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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-09-06
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Valentine, JRM
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ASEA
ALLMANNA SVENSKA ELEKTRISKA AKTIEBOLAGET
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT 62/641 VASTERAS SWEDEN 2ND May, 1944
Sergeant John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
No. 450
STALAG LUFT 6
Deutschland
[stamp]
GEPRUFT
108
Dear Mr. Valentine,
Further to my letter of the 19th ult. I, herewith, beg to inform you that I got a message asking me to tell you that your parents are well and that they send you their best birthday greetings. I do not know if this letter will reach you in time for your birthday but anyhow I hope that the above information with the birthday greetings will please you. I beg to join the birthday greetings even if they are too late and hoping to see you later on, I beg to remain,
Sincerely yours,
[signature]
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Letter to John Valentine
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Letter from foreign department of a Swedish company ASEA. Informing his that sender had received a message from his parents that they were well and that they wished him a happy birthday.
Date
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1944-05-02
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One page typewritten letter
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v20030-0001
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Sweden
Sweden--Västerås
Lithuania
Lithuania--Šilutė
Temporal Coverage
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1944-05-02
Creator
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H Wernekinck
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
prisoner of war
Stalag Luft 6
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-09-06
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Valentine, JRM
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ASEA
ALLMANNA SVENSKA ELEKTISKA AKTIEBOLAGET
Foreign department 62/641 Vasteras Sweden 19th April 1944
Sergeant John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
No 450
STALAG LUFT 6
Deuchland
Dear Mr Valentine
As a business friend of your father’s I write you telling you that my company in England, Messrs. ASEA Electric Ltd in London, has asked me to try to get in touch with you and find out if you have any special wishes and in such a case help you. Through the Swedish organisation “ Hjalp Krigets Offer” and their secretary Mr Henry Soderberg I got to know some days ago that he had met you on the 2nd of March in Stalag Luft 6. I am glad to hear that you are well off. I also got to know that you want a violin bow and I have arranged for sending you a bow which is said to be rather good and I hope that when this letter reaches you, same has arrived. If there are other things which you should like to have from hear and which it is permitted to send over, I should only be too glad to help you. I understand that you have got some literature from Mr Rolf Bjorkland in Stockholm but may be there are some other things which could help you to shorten the time. If so, please only send me some lines at your opportunity under my address as given below.
Hoping to hear from you and to see you when this terrible war is over, I send you my very best regards.
Yours sincerely
Mr H Wernnekinck
Department Fu 1
ASEA
Vasteras Sweden
The letter has the German censor stamp Gerpruft 108
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Letter to John Valentine
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From foreign department of Swedish company. Writer is a business friend of his father's who has asked sender to enquire if John had any special wishes. Informed him that the secretary of a named Swedish organisations had met John at Stalag Luft 6 and commented that John was well off but wanted a violin bow. Offers to send any permitted items required.
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H Wernekinck
Date
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1944-04-19
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One page typewritten letter
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v20030-0002
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Lithuania
Lithuania--Šilutė
Sweden
Sweden--Västerås
Temporal Coverage
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1944-04-19
1944-03-02
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IBCC Digital Archive
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prisoner of war
Stalag Luft 6
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Title
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-09-06
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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Valentine, JRM
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letter to ASV, c/o Balfour, Beatty & Co Ltd.;
66 Queen St. London
From S.H.Busch; ASEA Fulbourne Rd., Walthamstow, London
19th April 1944
Dear Mr Valentine, Following our conversation over the telephone today I give you a translation of a letter received from my friend, Mr Wernekinck, in Asea, Vesteras, so far as it relates to your son Sergeant J.R.M. Valentine
Through the help of two men in the Swedish organisation “Help the War Sufferers”, your son has actually been located in Stalag Luft 6 & the man actually spoke to him out there writes as follows:-
“Finally, I have to-day found the correct Mr. Valentine. I had a long talk with him and informed him how both Gunnaar Jansson and myself had worked to locate him both in Stalag XX1-B & in Stalag Luft 3. He has not received any parcels from Wernekinck; on the other hand he has received some Swedish Literature, in English translation from a Mr. Rolf Bjorklund, 4 Wittstocksgatan, Stockholm He send a hearty greeting to Mr. Bjorklund. He knew that his father had a friend in Sweden. He did not want any food sent to him as he gets quite sufficient in the camp. When I asked him if he would like some sweets he suggested that there may be others who need them more. He would like, however, to get a violin bow. Perhaps Mr. Wernekinck can help him in this respect. In all other respects he was O.K. and was pleased by my visit. An excellent lad.”
Mr. Wernekinck then continues to say that he will arrange to send the violin bow and also something else which will give him pleasure, and finishes by saying that if his parents would like a message to be sent he would be happy to convey same to him in due course.
Finally, I enclose a copy of a telegram I have to-day sent Mr.. Wernekinck which is self-explanatory
Swedish Literature, in English translation from a Mr. Rolf Bjorklund, 4 Wittstocksgatan, Stockholm He send a hearty greeting to Mr. Bjorklund. He knew that his father had a friend in Sweden. He did not want any food sent to him as he gets quite sufficient in the camp. When I asked him if he would like some sweets he suggested that there may be others who need them more. He would like, however, to get a violin bow. Perhaps Mr. Wernekinck can help him in this respect. In all other respects he was O.K. and was pleased by my visit. An excellent lad.”
Mr. Wernekinck then continues to say that he will arrange to send the violin bow and also something else which will give him pleasure, and finishes by saying that if his parents would like a message to be sent he would be happy to convey same to him in due course.
Finally, I enclose a copy of a telegram I have to-day sent Mr.. Wernekinck which is self-explanatory and I trust will meet with your approval.
Yours sincerely, Sgd S.H. Busch
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Letter to John Valentine's father from S Busch
Description
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Offers a translation of a letter from Mr Wernekinck in Sweden. Notes that due to help of Swedish "Help the War Sufferers" his son John has been located in Stalag Luft 6. Relates from a man who spoke to his son who had tried to locate him in Stalag Luft 3 and Stalag XXI-B. Continues that John had not received any parcels from Wernekinck but had received other Swedish literature from a Mr Bjorklund. John said he did not need any food but would like a violin bow which Wernekinck would try and arrange.
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S H Busch
Date
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1944-04-19
Format
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One page typewritten letter
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eng
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EBuschSHValentineAS440419
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
Sweden
Sweden--Västerås
Lithuania
Lithuania--Šilutė
Temporal Coverage
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1944-04-19
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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prisoner of war
Stalag Luft 3
Stalag Luft 6
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-09-06
Rights
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Valentine, JRM
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Start of transcription
With the Compliments of
Asea Electric, Ltd.
To: Mr. Valentine
From: Mr. Busch
Fulbourne Road,
Walthamstow,
London, E. 17.
[page break]
[underlined] COPY [/underlined]
A S E A
ALLMANNA SVENSKA ELEKTRISKA AKTIEBOLAGET
Vasteras Sweden, 7th December, 1944.
62/71
Fu 918-England
Sune Busch, Esq.,
Managing Director,
c/o Asea Electric Ltd.,
Fulbourne Road,
Walthamstow,
London, E. 17.
Dear Sune,
I got the other day a card dated 12th September from Mr. Valentine, who is in a prison camp in Germany. He writes as follows:
“Your letters of 9th April and 2nd May arrived together. I was delighted to have them so that I could send you my most grateful thanks for the kind gifts of a violin bow and tooth paste. Both reached me some time ago. The bow is excellent and I use it a great deal. It means a lot to me here. I assure you, I appreciate it deeply as well as the tooth paste of which I was greatly in need. Very many thanks for your kindness. I saw Mr. Söderberg a second time (29th May) and asked him if any kind friends could send some violin music – not elementary not yet advanced – something between the two. It may be that the end of the war approaches but if not I should be again most grateful for any help you can give me in that way. With kind regards and renewed thanks.”
I have previously sent him some chocolate, a violin bow, tooth paste and so on, and I will now arrange for some suitable music and some other things to be sent to him so that they if possible could reach him for Christmas. I understand that his parents will be very glad to know that he seems to be well off.
Kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
(Sgd.) H. Wernekinck
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Letter to S Busch from H Wernekinck
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From Mr Wernekinck to S Busch relates a letter sent to Mr Wernikinck from John Valentine who is in a prisoner of war camp in Germany thanking him for his gift of a violin bow and tooth paste. Valentine mentions that he saw a Mr Söderberg for a second time and asked him to arrange to send him music. Mr Wernekinck goes on to mention that had sent Valentine other items and that he would try and arrange for music to arrive by Christmas. Concludes by understanding that John's parents would be glad to know he was well off. On Last page a cover note shows Wernekinks letter sent on to John valentine by Mr Busch.
Creator
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H Wernekinck
Date
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1944-12-07
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One page typewritten letter and one page typewritten cover note
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eng
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Identifier
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EWernekinckHBuschS441207
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Sweden
Sweden--Västerås
Great Britain
England--London
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1944-12-07
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IBCC Digital Archive
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prisoner of war
-
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Västerås [place]
Aros; Arosia; Vaesteraas; Vesterås; Westerås; Westrosia
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Sweden--Västerås
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