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Title
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Boldy, David
Dave Boldy
D A Boldy
Description
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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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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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.
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Boldy, DA
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ST PAUL’S SCHOOL,
JALAPAHAR,
DARJEELING.
21/9/28.
My dear Daddy,
I hope you are and happy. We are all quite well and happy. We played Victoria yesterday on their own field. They [deleted] one [/deleted] won the score was 5.0. I hope Pompom and Dorje are quite well. Thank you for the two letters. We had an English test. And I got 56 on 100. I passed. Mummy came to see us yesterday. We had a half-holiday [deleted] t [/deleted] yesterday. We are going to have a poetry test. Mummy is getting us hockey sticks on Sunday. Lawerence [sic] played clive and won the score was 1.0. I am in have-lock house. I think we are playing hastings to-day.
[page break]
We had a very nice party and ten candles. It’s a pity you were not there. I had a leaf and a big piece of jujube were on the cake. I have many marbles, about a 100. I am endining [sic] my letter now. With lots of love and kisses from David.
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Description
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Letter from David Boldy to his father with general conversation about attending St. Paul’s School in Darjeeling, his mother visiting and a birthday party.
Creator
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David Boldy
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Date
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1928-09-21
Language
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eng
Type
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Text. Correspondence
Text
Identifier
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EBoldyDABoldyAD280921
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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India
India--Darjeeling
Temporal Coverage
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1928-09
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Title
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Letter from David Boldy to his father
Contributor
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Karl Williams
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Boldy, David
Dave Boldy
D A Boldy
Description
An account of the resource
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>.
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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.
Identifier
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Boldy, DA
Transcribed document
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Transcription
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ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL,
JALAPAHAR,
DARJEELING.
September 28, 1928.
My dear Daddy.
I hope you are quite well and happy. Thank you for your nice letter. We had a poetry test and I got 60 I passed. We had a Geography test also and I got 90 on 100 I and another boy came top boys. This Saturday is the last and we are going out to sleep till Sunday. I am in the third eleven of Havelock house I am a back. We have had three matches 2 we won and 1 was a draw. We played St. Joseph’s School for the cup and beat them the score was 2.1. The hockey [deleted] S [/deleted] sticks are very nice ones. We have got blue rubber on them
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If there is a picture on Saturday Stevie and I will go and Mummy is going to a tea dance. Mummy came to see us on Thursday. I think the captain of our house is John I. Havelock house second eleven played Hastings and [inserted] the [/inserted] score was 7.0 we won. I am ending my letter now. With lots of love and kisses from
David.
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Description
An account of the resource
Letter from David Boldy to his father with general conversation about attending St. Paul’s School in Darjeeling. Discusses his daily activities and refers to his brother Stephen and a visit from his mother.
Creator
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David Boldy
Date
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1928-09-28
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text. Correspondence
Text
Identifier
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EBoldyDABoldyAD280928
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
India
India--Darjeeling
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1928-09
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.
Title
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Letter from David Boldy to his father
Contributor
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Karl Williams