Telegram date stamped 21 June 1942 giving Keith Tompson's father his new address, No1 Manning Depot, Toronto.
Canada Steamship Lines brochure and timetable for boats between Buffalo and Toronto on Lake Ontario.
Aeronautical map of Lake Ontario.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Map]]> Civilian]]> Canada]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> North America--Niagara Falls]]> Ontario]]> 1942]]>
Jack Jones is front row, third from right.

#1 On the reverse -
'Would you like an orange mum - or maybe a banana - perhaps a tea, eh!
I'm Squad leader of this mob.
My boys! as it were
Chap on my left is Lambert. the one right at the back is Wardlaw. 2 of my mates.
Happy Xmas.
Picton'.
# 2 On the reverse -
'Oranges & bananas
You can almost taste them - or would you prefer a cup of tea?'
#3 On the reverse are the men's signatures and last three digits of their service number.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.]]>
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Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Ontario--Picton]]> Ontario]]>
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Photo 2 is an engine coming on the other line, viewed from the carriage window.
Photo 3 is a Canadian Pacific locomotive, captioned 'Note size of man in front of engine'.
Photo 4 is the train stopped and airmen standing in the snow by a carriage.
Photo 5 is a view of the train rounding a bend.
Photo 6 is the front of a locomotive.
Photo 7 is the train stopped at a station, captioned 'The beginning of the prairie'.
Photo 8 is a historic locomotive 'Countess of Dufferin' at Winnipeg.]]>
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Identification kindly provided by Jeff Picka, Steve Lucas, Rob Sterne, Mike Bolen, John Kanakos, Joe Cushing and Brian Helliwell.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Geolocated]]> Cushway, Arthur. Ontario aerial photographs]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Ontario--Bayham (Municipality)]]>
The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Foskett, William. Biography]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Shellingford]]> United States]]> Georgia--Atlanta]]> Georgia--Macon]]> Georgia--Albany]]> Florida--Arcadia]]> Canada]]> Ontario--Picton]]> Ontario]]> France]]> France--Biarritz]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> France--Gennevilliers]]> Germany--Kiel]]> France--Saumur]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Goes]]> Netherlands--Hoek van Holland]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Ostfriesland]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> France--Wissembourg]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Netherlands--Heerenveen]]> Germany--Traben-Trarbach]]> Germany--Fischbach]]> France--Bischwiller]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Gladbeck]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Italy]]> Italy--Udine]]> England--Newquay]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> Slovenia--Log pod Mangartom]]> Slovenia]]> Germany]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Foskett, William. Biography]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Gourock]]> India]]> England--London]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Shellingford]]> United States]]> Georgia--Cochran]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Ontario--Picton]]> Served at Picton and Port Albert in Ontario, RAF Millom, RAF Harwell, RAF Sculthorpe.
Aircraft flown were Anson, Bolingbroke, Battle, Wellington, Stirling, B17.

Bill flew a total of 36 operations with 214 Squadron, only one of which was a day operation. The targets included Frisian Islands, Karlsruhe, Gennevilliers, Kiel, Brunswick, Saumur, Aulnoye, Gelsenkirchen, Goes, Stuttgart, Russelsheim, off Denmark, off Emden, Darmstadt, Wissembourg, Heereveen, Traben-Trarbach, Fischbach, Bischwiller, Bochum, Cologne & Mannheim, Essen, Saarbruken, Koblenz & Gladbeck, Mönchengladbach, Krefeld, Dortmund Ems Canal, Giessen.
His pilot for his first operation was Flight Sergeant Gilbert and his second, Squadron Leader Jeffries. For the rest of his operations his pilot was Flying Officer Corke.
During operations he fulfilled the role of bomb aimer, air gunner and second navigator at various times. As well as bombing carried out a number of Window, Mandrel and Big Ben Special Duties operations.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Ontario--Cambridge]]> Bill Thomas]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Karl Williams]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland]]> Wales]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Wales--Aberystwyth]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway]]> New Brunswick]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Ontario]]> Ontario--Belleville]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending review]]> Physical object]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> Ontario--Trenton]]> Ontario]]> Three photographs of a burning aircraft captioned 'Fighting the fire.', 'Where there is smoke there is fire.' and 'Almost under control'.
The fourth clearly of a wrecked Bolingbroke, 'The fire is out'.]]>
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