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Wright, Jim
J R Wright
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2015-05-21
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Wright, J
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93 items. The collection contains two oral history interviews with Jim Wright, letters, cuttings and photographs. It concerns James Roy Wright’s research into his father, Sergeant Arthur Charles Wright (1911 - 1943, 1149750 Royal Air Force) and an operation to Turin 12/13 July 1943 which caused 100 aircraft to violate Swiss airspace. Two aircraft were shot down or crashed in Switzerland. There are many photographs and details of the activities that night including reports by the Swiss authorities. The crews are identified with photographs and there are several photographs of the funerals at Vevey. Additional material includes aerial photograph of bomb damage in Germany and the logbook and airman's pay book of W G Anderson. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Jim Wright and catalogued by Nigel Huckins, with descriptions of official Swiss documents provided Gilvray Williams. <br /><br />Additional information on Arthur Charles Wright is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/126015/">IBCC Losses Database</a>. This collection also contains items concerning Hugh Burke Bolger and his crew. Additional information on Hugh Burke Bolger is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/102186/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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Arthur Wright in sidcot suit
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1942-07
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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SWrightAC1149750v20134, SWrightAC1149750v20135
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Royal Air Force
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South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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1942-07
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Arthur Wright standing in his Sidcot suit holding his flying helmet. Captioned ' With love & happy memories Arthur'. On the reverse 'To Henry + Lil From Arthur Port Elizabeth S.A. July 1942'.
aircrew
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Neale, Ted
E T H Neale
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123 items. The collection concerns Edward Thomas Henry Neale (b. 1922, 1395951 Royal Air Force) who served as a navigator with 37 Squadron in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. The collection contains his training notebooks from South Africa as well as propaganda leaflets dropped by the allies in the Mediterranean theatre.
The collection also contains a photograph album, navigation logs and target photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alison Neale and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-07-31
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Neale, ETH
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Astro Observation Exercise Book
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An exercise book kept by Ted Neale with his observations and calculations used in astro-observations, No 19 AN, 42 Air School, Port Elizabeth.
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Ted Neale
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1943-08-23
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One printed exercise book with handwritten calculations
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eng
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MNealeETH1395951-150731-029
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Royal Air Force
South African Air Force
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South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1943
aircrew
navigator
training
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Neale, Ted
E T H Neale
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An account of the resource
123 items. The collection concerns Edward Thomas Henry Neale (b. 1922, 1395951 Royal Air Force) who served as a navigator with 37 Squadron in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. The collection contains his training notebooks from South Africa as well as propaganda leaflets dropped by the allies in the Mediterranean theatre.
The collection also contains a photograph album, navigation logs and target photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alison Neale and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-07-31
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Neale, ETH
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S.A. AIR FORCE
S.A. LUGMAG
[underlined] D.R. [/underlined]
Theory
EXERCISE BOOK
OEFENBOEK
E. Neale.
FOR USE IN
VIR GEBRUIK BY
AIR FORCE TRAINING SCHOOLS
LUGMAGSKOLE
[page break]
[underlined] Analysis of Air Exercises. [/underlined]
1/.
To determine the standard of accuracy of air navigation to which it is possible to rely.
2/. To isolate those errors of which errors can be practically eliminated by training & practice.
To fly from one point to another the navigator makes various calculations from which the E.T.A at the terminal point, the difference between the position that he finishes up & his destination is the nett error of the flight (the final error.) It is necessary therefore for the purposed of analysis an accurate pinpoint is obtained at or near E.T.A.
There are several errors to be taken into consideration, the result of these may be cumulative or may partially or wholly cancel one another out. Thus the final error in
[page break]
itself may not provide a reliable guide as to the accuracy of navigation.
Analysis must be made to determine the several errors individually, the sum of these errors named the cumulative error shows the error that would have been obtained in the most unfortunate circumstances with the errors operating in the same direction & sense. Examination of the cumulative error provides an average figure which may be taken as a guife to the accuracy of any particular crew, when on recco it may be taken as an indication of the accuracy of the sighting report from that crew, or whilst on a bombing sortie the ability to find their way to the target area.
[page break]
[underlined] The errors are divided into the following groups. [/underlined]
1/. [underlined] Calculation error [/underlined] due to incorrect plotting, calculation of courses to steer, times to alter course & E.T.A’s etc.
2/. [underlined] Wind change error. [/underlined] caused by the wind velocity(s) used by the navigator not being the true wind velocity(s) affecting the A/C
3/. The other error
Composed of errors due to incorrect piloting, faulty instruments etc.
[diagram]
[page break]
[diagram]
From the geographical point of departure the actual courses steered are laid off for distance corresponding to the T.A.S & time on each course. The final air position is called A. From A lay in W/Velocities used by plotting directions for distances corresponding to the Wind speed & time that each W/V is used, this position is B. then calculation error is B – X. X being proposed terminal point of flight. From A lay in W/V as above, this point is called C. BC is then wind change error. Plot actual posn of A/C on E.T.A. (D) DC is then other error. DX is final error.
[underlined] points to be noted. [/underlined]
1/.
Air Speed used must be T.A.S. i.e. check comparison of I.A.S.
2/. Time must be accurately noted.
3/ Errors are determined by measurement of distances on the plot, these errors are then expressed as a percentage of the total air distance flown, in order to provide a standard to compare navigation.
[underlined] Results of Analysis. [/underlined]
1/. It provides a standard of accuracy that can be relied on by a particular crew, this being an average of the acumulation [sic] errors on a number of flights.
2/. It shows any particular error which it may
[page break]
be possible to eliminate by further practice on the part of navigator & pilot ie inability to calculate W/V’s or steer courses.
[underlined] Accepted Standard of accuracy for A/C of Reconnaisance [sic] Type (ie Anson). [/underlined]
[table]
[diagram]
[page break]
[underlined] RUNNING FIX. BY Co & A.S. [/underlined]
Bomber Command method.
The advantage of this method is that it can be used to give an accurate running fix when TRACK & G/S are either unknown or not known with sufficient accuracy to give a good fix. i.e. when flying over the sea & unable to check drift. Whilst flying in or above cloud, while flying on a dark night. On these occasions track & g/s would not be known accurately, but the CO & a/s would be known.
[underlined] NOTE. [/underlined]
THIS METHOD CAN ONLY BE USED IF THERE HAS BEEN NO ALTERATION OF COURSE OR T.A.S SINCE LAST FIX OR PIN POINT.
CONSTRUCTION (A)
From last FIX or P.P. draw on Co (T) & mark in Air Posns for times of Posn lines (bearings) (D&E). From (A) draw any line A-B
[page break]
to cut the first Posn line at [underlined] C. [/underlined] Join D-C, through E draw a parallel to D-C to cut A-B at F. then F is the point through which to transfer 1st Posn line. If 3 posn lines are used first transfer 1st Posn line to last & then second Posn line to last.
[underlined] NOTE. [/underlined]
The accuracy of this method depends to some extent on the angle between the course & the line [underlined] AB [/underlined] which should be in the nature of 10 - 15. The D.R. track may be used as line A – B if the D – R drift is sufficiently large ie angle between Co & AB large enough.
[page break]
[diagram]
Line of radius of action can be calculated from a formula, or by putting ground speed out against ground speed home on back of computor, then looking for two numbers opposite each other on outer & inner scale the sum of which equals the duration of the flight in minutes. Point to turn is found by measuring distance calculated from G/S out and time for radius of action.
[page break]
[underlined] Radius of Action to Second or Moving Base [/underlined]
[diagram]
[page break]
[page break]
[calculations]
[page break]
[calculations]
[page break]
[calculations]
[page break]
[calculations]
[page break]
6/. Go to crew room & check up on small notices published in your absence, particularly your next standby.
[underlined] Bombing Recco [/underlined]
1/. Exact location.
2/. Layout of TARGET.
3/. Vulnerability.
4/. Damage done in previous raid.
5/. Tactical information.
a/. The visibility of the TARGET from different angles of APPROACH.
B/. Landmarks as an aid to low level attacks.
c/. Landmarks as an aid to night attack
d/. Enemy defences, fighters & A-A
e/. Met Information
[page break]
[table]
[underlined] PROCEDURE AFTER FLIGHT. [/underlined]
1/.
Aircraft met by NCO photographer. Hand to him your camera magazine & note of no of exposures & light conditions over target.
2/. Report immediately to the Ops room taking with you Forms 401 & 441 your maps & all notes made in the air.
3/. You are interrogated by S.I.O. & may here discuss verbally any assumption
4/. Sign & hand in forms 401 & 441
5/. Complete & sign photographic report, bombing report (BA), combat report (PILOT)
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D R Theory Exercise Book
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An exercise book kept by Ted Neale recording notes about navigation theory. Training notes covering Dead Reckoning calculations and corrections, and post flight procedures.
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Ted Neale
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One exercise book with handwritten notes
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eng
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MNealeETH1395951-150731-030
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Royal Air Force
South African Air Force
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South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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IBCC Digital Archive
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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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1943
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1943
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Frank Batten
aircrew
navigator
training
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Edwards, Ellis
E D Edwards
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Six items. The collection concerns Sergeant Ellis Drury Edwards (1236492 Royal Air Force) and consists of his logbook, memorial booklet and four letters. Ellis Edwards was a bomb aimer with 149 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Lakenheath. He was killed when his Halifax crashed on an operation to Berlin 30 March 1943. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pauline Harkett and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br />Additional information on Ellis Edwards is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/208271/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-17
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Edwards, ED
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Ellis Edwards’ South African Air Force observers or air gunners log book
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South African Air Force observers or air gunners log book for Ellis Edwards, bomb aimer, covering the period from 9 February 1942 to 29 March 1943 when he was missing in action on an operation to Berlin. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at SAAF Port Elizabeth, RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Stradishall and RAF Lakenheath. Aircraft flown in were, Blenheim, Battle, Anson, Oxford, Wellington and Stirling. He flew a total of 11 night operations with 149 squadron. Targets were, Lorient, Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg, Essen, Bordeaux, Stuttgart and Berlin. <span>His pilot on operations was</span><span> </span>Pilot Officer Fulton.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Mike Connock
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One booklet
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LEdwardsED1236492v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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France
Germany
Great Britain
South Africa
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
England--Suffolk
France--Lorient
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Essen
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Scotland--Lossiemouth
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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1942
1943
149 Squadron
aircrew
Anson
Battle
Blenheim
bomb aimer
Heavy Conversion Unit
killed in action
mine laying
missing in action
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
RAF Lakenheath
RAF Lossiemouth
RAF Stradishall
Stirling
training
Wellington
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Royall, George
G Royall
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Royall, G
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46 items. An oral history interview with Warrant Officer George Royall (1801494 Royal Air Force) his flying log book, photographs, correspondence, course notes, examinations, newspapers and parts of magazines. He served as a bomb aimer on 166 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by George Royall and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2015-07-20
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Envelope
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Front and back of an envelope, addressed to George Royall and having been redirected several times. Includes postmarks.
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1943-03-01
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1943-03-01
1943-04-06
1943-05-03
1943-05-31
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Canada
Ontario
Ontario--Ottawa
Great Britain
England--London
England--Manchester
South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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Royal Air Force
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eng
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Text
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Handwritten envelope
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E[Author]RoyallGL430301-Env
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Royall, George
G Royall
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Royall, G
Description
An account of the resource
46 items. An oral history interview with Warrant Officer George Royall (1801494 Royal Air Force) his flying log book, photographs, correspondence, course notes, examinations, newspapers and parts of magazines. He served as a bomb aimer on 166 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by George Royall and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2015-07-20
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George Royall's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
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eng
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One booklet
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Pending review
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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LRoyalGL1801494v1
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George Royall's log book, detailing his RAF flying from September 1943 to November 1945. It records his training as an observer, gunner and bomb aimer, initially at 48 and 42 Air Schools in South Africa. It then records his flying training with 8 Observer Advanced Flying Unit at RAF Mona, 10 Operational Training Unit at RAF Abingdon and finally 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit at RAF Sandtoft. His log book then records his flying with 166 Squadron at RAF Kirmington. This comprises nine bombing operations to Germany, numerous training and practice sorties in Britain and three round trips for Operation Dodge. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Mansfield.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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Terry Hancock
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
England--Brigg
England--Crowle
England--Oxfordshire
England--Oxford
Wales--Anglesey
Germany
Germany--Giessen (Hesse)
Germany--Hanau
Germany--Hannover
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Germany--Paderborn
South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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1943-09
1943-10
1943-11
1943-12
1944
1945
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1945-11-06
10 OTU
166 Squadron
1667 HCU
Advanced Flying Unit
air gunner
aircrew
Anson
bomb aimer
bombing
Cook’s tour
Halifax
Heavy Conversion Unit
Ju 88
Lancaster
observer
Operation Dodge (1945)
Operation Exodus (1945)
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
RAF Abingdon
RAF Kirmington
RAF Mona
RAF Sandtoft
training
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1415/26748/LWarrenGC1580687v1.2.pdf
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Warren, George
George Clarence Warren
G C Warren
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2019-08-13
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Warren, GC
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47 items. The collection concerns Flying Officer George Warren (162041 Royal Air Force) he flew operations as a navigator with 626 Squadron until he was killed <span>16 March 1945 on an operation to Nürnberg. The collection contains his log book, correspondence and photographs.</span><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Harris and Vanessa Hibbert and catalogued by Barry Hunter. <br /><br />Additional information on George Warren is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/124450/ ">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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George Warren’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
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Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for G C Warren, navigator, covering the period from 25 August 1943 to 16 March 1945, when he failed to return from an operation to Nuremburg. He was stationed at SAAF Port Elizabeth, SAAF East London, RAF Millom, RAF Peplow, RAF Sandtoft, RAF Hemswell, and RAF Wickenby. Aircraft flown in were Anson, Audax, Hind, Wellington, Halifax, and Lancaster. He flew a total of 19 operations with 626 squadron, 2 Daylight and 17 night operations. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Cox. Targets were Essen, Ludwigshafen, Ulm, Bonn, Gelsenkirchen, Munich, Wiesbaden, Cleves, Dresden, Chemnitz, Duisburg, Pforzheim, Dessau, Kassel, Dortmund, and Nuremburg.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Contributor
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Mike Connock
Cara Walmsley
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
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LWarrenGC1580687v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Great Britain
South Africa
England--Cumbria
England--Lincolnshire
England--Shropshire
Germany--Bonn
Germany--Chemnitz
Germany--Dessau (Dessau)
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Dresden
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Essen
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Kassel
Germany--Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Germany--Munich
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Pforzheim
Germany--Ulm
Germany--Wiesbaden
South Africa--East London
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Temporal Coverage
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1943
1944
1945
1944-12-12
1944-12-15
1944-12-17
1944-12-28
1944-12-29
1945-01-02
1945-01-03
1945-01-07
1945-01-08
1945-02-01
1945-02-02
1945-02-03
1945-02-07
1945-02-13
1945-02-14
1945-02-15
1945-02-21
1945-02-22
1945-02-23
1945-02-24
1945-03-07
1945-03-08
1945-03-09
1945-03-11
1945-03-12
1945-03-16
1667 HCU
626 Squadron
83 OTU
Advanced Flying Unit
Air Observers School
aircrew
Anson
bombing
bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945)
Halifax
Heavy Conversion Unit
killed in action
Lancaster
Lancaster Finishing School
missing in action
navigator
Operational Training Unit
RAF Hemswell
RAF Millom
RAF Peplow
RAF Sandtoft
RAF Wickenby
training
Wellington
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1792/45129/LWilsonH1342819v1.2.pdf
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Wilson, Harold
H Wilson
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-01-09
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Wilson, H
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24 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Harold Wilson DFM (Royal Air Force) who flew two tours completing 45 operations as a bomb aimer on 9 and 97 squadrons. Collection contains an identity document, a letter, his flying log book, a memoir and photographs (including some while he was a member of a missing research and enquiry unit in Germany after the war).
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Armstrong and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Harold Wilson's flying log book
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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LWilsonH1342819v1
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Harold Wilson’s Flying Log Book from 28/11/42 to 2/4/54, detailing training, operations and instructional duties as an Air Bomber (and later Navigator). Also contains various memorabilia including a photograph, reunion invitation and newspaper clipping about the award of the DFM. Based at: Port Elizabeth (42 Air School), Jurby (No. 5 Air Observer School), RAF Cottesmore, RAF Saltby, RAF Market Harborough (all No. 14 Operational Training Unit), RAF Wigsley (No. 1654 Conversion Unit), RAF Bardney (No. 9 Squadron), RAF Warboys (PFF Navigation Training Unit), RAF Coningsby (No. 97 Squadron), RAF Manby (Empire Air Armament School), RAF Swinderby (No. 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit and 201 Advanced Flying School), RAF Middleton St George (No. 2 Air Navigation School), RAF Scampton (No. 230 Operational Training Unit), RAF North Luffenham (No. 240 Operational Training Unit), RAF Oakington (No. 30 Squadron), RAF Perth (No. 11 Reserve Flying School). Aircraft flown: Anson, Oxford, Blenheim, Wellington, Halifax, Lancaster, Dakota.
Records a total of 45 operations (42 night, 3 day) with 9 and 97 Squadron. Targets in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands are: Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Stettin, Brunswick, Magdeburg, Stuttgart, Schweinfurt, Augsburg, Marignane, Munich, Clermont Ferrand, Toulouse, Louailles, Annecy, Amiens, Maisy, St. Pierre du Mont, Argentan, Rennes, Poitiers, Greil (Saint-Leu-d'Esserent), Culmont Chalindrey, Nevers, Courtrai, Donges, Givors, Brest, Deelen Airfield, Bordeaux, Darmstadt and Konigsberg.
His pilot on all operations was F/O Lasham.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Format
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One colour photocopy
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Leitch
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Belgium
France
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
South Africa
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay
Belgium--Kortrijk
England--Cambridgeshire
England--Durham (County)
England--Huntingdonshire
England--Leicestershire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Rutland
France--Amiens
France--Annecy
France--Argentan
France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
France--Brest
France--Calvados
France--Clermont-Ferrand
France--Donges
France--Givors
France--Haute-Marne
France--Marignane
France--Nevers
France--Oise
France--Poitiers
France--Rennes
France--Sablé-sur-Sarthe
France--Toulouse
Germany--Augsburg
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Braunschweig
Germany--Darmstadt
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)
Germany--Leipzig
Germany--Magdeburg
Germany--Munich
Germany--Schweinfurt
Poland--Szczecin
Germany--Stuttgart
Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man
Netherlands--Gelderland
Scotland--Perth
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
Temporal Coverage
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1942
1943-12-02
1943-12-03
1943-12-16
1943-12-17
1943-12-20
1943-12-23
1944-01-05
1944-01-14
1944-01-21
1944-01-22
1944-01-27
1944-01-28
1944-02-15
1944-02-16
1944-02-19
1944-02-20
1944-02-24
1944-02-25
1944-02-26
1944-03-01
1944-03-02
1944-03-09
1944-03-10
1944-03-15
1944-03-16
1944-04-22
1944-04-23
1944-04-24
1944-04-25
1944-04-26
1944-04-27
1944-04-29
1944-04-30
1944-05-01
1944-05-02
1944-05-06
1944-05-07
1944-05-09
1944-05-10
1944-05-19
1944-05-20
1944-05-31
1944-06-01
1944-06-06
1944-06-07
1944-06-08
1944-06-09
1944-06-12
1944-06-13
1944-07-04
1944-07-05
1944-07-12
1944-07-13
1944-07-15
1944-07-16
1944-07-20
1944-07-21
1944-07-24
1944-07-25
1944-07-26
1944-08-11
1944-08-12
1944-08-13
1944-08-14
1944-08-15
1944-08-16
1944-08-17
1944-08-18
1944-08-25
1944-08-26
1944-08-27
1945
1946
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
14 OTU
1654 HCU
1660 HCU
9 Squadron
97 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
Blenheim
bomb aimer
bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944)
bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944)
bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944)
C-47
Cook’s tour
Distinguished Service Medal
Halifax
Halifax Mk 2
Heavy Conversion Unit
Initial Training Wing
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
Lancaster Mk 3
memorial
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
Pathfinders
RAF Bardney
RAF Bourn
RAF Coningsby
RAF Cottesmore
RAF Jurby
RAF Manby
RAF Market Harborough
RAF Middleton St George
RAF North Luffenham
RAF Oakington
RAF Saltby
RAF Scampton
RAF Swinderby
RAF Warboys
RAF Wigsley
training
Wellington
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Royall, George
G Royall
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Royall, G
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46 items. An oral history interview with Warrant Officer George Royall (1801494 Royal Air Force) his flying log book, photographs, correspondence, course notes, examinations, newspapers and parts of magazines. He served as a bomb aimer on 166 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by George Royall and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2015-07-20
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GC: OK, good afternoon. This is Gemma Clapton on behalf of International Bomber Command. I am here with Warrant Officer George Royall and we are going to discuss his role during the war and anything else he would like to tell me. George, please?
GR: OK. Well I’ll start from the time when I volunteered to join the RAF and I wanted to go into air crew and this meant that I had to go up to London and have all the tests for mathematics and educational tests and then it went on to physical tests to see if you would pass OK from the health point of view, and then an interview with a number of officers to find out what your interests were, what you wanted to do in the Air Force, and air crew and like most people the first thing I wanted to do was be a pilot. They decided that they‘d have to check. I had to sit with my back to wall and put my legs out on the floor and there in front of me about a foot away was a brass bar and as my feet didn’t reach that distance I was not able to be considered as a pilot. They then looked at the results of the tests that I’d done and the medical and the educational side and decided they could offer me a post as — at that time it was a plural (?). So I accepted that. I was very keen to get into the Air Force and they said I’d have to wait a couple of months so I had a little badge to say I was on deferred service so that there were no white feathers coming my way while I’m waiting and then in due course I received my papers to say to report to London to start training as air crew. I was err, there two or three weeks, again being kitted out with uniform and various other bits and pieces and a few inoculations and some drill from the sergeants to see if they could smarten us up a bit so that we could walk smartly in our uniforms and then I was then posted to ITW which is Initial Training Wing test so where you do your navigation and all that what was required on that side, mathematics again, studying the stars and it takes about three months, all we were doing was navigation and map reading and the physical testing that you have to do and um, that was quite interesting because I was at Stratford on Avon was my ITW and err, the people there were brilliant and also it was the home of the, Stratford on Avon had their big theatre there which they did all the plays by Shakespeare and that, we were allowed to go in as servicemen and have the best seats in the house for one and sixpence. They used to do three plays a week so they were doing one play that night, forgetting the play they did the night before and learning the play they were going to do the next night and it was fantastic and I learned more Shakespeare than I’d ever learned in school. During this time of course we were doing quite a lot of our tests and running around Stratford getting fit. We used to have to do a five mile walk every morning before breakfast and then we would go back to the classrooms and start doing the physical work there, and it was a quite interesting period. There were twenty eight of us on the course and at the end of that time we then were waiting for our postings as the next step. This all took quite a bit of time because there were lot of people volunteering for air crew and there were a number of ah, people in front of us waiting for their turns and so on and so it took some time between, probably a month or six weeks before you could get on to the next course and from then I went down to, I was posted down to Brighton. That was quite an interesting period of time because there were two hotels that were used by the Air Force at the time, one was the Metropole Hotel and the other one was called the Grand Hotel. The Metropole was the one I was in, most of the British servicemen went to the Metropole but the Grand had mostly Polish volunteers that were going through the Air Force routine. A lot of them had escaped or found their way through Germany ahh, to England and were going to move on into the service from there. At that particular time I did have a cold and needed to go into the hospital for a while and by the time I came out from the, that, my other twenty eight, or twenty other members had already been posted so err, Heaton Park which is near Manchester on their way to the next course and I was struggling to try and catch up with them by labouring everybody from the officers right to go after them and I was about three weeks before I could get up to Heaton Park and by the time that happened they’d already moved on. They’d gone to um, I think it was — moved on to Blackpool I think it was they’d gone to there. And so by the time I got to Heaton Park I then had to wait until another two weeks to try and catch them up and I got to Blackpool they’d moved on and been posted to their training place for their wings tests err, and that was it. They went to Canada. These were the air schools [unclear] mainly from either Canada or they did some in America and South Africa and I got to Blackpool and was waiting for my posting to come up. They called out my name and I went to South Africa which was a long way away from where the other people had gone. I was happy because I preferred the warmer countries rather than Canada so I was quite happy and so my next move then was to, the posting, was to Liverpool with all our packs. I had three kitbags and so I packed both back packs and I had to walk from Liverpool Station to the docks to where I picked up the troop ship that was going to take me South Africa and there was quite a lot going on there because they were going to go in, in convoy and so there was naval ships all getting ready to usher us round and so for three days we were just swinging at anchor. Each time we looked out of the portholes of the ship we thought we were at sea but we’d only swung round looking at the main part of the Liverpool Estuary err, but on the third day we then set sail out towards South Africa, and this was a very interesting journey. It took us approximately six weeks travelling and we were mothered by naval rigs and cruisers floating around us every time there was the risk of submarines in the area they would disappear off looking for the submarines while we sailed slowly, moved on because we had ordinary ships with us as well as our ships. There was another troop ship with us and um, we were only doing I suppose about ten knots. We could only go as fast as the slowest ships that was in the convoy which was some old type ships that we were taking various routes backwards and forwards to England and going back and getting some more from wherever. So then we started our trip and we went, we went round, we didn’t go through the um, — can I stop?
GC: Yes. [pause]. OK.
GR: We were not going to go through the Suez Canal we were gonna go round by the Cape so it was a much further journey and also, to try and avoid the submarines that kept appearing in the area, knowing that the troopships were about, we had to go, first of all we steamed North and almost into Iceland before we started to turn to go to the west and then we went west and as UT navigators and that, we were plotting our course and working out the mileage, or being told the mileage the ship had done each day and we realised that we’d gone oh, well north and could have been approaching Canada or American shores before we started to turn south and went south for some weeks before we then eventually went round to Cape Horn and first of all, and then err, before we got to the Cape and we came past [pause] it was Freetown we came down to that side of the East Coast down past Freetown and we pulled into Freetown and the sights were fantastic, the colours, greenery, it was beautiful and blue seas. There were little boats floating about with the Navy that were posted in Freetown and there were WAAFs in their white uniforms and the sailors in their whites, and it was a fantastic sight. Um, people were coming out from the [unclear] to sell their wares and throwing things up to the decks for us to buy, apples and bananas and all that type of thing. We stayed in there overnight, it was very, very hot and we were wearing our khaki [unclear] and had to pull our sleeves down and make sure we didn’t have our shorts on, had our long trousers on, ah, khaki because of the mosquitoes. Very uncomfortable from that point of view, really hot. And then um, the next day we set sail again to carry on and go round to Durban, called in at Durban and, oh before we entered, we stopped at um, the one before, Capetown and a lot of the troops that were on board, they got off at Capetown, I think they were Palestine Police. Got off at Capetown and we then continued the next day on to Durban where we were taken off the ship because the ship was then going on to um, up towards India, in that direction, with troops going further. Ahh, but we came off at Durban and we were put into, a whole group of us, put into a brick buildings. There were no doors or windows so there was plenty of air through and there was — a lot insects all over the place, in the roof and everywhere there was things flying about where we were stopping. It was a bit uncomfortable. We had bunks, metal bunks and err, our three biscuits for our mattress and it held about ooh, thirty or forty of us in this place and it wasn’t very comfortable. But on the wall at the back where my headboard was, there was a Praying Mantis sitting there waiting for any insects to come flying his way, quite interesting. Ugly looking thing it was and so that was that part of the thing. And um, we were gonna to be there for some time as our next move was to be to the air school where would start our flying. But during this time while we were waiting all we had to do was report for duty first thing in the morning and um, some of us were put on fatigues in the mornings, peeling potatoes and things like that and then the rest of the day we were free. We didn’t have to report again until the next morning and so you could wander all over that part of South Africa where the natives lived and into their huts and where they were and um, we were having quite a good time, it was some — interesting. Some were growing bananas and they had quite a lot of things going on like that and I could reach out from where I was and pick bananas as I wanted and it was a very enjoyable period of time. The people there were marvellous, mostly they were people who had left England and went out to South Africa to live and were having their families out there. Some of them had been out there some ten or fifteen years. So it was quite err, and they were quite good to us, took us, if we were walking along the road anywhere cars would come along and stop and ask if we wanted the rest of the day out. They would drive us down to the sea, [unclear] and we’d go swimming, It was a marvellous country really thoroughly enjoyed it. The only drawback was there was the apartheid that was going where the South Africans themselves, um, Boers they were and they were looking after the black people and they segregated blacks and white people and there was a group they called ah, coloureds, the half castes, where black people had married into the white people and there was another sort of generation type of problem going on. So there were problems in that sense but err, for us out there it was quite an enjoyable period of time. [pause] The Boers used to look after the, a lot of the black men were prisoners because they only had to look at a white woman and they’d be accused of raping them and it didn’t take much for them to accuse a black man to end up in prison and they were, while they were in prison they came out every day, they came out and marched in chain gangs through the town and at various places they’d unhook some of these prisoners and they would go and then they would be the workers for the people in that particular house. They would look after the children or do the cooking or cleaning and things like that, they’d move on. And then during [unclear] in that way their houses at the end of the day they’d all be collected, chained up and marched back to prison again, which was not a very pleasant sight. It was part of South Africa which, which was err, a bit disturbing. Of course later on then, nowadays they got rid of the apartheid fortunately, but at that time it was very rampant. And then from then I then got posted to the air school, 48 Air School and we started our flying and we were flying in Ansons aircraft that was mostly used. Ahh, mostly they went to places like South Africa ‘cos you could fly every day, there was no problem weather-wise and there was no Germans anywhere near by so there was nothing to put us off from going up flying every day. So we used to do our navigation and trips and practising air gunnery and all these sort of things and do our ground course as well because we had to learn all about the stars and navigation using, by using the stars as a means of finding a fix and um, [pause] we would do all the ground work that was necessary and be taking our exams from time to time err, until such time as we sat the final exam and if we passed that we then got our wings, which was now as an air bomber because they split the observer trade into two because there was so much problems with earlier bombs not going into Germany, that they weren’t getting close to their targets or they were dropping their bombs miles away from their target so they decided they needed more technical help and needed more staff to operate things like H2S and G and the navigator was left to do the plotting on to the ground course map the course and pass the information to the pilot and the bomb aimer used to do the map reading, operate the G and H2S and the navigator could then do his work easier, a bit easier, with all the calculations because he used to have to plot a fix every six minutes which was [laughter] a pretty horrendous task really and they’d keep changing and working out from the wind directions and from the air speed and a lot of information was being fed to the navigator, some from the pilot giving him speeds and air speeds and the bomb aimer would be passing the information as to when he got fixes across rivers or along the coast line and times of where exactly and accurately put on the navigators plot so he could actually check he was on the course correctly, and um in the event of — We then got our wings and then ready to return back to England but even that was a bit of a problem, there was twenty of us on the course and they decided that there would be, I think it was five, five going back to England and the rest was going to go up to North Africa as they had sufficient on a course so they could be able to be bomb aimers in North Africa where they were going to be up, going to Tobruk where there were British people up, up there. The Germans barricaded them in and the Americans were flying bombing missions trying to bomb the German tanks and they were using pattern bombing and they had about twenty bombers flying over the, at fairly low level and they had a master bomber in the first aircraft and as they, out of the bombers, the bomb aimers they were just going up there not with very much experience they would be flying in the other aircraft and when the master bomber got to the right position, as they were over the top of the German tanks, he would drop the bombs on his and everybody else would drop their bombs so they were plastering the German tanks with bombers from quite low level and it didn’t need a lot of navigation, they just followed the master bomber. So that’s why they went and left five of us to come back to England, which they want us to do that we decided that it, would be a draw, there’d be five crosses in a hat, for us to, those who got the cross would be ones that came back to England. They also found that there were three members of the, who were on the course that were married, and they were automatically going to be sent home, although they’d only got married a week before they got the troop ship to go out, so it wasn’t a lot different to us. So there were only two crosses that were going to be counted. So there were two crosses left in the hat and we just took turns to see who got the cross and I thought well, I went up first because I thought the crosses were in there. If I wait somebody else would get up so I’ll go first and if I fish about I might find it and I did, I was lucky I got a cross and one other man got a cross and that was my passport back home. So that was my, and err, I think we waited about three weeks for the ship to take us back, this time it was a Dutch ship, it was the, it was, we were just going to go back without any cover from the navy at all because it was a ship that could do twenty odd knots and we just came straight back to England. The high speed and was back home after, it took us about three weeks, just under three weeks to go back to England instead of the six weeks it took us going out. So that was my trip to South Africa.
GC: OK, tell me a little bit about station life here, where you were stationed here in England.
GR: Ah, well. Well first of all when I came back from South Africa I had to go to OTU, an operation unit, there was more training to do there and then we went to, that was in North Wales on Anglesey and from there I went to OTU which was just outside, that was at, oh I can’t remember the name of that place now, but anyway that was a conversion unit where we were doing [unclear] flying and on um, that is before we went to the conversion unit. When I got there we went on to, first of all it was ah, we didn’t go on to a Lancaster straight away, there was a another aircraft but we only did a couple of training trips on that when they decided we would go to Kirmington 166 Squadron and they were Lancasters so our conversion was actually on Lancasters. The crew, first of all, on the Abingdon was the OTU was where we actually got crewed up and after doing training and, there we went into a big hangar where pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, radio operators they were all mixed, all there with all the results of the air tests pinned up around the wall and you just wandered around looking at names and associating the information with the people and you tried to get yourself into a crew by saying to, in my case, a pilot came up to me and said ‘have you got a crew yet?’ I said ‘no’, he said ‘would you like to become a member of my crew?’ so I said ‘yes’. He’d already picked a navigator that he’d looked at the results and he was happy with and then we found ourselves a radio operator, a wireless operator so that was the four of us there and so that was the start of our crew and then we were joined by two gunners that had been told which crews they were going to. They didn’t get much choice in the matter as far as I could see but they were attached to ours. That brought us up to six of us [unclear] and then we needed a, I think, and then when we got to, later on, we got a flight engineer joined us so we then became a crew of seven on the Lancasters and we were doing our training to get used to the Lancasters, I think that lasted, [pause] a few weeks and we were then posted to 166 Squadron at Kirmington which was just outside, not far away from Grimsby. Does that answer your question?
GC: Is there a trip or a sortie that sticks in your mind?
GR: A trip?
GC: A sortie?
GR: Oh when I was ops?
GC: Yes.
GR: Ah, well there was a couple. One was when I went to Kiel and that was [pause] I think most of the trips we were doing was to take, make the Germans, put, take their aircraft away from the Russians because Russian areas was where they were having problems, as you know, towards the end of the war, ah and Kiel was well defended, there was quite a lot of flak and also crossing the coast there were guns going off there quite a lot. There were quite a few fighters about and that was where the last pocket battleship was and by the time we got there it was already burning. The bombers in front of us had dropped bombs on to it and it was blown on its side and we were going in dropping bombs as well and to make sure that that wouldn’t be any good at all. That was the last pocket battleship. That was quite a hectic night that night and when we came from there the navigator took us on a quick route out to come back home and that was about an eight hour journey altogether. So that was that one and the other one was um, I think it was, I’m not sure if it was a Nuremberg one but there was one other trip in which we got coned in searchlights. As you fly in to the target area you can see, as a bomb aimer, you’re on the nose, you can see all the flak which is coming up over the target area and it’s about err, it looks a mile thick and there’s twinkling lights all the time, the shells bursting and you can see that from at least eight minutes before you get there and you know you’ve got to fly through all that flak before you can start dropping the bombs etc and that was while we were flying through we got searchlights again, suddenly there were searchlights and we were waving about and we were coned by the master searchlight, he got on to us. Once the master gets you all the searchlights come on to you. Every searchlight that was on focussed on that aircraft and that happened to be us this time which was very scary. You can’t see it’s so, absolutely brilliant [emphasis] light and obviously the pilot was then doing the corkscrewing and so diving down and pulling out at the bottom of the dive and back up again in the opposite direction and back down again to try and get out of the searchlights. While you’re doing that the actual G Force on you was clamping you to the side of the aircraft or the floor, wherever you are, and you can’t move, you can’t even think straight. You can’t see, expecting the shells, suddenly expecting to be blown apart because once you’re coned there’s very little chance of getting out. But err, this particular time, our pilot was brilliant and he did eventually escape the coning. Took us about three or four minutes before we got back in the darkness again and breathe again and move again which was about one of the worst experiences that I had. [pause] Certainly not recommended. [pause]
GC: Tell me a little bit about life actually at the station. What was it like to see your station when you came home?
GR: [sighs] Well, [pause] you’re a bit exhausted and as we used to fly in towards Grimsby and coming in to the squadron there was Kirmington Church – had a green spire, you could see that. It was a beautiful sight when you see that as you’re coming in. You get that feeling of peace coming over you, at last you can relax and the other thing I noticed, it was the time of year, on top of the hill where we were there had been peas grown and they’d all been cleared off and bare ground sort of really and it was a mass of poppies the whole field was a mass of poppies and you could see that from miles away, see that poppy and you could see both the poppies and the green spire of Kirmington. It was a beautiful welcome back home and it was lovely I enjoyed that very much, and err, that was great. And then once we’d landed and went to debriefing um, you could then have your eggs and bacon and then you were free and you could go round to your bed. Our bed was in the woods at the bottom of the hill at Kirmington and there were about three crews in this Nissen hut. There were no facilities there, no toilets or any of that sort of thing, just a bare Nissen hut. I used to walk through the woods up to what was the, there was a big arch there on top of the hill and err, [pause] oh crikey, I can’t think of the name of the — It was an arch dedicated to the man that owned all the ground where the farmers were renting out their farms and I think he was a lord or something like that, anyway, through this arch I used to walk through and sit down on, just outside of the arch and you could look at and down to the bottom of the hill on the other side of the arch there was a big lake. I used to sit and look at the lake and think of the peace, the change. Nothing, no sound, nothing, just sit there looking into the lake and trying to get your breath back from where you’d been and it was a complete change to sit thinking. It was really marvellous sight and it lived in my mind, as it does today. I can always see that arch and the lake and the peace, yes. They were periods that I remember very much. (sound of cutlery on china)
GC: How about family, how did they go through the war? Were you married?
GR: Ah, well I got, yes, I’m just, getting confused. I was married while I was at Kirmington, yes and my wife used to come up to stay. She used to stay in the village just by the airfield and part of the time while I was doing the ops she was there while I was on the squadron and um, she came up later on and she stayed with some people in the local village and they were very good. We had a marvellous time with them. They had two children and I used to go and stay there some nights and yeah they were brilliant. In fact, when the war ended I used to go back there with my wife and we used to, went back there for years and years until he, the man finally died, ‘cos he was an older man and then we still kept in contact with the children as they grew up and err, we made a lot, quite a lot of friends in that village.
GC: How about the Lancaster? You say you flew the Lancaster. How was she as a plane, what was she like to be in?
GR: What was the first —
GC: The Lancaster, what was the Lancaster like to fly in?
GR: Oh, it was marvellous, it was the greatest aircraft I’d ever been in and err, yeah it brings tears to your eye when you even hear it today. Last year I went back to Kirmington and I visited the squadron and one or two squadrons round about and I went to Bomber Command’s Lancaster and I went to the Kirton Lin — is it, Kirton?
GC: Kirkby?
GR: Pardon?
GC: East Kirkby?
GR: East Kirkby, that’s right. They have the Lancasters there which um, I had a ride in the bomb nose round on the peri-track and I was able to go right up into the nose and I went back seventy years in my mind as we were going round in that and it was fantastic. The sounds is beautiful. I’ve got a photograph on the wall there of my visit and I was entertained real royally by the people at Kirton (sic) and yes it was great and then I went to where the [pause] the one and only Lancaster, the flying Lancaster. I went back there and I got into the nose there. They took me round the Lancaster there, it was another great experience.
GC: So, good memories?
GR: Oh yes. I was talking to the pilot and he was asking me how the Lancaster behaved when we did the, when we got caught in the [pause] hmm.
GC: Spotlight?
GR: Ahh, goes out of my mind. At ninety three it’s most difficult to remember the words but err, [long pause]. When we did the corkscrewing, that’s the word I’m trying to think of. When the aircraft does a corkscrew he wanted to know how the Lancaster stood up to it. Of course with their Lancaster they can’t do that they can only fly gently and err, with our one when we were in the corkscrew it behaved absolutely brilliantly. It took all the strain and it was, it winged and waggled about it a bit but there were no cricks or cracks or anything. It was, it was a lifesaver, it was brilliant and we had a great pilot. He’d been in Canada for two years before he came to us and he’d been training pilots and he decided he wanted some action and by the time he came back to England that’s when he managed to join in, pick his crew and that’s when I joined with him and um, it was him that saved our lives really because his piloting was fantastic and the aircraft behaved absolutely brilliant.
GC: I know air crews and ground crews were very protective of their planes. Did you ever bring one home not in one piece? Did you ever get damaged?
GR: Well, not really damaged but our crew, every time we landed they went over it and it was their [emphasis] aircraft, we only borrowed it as far as they were concerned and they really loved that and they looked at every mark. And we went back one time and we thought we had a hole blown in the side of the aircraft or something because we’d got thrown out of the sky on the way back as if we’d really been hit and I was sent by the pilot back down the plane to look for the damage and I was going very carefully ‘cos I was expecting a great big hole in the aircraft and err, I couldn’t find anything and came back and reported all seemed to be OK. When we got back to the ground crew we reported that we’d been hit, somewhere, but err, and it had been quite severe because it had taken the stick away from the pilot. He had to let go, it was taken out of his hand by the pressure. And, um, the next morning when we came back to the squadron again they said they’d been over the aircraft and there was no real damage except for a piece of shrapnel had lodged in the fins, the elevator of the aircraft and it had jammed in and it forced the elevator which was then [unclear] controls and taken the stick away from the pilot for that few seconds. It was just one bit of flak and it hit that bit of the aircraft. It was still lodged in there, they found the bit of flak as well. So that was the only time they really got close to us that we knew about.
GC: How about at the end of the war? What was your, what did you do at the end once sorties had been finished?
GR: Well when the war finished that was, the squadron formed up and they told us that the war had now ended and that the various countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, they wanted their men back and they were taken off the squadron that very minute. They disappeared from the group and from rest of the people were left. So my pilot went back to Canada because he’d married a Canadian girl while he was out there. The rear gunner was an Australian, he disappeared um, so our crew was broken up, and all the crews had various members of the Commonwealth who were taken away around that time and shipped off back to their home countries, which, at such a speed that we didn’t have time to say goodbye, what’s your name and address because as crews we never met their relatives or their parents or whatever. When we had leave we all went to our own families and then met back again when we came and that — we didn’t socialise apart from as a crew. So we didn’t know one another, we didn’t know where they lived, we weren’t able to contact those. The only people we were able to contact were those that were still left on the squadron, which was rather a shame. I never did hear from my pilot again or the rear gunner. When they died, if they died, I never did know, which was a real sadness to me. But then, after they’d gone what was left were then the various members of the crews, we made into other crews, we made a crew and I went with a Squadron Leader [unclear], his crew must have all been Canadians because he lost his crew completely so he had some, [unclear] crew which was myself and a radio operator and a navigator and we had some, I think we had a couple of gunners as well from somewhere else that made a proper crew and then we were sent on various missions. We did some training together to become a crew and we were sent to places like, we used to fly to Italy and we were fetching back people that had been waiting for their demob numbers to come up such as they come from North Africa into Italy and were in the war fighting in Italy and when the war finished they were just left there waiting for their demob. They never got home until they were demobbed err, unless their leave period came up and then we used to pick them up and bring them back for their leave and take them back again after the leave had finished. They were both WRNS and WAAFs and, as well as the airmen, some airmen who had been released from concentration camps, they’d come back. And so any people like that were put into the Lancasters to bring home as quickly as they could. The Lancaster had white circles painted on the floor and they were about a foot diameter and that was about all the space these people had while we brought them back. They had to stand and hold on to the side of the aircraft all packed in together so we could get as many people in as possible, except that if they were WRNS or WAAFS I think we normally did separate the ladies from the men on the trips, but I used to get, if it was WAAFS or WRNS on board I could generally get two of them in the nose lying on cushions on the way back, that was more pleasant for them and for me. The rest of them just had to sit where they could in the aircraft but err, we would only fly at about 2000 ft when we bringing a load of people back because they wouldn’t have parachutes and we didn’t have parachutes either so it was thought best that we all went without parachutes just in case of accidents and we might be able to land if we weren’t flying at too high a height. So that was our, we carried on doing that until the squadron closed down and I was posted to Kenley waiting for my demob.
GC: I think finally do you have one enduring memory, one emotion from your time?
GR: [pause] One emotion. Well my main emotion was the fact that I was really upset at the way that the squadron was split up and broken up without any thought whatsoever about comradeship that had been formed during our time and, as if, you know, it really hurt me and I think it upset most of the air crew people the way that Bomber Command was discarded for political reasons. That was my main emotion.
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Interview with George Royall
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George volunteered to be a pilot but settled for Air Observer. He talks about his selection and training in London and then in Stratford-upon-Avon, where enjoyed the theatre and how, at Brighton, illness separated him from the rest of the course. So, while they went to Canada for their flying training, he went to South Africa.
George sailed from Liverpool to Freetown, where he enjoyed seeing sailors and WAAFs in their whites, the green landscape and the locals selling their wares. He had some free time in Durban and received great hospitality from expats but felt embarrassed by apartheid. He began flying at No. 48 Air School and here his trade changed from air observer to air bomber, so he describes the navigational support role played by air bombers. He received his brevet and while 20 of his course were sent to North Africa, he and four others returned to England. George says he went to an OCU in North Wales and then describes crewing up, going onto Lancasters and being posted to 166 Squadron at RAF Kirmington.
While at Kirmington George married and his wife would come to visit, staying with a local family and making life-long friends.
George describes two memorable operations: Kiel, where he saw a Lancaster hit by falling bombs and Nuremberg, where his aircraft was coned by searchlights. He recalls how, on returning to Kirmington, the sight of the village church and a field of poppies was a beautiful welcome home and that he used to climb a hill near his billet to relax and look at the view.
At the end of the war George flew several trips on Op. DODGE and says that they flew at 2,000 feet because the passengers had no parachutes and so the aircrew did not carry them either. He also describes a visit to East Kirkby, where he was made to feel very welcome. He was asked what it was like to fly in the Lancaster and how it stood up to corkscrewing.
Sadly, George's lasting emotion of his service is of how quickly the closely-bonded crews were split up and sent back to their home countries at the war's end, often without time to exchange addresses or even say goodbye.
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25 items. Album containing photographs of his service including training in South Africa, time in Italy, and operations with 103 Squadron.
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Four photographs of Pompei Ruins.
Four photographs of Port Elizabeth December 1942-March 1943.
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25 items. Album containing photographs of his service including training in South Africa, time in Italy, and operations with 103 Squadron.
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2022-05-11
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Italy, Pompei 1945-6, course photograph, Port Elizabeth 1942-3
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Four photographs of the Pompei Ruins.
Course photograph, posed in four rows, buildings in background, captioned ' Course 6AN, 42 Air School, Port Elizabeth, 22/11/42 - 6/3/43.'
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1942-11-22
1943-03-06
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South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
Italy
Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Photograph
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Five b/w photographs
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PBlamiresRG22020023
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1942-11-22
1943-03-06
aircrew
training
-
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Turner, Charlie
C F Turner
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An account of the resource
26 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer Charles Turner DFM (1042292 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and photographs. He flew operations as a rear gunner with 186 Squadron.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Barbara Turner and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-08-22
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Turner, CF
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[RAF logo]
AIR FORCE STATION,
PORT ELIZABETH.
[underlined] Sunday night [/underlined]
Dear Mam & all,
Well how’s things, I am getting your mail more regular now especially those new Air Mail efforts, I also received one from Mr. Sadler And hows Barry getting on? well mam I shall not be out here much longer as the war situation seems to be coming to an end.
Well Mam I am still not doing so bad as far as health is concerned I am still having my bottle of larger at night it is very dear out here though its 1/10’ a quart bottle so you see I don’t indulge in it, well Mam I went to a party last night one of the RAF chaps who is married out here, he invites some of his pals every week, I have been twice I have a good time plenty of grub and [underlined] nice [/underlined] girls (latter don’t bother me.) I am waiting to see my Juliet when I get back to Blighty, although I have met some very nice girls out here, but they all want to get married so as they can go back to England but they would not like England after living like princesses in S.Africa.
Well Mam next Sunday it will be my 21st birthday, I have still got my signet ring the one you bought me, and it will be a
[page break]
[RAF logo]
AIR FORCE STATION,
PORT ELIZABETH.
year since I left England, this time last year I was on the Atlantic Ocean, and I hope this time next year I am on my way back.
Well Mam I have not much news for you, my Air Crew stunt [sic] crew as not come through you but I am still hoping, well Mam give my love to all and I will write again when I get some more news.
Cheerio your loving son,
[underlined] Charles. [/underlined]
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Letter from Charles Turner to his mother and family
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The letter describes his social life in Port Elizabeth and his upcoming 21st birthday.
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Charles Turner
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Two handwritten sheets
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eng
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ETurnerCFTurnerF[Date]-010001,
ETurnerCFTurnerF[Date]-010002
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Royal Air Force
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South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Anita Raine
aircrew
entertainment
training
-
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Turner, Charlie
C F Turner
Description
An account of the resource
26 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer Charles Turner DFM (1042292 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and photographs. He flew operations as a rear gunner with 186 Squadron.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Barbara Turner and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-08-22
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Turner, CF
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[RAF logo]
Lac.C.F. Turner. 1042292
4. Squadron.
AIR FORCE STATION,
PORT ELIZABETH.
28.4.43.
Dear Mam & all,
Well whats happened to you writing? I have not heard from you for quite a while I hope everything is O.K. well Mam how are you keeping? Still well and happy, I am in very good health has this seaside climate is braceing [sic], I only wish you were all here, bags of food and drink, but there’s only one or two things I miss and that is: – a good pint of mild, tripe and black pudding if they only knew how to make them out here it would be like home.
Well Mam I don’t think I shall be out here much longer, it will be a year on May 9th since I left the shores of England and I am counting the days when I shall see the shores again, but still I can’t grumble there’s chaps worse of than myself.
How’s Ted? still slogging away at Royce’s and paying income tax, by the way I have to pay it now 4/– aweek [sic], so you see the extra 1/– aday [sic] I get for serving overseas is not much of gain now.
[page break]
[RAF logo]
AIR FORCE STATION,
PORT ELIZABETH.
I am getting on quite well at my new station I go about with a serg [sic]. In our section ohboy do we have some times, last week I was out with my little Waafy and her two pals, and of course being a gentleman (best English) I suggested cocktails the time being 2–30 and of course to my worse luck they said yes (by the way the cheapest drink for a [underlined] lady [/underlined] out here is about 1/6) well I took them to the “Metro” a flash hotel [underlined] effort [/underlined] (RAF SLANG) any way we had a couple a drinks or so when one of the waafs started gigging and on looking round saw three lieutenants of the S.A.A.F, pilots, making eyes at her so cause they came over and asked if they may join our table, I said yes, well we soon got talking one of them was a Scot, so I called him Jock, the other one Squeak not a bad bloke and the other [deleted] Blonlie [/deleted] Blondie & chap with blonde hair and about 6ft in tall, well they started buying drinks all round (the time 5/30) we were all happy and merry by this time blondie had spotted three [deleted] nay [/deleted] more young ladies and he was trying too get them to
[page break]
[RAF logo]
AIR FORCE STATION,
PORT ELIZABETH.
join the party, which they did this making 6 girls 4 chaps, so Jock asked me where my pals where and just at that moment “Sweaty” the serg [sic] walks in with his mate Paddy [deleted] sa [/deleted] so of course I asked them to join us which they did this making both side equal (more drinks) time 6/0) Jock suggested we eat so he rings his hotel to reserve a table for 12, for dinner at seven (more drinks time 6/30) Jocks hotel lay just across the road so we did not have far too walk by this time the girls where giggleing [sic] soft, any way we had a wash in Jocks room and got ready for dinner it was a wizard dinner, any way that was over and we all felt contented, Blondie suggested a dance I seconded it [deleted] soon [/deleted] so we went to a dance 15 miles out of P.E. it cost Squeak £3 for two taxies but still he did not mind any way it was one of them dances where all the nobs go as a matter fact it was in my imagination a night club, still every one was matey there was every rank above serg [sic] there I being the only LAC but being able to jitterbug quiet well I got on allright with the ladies, and did I get some nasty
[page break]
[RAF logo]
AIR FORCE STATION,
PORT ELIZABETH.
looks off the officers when I asked their young ladies for a dance but still has Jock said take no notice I was has good has they, any way we had bags more drink (time 11.30) any way we decided to call it aday [sic] at that but the girls would make us stay for the last dance (time 12.00) the Waafs had to be in by (12.00) by they said the camp could go to hell I having an weekend pass did not mind, [deleted] and [/deleted] any way we got taxys [sic] back to town (Blondie’s turn) they would not let me pay for any thing so I did not mind, any way we arrived in town and saying good night to them all Jock suggested I take the waafs back to camp which lays about three miles out of town so I did, and Oh boy did I get a talking off from the Waaf serg [sic] in the Guardroom, she was the same build as Aunt Kate, any way the Waafs got 7 days C.B. and when I saw Jock on the Sunday did he laugh because he knew what would happen, any way Jock and his pals left for another A.S. on Sunday night so saw them off and after
[page break]
[RAF logo]
AIR FORCE STATION,
PORT ELIZABETH.
shaking my hand wished me the best of luck.
Well Mam I better start closing has this letter will sink he ship, give my love to all, Grandma, Barry, Doris, Audrey, Aunt Kate and all in Crosby Street.
Cheerio for now
Your loving son
Charles
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Description
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In the letter he complains that his mother hasn't written to him, he misses mild beer, tripe and black pudding. He describes going out for drinks with a WAAF and meeting South African air force pilots and more girls, then they all went for dinner and a dance. They took the WAAFs back late and they got a week's 'C.B.'.
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Charles Turner
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1943-04-28
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Five handwritten sheets
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eng
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ETurnerCFTurnerF430428-0001
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
South African Air Force
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South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1943-04-28
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Anita Raine
Title
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Letter from Charles Turner to his mother and family
aircrew
entertainment
ground personnel
training
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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Boldy, David
Dave Boldy
D A Boldy
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334 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant David Adrian Boldy (1918 – 1942, 923995 Royal Air Force) and consists of his school reports, letters from school and photographs of family and locations in India, letters from training and service, and photographs from his social life and time training. It also includes newspaper cuttings and letters about him being missing in action. David Boldy was born and attended school in India and studied law at Kings College London. He volunteered for the Royal Air Force and trained as an air gunner in South Africa. He flew operations in Manchesters and Lancasters with 207 Squadron from RAF Bottesford. His aircraft failed to return from an operation to Gdańsk 11 July 1942. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Boldy and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.<br /><br />Additional information on David Boldy is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/102182/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Boldy, DA
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923995 D. A. BOLDY. R.A.F.,
U/T Air Gunner,
No 41 Air School,
East London,
16th March, 1941.
My darling Dad,
Sorry for not having posted the letter enclosed with this one earlier but I just didn’t have any money. We have lived on practically nothing for weeks but managed pretty well. We shall now get regular pay - £1 1s per week till the end of the course.
Quite a lot of things have happened since I last wrote. We were at Port Elizabeth for a fortnight & we then came to East London as you will have seen from the address. After we had been at P.E. for a fortnight we again brought up the subject of a speedy training. We were interviewed by the adjutant who was awfully decent and promised us action within 24 hours. The promised action came off. Next morning we were told that we had been granted ten days leave [indecipherable word] berth accommodation on the train for Cape Town. Our leave was scheduled to commence at 4.30p.m. At 4.00p.m. word came through that we had been posted to East London & off we went. None of us were very happy [deleted] to be [/deleted] at P.E. and were not sorry to leave. The camp here is a lively one. Jolly good food & pretty nearly no red tape. What is more we have got
[page break]
cracking on the course right away. It is entirely a S. African course usually consisting of 30 S. Africans but the six of us have been included. The course is a very good one & the teaching thorough. I am enjoying the course immensely it is much more in my line. We have been on the range once to get our eye in. We shot with .22 rifles, I got 135 – 150. Not as good as I should have liked it to be. The course is done in two sections. 4 weeks of instruction on guns, morse code (eventually to receive at 20 words a minute) & aerial sighting. It is very interesting. The [deleted][indecipherable word][/deleted] second section also 4 weeks consists of flying - shooting in the air & dual flying – the latter pleases me immensely. In the first session we fire machine guns on the ground & also camera guns. I think we are all going to enjoy this. Incidentally we are still [underlined] R.A.F. [/underlined]
East London is a quiet sea-side resort but we are having a grand time here & have met any number of people including a number of girls. I have not fallen for any of them. Some of them are very sweet all the same. The very first day we were here we met some Scotchmen & a S. African officer at a hotel. A party of 7 of us had a terrific binge. It did us [deleted] the [/deleted] a world of good. We felt new men. Since then we have been out nearly every evening & have been taken everywhere. – To the flicks, pub-crawling, bathing & to peoples homes etc. Everyone has been really damn decent to us.
You will be glad to hear that I am taking an intelligent interest in this course. That is definitely a good sign. I intend to be a damn good
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
Air gunner. I am sure I shall like it.
I have quite a number of snaps to send you [deleted] whitch [/deleted] which I shall send on shortly. I have got into touch with Thomas Cook’s regarding the [deleted] cable yo [/deleted] money you sent. It was damn decent of you Dad. I did not like asking for it. But we thought we were going home & had a last fling in S. Africa as we thought. Also our new rate of pay 3s per day is not bad but it doesn’t cover a great deal. Still the main thing is that we are happy at East London, almost as happy as we were at Cape Town. I shall send a photograph of Shirley the girl I met at Cape Town. We had some good times there. We may go there on leave after the course. But I am not thinking of that at the moment. I am working instead. I pay attention at lectures & then do a spot of consolidating [deleted] at [/deleted] after lectures.
Some of us went roller skating at P.E. and enjoyed it. Apart from the little married girl and her friend I had no regrets in leaving P.E. I met her brother here yesterday he had motored in for the week-end from P.E. He is a nice lad. I was very pleased to see him.
I play quite a bit of Table Tennis these days. The only other exercise I get is swimming at weekends with sunbathing combined. I am getting quite brown. No more today. God bless you. Love & kisses from
Your loving son [underlined] David. [/underlined]
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World War (1939-1945)
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Letter from Leading Aircraftsman David Boldy to his father about about his air gunner course at East London.
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David Boldy
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1941-03-16
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Three page handwritten letter
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eng
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Text. Correspondence
Text
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EBoldyDABoldyAD410316
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Royal Air Force
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South Africa
South Africa--Cape Town
South Africa--East London
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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1941-03
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Letter from David Boldy to his father
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Steve Christian
air gunner
aircrew
training
-
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Royall, George
G Royall
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Royall, G
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46 items. An oral history interview with Warrant Officer George Royall (1801494 Royal Air Force) his flying log book, photographs, correspondence, course notes, examinations, newspapers and parts of magazines. He served as a bomb aimer on 166 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by George Royall and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2015-07-20
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Letter to George Royall
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Author describes journey to her home and that they had enjoyed time together. Continues with domestics, activities and gossip. Letter had been redirected from England via Canada to Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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G Royall
Date
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1943-02-23
1943-04-07
1943-05-03
1943-07-08
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1943-02-23
1943-04-07
1943-05-03
1943-07-08
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Canada
Ontario
Great Britain
England--London
South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
Ontario--Ottawa
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Handwritten envelope and six-page letter
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E[Author]WRoyallGL430223
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love and romance
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Wright, Jim
J R Wright
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-05-21
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Wright, J
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93 items. The collection contains two oral history interviews with Jim Wright, letters, cuttings and photographs. It concerns James Roy Wright’s research into his father, Sergeant Arthur Charles Wright (1911 - 1943, 1149750 Royal Air Force) and an operation to Turin 12/13 July 1943 which caused 100 aircraft to violate Swiss airspace. Two aircraft were shot down or crashed in Switzerland. There are many photographs and details of the activities that night including reports by the Swiss authorities. The crews are identified with photographs and there are several photographs of the funerals at Vevey. Additional material includes aerial photograph of bomb damage in Germany and the logbook and airman's pay book of W G Anderson. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Jim Wright and catalogued by Nigel Huckins, with descriptions of official Swiss documents provided Gilvray Williams. <br /><br />Additional information on Arthur Charles Wright is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/126015/">IBCC Losses Database</a>. This collection also contains items concerning Hugh Burke Bolger and his crew. Additional information on Hugh Burke Bolger is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/102186/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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[postmark]
[postage stamp]
Mr & Mrs Wright,
150 Hatherley Gdns,
East Ham,
England
[inserted] H.J. Wright
150 Hatherley [/inserted]
[page break]
[RAF Crest]
15 COURSE NO. 6 SQUADRON
42 AIR SCHOOL
PORT ELIZABETH
SOUTH AFRICA
JULY 7th 1942.
Dear Henry, Lil (and Barbara),
I have just received your letter dated 10th of May which I was very pleased to get. It gave to me a breath of home which was like a tonic and when I got to the part about your Cup-Final well, believe me, in imagination I stood on the touch-line yelling my head off. Well, Henry since I wrote to you and you replied with this letter a “lot of water seems to have run under the bridges” I have been to flying school and in R.A.F language I have “had it”. I was suspended from the pilot’s course through a chain of circumstances which I can only describe adequately when I see you again. The final analysis was “Undeveloped Air Sense” which, as anyone can see, can mean absolutely nothing. Anyway, although I was horribly dissappointed [sic], completely “cheesed off” and nearly heartbroken I decided to re-muster as an Observer. I started out on this course in a very half-hearted manner but after two weeks of it I feel more contented than I expected to. The work is very intense and complicated but the main thing is that I am flying in bigger aircraft. Flying has certainly got into my blood and I never feel happier than when I am in the air. Each time I go
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
out to the flying field I get such a feeling of satisfaction. I get into the aircraft set my instruments, maps and all the paraphernalia we, as pupil observers, carry in their appropriate places and then wait for the pilot. He comes along and then I get impatient for the time when we shall be airborne and each time I get the same thrill. The aircraft speeds across the plying field and then that feeling of buoyancy as she becomes airborne. Not only buoyant in body but even my spirits and emotions seem to take on a new lift. Yes, sir, flying is the tops. Anyway that’s enough of that. Another big source of satisfaction is that after another 18 or so weeks, if all goes well, I should have my stripes and half-wing, but best of all I should be on my way home. I have had a good time since I have been out here. I like South Africa but I love England and your letter with its open picture of my homeland, grim but gay, conjured up many pictures in my mind which I am longing to see in reality. The camp here is not too bad as far as camps go but the food leaves a lot to be desired and, as we had a pukka mess at flying school I notice the change and certainly don’t like it. But still, I find I can put
[page break]
[underlined] 3 [/underlined]
up with many things each time I realize my training is coming to it’s close and I shall have that long awaited chance to get cracking. We have just had a passing out parade of some of the cadets who have just finished their training and the day when we pass out can’t come too soon. Well Henry, I haven’t much more to say now excepting that I am in a perfect state of health as I hope you all are at home. So looking forward to a re-union which should come about sooner than I expected.
Your loving brother
[underlined] Arthur [/underlined]
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Letter to Mr & Mrs Wright from Arthur Wright
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Letter to Henry, Lil and Barbara from Arthur Wright, their brother. Flying training has not gone well due to his 'Undeveloped air sense'. He is now training as an Observer. At first he was unhappy but quickly started to get much satisfaction from flying. He is looking forward to getting home.
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1942-07-07
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Envelope and three handwritten sheets
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eng
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SWrightAC1149750v20142, SWrightAC1149750v20143, SWrightAC1149750v20144, SWrightAC1149750v20145
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Pending review
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South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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1942-07
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Emily Jennings
training
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Warren, George
George Clarence Warren
G C Warren
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2019-08-13
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Warren, GC
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47 items. The collection concerns Flying Officer George Warren (162041 Royal Air Force) he flew operations as a navigator with 626 Squadron until he was killed <span>16 March 1945 on an operation to Nürnberg. The collection contains his log book, correspondence and photographs.</span><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Harris and Vanessa Hibbert and catalogued by Barry Hunter. <br /><br />Additional information on George Warren is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/124450/ ">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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F/O G. C. Warren
OFFICERS’ MESS (GREEN)
ROYAL AIR FORCE
WICKENBY
Nr. LINCOLN
1.1.45.
Dear Mother,
I’ve been intending to write you such a letter as this for some weeks, & yet I don’t seem to have been able to get around to it…………… & after all it’s not a pleasant letter to write. The strange part about it is that in my first few operations, when I had so little confidence & anything could have happened, there was no letter for you – but now, with the experience of 5 operations behind me, I feel that I ought to get started. I suppose the reason is that so many of the boys are getting lost on operations, and it would be foolish of me to dismiss the dangers as
[page break]
Insignificant.
I suppose you’ll be glad to know that I am happier here at Wickenby than I was when I first arrived. The fellows here are a fine lot & and the boys that fly along with me are six of the best. In addition, I like my job very much. The navigation we knew at Port Elizabeth, Millom & Peplow was nothing compared with that which we know here, & these long trips into the enemy frontiers give one a feeling of achievement and satisfaction. In addition, we know we know that we are contributing in a most direct manner to the defeat of the enemy & the saving of thousands of lives. The methods are unpleasant, as we know from our own experience, but the end must justify the means.
If anything should occur to make it impossible for me to come home again, I hope you will
[page break]
remember your faith in God’s unfailing judgement, & bear the blow as a brave mother should. You will know that you, at least, did everything you could to make my life enjoyable, worthwhile & successful – and you can never doubt how I appreciate you[sic] help and your continued sacrifice under the greatest difficulties. I might have missed the benefits which God has bestowed on me, had it not been for your endeavours & example, & thank God & you for all I have and am at this moment. Don’t forget this … ever.
Please give my love to Ken & Beryl (Long Liv Viv). I hope Ken will soon be back with you & wish him every success & good
[page break]
Fortune - & my own share too.
To Beryl I can only say that she has made a good start in life &, following her mother’s example, she can’t go wrong. I am sure she will be a great comfort to you & help make you happy, as I want you to be.
I hope you’ll write to my friends again – as you used to so often when I was busy- & please send Jeanie a few lines. She’s no ordinary girl, but a splendid type that the difficulties & hardships of this life have knocked into splendid shape. Your worries were entirely groundless & she was nothing to me but a grand girl I could not help admiring. We got on very well together.
Here's to them all, & my love to you and all at home
Your loving son,
George
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Letter to Mrs Warren from George Warren
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George apologises for not writing because of his sadness on losing so many of his colleagues. It is a sad letter expressing his feeling if he was lost on an operation.
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George Warren
Date
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1945-01-01
Format
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Four handwritten sheets
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eng
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SWarrenGC1580687v30006-0001,
SWarrenGC1580687v30006-0002,
SWarrenGC1580687v30006-0003,
SWarrenGC1580687v30006-0004
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
South Africa
England--Cumbria
England--Lincolnshire
England--Shropshire
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1945-01-01
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David Bloomfield
In the event of my death letter
perception of bombing war
RAF Millom
RAF Peplow
RAF Wickenby
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Neale, Ted
E T H Neale
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An account of the resource
123 items. The collection concerns Edward Thomas Henry Neale (b. 1922, 1395951 Royal Air Force) who served as a navigator with 37 Squadron in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. The collection contains his training notebooks from South Africa as well as propaganda leaflets dropped by the allies in the Mediterranean theatre.
The collection also contains a photograph album, navigation logs and target photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alison Neale and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-07-31
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Neale, ETH
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Meteorology Excercise Book
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An excercise book kept by Ted Neale with his meteorology notes. Recorded at No 19 AN 42 Air School, Port Elizabeth.
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Ted Neale
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One excercise book with handwritten notes
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eng
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Text. Training material
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MNealeETH1395951-150731-031
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Royal Air Force
South African Air Force
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South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1943
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1943
aircrew
navigator
training
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Blamires, Robert Geoffrey. Album
Description
An account of the resource
25 items. Album containing photographs of his service including training in South Africa, time in Italy, and operations with 103 Squadron.
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2022-05-11
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Blamires, RG
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Naples 1945, Port Elizabeth 1942-3
Description
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Four photographs of Naples, taken from a balcony of what now is Villa Giullia (Via Armando Diaz 158) looking down the street in the direction of Mount Vesuvius.
Four photographs of Port Elizabeth, two of his billet.
Identification kindly provided by Moos Raaijmakers
of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.
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1945-08
1942-11
1943-03
Spatial Coverage
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Italy
Italy--Naples
South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Format
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Eight b/w photographs
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PBlamiresRG22020029
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1942
1943
1945
aircrew
military living conditions
training
-
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Blamires, Robert Geoffrey. Album
Description
An account of the resource
25 items. Album containing photographs of his service including training in South Africa, time in Italy, and operations with 103 Squadron.
Date
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2022-05-11
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Blamires, RG
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Naples August 1945, No 42 ANS Port Elizabeth
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LH page, captioned 'Italy - England passenger service August 1945', four photographs of Naples and Castellammare di Stabia.
RH page four photographs of No 42 ANS.
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1945-08
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South Africa--Port Elizabeth
Italy--Naples
Italy--Castellammare di Stabia
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
South African Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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Eight b/w photographs
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PBlamiresRG22020030
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IBCC Digital Archive
IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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1945
-
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Blamires, Robert Geoffrey. Album
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An account of the resource
25 items. Album containing photographs of his service including training in South Africa, time in Italy, and operations with 103 Squadron.
Date
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2022-05-11
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Blamires, RG
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Naples Italy 1945 and Port Elizabeth 1942-3
Description
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Four photographs of Naples area, August 1945.
Three photographs of a night time electrical storm, Port Elizabeth November 1942 March 1943.
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1942-11
1943-03
1945-08
Spatial Coverage
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South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
Italy
Italy--Castellammare di Stabia
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Format
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Seven b/w photographs
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PBlamiresRG22020028
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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1942-11
1945
-
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Blamires, Robert Geoffrey. Album
Description
An account of the resource
25 items. Album containing photographs of his service including training in South Africa, time in Italy, and operations with 103 Squadron.
Date
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2022-05-11
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Blamires, RG
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Title
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Naples Italy 1945, Port Elizabeth 1942
Description
An account of the resource
Four photographs of Naples area August 1945.
Open menu airmen's mess, 42 ANS Port Elizabeth. Captioned 'The only good meal we had in the mess'.
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1945-08
1942-12
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Italy
Italy--Castellammare di Stabia
South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Text
Format
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Four b/w photographs one printed menu
Identifier
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PBlamiresRG22020026, PBlamiresRG22020027
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Pending identification. Places
Date
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1942-12
1945-08
mess
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Title
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Blamires, Robert Geoffrey. Album
Description
An account of the resource
25 items. Album containing photographs of his service including training in South Africa, time in Italy, and operations with 103 Squadron.
Date
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2022-05-11
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Blamires, RG
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Title
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Naples, Italy 1945, Port Elizabeth 1942-3
Description
An account of the resource
Four photographs of Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei, August 1945.
Four photographs of Port Elizabeth area November 1942 - March 1943.
Temporal Coverage
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1945-08
1942-11
1943-03
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Italy
South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
Italy--Pompei
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Format
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Eight b/w photographs
Identifier
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PBlamiresRG22020025
Rights
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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1942-11
1943-03
1945-08
aircrew
training
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dbba55780656141971c23f4d88e567e7
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Title
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Doxsey, JA
Description
An account of the resource
Nine items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer John Alfred Doxsey (b. 1921, 630441 Royal Air Force) and contains his log books, photographs and documents.
He flew operations as an air gunner with 149 Squadron before serving with No.3 aircraft Delivery Unit in North Africa.
A sub-collection photograph album contains pictures of aircraft, people and places in Europe and Africa during and after the Second World War.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Nigel Doxsey and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Date
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2018-09-20
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Doxsey, JA
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Title
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Newspaper cutting - shoe manufacturer on S.A. tour
Description
An account of the resource
Article concerning shoe manufacturer for survey of African continent. Annotated 'Our morning paper, Monday 16/11/47'.
Date
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1947-11-16
Temporal Coverage
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1947-11-16
Spatial Coverage
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South Africa
South Africa--Cape Town
South Africa--Johannesburg
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
South Africa--Durban
Madagascar
Coverage
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Civilian
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Format
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One newspaper cutting
Identifier
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NDoxseyJA180920-02
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.
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43d0b034ee367acfe5e6b054ffcd9658
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Title
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Blamires, Robert Geoffrey. Album
Description
An account of the resource
25 items. Album containing photographs of his service including training in South Africa, time in Italy, and operations with 103 Squadron.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2022-05-11
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.
Identifier
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Blamires, RG
Dublin Core
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Title
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No 103 Squadron Honours board, 42 ANS Port Elizabeth
Description
An account of the resource
LH page, No 103 Squadron Honours and Awards Board .
RH page, four photographs from No 42 ANS, Nov 1942 - March 1943.
Temporal Coverage
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1942-11
1943-03
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
South African Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Format
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Five b/w photographs
Identifier
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PBlamiresRG22020031
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
IBCC Digital Archive
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1942
1943
103 Squadron
aircrew
RAF Elsham Wolds