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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>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Boldy, DA
Transcribed document
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[underlined] TELE. ADDRESS: “PAULTIE, DARJEELING.” [/underlined]
St. PAUL’S SCHOOL,
JALAPAHAR,
DARJEELING.
13/3/31/. 1931.
My darling Daddy
We both arrived safely. It is not as cold as I thought it would be. We have both been put up to Form II Stevie has been put up to my Dormitory, so we are both together. Stevie got sick in the toy train again. I [deleted]h[/deleted] hope [indecipherable word] little pompom is alright. Mr. & Mrs. [indecipherable name] met us at [indecipherable word] and send you their love. I am ending now, and will write soon [indecipherable word]. with love from your loving son David.
[page break]
Dave 1931 [symbol]
to Daddy
[symbol] 1932-33-
1934’35’36
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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, referring to his brother Stephen.
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David Boldy
Date
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1931-03-13
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
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EBoldyDABoldyAD310313
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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India
India--Darjeeling
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1931-03
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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Steve Baldwin
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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>.
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Boldy, DA
Transcribed document
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St. PAUL’S SCHOOL.
JALAPAHAR,
DARJEELING.
13/3/1931.
My dear Mummy.
We have arrived saftley, [sic] and I hope you have to [sic]. It is not very cold [deleted] hear [/deleted] here, not as cold as I thought. We saw Mr & Mrs Jiariah [?] at the station, and they sent their love.
We have both been put in the second form.
Stevie got sick in the toy train again [deleted] to [/deleted]. It was nice and sunny when we came up. Stevie has come up to Cotten-hall, so we are together. The walking leave is changed only IV form upwards
[page break]
[deleted] is alo [/deleted] are aloud [sic] out.
Mrs. Chambers ha [deleted] d [/deleted] [inserted] s [/inserted] a baby we saw it at silearcfuse, [?] you must have missed it in the papers. We have not got many big boys now. I am ending now because I have to writ [sic] to Daddy
With lots of love and
kisses from your
loving son
[underlined] David [/underlined]
[inserted] Dave 1931 [/inserted]
[inserted] [underlined] indecipherable word [/underlined] [/inserted]
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Description
An account of the resource
Letter from David Boldy to his mother. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to his brother Steve, weather, health, and pastimes.
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David Boldy
Date
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1931-03-13
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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EBoldyDABoldyLM310313
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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India
India--Darjeeling
Temporal Coverage
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1931-03
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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Title
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Letter from David Boldy to his mother
Contributor
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Janice Waller
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
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
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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
Transcribed document
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Transcription
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St. Paul’s School.
Jalapahar.
22/3/31/
My darling Mummy,
thank you for your letter of the 16th. I was very glad to get and that you have arrived safetley [sic]. I am very glad that you like the school. It has not rained at all through the [deleted] holdi [/deleted] holidays and if it does not rain we shall have to go home because their [sic] is very little water [deleted] n [/deleted] now and that will get used up the water supply only comes on at early in the morning and goes on till 8 o clock [sic] in the morning and then comes on again at 4 o clock [sic]. We had a hockey match against the town team and beat them, the [inserted] score [/inserted] being 1-0, so we won our 1st match although we have
[page break]
have only 4 or 5 good players.
We are having beutiful [sic] weather here. The boots that used to hurt me have stre [deleted] e [/deleted] tchet [sic] and are fiting [sic] me beutifully [sic]. We have to gargle with some stuff every morning because the water is so scarce that the [sic] can’t clean the drains properly. [deleted] Theis are [/deleted] Theire [sic] are a lot of sparrows in our school. Yes we have to [sic] letters from Daddy up to now.
Thank you for the post card you sent us. I am ending now with lots of love and kisses from your loving son [deleted] Dad [/deleted] David.
P.S. We had a bit of an [deleted] or [/deleted] earth quake a few days ago our beads [sic] started shaking so we all ran out, then we were called up by a master because it was over.
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Description
An account of the resource
Letter from David Boldy to his mother. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to severe water shortage, hockey matches and an earthquake.
Creator
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David Boldy
Date
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1931-03-22
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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EBoldyDABoldyLM310322
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
India
India--Darjeeling
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1931-03
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 mother
Contributor
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Janice Waller
sport