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Williamson, Frank-862
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Four items. The collection concerns Frank Williamson (b. 1920, 1061862 Royal Air Force) and contains his log books and correspondence. He flew operations as a pilot with 102 Squadron.
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Susan Ledger and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.
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2021-06-21
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Williamson, F-2
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Frank Williamson’s RAF pilot’s flying log book. One
Description
An account of the resource
Frank Williamson’s RAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 15 December 1940 to 25 February 1943 detailing training, operations and instructional duties as a pilot. He was stationed at RAF Desford (No. 7 Elementary Flying Training School), RAF Shawbury (No. 11 Service Flying Training School), RAF Abingdon (No. 10 Operational Training Unit), RAF Leeming (No. 10 Squadron), RAF Dalton and Topcliffe (102 Squadron), RAF Melbourne (10 Squadron Conversion Flight, No. 1658 Heavy Conversion Unit) and RAF Riccall (No. 1658 Heavy Conversion Unit). Aircraft in which flown: DH82 Tiger Moth, Oxford, Whitley, Halifax.
Records 27 operations (26 night, one day, several abandoned for various reasons) on the following targets in Belgium, France and Germany (some targets not named when duties not carried out): Boulogne, Bremen, Brest, Cherbourg, Cologne, Duisberg, Essen, Hamburg (abandoned), Hamburg, Nantes, Ostend, Paris, Rostock, St. Nazaire, Stettin, Vichy, and Warnemunde. His first pilot on first four operations were Pilot Officer Godfrey, Sergeant Robertson and Pilot Officer Joyce. Also includes technical notes, several personal notes (including a poem), and two endorsements, one in green.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Text. Poetry
Format
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One booklet
Contributor
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David Leitch
Identifier
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LWilliamsonF2-1061862v1
Spatial Coverage
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Belgium
France
Germany
Great Britain
England--Leicestershire
England--Oxfordshire
England--Shropshire
England--Yorkshire
Belgium--Ostend
France--Boulogne-sur-Mer
France--Brest
France--Cherbourg
France--Nantes
France--Paris
France--Saint-Nazaire
France--Vichy
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Essen
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Rostock
Poland--Szczecin
Poland
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1941-09-11
1941-09-12
1941-09-20
1941-09-21
1941-09-29
1941-09-30
1941-10-01
1941-10-16
1941-10-17
1941-10-28
1941-10-29
1941-10-31
1941-11-07
1941-11-08
1941-12-27
1942-01-06
1942-01-07
1942-01-08
1942-05-05
1942-05-06
1942-05-07
1942-05-08
1942-05-19
1942-05-20
1942-05-30
1942-05-31
1942-06-01
1942-06-02
1942-06-03
1942-06-05
1942-06-06
1942-06-25
1942-06-26
1942-06-27
1942-06-28
1942-07-02
1942-07-03
1942-07-08
1942-07-09
1942-07-13
1942-07-14
1942-07-21
1942-07-22
1942-07-29
1942-07-30
1942-07-31
1942-08-01
1942-08-03
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IBCC Digital Archive
10 OTU
10 Squadron
102 Squadron
1658 HCU
aircrew
bombing
bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942)
Flying Training School
Halifax
Halifax Mk 1
Halifax Mk 2
Heavy Conversion Unit
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
pilot
RAF Abingdon
RAF Dalton
RAF Desford
RAF Leeming
RAF Melbourne
RAF Riccall
RAF Shawbury
RAF Topcliffe
Tiger Moth
training
Whitley
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Bennett, H W
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-06-20
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Bennett, HW
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19 items. The collection concerns Squadron Leader H W Bennett (Royal Air Force) and contains his log books, photographs and letters. He flew operations with 88 squadron, as part of the Advanced Air Striking Force in France, and as a navigator with 97 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Roy Bennett and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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H W Bennett’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book. One
Description
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H. W. Bennett’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book, from 23 April 1937 to 14 June 1943, detailing training, operations and instructional duties as an Air Observer, Air Gunner, Bomb Aimer and Navigator. Includes bombing and photographic reconnaissance operations with 88 Squadron as part of the RAF Advanced Air Striking Force (AASF) in France 1939-1940, and later Bomber Command operations with 97 Squadron. Based at RAF North Coates Fitties (No. 10 Air Observers Course), RAF Feltwell (214(B) Squadron), RAF Boscombe Down (88(B) Squadron), RAF Acklington (No. 7 Armament Training School), RAF Evanton (No.8 Armament Training School). With 88 Squadron, as part of the Advanced Air Striking Force in France, he was based at: Auberive, Mourmelon-le-Grand, Moisy, Les Grandes Chappelles and Houssay. Following evacuation from France, bases are: RAF Sydenham (Belfast) (88 Squadron), RAF Swanton Morley (88 Squadron), RAF Coningsby (97 Squadron), RAF Lichfield (27 OTU) and RAF Whitchurch Heath (also known as RAF Tilstock) (81 OTU). Aircraft flown: Hawker Hart, Westland Wallace, Saro Cloud, Short Scion, HP Harrow, Hawker Hind, Fairey Battle, Douglas Boston, Blenheim, Manchester, Lancaster, Wellington, Whitley, and Anson. Various 88 Squadron targets with the AASF are recorded, such as gun posts, bridges, road/rail junctions, enemy troop column, convoy and concentrations. Records a total of 30 completed night operations with 97 Squadron. His pilots on operations were Flying Officer Riddell, Flying Officer Maclachlan, Warrant Officer Rowlands, Squadron Leader Dugdale, Flying Officer Rodley, Flight Sergeant Croppi, Flight Sergeant Crouch, and Sergeant Stephens. Targets in France, Germany, Italy, Norway and Poland are: Bordeaux, Bremen, Brest, Cologne, minelaying Danzig Bay, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Gdynia, Gironde, Hamburg, Kassel, Mannheim, Neustadt, Osnabruck, San Jean de Luis, Trondheim, Turin, Wilhelmshaven and Wismar.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Format
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One booklet
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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David Leitch
Cara Walmsley
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LBennettHW561480v1
Temporal Coverage
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1937
1938
1939-11-30
1940-01-09
1940-06-06
1940-06-08
1940-06-10
1940-06-11
1940-06-14
1941
1942-01-09
1942-01-10
1942-04-11
1942-04-27
1942-04-28
1942-04-29
1942-05-02
1942-05-03
1942-05-30
1942-05-31
1942-06-23
1942-06-24
1942-06-25
1942-06-26
1942-06-27
1942-06-28
1942-06-29
1942-06-30
1942-07-02
1942-07-03
1942-07-13
1942-07-14
1942-07-26
1942-07-27
1942-07-30
1942-07-31
1942-08-24
1942-08-25
1942-08-27
1942-08-28
1942-09-10
1942-09-11
1942-09-13
1942-09-14
1942-09-15
1942-09-16
1942-09-17
1942-09-18
1942-09-19
1942-10-01
1942-10-02
1942-10-06
1942-12-04
1942-09-05
1942-12-06
1942-12-07
1942-12-08
1942-12-09
1942-12-10
1942-12-17
1942-12-20
1942-12-31
1943-01-01
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
France
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Norway
Poland
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay
Italy--Po River Valley
England--Lincolnshire
England--Norfolk
England--Northumberland
England--Shropshire
England--Staffordshire
England--Wiltshire
France--Abbeville
France--Aube
France--Auberive
France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
France--Brest
France--Condé-sur-Noireau
France--Eure
France--Evreux
France--Gironde Estuary
France--Loir-et-Cher
France--Mourmelon-le-Grand
France--Saint-Jean-de-Luz
France--Vernon (Eure)
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Essen
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Kassel
Germany--Mannheim
Germany--Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)
Germany--Osnabrück
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Germany--Wismar
Italy--Turin
Northern Ireland--Belfast
Norway--Trondheim
Poland--Gdynia
Scotland--Ross and Cromarty
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Poland--Gdańsk
214 Squadron
27 OTU
81 OTU
88 Squadron
97 Squadron
air gunner
Air Observers School
aircrew
Anson
Battle
Blenheim
bomb aimer
bombing
bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942)
Boston
Lancaster
Manchester
mine laying
navigator
observer
Operational Training Unit
RAF Boscombe Down
RAF Coningsby
RAF Evanton
RAF Feltwell
RAF Lichfield
RAF North Coates
RAF Swanton Morley
RAF Tilstock
training
Wellington
Whitley
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Title
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Green, Alan William
A W Green
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-09-19
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Green, AW
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58 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Alan William Green (b. 1920, 104402, 1150518 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, photographs, diary and correspondence. He flew operation as a navigator with 218 Squadron before being shot down and becoming a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Stuart Green and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[inserted] Written 27.6.42 [/inserted]
[underlined] Kriegsgefangenenpost [/underlined]
Mr & Mrs W.H. Green
“Hollingworth”
Firs Estate
Kenilworth Rd
Coventry
England
[sender P/O Green
Number not yet allotted
[inserted] OPENED BY EXAMINER 500 [/inserted]
[page break]
27/6/42
My Dear Folks
Just a line to let you know that [indecipherable words] me yet. I cannot of course tell you anything of that which occasioned my “holiday” here. I am quite well, and uninjured. The food is reasonably good – thanks to the R. Cross, and I am doing my best to keep myself fit, and free from boredom. I hope sincerely that you did as I requested as soon as you heard I was missing, and went & collected my belongings from X. The night before I came “unstuck” we had a wonderful party at X, and I took along the girl whom I mentioned on my leave. Her adress [sic] is Miss June Ramsden Stow Bardolph Hall Stowe Downham Market. I would like Mrs Sutton to write her to see if she is OK for cosmetics etc. She appreciates good stuff, and I want to keep things going, at least until further notice. If you decide that you cannot keep my car, then sell it, but it should fetch about £70, but will be worth a lot more one day if you can keep it. Make sure you get [underlined] all [/underlined] my personal stuff. Pip will help you. All I have with me is my watch & fountain pens. Let me know if Basil is OK, but mention no place names please. This camp is a temporary place, & you should send reply to STAMMLAGER LFT III Germany. The one snag about this place is lack of good news. We know nothing of what is going on in the outside world. You can send me parcels, details from Red Cross, and I would like some shoes (1pr), shirts (2), underpants, & cotton shorts, any old things will do! I hope you did not worry too much before news came through that I was a P.O.W. Ma said she would not. Whatever you do, keep up your spirits, and fight like hell, I am keeping up mine! If you like, I will write by bank, and advise them to give Pa a free hand. Let me know if this is advisable. Give my love to all concerned. Whatever else you do don't worry, I am quite OK.
All for now
Love
Alan W. Green P/O
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A letter written from a prisoner of war camp to his family. He has just arrived and states that he is well. His tone is quite up beat.
Creator
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Alan Green
Date
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1942-06-27
Format
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One handwritten envelope and letter
Language
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eng
deu
Type
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Text
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EGreenAWGreenWH-[Mo]420627-0001,
EGreenAWGreenWH-[Mo]420627-0002
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Coventry
Poland
Poland--Żagań
England--Warwickshire
Rights
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Jan Waller
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1942-06-27
Title
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Letter from Alan Green to his parents
prisoner of war
Red Cross
Stalag Luft 3
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Ford, Terry
Ford, T
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135 items. The collection concerns Terry Ford. He flew operations as a pilot with 75 Squadron. It contains photographs, his log book, operational maps, letters home during training, and documents including emergency drills. There are two albums of photographs, one of navigation logs, and another of target photographs.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Julia Burke and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-03-13
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Ford, T
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Permission granted for commercial projects
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Start of transcription
(3) It is surprising the variety of chaps here. Some of them have had very interesting lives. John Fisher lived in USA for 12 years & a little scots friend of mine has been over Europe & America & came back on the Athenia a week before she was torpedoed.
Well, it is less than 4 weeks now until I shall be
[page break]
home & I shall soon have to start swotting for the exams. That is about all for now so will say Cheerioh. [sic] Thank you for your letter, felt, I like to hear from you.
Love
Terry
P.S. Could I have the tie Mrs Bladon gave me, sometime.
[page break]
put so many planes into the air at once. If we can keep it up, I can see the war ending much sooner than was expected.
Now for the news of the week.
We had clay-pigeon shooting on [deleted] Wedn [/deleted] Thursday. My shooting was terrible, 2 out of eleven shots I didn’t hit one pigeon. I don’t know what was the matter.
We had our Armaments exam on Friday. It was a practical exam on the Vickers Gas Operated gun. I only got 68% which was ridiculous, as chaps who got nearly all of it wrong got 72%. Anyhow we all passed so it doesn’t really matter.
I went to a dance on Saturday night, but
[page break]
One of the chaps in the new flight is Bobby Howe’s son. He is quite decent & very modest, though a bit self-confident. I was talking to him at supper one night, & I heard who he was later.
That film actor I saw is George Hayes. You probably don’t recognise the name, I didn’t, but you would recognise him. I found out who he was by a photograph in a shop window.
Well that seems to be about all the news for now.
Love
Terry.
P.S. Please give my best regards to Gran & Gramp, Auntie Lot, & everyone else.
[page break]
1585520 [underlined] LAC [/underlined] Ford. T.A.
“B” Flight, 3 Squadron, RAF,
Shakespeare Hotel,
Stratford-on-Avon.
27-6-42
Dear Mum, Dad & Moira,
Well as you see I am a Leading Aircraftsman & earning 5/6 per day. I have written to the office to tell them this.
I have been expecting to hear from [missing words]
[page break]
At the moment we are doing very little except rest, swim & do fatigues. We have been cleaning in the cookhouse, road making, & all sorts of jobs.
The weather here is grand, though not quite as hot as at the beginning of the week.
We now parade in shirt sleeves, which is much cooler, in fact rather too cool sometimes.
We had a shock when we came back from leave as the [deleted] displ [/deleted] discipline has been greatly tightened.
[missing words] terrible lot of tripe had to be done
[page break]
(3)
I am writing this at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning in the middle of a navigation lesson. You may be interested to know that I was fourth in the flight for navigation with 88%. I had 100% for aircraft recognition, & so did 23 others, in fact the average for the flight in all subjects is very high.
We have now had our flight photographs. They are large & well mounted, but are rotten photographs, all the end chaps (including me) being [missing words]
[page break]
Auntie Lot’s cake was very enjoyable Hope all relatives are O.K.
Please send 100 more of my cigarettes.
[page break]
We have a new Squadron Leader now. L.G. Crawley, the [deleted] loco [/deleted] amateur golfer & cricketer, I don’t know if you have heard of him, Dad, but he seems quite efficient.
[page break]
[missing words]
We have now had our maths [deleted] result [/deleted] & gas results. I had 95% for maths & 86% gas (3rd Highest)
We had two more innoculations [sic] on Friday. I felt a bit groggy on Saturday morning, but it soon passed off, & I am now fine.
We now have a new messing officer & the food position has [deleted] [indecipherable word] [/deleted] improved. I hope it doesn’t go back again.
Well there isn’t much special news, as the course is going steadily on. Navigation is very interesting in a way, though getting rather complicated
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Extracts of letters from Terry Ford to his family
Description
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Extracts of letters from LAC T.A. Ford to his family. He writes about his course, exams, the weather, his social activities and about his friends and colleagues.
Date
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1942-06-27
Format
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Five handwritten sheets
Language
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eng
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SFordTA1585520v10001,
SFordTA1585520v10002,
SFordTA1585520v10003,
SFordTA1585520v10004,
SFordTA1585520v10005
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Stratford-upon-Avon
England--Warwickshire
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-06-27
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Tricia Marshall
air gunner
aircrew
navigator
training
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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
Date
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2015-06-16
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Hudson, JD
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Royal Air Force. 755052. Sgt. J.D.Hudson.
c/o Consul Général des Etats Unis.
Rue Michelet.
Alger. Algérie.
Afrique du Nord.
27-6-42
My Dear Mother & Dad,
It is 17 days since your last letter (No.43) arrived, but on the 23rd June I was glad to receive your cable dated the 20th but sorry to hear that my reply to your telegram of June 6th had not arrived. I was late (unavoidably so) in replying to this and it was not until June 13th that I was able to secure a form. Nowadays thre [sic] also appears to be a hold up of some days at this end as well, so I am hoping that since my cable will have reached you. Your cable received on June 23rd read as follows:- "Eagerly await news no response cable June 6th latest letter dated March 11th did parcel arrive all love" To this I wired immediately the same day:- "Delighted cable twentieth replied to your last cable on July [sic] thirteenth please send light underwear, soap, toothbrush footwear size 7 (seven) via Red Cross ask relatives cooperation other parcels not yet received writing always well all love thoughts wishes" I sent this E.L.T, [?] night rate, and I hope the message arrived clearly. These are the things I need chiefly and I suggest you ask our relations to help. I think it should be possible to get special P. of W. coupons for these items of underclothing. I should be greatly obliged if you could send these things out. Parcels are arriving regularly now, Jimmy [?] received two in the past 6 weeks and Tony has had one. They take about 3 months to arrive and thre [sic] does not appear to be
[page break]
any restriction on the frequency they are sent. Apparently civilian outer-garments are now forbidden, such things as coats and trousers, and if they are sent we shall not be allowed to wear them. No my cigarettes have not yet arrived although many are being received. They are due now. A batch of red [sic] Cross food arrived a few days ago from the Canadian Section including:- tea, sugar, milk, corned beef, butter, salmon, cheese, etc, and I believe another consignment arrived yesterday. I hope this is true. We have no fuel to make the tea and burn cardboard, paper or bits of shrubs collected on the walk. Initiative is amazing. Several people have built small fireplaces outside of mud bricks made of sand & water. The water and sand mixes and sets amazingly hard and these people have constructed small chimneys to create a draught. Talking about draught, just now our windows blew open and papers went flying as quantities of sand came into the room. This often happens went [sic] these gusts start for no apparent reason. They are filthy while they last. I dont [sic] think it will get much hotter now. The longest day is past and the sun should gradually get lower. The earth of course is very hot [deleted] now [/deleted] and walking outside barefoot about now 3 pm. is almost impossible. The colonnades of these buildings retain their heat long after sunset but the mornings are cool. About one third the camp sleeps outside. We get up at 5.30 and the water is warm from the day before. It is cut off 18 hours per day. We had a visit yesterday of a Y.M.C.A. representative and gave him a list of books and games required. I shall soon have my salmon & butter - dont [sic] you wish you were here? I'll bet not. Until the day when we see the green grass together again, all my love, thoughts & best wishes. Douglas.
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Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
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Writes about latest mail received. Long correspondence on content of cables he has sent and received which reiterate his requirements for underwear, soap, toothbrush and footwear. Notes that parcels are now arriving regularly for others and mentions that civilian garments are forbidden in parcels. Says his cigarette parcel has not arrived. Mentions arrival of Red Cross food parcels and describes initiative of internees to overcome lack of full to make tea. Talks of gusts of wind and high temperatures and daily activity. Notes on third of camp sleep outdoors get up at 5.30 when water is still warm from day before but then cut off eighteen hours a day. Mentions visit from YMCA representative and gave him list of books/games required.
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J D Hudson
Date
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1942-06-27
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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deu
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
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EHudsonJDHudsonP-HE420627
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Algeria
Algeria--Laghouat (Province)
Algeria--Algiers
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
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1942-06-27
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Joy Reynard
prisoner of war
Red Cross
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Stachiewicz, Mieczysław. Album
Description
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58 items. An album of photographs, newspaper clippings and papers relating to Mieczysław Stachiewicz's escape from Poland through Romania, Greece, and France to Great Britain, and his tour of operations as a pilot with 301 Squadron from RAF Hemswell. The album also contains photographs of his friends and family.
These items were digitised by a third-party using technical specifications and operational protocols that may differ from those used by the IBCC Digital Archive.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-01-19
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Stachiewicz, M
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1942-11-03
Format
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One typewritten and one printed sheet
Language
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pol
eng
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Text
Text. Service material
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PStachiewiczM17010043
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Polskie Siły Powietrzne
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Poland
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Cologne
France--Dieppe
Germany--Essen
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Osnabrück
Germany--Saarbrücken
Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)
France
Germany
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-06-27
Description
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The Polish language proposal is for Mieczysław Stachiewicz to receive Poland's highest military award, the Virtuti Militari. It details his 25 operations, including the first 1000 bomber operation, on Cologne. There is also a list of medals awarded by the UK government.
Title
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Proposal for Mieczysław Stachiewicz to receive Virtuti Militari
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Mieczysław Stachiewicz
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Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English
301 Squadron
aircrew
bombing
bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942)
mine laying
pilot
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Clyde-Smith, Denis
Clyde-Smith, D
Description
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Collection contains 26 items and concerns Squadron Leader Denis Clyde-Smith Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross, who joined the Royal Air Force and trained as a pilot in 1937. He flew in the anti aircraft cooperation role including remotely piloted Queen Bee aircraft before serving on Battle aircraft on 32 Squadron. He completed operational tours on Wellington with 115 and 218 Squadrons and Wellington and Lancaster with 9 Squadron after which he went to the aircraft and armament experimental establishment at Boscombe Down. The collection consists of two logbooks, aircraft histories of some of the aircraft he flew, photographs of people and aircraft, newspaper articles and gallantry award certificate.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by John Clyde-Smith and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-09-19
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Clyde-Smith, D
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
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LClydeSmithD39856v1
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Pending review
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Description
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Pilot's flying log book for Denis Clyde-Smith covering the period from 1 June 1942 to 19 July 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations and test pilot duties. He was stationed at RAF Honington, RAF Wigsley, RAF Waddington, RAF Boscombe Down. Aircraft flown in were, Wellington, Lysander, Manchester, Lancaster, Tiger Moth, Halifax, Proctor, Stirling, B-17, Liberator (B-24), Marauder (B-26), Anson, Warwick, P-51, Mosquito, Spitfire, Lincoln Stinson, Typhoon and York. He flew a total of 24 operations with 9 Squadron. Targets attacked were, Essen, Bremen, St Nazaire, Borkum, Wilhelmshaven, Baltic coast, Duisberg, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Munich, Wismar, Aachen, Kiel, Genoa and Milan.
Contributor
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Mike Connock
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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France
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Suffolk
England--Wiltshire
France--Saint-Nazaire
Germany--Aachen
Germany--Borkum
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Essen
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Munich
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Germany--Wismar
Italy--Genoa
Italy--Milan
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Temporal Coverage
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1942
1943
1944
1945
1942-06-01
1942-06-02
1942-06-25
1942-06-26
1942-06-27
1942-07-02
1942-07-03
1942-07-07
1942-07-08
1942-07-09
1942-07-11
1942-07-12
1942-07-13
1942-07-14
1942-07-21
1942-07-22
1942-07-24
1942-07-26
1942-07-28
1942-07-29
1942-09-10
1942-09-11
1942-09-13
1942-09-14
1942-09-16
1942-09-17
1942-09-19
1942-09-20
1942-09-23
1942-09-24
1942-09-29
1942-09-30
1942-10-01
1942-10-02
1942-10-05
1942-10-06
1942-10-13
1942-10-22
1942-10-23
1942-10-24
Title
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Denis Clyde-Smith's pilot's flying log book. Two
1654 HCU
9 Squadron
aircrew
Anson
B-17
B-24
B-26
bombing
Halifax
Halifax Mk 1
Halifax Mk 3
Halifax Mk 5
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
Lancaster Mk 3
Lincoln
Lysander
Manchester
mine laying
Mosquito
P-51
pilot
Proctor
RAF Boscombe Down
RAF Honington
RAF Waddington
RAF Wigsley
Spitfire
Stirling
Tiger Moth
training
Typhoon
Wellington
York