David Boldy]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Karl Williams]]> eng]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> South Africa--East London]]> 1941-05]]> 1941-06]]> David Boldy]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> Andy Hamilton]]> Angus Bustin]]> eng]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--East London]]> 1941-05]]> ]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Boldy, David. Folder PBoldyDA1502]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> South African Air Force]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--East London]]> 1941-03]]> 1941-04]]> 1941-05]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Zimbabwe]]> Zimbabwe--Harare]]> 1941-05]]> David Meanwell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Barth]]> Germany--Berlin]]> 1941-05]]> 1942-05]]> 1944]]> 1945-01-20]]> 1945-04-30]]> 1945-05-05]]> D A Baker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> 1941-05]]> T Saint]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Robin Christian]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Reading]]> England--Dorset]]> England--Bournemouth]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--London]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Scarborough]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Ludlow]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Morpeth]]> Scotland--Dumfries and Galloway]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> France]]> France--Angers]]> France--Paris]]> France--Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines]]> France--Dreux]]> France--Nantes]]> France--Le Havre]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> France--Valenciennes]]> France--Villers-Bocage (Calvados)]]> France--Beauvais]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> France--Nucourt]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1941-05]]> 1941-09-02]]> 1942-01]]> 1942]]> 1942-10]]> 1942-11]]> 1943-03]]> 1943-07]]> 1943-08]]> 1944-02]]> 1944-02-18]]> 1944-03-18]]> 1944-03-22]]> 1944-03-24]]> 1944-03-20]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-26]]> 1944-05-31]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-11]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-06-30]]> 1944-07-02]]> 1944-07-03]]> 1944-07-10]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-03-31]]> Alan Mann]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Kent]]> England--London]]> England--Hertfordshire]]> England--Hatfield (Hertfordshire)]]> England--Herefordshire]]> 1938-05-20]]> 1938]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1941-05]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 2008-06]]> Flashback 1. Mentions first operation on 300 Squadron at RAF Faldingworth. Continues with account of training in England at Hucknall, Montrose and Western Zoyland. He then trained as an instructor and was posted as a flying instructor. He volunteered for operational duties and eventually was allocated to a bomber squadron at RAF Finningley training on Wellington where he crewed up before posting to RAF Faldingworth, Continues with description of first operation to Wiesbaden and mistakenly landing at RAF Fiskerton on return. Concludes with a 10 year old schoolboy's wish to be a pilot.
Flashback 2. Account of Tadeusz joining the Polish Air Force including the reasons for his ambition, early experience of gliding, labour camp and military training. Continues with account of flying training with various incidents. Describes events during German invasion and escape to Romania.
Flashback 3. Continues with events after arriving in Romania and then travelling onwards by boat to Beirut then onwards to Marseille, Lyon. Gives account of German invasion of France in May 1940 and his escape via Toulouse, Bayonne and St Jean de Luz and then by British ship to Liverpool.
Flashback 4. Writes of changing his name and of his career in the RAF after the war including continuing flying with 300 Squadron and his final operation to Berchtesgaden as well as prisoner of war repatriation flights and food drops in Holland. Continues with account of flying troops back from Italy and a visit to Berlin. He was posted to ferry aircraft of many different types.]]>
T Wier]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Poland]]> Poland--Zgierz]]> Poland--Dęblin (Warsaw)]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Hucknall]]> Scotland--Angus]]> Scotland--Montrose]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Rugby]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Wiesbaden]]> Romania]]> Lebanon]]> Lebanon--Beirut]]> France]]> France--Marseille]]> France--Lyon]]> France--Toulouse]]> France--Bayonne]]> France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Liverpool]]> Germany--Berchtesgaden]]> Belgium]]> Italy]]> Italy--Genoa]]> Germany--Berlin]]> England--Bridgwater]]> Romania]]> Romania--Tulcea]]> 1941]]> 1944-12]]> 1941-05]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-10]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1939]]> 1939-09-17]]> 1940-05-10]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Angela Gaffney]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1941-05]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Scotland--Rothes]]> 1941-05]]> 1940-09-24]]> Followed by list with information on crew from RAF Museum Hendon.
Final page is last lines in "Power to the Hunter" poem by Wilfred Wilson Gibson.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Scotland--Rothes]]> 1941-03-25]]> 1941-05]]> 1940-09-24]]>
J V Hay]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Preston (Lancashire)]]> 1941-05]]> Peter Thirsk]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> 1941-05]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Navy]]> Malta]]> 1940]]> 1940-06]]> 1940-09]]> 1941-01]]> 1941-03]]> 1941-04]]> 1941-05]]> 1941-07]]> 1941-08]]> 1941-10]]> 1941-11]]> 1941-12]]> 1942-01]]> 1942-02]]> 1942-03]]> 1942-04]]> 1942-05]]> 1942-06]]> 1942-07]]> 1942-10]]> Bottom left shows a group of men and women outside a building with an indecipherable sign, which reads "HURST" on the bottom. The men are in military uniforms.
Bottom right shows a group of men and women. The front row are sitting while the back row behind them are standing. The group is in front of hedge and a building.
The pages of the album read "Blackpool -May 1941" and "Blackpool".
The reverse of the top photograph shows "Rapide, 38. Central Blackpool". Also written on the photograph is the date "7 Jul 1941".
The bottom right image shows "Blackpool July 1941" and "Best Wishes from" and some indecipherable handwriting. ]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> 1941-05]]> 1941-07]]> 1941-07-07]]>