curnock, RM
Date
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2016-04-18
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Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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The Kriegie July 1999
Description
An account of the resource
The News-Sheet of the RAF ex-POW Association. This edition has news on the Annual General Meeting, visits to RAF Henlow and Stafford, Remembrance Sunday, Recco Report -stories about former POWs, a cartoon on Precision bombing, 1939, requests for donations to Albrighton's church bells, The Great Escape documentary, Obituaries, reunions of the East Anglian and North West and North Wales branches, the Caterpillar club, the Associations new web pages, RCAF Memorial at Trenton, Book reviews, the Ottawa reunion, new members and widow's lists and the Association's accounts.
Creator
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The RAF ex-POW Association
Date
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1999-07
Format
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16 printed sheets
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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MCurnockRM1815605-171114-006
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Australian Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Stafford
England--Leeds
Australia
Victoria--Melbourne
New South Wales--Sydney
Belgium
Queensland--Gold Coast
England--Leicester
United States
Georgia--Andersonville
England--Northampton
England--Snettisham
England--Letchworth
Ontario--Trenton
Germany--Berlin
Ontario--Ottawa
North Africa
France--Boulogne-sur-Mer
Québec--Montréal
Libya--Banghāzī
Victoria
France
Georgia
New South Wales
Queensland
Libya
Ontario
Québec
Canada
Germany
England--Norfolk
England--Northamptonshire
England--Yorkshire
England--Herefordshire
England--Leicestershire
England--Staffordshire
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IBCC Digital Archive
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149 Squadron
207 Squadron
460 Squadron
49 Squadron
58 Squadron
aircrew
bale out
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Caterpillar Club
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Flying Medal
Dulag Luft
escaping
flight engineer
George Cross
Halifax
Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984)
Hurricane
Ju 88
Lancaster
Me 109
memorial
mine laying
navigator
prisoner of war
RAF Bridgnorth
RAF Cosford
RAF Halton
RAF Linton on Ouse
RAF Pocklington
RAF Spilsby
RAF St Eval
RAF West Freugh
Spitfire
Stalag Luft 1
Stalag Luft 3
Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953)
Stirling
Whitley
wireless operator
wireless operator / air gunner