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Boldy, David
Dave Boldy
D A Boldy
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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
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From D. A. Boldy.
D Flight, No 3 Squadron,
No 5 I.T.W.
R.A.F. Torquay.
R.A.F. Torquay.
28th August. 1940.
My darling Dad,
Thanks for your letter. I am glad to hear you are back at work & hope you have a successful season.
About ten days ago I came back from my week’s leave. I had a wonderful time & thoroughly enjoyed myself. Steve also took a week’s leave. Peter my friend who had joined the navy was also in London on 28 days sick leave as he had been wounded. He is quite allright [sic] now. All of us felt terribly tired out when we got back as we had hit the hay, but it was worth it.
I have finished the initial course & now await posting to a navigation school. My average for the whole was 90%. At the moment we are still doing the same as before, drill, P.T. & lectures. I am enclosing a photograph of myself in flying kit, I hope you like it. It is rather a good one. I haven’t been up yet but will go up at the next place.
The weather has been very good. I have have [sic] had some very good tennis & won two
[page break]
mixed doubles tournaments at the Torquay Club. I got 5/- each time. We swim now & again. I had a good swim yesterday. We still do a lot of work though & seem to feel perpetually tired. [indecipherable word] everyone remarked how fit I looked. We have had several warnings since I have been back & [deleted] Lodon [/deleted] London is having a number. They don’t worry us at all, we can take it & some day the Jerries are going to get a mouthful they won’t be able to swallow.
I only realised a short time ago that Steve had got through more than half his course. Another two years & he should be a qualified Doctor. Good for him. I have now been over 4 months in the R.A F. I am an L.A.C. (Leading Aircraftsman) & earn, £3 10s a fortnight. No more Today.
God bless you
[underlined] Love Dave. [/underlined]
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Letter from Leading Aircraftsman David Boldy to his father about being on leave from the Royal Air Force with his brother Steve and Peter, a friend who was wounded in the Navy. He has completed the initial course and awaits posting to navigation school. He sends a photo in flying kit. Steve is more than half way through his medical training, and they got to play tennis in Torquay.
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David Boldy
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1940-08-28
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EBoldyDABoldyAD400828
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Great Britain
England--Torquay
England--Devon
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1940-08
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
Type
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Text. Correspondence
Text
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Letter from David Boldy to his father
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Steve Christian
entertainment
RAF Torquay
training
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Boldy, David
Dave Boldy
D A Boldy
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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
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5 Initial Training Wing
D Flight No. 3 Squadron’ ‘5 I.T.W August 1940
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World War (1939-1945)
Great Britain. Royal Air Force.
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45 aircrew are arranged in four rows, front row one sitting; all are wearing Sidcot suits, flying boots and gauntlets and are carrying flying helmets. Some airmen on the second row from front are holding a board on which is chalked ‘D Flight’ and in the centre of the front row are a sergeant, flight sergeant and corporal in dress uniform. The group stands in front of steps up to the balustraded front of an ornate building. Captioned ‘D Flight No. 3 Squadron’ [RAF crest] ‘5 I.T.W August 1940’
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1940-08
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One b/w photograph mounted on cardboard
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PBoldyDA15020009
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Hastings
England--Sussex
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1940-08
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Photograph
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Boldy, David. Folder PBoldyDA1502
aircrew
Initial Training Wing
training
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Boldy, David
Dave Boldy
D A Boldy
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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
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[deleted] 923995 LAC BOLDY D.A.
D Flight, No 3 Squadron,
No 5, I.T.W.
R.A.F. Torquay,
21st August 1940. [/deleted]
[inserted] from
Boldy
59, Bathurst Mews
Lancaster Gate,
London, W.2. [/inserted]
Mum darling,
Just in case my last letter did not reach you as someone else posted it, thanks very much again for the awfully good Time I had during my leave. [inserted] (The last letter reached me but the paper is [indecipherable word]). [/inserted]
I am glad I phoned you both from the fact I had not felt so well on Saturday & then also about the bombing of a S.W. Town you must have read about. It happened a couple of stations away. One of our chaps was on a bridge when a bomb fell a few yards away and he was blown clean off his feet though quite unhurt. The ramparts of the bridge saved him. He was also machin [sic] gunned.
After two really quiet days the old [deleted] dog [/deleted] D Flight spirit came back with a vengeance to-day. We had a real lark about to-day. The Flight Sergeant drilled us to-day & went through practically everything we had done. He was very pleased with
[page break]
the results.
I thouroughly [sic] enjoyed navigation today. We had some stuff about intercepting enemy planes & after I understood it, it was very interesting.
This evening I had some very enjoyable Tennis with some rather good players. After it an old gentleman took us into his hotel and gave us coffee and buscuits. [sic] Some of us had very short pants especially one chap & some of the people at the hotel looked quite shocked. I may have my racket restrung for a pound. I can just about afford it on my present pay.
Incidentally we had a three minute air-raid warning these [sic] morning. We thought we'd miss some work but were disappointed.
No more to-day. God bless you.
[underlined] Love Dave. [/underlined]
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World War (1939-1945)
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Description
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Letter from David Boldy to his mother thanking her for the good time he had during his recent leave. He speaks about a bombing attack that had happened at a nearby station and mentions that he is enjoying his social life and finds his current training very interesting.
Date
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1940-08-21
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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Text. Correspondence
Text
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EBoldyDABoldyLM400821
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Royal Air Force
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1940-08
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
Creator
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David Boldy
Contributor
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Joy Reynard
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Letter from David Boldy to his mother
bombing
training
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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
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[deleted] 923995, LAC, Boldy. D.A.
D Flight, No 3 Squadron,
No 5 I.G.W.
R.A.F. Torquay.
23rd August, 1940. [/deleted]
[inserted] from
Boldy,
59, Bathurst Mews,
Lancaster Gate,
London, W.2. [/inserted]
Mum, Darling,
Thanks very much for your letter no we had a quiet journey, no warning or anything like that. Thanks awfully for the tennis balls, they look very nice. I shall write to Steve when I have an opportunity.
We have all [deleted] got [/deleted] definitely got into the swim of things again, & are quite enjoying ourselves. Yesterday we went to a variety show at the Palladium. We had a grand time. Evelyn Laye sang & then came among the audience singing the new song “Go to it”. As no one would go up to her when she asked for someone we called her over. There was a sugestion [sic] that I should go but I thought not. Anyway Jimmy (the boy who had lunch with us) went up. She said one, two, three Go to it, Jimmy was speechless & cried help me D Flight. So the next time she [deleted] indecipherable word [/deleted] counted we yelled Go to it & she said Come in D Flight. It all caused great amusement. We then had half a pint at the Downs & went home.
[page break]
I phoned Myrtle to-day & we are going dancing tomorrow. She is the girl who was supposed to play as my partner but was late.
The Flight Sergeant took us in drill yesterday & was very pleased with the result. One of the new fellows looking on said “What a great Flight.” He wasn’t quite so pleased with our rifle drill today though.
I have got the photographs & will send them as soon as possible.
No more today as I want to post this.
[underlined] Love Dave [/underlined]
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World War (1939-1945)
Bombing, Aerial
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Letter from David Boldy to his mother. Thanks her for some tennis balls, and informs her about a variety show that he had attended. Mentions that the flight sergeant was impressed with their flight drill but not with their rifle drill.
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David Boldy
Date
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1940-08-23
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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EBoldyDABoldyLM400823
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1940-08
Contributor
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Janice Waller
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Title
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Letter from David Boldy to his mother
entertainment
training
-
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Belton, Spencer Lewis
Spencer Lewis Belton
Spencer Lewis Smith Belton
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Belton, SLS
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An account of the resource
34 items. Photographs, correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton (1919 - 1940, 581261 Royal Air Force). Spencer Lewis Belton flew as an observer/ bomb aimer with 144 Squadron from RAF Hemswell. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal after an operation to Wilhelmshaven in July 1940 and was interviewed about it by the British Broadcasting Corporation. He was killed 10/11 August 1940 when his Hampden P4368 crashed in the Netherlands, during an operation to Homberg. <br /><br />Additional information on Spencer Lewis Belton is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/101634/">IBCC Losses Database.</a><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Denise Carr and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
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2015-11-20
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THE PEOPLE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1940 – Page 7
HERO OF 21 R.A.F. RAIDS GETS D.F.C.
BRITISH AIRMEN WHO, LAST MONTH, BOMBED THE RUHR AND ENEMY WARSHIPS AT WILHELMSHAVEN NAVY BASE ARE IN THE [number of missing words] FOR GALLANTRY.
Flying Officer Neville Williams, of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, had dropped his bombs on Ruhr industrial plant, and was returning home when three enemy fighters attacked him.
One and possibly two of the enemy planes were shot down and the third driven off.
Flying-Officer Williams’s plane was riddled with bullets, says the official award yesterday. He brought it safely home.
In all he had taken part in 21 raids on enemy territory this year. He receives the D.F.C. for his “coolness, courage and real leadership.”
Pilot-Officer Angus Robson, an Australian, gets the D.F.C. for conspicuous courage in a Wilhelmshaven raid.
Undeterred by terrific gunfire, he swept down to 20 ft. above the buildings, crossed the harbour, and pressed home his attack on an enemy warship.
TYNESIDE GUNNER
Sgt. Wallace Stockport, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, the wireless operator – air gunner in Pilot-Officer Robson’s aircraft, wins the D.F.M.
Another Wilhelmshaven raider, Pilot-Officer W. F. Tudhope, a South African, is also awarded the D.F.C. Though his plane was badly hit by a high explosive shell, he attempted a second attack on the enemy warships.
His engine was severely damaged, but he brought his craft safely home. Navigator and bomb aimer in the plane was Sergt. L. S. Belton, of Chelmsford. For his cool and courageous work after his cabin had been punctured with holes he gets the D.F.M.
Sergt. S. B. Fuller, of Chiswick, and Sergt. A. C. Goulder, of Southport, were captain and wireless operator of a third plane in the Wilhelmshaven raid.
Their attack was delivered from a few feet above the docks. Both win the D.F.M. for “conspicuous courage.”
Yet another D.F.M. goes to Sergt. L.A. White, of Derby. He showed a high degree of skill, clear thinking and quick judgement as rear gunner of a plane attacked by three enemy aircraft over Wessel aerodrome.
Two of the enemy were sent down out of control.
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Hero of 21 RAF raids gets DFC
Subject
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World War (1939-1945)
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Description
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Distinguished Flying Crosses and Distinguished Flying Medals issued to aircrew, with details on the operations.
From: The People, 4 August 1940, p. 6.
Date
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1940-08-04
Format
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One newspaper cutting
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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NBeltonSLS151120-07
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal New Zealand Air Force
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David Bloomfield
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IBCC Digital Archive
The People
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1940-08
aircrew
bomb aimer
bombing
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Flying Medal
navigator
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
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529 items. Collection concerns Pilot Officer James Douglas Hudson, DFC (755052 Royal Air Force) who joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1939 and trained as an observer. While on route to Malta in August 1940 his Blenheim crashed in Tunisia and he was subsequently interned for two and a half years by Vichy French in Tunisia and Algeria. After being freed he returned to Great Britain and after navigator retraining completed a tour of 30 operations on 100 Squadron. The collection contains letters to and from his parents and from French penfriends while interned in Tunisia and Algeria, newspaper cuttings of various events, logbooks and lists of operations, official documents and photographs. A further 23 items are in two sub-collections with details of navigator examinations and postcards of Laghouat Algeria.<br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Elizabeth Smith and Yvonne Puncher and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning Louis Murray and Harry Bowers. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/202827/">Harry Bowers</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/220410/">Louis Murray</a> is available via the IBCC Losses Database.</p>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-06-16
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Hudson, JD
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[postmark]
[postage stamp]
Mr. & Mrs. Hudson.
10. Moorside Road.
Kersal.
Salford. 7.
Lancashire.
[page break]
20th August 1940.
Dear Mother & Dad,
It is pouring with rain to-night, so Tony and I have decided not to go out. Instead we have done a certain amount of tidying up in preparation for the journey we are to make very soon.
We don’t know just when we shall start, but the time is not very distant, and we are almost ready.
It will not take us very long as you will realise. I cannot [inserted] help [/inserted] feeling a certain amount of honour has been paid when I think what a lot will possibly depend upon the result of all this.
Twelve months ago when I started on our motor bike holiday I did not dream that this was possible.
I hope I shall be able to let you know beforehand just when I shall be going. After that, I am afraid that news will
[page break]
be slow, and I ask you to be patient, but above all not to worry.
I know only too well just how you feel, and I do realise that it is far worse for you at home – waiting and wondering.
I am not afraid (you remember what I used to say about having to make a speech before a big gathering?) and my only great concern is my anxiety for you in this time of beastly uncertainty. I only wish you to understand that I am satisfied with my lot and do hope you will find strength in [inserted] knowing [/inserted] this.
I shall take away with me a lot of pleasant memories and the knowledge that you have both meant a great deal to me and that you have always shown first consideration for my welfare. I cannot have more than that. That is something that nobody can take away.
It is not the personal danger of this
[page break]
war which harms us so much as the things we have known and loved that have been taken [deleted] g [/deleted] away from us.
There is plenty of excitement for me which helps to nullify all this, but for you it is different, and it is here that my heart goes out to you.
May you at least be spared the horrors of the futile Nazi attempt at destruction. I say futile because it is so stupidly pointless and gainless.
Above all dont [sic] worry about me. I can only keep saying that if I could chose [sic] again, my choice would be the same. I am all right, and whatever may happen, that which really counts, and will count when the war is over, cannot be destroyed.
I shall be thinking about you always and will now say cheerio simply by wishing you the best of luck.
Until we meet again,
All my love,
[underlined] Douglas. [/underlined]
[page break]
[Post Office crest]
INLAND TELEGRAM
[underlined] Emsworth. Hampshire [/underlined]
[underlined] Monday [/underlined]
Arrived this place this morning It is near Portsmouth, & quite a pleasant spot. To-night at midnight I am off. Think of me tomorrow at breakfast time. The first stage of my journey should then be complete
All love, Douglas.
P.T.O.
[page break]
Would you kindly send 25/- of this to [inserted] Sgt. [/inserted] [underlined] H. Bowers 4. Oak Rd Crumpsall. [/underlined] & say it is his share of the [indecipherable word] spoils. Just a wee note to tell him I have gone away & he will understand. The remainder, please put away for me. Thank you.
[underlined] Douglas [/underlined]
Please excuse hurry. I know you will understand.
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Douglas Hudson letter to parents and telegram sent before departure abroad
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Letter to parents saying they are ready to depart but do not know where and when. Shows concern over uncertainty and writes of regard for parents and they should not worry about him. Telegram announces that he has arrived at Emsworth near Portsmouth and will be departing at midnight. Asks recipient to send 25 shillings to a colleague.
Date
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1940-08-20
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Three page handwritten letter and envelope, two page handwritten telegram and handwritten note.
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eng
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EHudsonJDHudson(Fam)400820-01
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Greater Manchester
England--Salford (Greater Manchester)
England--Emsworth
England--Sussex
England--Hampshire
England--Lancashire
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1940-08
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Tricia Marshall
David Bloomfield
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IBCC Digital Archive
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James Douglas Hudson
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Batty, Philip
Phil Batty
P Batty
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19 Items. The collection consists of one oral history interview with Philip Batty (b. 1925). He discusses the death of his older brother Dennis early in the Second World War, his wartime service with 50 Squadron at RAF Sturgate as a wireless operator/ air gunner, and his long post war career. The collection also includes a number of group photographs of airmen after training, photographs of aircraft in southern Africa, his log book and propaganda material.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-10-14
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Batty, P
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Philip Batty and an airmen
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One is a sergeant with half wing brevet and wireless operator flash on sleeve, the other is an airman. Captioned 'Horace and myself August 1940 Belfast'.
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1940-08
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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PBattyPH1661, PBattyPH1662
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
Northern Ireland--Belfast
Great Britain
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1940-08
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aircrew
wireless operator
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Photograph of Fifteen personnel and identity card for Section Officer J Donaldson
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Top - eight members of Women's Auxiliary Air Force and seven Royal Air Force officers in two rows. Seven sitting in front and eight standing behind. All are wearing tunics and peaked hats. Joyce Donaldson is third from the right back row. There is one padre in back row. In the background a wooden fence. Bottom - Identity Card for RAF and WAAF personnel (all ranks) made out to Section Officer Donaldson (Edwards crossed out) at Bentley Priory and Mildenhall.
Date
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1940-06-24
1940-08-03
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One b/w photograph and one printed document mounted on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
Text
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PGrundyAF15010004
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--London
England--Suffolk
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1940-06
1940-07
1940-08
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faith
ground personnel
RAF Bentley Priory
RAF Mildenhall
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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Redgrave, Henry Cecil
H C Redgrave
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An account of the resource
187 items. The collection concerns Henry Cecil Redgrave (743047, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, letters and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 207 Squadron from RAF Waddington. He was killed 13/14 March 1941. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pam Isaac and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Henry Cecil Redgrave is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/119457/">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Redgrave, HC
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Sgt. [Sergeant] Redgrave H.C. 743047
Sergeants Mess
R.A.F. Station
Upwood
Hunts.
2.8.40
Dear Jessie
Sorry I missed writing to you yesterday but as things have turned out I have been too busy. I dont [sic] know whether you have written yet but up to today Friday I have not received anything yet. I posted a letter to you on Monday evening and in case you did not get it and are waiting for an address use the one above.
As I told you before we were to do a fortnight in the Pool before flying but on Tuesday all of us from Dumfries were placed in C Squadron and started flying Wednesday. Well we fly every day Saturday and Sunday included as well as lectures each day. The exercises last about three hours and this morning I had to get up at five to be over the other side of the drome [sic] by six. I got down about nine and have got the rest of the morning off and will start lectures after dinner. Last night I landed about half past eight in the evening so you can see we are kept well on the move. The flights are very interesting and for the first time I am using wireless as an aid to navigation. When you are above cloud for an hour at a stretch this is a great help and once I get used to
[page break]
it I shall be getting well ahead with this advanced navigation. Later on we do a lot of night flying and target locating and practice stick bombing. The course is much more interesting than anything I have yet done and is so much more practical. We must do an hour a week at least on the Link Trainer and [deleted] hrs [/deleted] eight hours on the A.M.L. The Link Trainer is a piloting arrangement whereby flying is reproduced on the ground and the idea is to enable us to learn piloting just as a side line. The A.M.L. is a bombing teacher but I did quite a bit of that at Warmwell. By the way this ten hours a week is out of our “spare” time. Its [sic] all good practice though and I am beginning to feel a real observer by now.
Will you ask your Mum if, when you send her the key to the bungalow [deleted] I [/deleted] she would take it to Ticketts and get them to collect my byke [sic] as I have written to the Taxation Office and they will provide petrol coupons for me to bring it up here.
Well thats [sic] all for now and I do hope there is something in the post for me.
Lots of love darling and hoping to see you soon
Your loving Husband
Harry XXXX
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To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Description
An account of the resource
A letter from Harry Redgrave in RAF Upwood to his wife Jessie. Harry writes that he is in C Squadron and has started flying seven days a week and attending lectures. He is now using wireless for navigation and using the Link Trainer and the Air Ministry Laboratory bombing teacher.
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Harry Redgrave
Date
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1940-08-02
Format
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Two handwritten sheets
Language
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eng
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Text
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ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400802-0001,
ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400802-0002
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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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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Great Britain
England--Cambridgeshire
Temporal Coverage
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1940-08
aircrew
bombing
navigator
RAF Upwood
training
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Redgrave, Henry Cecil
H C Redgrave
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An account of the resource
187 items. The collection concerns Henry Cecil Redgrave (743047, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, letters and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 207 Squadron from RAF Waddington. He was killed 13/14 March 1941. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pam Isaac and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Henry Cecil Redgrave is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/119457/">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Redgrave, HC
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[postmark]
Mrs. H.C Redgrave
“Emorf”
Alice Road
Dorchester
Dorset
[page break]
Sergeants Mess
R.A.F. Station
Upwood
Hunts
Mon 5.8.40
My dear Jessie,
I see you have got used to addressing my letters to Sergeants [sic] Mess now and I have got your last too O.K. After writing to you on Friday it dawned on me that perhaps from habit you had sent it to L.A.C. so I scouted around and was overjoyed to find one waiting for me. Its [sic] nice to hear everything is tikiti-boo [sic] in Dorchester and that you are quite happy. You seem to be getting plenty of alarms though I think that is general all over the country. As for moving up here I feel sure you would be happier in Dorchester as Ramsey is such a miserable little place and only has tiny little houses with no washing arrangements or baths and I know you would be lost to know what to do with yourself all day. There are only about half a dozen shops and one cinema that shows terribly old films. It would be almost like living at East Lulworth. Peterboro’ [sic] is not a bad town at all but is about sixteen miles away and the buses only run there Saturday and Sunday so if you lived there I could only see you one of the two days as I should be flying in the afternoon of [deleted] one of them [/deleted] the other. It shook me considerable to find we fly seven days a week and on Saturday I was up from
[page break]
five to eight in the evening and on Sunday morning was in the crew room just after eight and got down in time for dinner. Some of the squadron had to be over there by six. Just fancy six o’clock on a Sunday morning. You would think there was a war on wouldn’t you. I was fortunate because it gave me a [deleted] haf [/deleted] half day off and Taffy, thats [sic] a fellow who shares my room, and I [deleted] hich [/deleted] hitch hiked to Peterboro [sic] and got in there about seven. We had a pleasant stroll around and it was nice to see some people again. Did my eyes good to see all the young ladies in their summery dresses walking out for an evening stroll by the river side. And did your handsome sergeant observer make a hit. [sic] We couldn’t keep the admiring girls away and after taking our choice two nice young ladies showed us round the Cathedral Garden and you must see the Cathedral some time darling I think its [sic] better than Canterbury. They also showed us where the bombs dropped a little while ago which damaged the swimming pool and knocked part of the walls down nearby. Whilst talking about bombs dear these things Jerry is dropping around are pretty poor stuff and we hear incredible stories of small ones being dropped which dont [sic] even break windows and sometimes not even wake people up. So keep your chin up dear they aren’t so bad as you would think. These small ones dropped at random are only to put the wind up people and are not so serious.
As I told you I am getting plenty of hours in and most of my trips take me down Oxford way and across to Cheltenham and Gloucester. I am finding navigation easier on these overland trips
[page break]
than the mixed mountains and sea flights at Prestwick. Having a wireless operator aboard is a help too as they can get you W.T. bearings when we are above cloud and it makes it much more interesting too.
It appears that these evacuation officials have made a mess up but you carry on drawing it while you can. Norwich is about fifty miles away dear. Thanks for asking your Mum about the key and tell her to arrange for Tickett to collect [deleted] it [/deleted] [inserted] the Beam [/inserted] as soon as possible. I have written to him and he knows what wants doing to it.
I think this immediate posting to C Squadron has finished my chance of 48 hours leave which the Pool are getting next week end. Just my luck isn’t darling. They say theres [sic] bags of leave at operational squadrons though, so it wont [sic] be long.
I bet Pamela looks pretty with her hair cut; almost as pretty as her Mum. You looked fine when I saw you last. Just as young and pretty as ever and I am just longing to see you for at least a week very soon. Give my love to all at “Emorf” and heres [sic] kisses for you sweet xxx from
Your loving husband
Harry
P.S. When you write to your Mum tell her I may pop down one day soon to [deleted] el [/deleted] fetch my byke [sic] and will call round to her for the key to “Redwood”.
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To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
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A letter and envelope from Harry Redgrave to Jessie. Harry writes about life at RAF Upwood, including his intensive training, the lack of leave and a trip into Peterborough. He also discusses where Jessie could live and includes a description of the town of Ramsay.
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Harry Redgrave
Date
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1940-08-05
Format
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Three handwritten sheets and an envelope
Language
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eng
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1940-08
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training
wireless operator
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Redgrave, Henry Cecil
H C Redgrave
Description
An account of the resource
187 items. The collection concerns Henry Cecil Redgrave (743047, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, letters and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 207 Squadron from RAF Waddington. He was killed 13/14 March 1941. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pam Isaac and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Henry Cecil Redgrave is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/119457/">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Redgrave, HC
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[postmark]
[postage stamp]
Mrs. H.C Redgrave
“Emorf”
Alice Road
Dorchester
Dorset
[page break]
Sergeants Mess
R.A.F. Station
Upwood
Hunts
6.8.40
My dear Jessie,
After yesterdays [sic] three pages I dont [sic] suppose I shall find much to write this evening but as I may not have time tomorrow I am going to [inserted] do [/inserted] my best tonight. Today has been easy as the result of a fine wangle. I started by reporting in the crew room at half past eight this morning for three and a quarter hours Blenheim flying and as the weather was so misty we had to hang about. In any case our machines were dotted around the county in other aerodromes where they had force landed owing to the poor [deleted] visiball [/deleted] visibility so it was apparent that our trip was off at least until the planes returned. To pass the time we did a bit of abandon aircraft drill – incidently [sic] the observer gets out first - and then a phone call came through for a pilot and observer to go to Wytton [sic] to swing the compass of the Air Officer Commanding’s plane. Well my pilot and I wangled for the job and were taken by tender down to Wytton [sic] about ten miles away and got on with the swinging. All I had to do was supervise a lot of A.C.s who did all the work whilst I made out the Deviation Card and we had the job done by midday. That was much to [sic] early to return to Upwood so we made out a chit for the driver to get dinner in the airmans [sic] mess, and went over for lunch in the Sergeants Mess and had a sleep until two when
[page break]
set off [sic] back to our base. Not getting back until half past was late enough for me miss [sic] the first lecture period and I eventually started again at half three. Yet for all that I fell asleep whilst the Met Officer was rambling away about cumulus but can excuse myself by saying that I could have told him all he told us. Tomorrow I am down for flying at half past one and to start night flying at half past ten. Do you know I have done one hundred and fifty hours now and look like passing the two hundred mark before leaving.
I have written to the Town Clerk and Mr Tickett to arrange for my motor byke [sic] to be sent up here. When your Mum gets the key will you ask her to look for my “Registration Book” which I hope you can tell [deleted] if [/deleted] her where to find and for my “Driving Licence” which I [underlined] think [/underlined] is in my wallet. It is essential that I have these and I would like you to ask her to have a really good look and send them on to my address which you must give her. Both are titled as I have written and the D.L. is bright red about [deleted] 3” x 2” [/deleted] 5” x 3” and R.B. a buff coloured folder about 9” x 3 ½”. When she has found these I would like her to take the key down to Ticketts for them to get the byke [sic] out. As you know I was hoping for a day to go and fetch it myself but I find that is impossible.
Time I went to bed dear and so sweet dreams and a quiet night love.
Always your loving
Harry xxxx
P.S. I wish I was with you to whisper in your ear “I love you darling”
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To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Description
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A letter and envelope from Harry Redgrave to Jessie. Harry writes about life at RAF Upwood including his intensive training and a trip to RAF Wyton to swing the compass at the Air Officer Commanding’s plane. He also is trying to get his motorcycle brought up to Upwood and asks Jessie to find his driving licence.
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Harry Redgrave
Date
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1940-08-06
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Two handwritten sheets and an envelope
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eng
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ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400806-0001,
ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400806-0002,
ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400806-0003
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
England--Cambridgeshire
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1940-08
aircrew
Blenheim
observer
RAF Upwood
RAF Wyton
training
-
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Redgrave, Henry Cecil
H C Redgrave
Description
An account of the resource
187 items. The collection concerns Henry Cecil Redgrave (743047, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, letters and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 207 Squadron from RAF Waddington. He was killed 13/14 March 1941. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pam Isaac and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Henry Cecil Redgrave is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/119457/">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Redgrave, HC
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[postmark]
Mrs. H.C. Redgrave,
“Emorf”,
Alice Road,
Dorchester.
Dorset
[page break]
Sergeants Mess
R.A.F. Station
Upwood
Hunts
Thurs 8.8.40
Dear Jessie,
Theres [sic] quite a change in the weather down this way dear and it has turned rather chilly. I hope it is keeping nice for you in Dorset and that you are getting your rest at nights and that Horace will enjoy his holiday.
Yesterday I was relieved to find that I was not on the flying programme and looked forward to an easy day but sure enough there was a catch in it and at four o’clock I was told to report to the Adjutants Office. There I was told I was detailed as N.C.O. in charge of the beacon party and had to spend from eight until nearly one in the morning beside the mobile beacon which is placed each night at a given bearing and distance from the aerodrome. Apart from being responsible for the men on the job I had to do the signalling to aircraft who after giving the code letters to identify themselves required the direction and name of the aerodrome. The job was a bit of a bind but is one of the duties of sergeants and so I must not grumble.
I had an interesting experience this morning when I was member of a crew doing ZZ landings. This ZZ business is a method of landing when visibility is almost nil by the aid of wireless control. I cant [sic] tell you any more
[page break]
about it as, like so much we are learning, it is terribly hush-hush. When the war is all over I shall have lots to tell you dear to pass away winter evenings round the fire or when sitting by a river side in the summer sun. Those things just dont [sic] seem possible now do they darling.
Poor O’Brien seems to be in trouble with his navigation these days having twice landed up in a balloon barrage. Thats [sic] all right as long as he misses them but the safest thing is to be well away from them and not to allow yourself to get off your track.
I have just finished reading “Wild Oats” and have [inserted] had [/inserted] lent to me a book entitled “Cage me a Peacock” which as well as being very funny is delightfully shocking. The first chapter describes the finding of a young slave in a pond bathing by a youthful shepherd. The young man though rather shy is led on by the girl and the story goes on to vividly describe his feelings during his first experience of loves delight. It almost stirred my latent passions I can tell you and made me wish you were beside me as I lay reading. The sooner I finish this book the better as that sort of thing is no good for man [sic] away from his love.
Have you heard anything about my lighter as the only thing I can think is that I left it on Jessies [sic] sideboard. Cousin Jessie I mean. I remember offering her a cigarette and lighting one myself just as we left and did not have another until we got to Teddington Station.
I think Bill wants his byke [sic] sent on so I will run
[page break]
across to his house now and see what you are to do.
I have seen Bill and here is the address to send it to. 755442 Sgt Smith s.c, R.A.F. Station, Upwood. Mark the label “To Be Called for at Ramsey Station L.N.E.R.” “Handle with care please” Send it by Goods Train Carriage Forward Owners Risk. You may have to sign a few forms but I dont [sic] doubt that you will manage all right.
Your suggestion of getting the rest of your allowance through by an allottment [sic]] is good but the difficulty is that the accounts office is only open for that sort of thing on Tuesday afternoons and I have not yet been able to get there. I will try next week and if not flying should be able to get away from lectures without difficulty.
I must finish up now as I have my bed to make and I bet you would laugh to see me struggling with the sheets of a double bed and trying to remember all you taught me, whilst getting the blanket twisted up or something.
Goodnight my love and tell Pam I am always thinking of her.
Always your loving
Harry xxxx
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To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Description
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A letter and envelope from Harry Redgrave to Jessie. Harry writes about life at RAF Upwood including being put in charge of a beacon party, being in a crew doing ZZ landings and a colleague who keeps flying into a barrage balloon.
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Harry Redgrave
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1940-08-08
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Three handwritten sheets and an envelope
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eng
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ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400808-0001,
ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400808-0002,
ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400808-0003,
ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400808-0004
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
England--Cambridgeshire
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1940-08
aircrew
entertainment
navigator
RAF Upwood
training
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Redgrave, Henry Cecil
H C Redgrave
Description
An account of the resource
187 items. The collection concerns Henry Cecil Redgrave (743047, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, letters and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 207 Squadron from RAF Waddington. He was killed 13/14 March 1941. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pam Isaac and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Henry Cecil Redgrave is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/119457/">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Redgrave, HC
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Sgts Mess
R.A.F. Station
Upwood
Wed. 14-8-40
[inserted] lock of hair [/inserted]
My Darling Jessie,
I have just got back from my two days off and would like you to know I have enjoyed every minute of it. Withal it was nice I longed every minute of it to have you with me but it just couldn’t be. When I wrote you Monday I thought I may be able to get down to Dorchester but when I got to Kings X [sic] it was too late for a train down to you so I went to Mums and got there about quarter to ten. You can imagine Mums face when she saw me. The first time since Easter you know. Well the evening passed off very happily and Tuesday morning I went to Southend and fixed up for my tyre which I got later that day. While I was going down High St. I met Vera and we had some lunch at Garons and in the afternoon went to the Gaumont and saw Rebecca. If you have not seen this film you must at the first chance as its [sic] a grand show and the best film of the year I should say. I collected the Sunbeam about six and Vera took me to her bungalow for some tea and after that I went round to Redwood. It looked very trim and your Mother is doing some good work in keeping the garden tidy. My Mum keeps the inside swept up and everything looked safe and sound. She has put some moth balls in your wardrobe and some in the bedding so they shouldnt [sic] come to any harm. From the bungalow
[page break]
I drove down to your Mums [sic] and I thought she looked better than I have seen her for years. I then visited Leslie and the outcome of it was that I stayed the night there and they gave me breakfast before I left this morning. They seem much happier than they did and Marian was quite her old smart self and the house was all nice and clean. Leslie and I stayed up until two this morning talking away and he appears to have changed his mind about being C.O. and is registered and awaiting his call up. It was very much like old times he and I sitting up into the small [deleted] or [/deleted] hours talking and discussing anything that cropped up. Marian brought me tea in bed and I then got up had breakfast and left about half past nine for Tilbury again where I spent the rest of the day with Mum and the girls. Pat is looking wonderfully well and is a dear little creature just as good as ever. Mum and Joyce are well and Kelly seems to be getting over her trouble. They all send their love to you. At five I started my eighty mile drive back to the camp and got on so well that I stopped in Cambridge for an hour. The whole of the run to there and Cambridge itself was steeped in memories of the jolly runs we had before we were married and I relived them as I crackled along the roads. I reached camp about nine and went for your letters and some supper and found the two Standards as well. I enjoyed your letter and was greatly relieved to find that the Portland raids had not troubled you too much. If you find things getting hot you must leave but it seems foolish for you to settle down up here when I shall be moving again in less than four weeks so if you can manage for
[page break]
another month I shall then be definitly [sic] stationed with a squadron and you will be saved the trouble and expense of moving twice. I am enclosing ten shillings which with your extra will amount to seventeen. I know I have cut you short this last two weeks but what with the travelling about to new stations and our night in London and this last two days I am very short. You wouldnt [sic] know Southend its almost empty and the Maricot and the Metropole are closed and nearly all the Westcliff shops and Woolworths was quieter on Monday than I have ever known it before.
I cant [sic] think of any more to tell you except I am longing for when you are living near me again and hope you keep your chin up in the air raids that are going on everywhere now. All my love darling and I am saving heaps of kisses for you till you see your
fond husband
Harry xxxxx
P.S. Save Shabby Tiger [?] for me and I am sorry I cant [sic] lend you “Cage” me & [deleted] Peako [/deleted] peacock”
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To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Description
An account of the resource
Letter from Harry Redgrave to his wife Jessie. Harry writes about his trip to Dorchester and Southend, seeing various family members and checking up on their bungalow, coming back on his motorcycle. Also mentions moving to a new station and hoping to see his wife soon. Included is a lock of hair.
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Harry Redgrave
Date
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1940-08-14
Format
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Three handwritten sheets and a lock of hair
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eng
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ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400814-0001,
ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400814-0002,
ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400814-0003,
ERedgraveHCRedgraveJM400814-0004
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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Great Britain
England--Dorset
England--Dorchester (Dorset)
England--Essex
England--Southend-on-Sea
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1940-08
aircrew
entertainment
RAF Upwood
training
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Redgrave, Henry Cecil
H C Redgrave
Description
An account of the resource
187 items. The collection concerns Henry Cecil Redgrave (743047, Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, letters and photographs. He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 207 Squadron from RAF Waddington. He was killed 13/14 March 1941. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pam Isaac and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Henry Cecil Redgrave is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/119457/">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Redgrave, HC
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[postmark]
Mrs H C. Redgrave
“Emorf”
Alice Road
Dorchester
Dorset.
[page break]
[expenses and time calculations]
[page break]
Sgts Mess
R.A.F. Station
Upwood
Tues. 20-8-40
Dear Jessie,
I am writing this from your new digs at the address in my last letter which contained your travel warrant. They are not so good as Emorf but have the advantage of being on the bus route to Upwood. If you cant [sic] manage here you will be able to fix up somewhere else once you are in Peterboro’. You can start as soon as you like and I hope to see you on Thursday evening. If you send a wire on Mrs Garton will meet you at the station but in any case you wont [sic] find it hard to find the place as plenty of buses pass the door.
I have sent your case on and hope it will reach you in time [deleted] but if not [/deleted] You
[page break]
can go to the station for it and get it a bit earlier. Should it not arrive you will have to arrange for Ethel to send it on with your things.
I think that is all except I am longing to see you and Pamela again and hope it will be Thursday evening.
Your loving husband
Harry xxxxx
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To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
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An account of the resource
A letter and envelope from Harry Redgrave to his wife. Harry has arranged digs for her and advises on her travel arrangements.
Creator
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Harry Redgrave
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Baker, Donald Arthur
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187 items. Donald Arthur Baker (b. 1921) travelled from Southern Rhodesia to England in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force. Trained as a pilot in 1941 he was operational with 144 Squadron at RAF North Luffenham flying Hampdens. He was shot down on 5 November 1941 and remained a prisoner of war mostly in Stalag Luft 3 until 1945. He return to farm in Southern Rhodesia after the war. The collection contains letters to his mother throughout the war as well as other correspondence and documents including his prisoner of war log with photographs and notes.
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by June Baker Maree and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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A DIARY OF DAD’S WAR TIME STORY TAKEN FROM LETTERS WHICH HE WROTE TO HIS MOTHER IN RHODESIA.
The letters were always addressed “My Dearest Mother” and signed off “Your loving son, Donald” We don’t really know why the letters were not addressed to both his father and mother. The letters were written on a fairly regular basis, every one or two weeks, and in addition to that he “wired” home regularly as the letters took between 6 weeks and two months to reach home. Once Dad was in the POW camp the news was mundane and occasionally censored. My impressions from the letters were his strong mindedness to become a pilot, get his wings and be a part of the real action in the war. He never mentioned what happened on the night of the 5th November when his plane was shot down, and anything about his rescue, capture and interrogation. Once the war was over he very seldom spoke about this time in his life, but I want to fill in the gaps, and piece together information to complete the story.
JUNE 1940
The first letter written to his mother was on the 8th June 1940 using Rhodesian Railway’s letterhead, from the Chief Accountant’s Office in Bulawayo. Dad was then just 19 years old. Obviously there had been talk of the war but not much serious thought given to it as he mainly wrote about his sport which at the time was “rugger” second league, and due to an ankle injury he had to give it a rest for 3 weeks. Dad’s social life was also the topic of conversation, having been to a cabaret, the first he’d been to for a long time and he enjoyed it as his partner was a bit of allright. [sic] Being a member of the Bulawayo Young Peoples club also provided some form of social life. And then his place of abode also cropped up “Shifted into the Sussex Hotel at the end of the last month. It is allright [sic] so far, but will soon tire of it I expect. My roommate has a wireless so we are quite comfortable. The room wasn’t exactly built last year” And then, as if an afterthought after he’d closed off, he told his mother that he had received his Certificate of Registration.
The next letter was undated, and starts off by apologising to his mother who was obviously worried about him, the reason being that Dad had forgotten to post the previous letter. Tobacco was fetching good prices that year in Rhodesia.
Talk of the war is now an important topic in the letter and the beginnings of his political interests starting to bud. “Yes things definitely seem to have taken a bad turn for us overseas. However, I reckon it will serve to make the British nation wake up as we seem to have felt before that we couldn’t help winning just because we are in the right. However I guess the Germans will have to put all they’ve got and a bit more if they reckon on conquering Britain in a month or two. Fancy France capitulating under the terms imposed by Hitler. However, I suppose they would only have been wiped out completely. I have been caught for part-time training. I only wish they would call me for the air force as I can’t imagine that I am helping by paying the occasional pensioner. A woman could do the job [underlined] nearly [/underlined] as well.” Douglas Legg, who had joined the RAF, was probably an influence in Dad’s life as he paid Dad a visit and said he was having the time of his life in Salisbury.
Work at the office was getting busy; the war increased the amount of work he had to do.
But still there other things he needed to tell his mother. This girl he used to write to in Nyasaland had written saying she was passing through on her way to the falls with her parents. “Well, they came last Thursday and stayed at the Grand. Apparently the girl became “society” after she left Umtali. She is only 17 but anyone would think she was 27 what with earrings, lipstick and rouge. The “old man”, a hang of a pompous guy of course had to have some drinks. In my best tone I said a shandy, but you can imagine my surprise when this kid says “gin & mixed”. I just pole-vaulted out of the door and was sick the next day. I was just out of my element.”
Lastly, it did not look like he would make it home for the Rhodes & Founders weekend because of the training scheme that had been implemented and public holidays were part of the deal.
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The letter that followed was written in pencil, undated, still using the RR letterhead. Granny had been down to visit Phyllis in Chipinga. The weekend following was R & F and it was just an impossibility to get home for that. One chap had seen the magistrate, adjutant and Colonel to get off but they weren’t having it. The General Manager had written and said Dad was being called up on the first July or soon afterwards. Dad had written to the RAF to request that he is drafted with recruits going overseas and he needed to train his replacement at work. “I am teaching a new woman to do my job so am pretty busy. It’s a hang of a job because she is new to the work and every little thing has to be explained an [sic] I am not by any means an eloquent orator”
Jack had written to Dad and also wanted his company for the R & F weekend but that was not going to happen.
Letter no. 4 dated the 13th July, marked the commencement of his military career. Written on plain paper, in pencil, the envelope marked “On Active Service” and posted from the No. 2 training Centre, Bulawayo meant that he was “doing his stuff”. His call up number was No. 778186. He had to report on Friday 12th July to the RAF and he was preparing to be sent either to England or Canada for training. “There is a big crowd of us in camp. I am n [sic] the second draft and we leave not long after the first, which is said to be leaving next Wednesday. We are said to be following them about 1 week afterwards but of course this is not in the least official but everyone says the same so I guess there must be something in it.” Dad was so hoping to go home for a visit first, he needed to bring his kit home and sort out one or two things like his insurance policy and money matters. He was bored in the camp as they did very little, only about 2 hrs drill a day and the rest of the day they just loafed. Issy and Horace were both in the camp with him. Granny had sent him £1 and about which he had to say the following “It will be more useful than ever now, as it is bitterly cold here especially sleeping on the ground. However it’s for a good cause and the fellows are pretty happy.” (I think Harold Wilson needed to be reminded of that when he betrayed the very men who fought so gallantly for England in the War.) Dad was so glad it was the RAF and thought it would be No 1 if he could have been sent to Canada as he never knew when he would see that country otherwise.
This was the last letter written from home soil, before sailing by ship approximately the 28th July 1940. There are no details about which port he sailed from or his voyage over, except that he had posted a letter from Cape Verde to granny, but that is not with the collection of letters that I have. I would like to find out some more information on the journey to the port and whether or not he saw his family before leaving.
JOURNEY TO ENGLAND BY SHIP AS A RECRUIT FOR THE RAF
The address on the next letter dated 26th August 1940, reads as follows: DA Baker, RAF no. 778186, Rhodesian Air Contingent, C/o The High Commissioner for S. Rhodesia, Rhodesia House, 429 Strand, London WC2. Dad was stationed at Bridgenorth, Sulop, [sic] Shropshire. He had probably been off ill as he started the letter saying he was feeling fit again though he had not really got his voice back. (Probably picked up flu whilst travelling on the crowded ship.) “I haven’t started on any Air Force work yet. We are just doing marching and a spot of musketry now and again. We were all injected against Typhoid and Tetanus or something like that last Saturday. However apart from a fairly stiff arm it did not affect me at all. We were given 48 hours Light Duty after it so had quite a loaf. We all had to go for a shoot today. The distance was 25 yards and we were given 25 shots to blaze into the target. The chaps here reckoned the Rhodesians could shoot well enough so they did not take our scores. Consequently the fellows were shooting the props and knocking the targets down.” Dad had been to Wolverhampton but found things expensive, rationing made some things difficult to find. Cigarettes (decent ones) were 1/6 for 20 but Dad obviously had a good stock of them as he had bought 500 on the boat for 12/6. The beer in England was not to their liking.
“People here are very hospitable to Colonials and make us very much at home. The fellows in camp are not so keen on us as they reckon we are rather a “tough” and ungentlemanly crew. Of course
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there is a general feeling of sort of superiority having come 7000 miles and all that sort of thing. We are all looking forward to getting to our squadrons as this camp is getting on our nerves because actually it is only a camp to instil discipline and all we seem to do is march, spit and polish and clean up our knives and forks and plates, but we are getting used to the last part as we had that on the boat” … “Must get my wings on my chest or some badge as I really couldn’t just stay down on the ground and polish plugs …
We were all very proud of the uniforms the first day, but there are so many men in kit that it has worn off.”
The planes flying overhead at night and air raid sirens seemed to keep everyone awake at night. Dad started to make contact with relatives, Uncle Jim and the rest of them up there in Scotland and was planning on a visit. Family news cropped up in the letter as Harry and Betty were married and his best wishes were bestowed on them.
The next letter was not dated, but presumably written a week or so after the last approximately the 1st September 1940. Written on blue writing paper with ink pen. Dad still had not received any of his mother’s letters since leaving Rhodesia. He had received mail from Aunt Ella and Aunt Bess (Somerset). “They seem to think I am one big hero coming all this way to join the Air Force and all that sort of stuff. We are supposed to be leaving this camp anytime from now to go to a training school. We hear the Germans every night, supposed to be raiding the Midlands towns and they all seem to pass pretty near here. Am getting quite used to being “droned” to sleep” “Had a bit of fun in a bus the other day. A pal and I were speaking Afrikaans and we heard everyone saying we must be Polish. You can imagine their surprise when we spoke to the conductor in perfectly good English. When they heard we were Rhodesian, they didn’t half make a fuss of us. Everyone here seems to think that colonials are just the cats pyjamas, in particular the girls.”
Still no news from the relatives up north, but expecting to hear from them soon.
We are supposed to be leaving this camp anytime from now to go to a training school. A lot of Rhodesian have already left for their respective centres and am also keen to start on something new as we do nothing but drill here from morn till night. We hear the Germans every night, supposed to be raiding the Midlands towns and they all seem to pass pretty near here. Am getting quite used to being “droned” to sleep” Air Raid sirens still an annoyance, but also such a dismal sound. The All Clear sounded a lot better. They knew when German planes flew overhead because they had did not have [sic] a steady roar “but comes in intervals”. Bombs had been dropped fairly close by at 3 am one morning and some people were killed. For entertainment the lads when [sic] into Wolverhampton to watch a “bio” and a bus ride but because of they had to be in at 9.30 and the bus ride was an hour to get back, their night life was severely curtailed.
On the 9th September Dad wrote that he was pleased to have had some mail from home at long last. He had begun to think that there was no more British merchant Navy, the letter took so long! Dad was thrilled to have been accepted as a pilot but was waiting in anticipation for the Medical Test, which was to follow in two days time. “I sincerely hope I pass (Medical) as I am looking forward immensely to get a crack at these bally Nazis that we hear every night. It is most annoying to lie in bed and just listen to them and not be able to do anything about it. However will just have to put up with that for another five months and then maybe I’ll get a chance to do something as a pilots course takes at least that long … The Empire relies on me to turn the tide”
It was obvious from his letters by now that Dad wanted to be part of the action and did not enjoy doing things like foot drill on the square every day. Only the aircrews were left in the camp, all the Rhodesians having been drafted to various stations. The weather was now beginning to get pretty cold; winter was just around the corner.
The next letter was written on the 16th September 1940 on blue stationary, still stationed at Bridgnorth. He was very pleased to tell his mother that he passed his Medical for a pilot and was now waiting to be posted for training. Good news – 175 Germans down yesterday. The weather had changed since his last
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letter, drizzle and cold. On a social visit to Wolverhampton the sirens went off at 8. pm but the dance they were at continued, despite the raid. “We left at about 10 pm and so tried to get lodgings and we walked that town till 2 am without success. In desperation we went to an air raid shelter and managed to get an hours sleep till 6 o’clock. We then found an hotel that we knew about but couldn’t find it in the “black out” and lost ourselves in the effort. However we took a bed at 6 am and breakfast at 2 pm. What a night as it was cold and raining and nobody seems to be able to direct one to anywhere decent. Saw a 6 weeks old Chronicle today. Big headlines about Rhodesian Air Contingent arriving in Britain. Must have caused quite a consternation when we left at the dead of night. Yes, I heard you shout” (I wonder if that meant granny was at the station to see them off?)
On Thursday the 26th September 1940, using the official Air Force letterhead but still using the Rhodesia House address in London Dad wrote “I suppose by now Harry will be back from his honeymoon” Dad had managed to get to Somerset to see his relatives. He went by train, changing at Birmingham and a few other places before arriving at Castle Cary. He surprised everyone by arriving unannounced. He wrote about Aunt Bess, Uncle Jack, Dan, Bruce, Bert Baker, visiting Wyke house, people in Millbourne Port. “I had a jolly fine weekend and really enjoyed it.” The weather was getting increasingly colder in Bridgnorth. (That was quite a journey there and back considering Dad had to change trains quite often, catch a bus and walk a fair distance without having any directions from the relatives, and being new to England.)
On Friday 9th October 1940 Dad wrote from his new base, in Paignton near Torquay. “It is very lovely down here, as the scenery is so wonderful. Most of the air Force here is billeted in Hotels as it used to be a very popular seaside resort in peacetime. There are four of us in my room (all Rhodesians) and it is not too bad as we have plenty of fresh air with a big window overlooking the sea.” However the next day they were leaving for a 3 week Maths course at another camp nearby. Thereafter there would be a 5 weeks Navigation Course, 8 weeks at Elementary Flying School, 8 weeks at Advanced Training School, altogether six months of hard work before seeing any action. If Dad failed any of the exams then his future career as a pilot would come to an end, leaving them with the option of gunner or observer, so naturally Dad was very keen to pass. “The atmosphere at a Pilots Training School is much different to the last place I was at as generally speaking the fellows are pretty “high class” and the Officers and M.C.O’s [sic] are the very best they can find, and cadets are treated more or less like gentlemen again.”
[underlined] November 19th 1940. [/underlined] With the postal service taking some 6 weeks to 2 months to reach Rhodesia, Dad wrote to wish every one a happy and prosperous New Year at home. He was anticipating spending Christmas with one of the relatives.
“Am just continuing on the same old course which should be finished at the end of this week as we have started on the various exams. We were issued with flying kit the other day and believe me it is really lovely stuff and warm as anything.”
Being mid-winter and Dad did not tend to go out much, apart from a dance which was rather overcrowded so he went home early. Also the black out didn’t make it easy to get around after dark. With exams coming up Dad chose to a spot of swotting instead. [sic]
Letter dated 15th December 1940 on official RAF letterhead, pale blue with envelope to match and 6 ha’penny stamps arrived in Inyazura on the 18th February 1941. (By then the news was so out of date it must have been frustrating for the family keeping up with Dad’s news.) Dad was saddened by the news of Harry Roberts. “I am very sorry indeed to hear such sad news and it is terribly hard luck on Phyllis. However as you say Phyllis has courage and I’m sure she’ll bear up and get over it but nevertheless it must have been an awful shock to her.”
In the meantime Dad had some leave and visited relatives in Scotland for the first time. He stayed with the Tullochs, relatives on his mother’s side, went to see Uncle Jim’s school where he more or less took the salute. Babs Tulloch, his cousin was studying at medical school so he did not see much of her, but
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they managed to Jack Buchanan at the Kings Theatre. [sic] His Uncle Jim Dunn gave him a lecture of about two hours on religion which he was in the habit of doing but Dad “took his dose like a lamb as he didn’t think he was in a position to argue about such things”. He also visited an Auntie Isobel who was busy in the shop. Then he also met with Bella Stephenson, and Aunt Nellie, Bella Strachan and her husband. Dad had not forgotten his sister and sent her a telegram of condolences from Glasgow. The trip up to Glasgow was not that easy, the train service was not good because of the air raids and it took from Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon at 4.30 to arrive. He was exhausted as he had not slept much on the train on the Friday night and then stopped over at a B&B in Carlisle that cost him 6d. The journey back was equally as long and tedious and caused him to be one day late so he was in a spot of trouble. In the meantime the training in Paignton was progressing, all necessary exams passed and just waiting to be posted to an EFTS. and Dad had been promoted to Leading Aircraftsman. The pay went up from 2/- to 5/6 per day. The rest of the letter concerned money matters and his insurance policy and an offer of money for Phyllis. It was a very newsy letter, extra long to make up for the week he lost.
Letter dated the 29th December 1940 described his Christmas in Paignton where there was a lot doing and which he enjoyed. There was a dance in Torquay, which they left late and had to get a taxi home. A very benevolent family had three of them for Christmas midday dinner, which seemed strange to him. He and his roommate visited this family a number of times as they enjoyed the warmth and peaceful atmosphere away from the barracks. Over the Christmas period he went to a couple of dances which he enjoyed thoroughly. (I think his time in Paignton was the happiest for him.)
1941
5th January 1941. Saw snow for the first time, some six inches of snow on the hills and around and bitterly cold weather. On a route march into the hills the fellows participated in some snow fights which resulted in some facial injuries because the snow was frozen. All the ponds were frozen up and walking quite dangerous, worst of all is doing PT outside in a vest and shorts “which nearly kills us” Still in Paignton in seems, [sic] expecting to leave for E.F.T.S. soon near Hull once the weather clears up a little.
New Years eve was a big success, went to a local dance. Otherwise not much news, just a mention of some friends of Dad’s from Rhodesia and what they doing [sic] in the Air Force.
On 14th January, Dad wrote that he had been posted to 4 E.F.TS. flying school in Brough, fairly near Hull. Kept very busy, lots of lectures and then studying. Lectures all morning and then flying the in the afternoon, [sic] weather permitting. The students had to average well over 60% on all subjects in order to pass
“Up to now have done 2 and a half hours which is all dual, just learning the various manoevers [sic] etc. but the instructor is always there to check up and show you how it should be done. It is just fine flying around. We have a very nice lounge and separate writing room nicely furnished. We have tablecloths again, cups and saucers instead of mugs and last but not least by a long way … we have butter, jam and sugar on the table. There is also a mess where we can get beer and soft drinks so generally speaking we are living like gentlemen. We sleep out every second night in an old Sunday school building so that in the event of a lot of air raids we can get a decent nights sleep, but nothing has happened so far”.
Usual address “Some where in England” 24th January 1941. Due to good old English weather no flying for nearly a week. Dad had to placate Granny, she was worried and not heard from Dad for so long. The reason being that mail from the UK 2nd – 22nd November had gone missing, which is hardly surprising consider [sic] there was a war going on.
“We are trying to learn all sorts of things to become pilots and it seems to me as if being able to fly a plane is about the least important thing. This navigation is still a bit of a myth to me as there are such an awful lot of things to do and work out before starting on a flight. It is such a common thing to hear about a bomber going to the other end of Germany and back that it seems childs [sic] play, but I’m thinking they are pretty smart.” Doesn’t that sound just like Dad!
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Very welcome post received from his mother, and a letter from Harry which took Dad about an hour to decipher! The sea voyage did not have a good effect on the chocolate so Dad asked his mother not to send anymore, cigarettes yes!
Sunday 2nd February 1941. The usual discussion about letters received and sent, the miserable weather and lack of flying. Examinations passed but more to come, lectures from 8.30 – 5.30. Sunday’s in England not much happening and “must be just about the sleepiest thing imaginable”.
12th February 1941. Not much to report other than a bit of flying and about ready to go solo, weather permitting. So far Dad had done 8 hrs flying, but needed to get in 42 hours flying before moved to next base for more advanced training. Some correspondence exchanged between Dad and Babs Tulloch, who had sent Dad a pair of woollen knitted gloves.
Socially not much happening, the closest place is Hull but the bus costs a bit too much. However they did get to see a bio: Erol Flynn “The Sea Hawk” and then went to an enjoyable dance in the evening.
18th February 1941 Dad keeping fit, received a couple of newspapers dated 27th December and 3rd January, so a bit out of date by then. Douglas Leggo getting married. No letters from his mother in five weeks which was cause for concern and also had no news about Buster. Still busy with exams, very little flying because of the weather, so not much news.
24th February 1941 Two letters had arrived, and about 4 newspapers so news from home was very welcome. Busters kids had whooping cough at the festive season. Final exams finished, just waiting for results. Lots of flying when the weather is good, and recently had some sunshine. Not much news, pretty much the same thing done every day.
10th March 1941 Still at Brough and ground instruction now completed. Up until then Dad had only flown 25 hours in 8 weeks. Letters received from Mrs. Bartons niece, Babs Tulloch but still so few letters coming through from Inyazura. Dad wanted snaps of Charlton, Harry;s [sic] honeymoon.
And then a big money mix-up:
“Do you remember that time I was hard up and cabled home for money. Well you cabled £11.10.0 but the post office at Paignton made a mistake and sent me only 10/- which at the time seemed rather strange, but I couldn’t do anything about it. However they discovered it about 2 months later (that was honest of them) and have duly paid over the remaining £11 with much apology.”
(This letter took a whole two months to get to IY)
Posted from Cary Hill House, Castle Cary, Bath Sunday 30th March On 10 days leave, so visited relatives.
“Arrived here last night and meant to make it an unheralded visit but I had a telegram waiting for me when I arrived to say that leave had been extended from 2nd April to 9th April. When my leave is over I have to report to my new station, which is about 40 miles north of London. I believe it si [sic] quite a nice place so I hope I shall enjoy it there. Actually I was quite sorry to leave Brough as we had grand crowd of fellows there and we had a good time”
The letters written in April must have gone astray, 11th May 1941 was the date of the next letter. First solo cross country was [deleted] from here [/deleted] [inserted] across [/inserted] to Worcester then north of Shresbury, [sic] passed right over the old camp at Bridgnorth. The next cross country was a bit of an adventure, having got lost near Salisbury, and after flying around in circles for about an hour they had to make an emergency landing to refuel. Started night flying on the 10th May, only started at 3 am because of an air raid. There had been a tragedy the previous week when the instructor and another pupil cam [sic] into land with its navigation lights on. the Germans spotted it and shot at it. They had to crash land and the pilot and instructor were wounded
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Donald Baker's war time story taken from letters which he wrote to his mother in Rhodesia
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Stars in June 1940 based on letters written to his mother. Tells of life in Rhodesia before being called up and travelling to England, Discusses war as well as work and social life and initial training in Rhodesia. Goes on to describe a little of journey by ship and the life in England including bombing. Mentions RAF basic training camps in August 1940. Mentions medical for pilot and starting training (maths an navigation courses). Goes on leave to Scotland and describes Christmas. January 1941 sent for elementary flying training which is completed about March 1941. Account finishes in may 1941 with mention getting lost and emergency landing.
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Zimbabwe
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England--Shropshire
England--Bridgnorth
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Title
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Baker, Donald Arthur
D A Baker
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-11-13
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Baker, DA
Description
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187 items. Donald Arthur Baker (b. 1921) travelled from Southern Rhodesia to England in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force. Trained as a pilot in 1941 he was operational with 144 Squadron at RAF North Luffenham flying Hampdens. He was shot down on 5 November 1941 and remained a prisoner of war mostly in Stalag Luft 3 until 1945. He return to farm in Southern Rhodesia after the war. The collection contains letters to his mother throughout the war as well as other correspondence and documents including his prisoner of war log with photographs and notes.
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by June Baker Maree and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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A large group of men in front of a ship's funnel
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A large group of men sitting and standing on the deck of a ship with a large funnel in the background. On the reverse 'P/O Baker, T England, August 1940, No 2 draught ex-Rhodesia'.
Date
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1940-08
Format
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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SBakerDA19210428v20009
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Zimbabwe
Temporal Coverage
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1940-08
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Baker, Donald Arthur
D A Baker
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-11-13
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Baker, DA
Description
An account of the resource
187 items. Donald Arthur Baker (b. 1921) travelled from Southern Rhodesia to England in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force. Trained as a pilot in 1941 he was operational with 144 Squadron at RAF North Luffenham flying Hampdens. He was shot down on 5 November 1941 and remained a prisoner of war mostly in Stalag Luft 3 until 1945. He return to farm in Southern Rhodesia after the war. The collection contains letters to his mother throughout the war as well as other correspondence and documents including his prisoner of war log with photographs and notes.
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by June Baker Maree and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Title
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Item separator card
Description
An account of the resource
Green card 'August 1940, ship sailing to England/Bridgenorth [sic]
Date
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1940-08
Format
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Handwritten card
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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SBakerDA19210428v20008
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Shropshire
Temporal Coverage
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1940-08
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Christian, Arnold Louis
A L Christian
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-06-26
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Christian, AL
Description
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93 items. The collection concerns Wing Commander <span>Arnold Louis</span> <span>Christian </span>(1906 - 1941, 29160 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents and photographs. He flew operation as a pilot with 105 Squadron and was killed 8 May 1941.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Steven Christian and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br />Additional information on <span>Arnold Louis</span> <span>Christian</span> is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/204958/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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Arnold Christian and Five officers
Description
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Arnold standing with a group of five airmen. In the caption he is identified as third from left.
Date
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1940-08
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Format
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One b/w photograph
Identifier
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SChristianAL29160v10040-0012
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IBCC Digital Archive
Temporal Coverage
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1940-08
aircrew
ground personnel
pilot
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1939/37264/BBarryCGBarryCGv1.1.pdf
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Field, Peter L and Cynthia G
Peter L Field
P L Field
Cynthia G Field
C G Field
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-09-19
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Field, PL-CG
Description
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144 items and five photograph albums in sub-collections. The collection concerns Peter L and Cynthia G Field and contains memoirs, correspondence, photographs. Peter Field (b. 1920) served as a wireless operator and Cynthia (b. 1921) served as a WAAF in 2 Group. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2137">Album One</a> Photographs of various people.<br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2138">Album Two</a> Photographs of people and places, postcards.<br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2141">Album Three</a> Photographs of parents house over the years.<br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2144">Album Four</a> Photographs of family events, places and people.<br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2146">Album Five</a> <span>Photographs of wartime colleagues, Cook's tour aerial photographs of bomb damaged German cities, and family and friends as well as two letters home.</span><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Susan Elizabeth Field and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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A memoir of life in the WAAF during the war
Description
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Starts with description of feelings and actions beginning of the war. Mother had tried to persuade her to join land army and mentions brief experience and unsuitability for farming. Decided to join the RAF. Details enlistment and initial training with description of training, facilities and food at West Drayton. Continues with telephonist training at Worcester and subsequent posting to 11 Group at RAF Uxbridge. Describes Uxbridge: accommodation, food, work, manning switchboard and working conditions. Continues with detailed description of actions during Battle of Britain. Goes on with description of bombing of London and living through raids to London and local area. Gives detailed description of living accommodation, colleague, room mate and activities. Mentions tying for commission, turning down re-mustering as wireless operator. Continues with posting to Biggin Hill and describes unit and work. Subsequently sent o HQ 2 Group at RAF Huntingdon. Describes location, work, people and activities at new location. Mentions promotions to corporal and sergeant. Gives detailed description of off-duty activities and entertainment. Continues with very detailed description of her work and activities of Bomber Command and the group including Mosquito operations, friends and colleagues. Mentions thousand bomber raid against Cologne and other highlights. Continues with account of the rest of her time at 2 Group and subsequent move to Norfolk. Finally in early 1944 posted to RAF Leeming. Describes location, facilities, work and NCO s course at RAF Wilmslow as well as resident squadrons, aircrew and other personnel. Gives account of getting to know a whole crew well who subsequently volunteered for Pathfinders and went missing on operations. Continues with account of time at RAF Leeming and RAF Skipton on Swale. At the end 36 photographs of her father, his army units, her mother, friends, herself, WAAF colleagues, family, family home as well as Ian Hay, her NCO course, WAAFs and airmen at Leeming and some post war photographs of bomb damage in Germany.
Creator
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Sergeant C G Barry
Temporal Coverage
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1940
1940-08
1941-11
1942-05-30
1942-05-31
1944
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
England--Worcestershire
England--Worcester
England--Middlesex
England--Kent
England--Huntingdonshire
England--Huntingdon
England--Yorkshire
England--Cheshire
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Fighter Command
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Canadian Air Force
Format
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Seventy-six page printed document with text and thirty-six b/w photographs
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Pending text-based transcription. Allocated
Identifier
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BBarryCGBarryCGv1
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Memoir
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IBCC Digital Archive
105 Squadron
139 Squadron
2 Group
427 Squadron
429 Squadron
bombing
bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942)
ground personnel
Halifax
Lancaster
military living conditions
military service conditions
Mosquito
RAF Biggin Hill
RAF Leeming
RAF Skipton on Swale
RAF Uxbridge
RAF Wilmslow
training
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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Rainford, John Rawsthorn
J R Rainford
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-09-27
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Rainford, JR
Description
An account of the resource
Two items. The collection concerns Squadron Leader John Rawsthorn Rainford DFC (42436 Royal Air Force) and contains a photograph and short service history. He flew operations as a pilot with 83 Squadron and was killed on an operation to Norway 22 February 1942. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by M Osmond and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on John Rawsthorn Rainford is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/119282/">IBCC Losses Database</a>
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Squadron Leader John Rawsthorn Rainford DFC and bar
Description
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Short note of dates and service in Royal Artillery and RAF. Killed in action at Sola, Norway on 21 February 1942
Temporal Coverage
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1913-12-13
1940-08
1941-04-18
1942-02-13
1942-02-21
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lancashire
Norway
Norway--Sola
England--Preston (Lancashire)
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
British Army
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Personal research
Format
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One page printed document
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IBCC Digital Archive
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MRainfordJR131201-150925-02
Distinguished Flying Cross
killed in action