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Gill, Kenneth
K Gill
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2017-07-09
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Gill, K
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One hundred and sixty-four items plus another one hundred and fifteen in two sub-ciollections. The collection concerns Flying Officer Kenneth Gill DFC (1922 - 1945, 1438901, 155097 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents, photographs and family and other correspondence. <br />He flew operations as a navigator with 9 Squadron before starting a second tour with 617 Squadron. He was killed 21 March 1945 having completed 45 operations.<br /><br />The collection also contains two albums. <br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2114">Kenneth Gill. Album One</a><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2117">Kenneth Gill. Album Two</a><br /><br />Additional information on Kenneth Gill is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/108654/">IBCC Losses Database.</a><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Derek Gill and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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[RAF badge]
1438901. SGT. GILL. K.
No3. R.A.F. P.R.C.
BATH HILL COURT.
BOURNEMOUTH.
OCT. 10th/42.
Dear Mum & all,
Hope you got the telegram O.K. mum, I hadn't the cash to send Vera one at the time, but I'm O.K. now as I've changed my Canadian money into English.
Well it shouldn't be long before I see you again, we're given 7 days leave & it should start sometime next week. It isn't anything like what we expected but we'll have to grin and bear it I suppose. They do say as how we're needed pretty quickly so that's perhaps why only 7 days leave,
Have you had any news from Ron lately, I wrote him two or three times. I wrote quite a few letters & I haven't had replies to them
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Have you heard from Albert at all of late & Pip or Margaret Franklin. I wrote to all of them but ain’t 'eard.
However I s'pose I'll see them maybe soon. I say mum how's the food situation at home? there doesn't seem to be much of a shortage here of anything.
Tell David I'll bring him some apples when I come home. I brought some oranges onto the boat with me but they didn't keep, then I got some more on the boat but they didn't keep either, I'm sorry David lad but apples is all there is.
I brought some milk chocolate with me too, but our kitbags haven't arrived from the boat so I can't tell how it's fared. I have a little surprise for you mum & one for David; don't say anything but suppose you could still use your
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sewing machine mum?
I doing O.K. down here at Bournemouth; we have lots of time off and intend to explore a little. All the Leuchars lads, excepting four are with us here, we have pilots, observers, navigators, gunners & what-have-you, it seems queer that we should all be finished together and awaiting our next posting. Who knows maybe we'll have some of our own lads as crew.
Well, I'm stuck for something to say, pity you aren't here to prompt me mum, like you do dad, still I'll see you soon then we can 'jaw' our heads off.
Cheerio & God Bless You.
Your Loving Son.
Ken (kisses)
David
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Letter from Kenneth Gill to his mother
Description
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Mentions he recently sent a telegram and it would not be long before he saw them as he had seven days leave coming. Asks for news of friends and asks about food shortages at home. Mentions items he had brought back. Explains what he is doing and his plans in Bournemouth. Writes of his colleagues and possible futures.
Creator
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K Gill
Date
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1942-10-10
Temporal Coverage
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1942-10-10
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Dorset
England--Bournemouth
England--Hampshire
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Format
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Three page handwritten letter
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SGillK1438901v30001
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Sue Smith
military service conditions
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Title
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Saunders, Ernest John. Album 2
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-02-13
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Saunders, EJ
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Album containing photographs of his training and service in North Africa and with Bomber Command.
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Burning aircraft at LG 18, Western Desert
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Two photographs from an album.
A vertical aerial photograph of a burning aircraft at LG 18, Western Desert. It is captioned 'BJ 40.NT 9/10 /10/42 8" --> 7500' LG18'.
Photo 2 is an airman standing outside a tent.
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Two b/w photographs on an album page
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
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PSaundersEJ20010090
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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North Africa
Egypt
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-10-09
1942-10-10
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1942-10-09
1942-10-10
40 Squadron
aerial photograph
aircrew
bombing
military living conditions
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Saunders, Ernest John
E J Saunders
Sam Saunders
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-02-13
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Saunders, EJ
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Nine items. The collection concerns Ernest John Saunders (924532 Royal Air Force) and consists of his log book, photographs and correspondence as well as two photograph albums of his service and family life. He flew operations as a navigator in North Africa in 1942 with 40 Squadron and with Bomber Command in 1943 - 1944 with 692 and 128 Squadron on Mosquito.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Penelope Thicket and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Sam Saunders's flying log book
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Detailing his flying training and operations flown as navigator 16 January 1941 to 9 January 1946. He was stationed at RCAF Winnipeg (6 AOS), RCAF MacDonald (3 B&GS), RCAF Rivers (1 ANS), RAF Harwell (15 OTU), RAF Shallufa (38 and 40 Squadrons), RAF Upper Heyford (16 OTU), RAF Hendon (24 and 512 Squadrons), RAF Doncaster (271 Squadron), RAF Marham (1655 MTU), RAF Oakington (627 Squadron), RAF Graveley (692 Squadron), RAF Wyton (128 Squadron), RAF Crosby-on-Eden (109 TCU), RAF Almaza (216 Squadron).
Aircraft flown in were Anson, Battle, Wellington, Hudson, Tiger Moth, Dakota, Sparrow, Oxford, Proctor and Mosquito.
He flew 3 night operations with 38 Squadron, 42 with 40 Squadron, 8 with 627 Squadron, 45 with 692 squadron and 9 with 128 Squadron, a total of 107. His pilots on operations were Warrant Officer Brodie, Sergeant Le Brog, Squadron Leader Booth, Wing Commander Lockhart, Flight Lieutenant Grainger, Squadron Leader Saunderson, Wing Commander Birkin, Wing Commander Watts, Flying Officer Page, Pilot Officer Burnett, Flying Officer Richardson, Flying Officer Goodwin, Wing Commander Burrough, Flying Officer Boyer and Flight Lieutenant Gallanders.
Targets included Benghazi, mining, Tobruk, El Daba, Alamein, Ras el Manatis, Fuka, Cagliari, Tunis, Bizerte, Duisburg, Cologne, Hamburg, Magdeburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Schweinfurt, Augsburg, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Koln, Osnabruk, Stuttgart, Friedrichshaven, Leverkusen, Cologne, Gelsenkirchen, Bremen, Homberg, Weisbaden, Saarbruchen, Wanne-Eichel, Castrop, Kiel, Kassel, Brunswick and Cochem.
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Terry Hancock
Cara Walmsley
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Canada
Egypt
Great Britain
Italy
Libya
North Africa
Egypt--Alamayn
Egypt--Cairo
Egypt--Suez
Egypt--Tall al-Ḍabʻah
England--Cambridgeshire
England--Cumbria
England--Doncaster
England--London
England--Norfolk
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Braunschweig
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Castrop-Rauxel
Germany--Cochem
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Friedrichshafen
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Hannover
Germany--Homberg (Kassel)
Germany--Kassel
Germany--Kiel
Germany--Leverkusen
Germany--Leverkusen
Germany--Osnabrück
Germany--Saarbrücken
Germany--Schweinfurt
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Wanne-Eickel
Germany--Wiesbaden
Italy--Cagliari
Libya--Tobruk
Manitoba--Winnipeg
Tunisia--Bizerte
Tunisia--Tunis
Germany--Augsburg
Germany--Magdeburg
England--Oxfordshire
Libya--Banghāzī
Tunisia
Germany
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
England--Yorkshire
Egypt--Fukah
Manitoba
Manitoba--Rivers
Temporal Coverage
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1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1942-05-24
1942-05-25
1942-05-26
1942-05-27
1942-05-30
1942-06-05
1942-06-06
1942-06-08
1942-07-11
1942-07-12
1942-07-15
1942-07-16
1942-07-18
1942-07-19
1942-07-20
1942-07-21
1942-07-23
1942-07-24
1942-07-25
1942-07-26
1942-07-27
1942-07-29
1942-07-30
1942-08-01
1942-08-02
1942-08-04
1942-08-05
1942-08-18
1942-08-19
1942-08-22
1942-08-23
1942-08-26
1942-08-27
1942-08-28
1942-08-29
1942-08-31
1942-09-01
1942-09-06
1942-09-07
1942-09-13
1942-09-14
1942-09-18
1942-09-19
1942-09-20
1942-09-21
1942-09-24
1942-09-25
1942-10-09
1942-10-10
1942-10-12
1942-10-13
1942-10-18
1942-10-19
1942-10-20
1942-10-21
1942-10-23
1942-10-24
1942-10-25
1942-10-26
1942-10-27
1942-10-29
1942-10-30
1942-11-02
1942-11-03
1942-11-04
1942-11-05
1942-11-06
1942-11-07
1942-11-08
1942-11-09
1942-11-10
1942-11-11
1942-11-14
1942-11-15
1942-11-18
1942-11-19
1942-11-20
1942-11-21
1942-11-24
1942-11-25
1942-11-27
1942-11-28
1943-12-28
1944-01-02
1944-01-06
1944-01-14
1944-01-21
1944-01-22
1944-01-29
1944-02-01
1944-02-07
1944-02-19
1944-02-24
1944-02-25
1944-02-26
1944-03-06
1944-03-11
1944-03-13
1944-03-14
1944-03-23
1944-04-04
1944-04-12
1944-04-13
1944-04-20
1944-04-21
1944-04-24
1944-04-25
1944-04-27
1944-04-28
1944-05-08
1944-05-09
1944-05-10
1944-05-11
1944-05-26
1944-05-27
1944-06-12
1944-06-13
1944-06-15
1944-06-16
1944-06-17
1944-06-21
1944-06-22
1944-06-23
1944-06-24
1944-06-25
1944-06-26
1944-06-28
1944-06-29
1944-07-04
1944-07-08
1944-07-10
1944-07-11
1944-07-14
1944-07-15
1944-07-16
1944-07-17
1944-07-18
1944-07-19
1944-07-20
1944-08-05
1944-08-06
1944-08-07
1944-08-08
1944-08-09
1944-08-11
1944-08-12
1944-08-13
1944-08-14
1944-08-15
1944-08-25
1944-08-26
1944-08-27
1944-08-30
1944-08-31
1944-09-01
1944-09-02
1944-09-13
1944-09-14
1944-09-27
1944-10-01
1944-10-02
1944-10-19
1944-11-27
1944-12-05
1944-12-06
1944-12-11
1945-01-01
1945-01-18
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LSaundersEJ924532v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
128 Squadron
15 OTU
16 OTU
216 Squadron
38 Squadron
40 Squadron
627 Squadron
692 Squadron
Air Observers School
aircrew
Anson
Battle
bombing
Bombing and Gunnery School
C-47
Hudson
mine laying
Mosquito
navigator
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
Proctor
RAF Graveley
RAF Harwell
RAF Hendon
RAF Marham
RAF Oakington
RAF Shallufa
RAF Upper Heyford
RAF Wyton
Tiger Moth
training
Wellington
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Hudson, Douglas
James Douglas Hudson
J D Hudson
Description
An account of the resource
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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[inserted] 179 [/inserted]
[underlined] 78 [/underlined]
[inserted] 10-10-42 [/inserted]
191 Halifax Road
Nelson. Lancs.
England.
Monday Sept. 7th/42
My dear Douglas. I wrote to you last on Friday Sept. 4th just after Dad had gone on fire-watching duty. We were all very thankful for a peace-ful [sic] night. I acknowledged, on Fri. your telegram for Dad’s birthday, which arrived, as I told you, on Sept. 1st, by post on the Tues. morning. It is Dad’s 4th birthday during war-time & with all our hearts we sincerely hope by the time for the next one, peace will be with us again. I cannot imagine what message I sent to you on June 12th did not meet with the censor’s approval & have no recollection of writing anything that may be of interest or value to Jerry in his desperate situation as I do not possess any such knowledge. We are all still anxiously awaiting news of Ted Hole. The Japanese have not yet allowed a list of prisoners to come through. My thoughts are very often with Mr & Mrs Hole. It is a long time for them to be waiting without any kind of news since just after Christmas.
Well love I don’t seem to have anything of interest to write about. We have had a very inclement week-end & have not even had the opportunity to mow the lawns. It was fine for about 4 hours this morning but at 1 p.m. the trickle begun again & it is carrying on the good work at 3 p.m. Hope it fairs up for Dad’s home-coming. We spent
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most of the week-end reading. I got a jolly good book (accidently) from the library. Thought I had picked up something light & fluffy by Olive Wadsley & when I got home found it was a good & interesting & instructive by Helen Waddell a story of Roman Catholicism & I like it. Here’s a quotation, “Remember that in any place where a good many men are living together, good & evil are found! If place could help, never had angels fallen from Heaven, - nor man sinned in Paradise. A wise wind keeps its own mastery”. Dad had a letter from Uncle Jim for his birthday & Uncle seems to be thoroughly enjoying his retirement. He says he is much better in health which is a good thing. Auntie has had a very trying time with Ken. So no doubt Jim will help to keep things going more smoothly. I have no news of John since his birthday when he was at Bedale & enjoying the beautiful country between spells of hard work. Strange that you two never fancied the Yorkshire Wolds in the old motor-cycling days. I hope your next letters will give the result of the Bridge tournament. It would be good news that you had been able to recommence journalistic activities. They did help to pass the time. Black-out time here is 8-17 now & it feels very near to winter. You will be thankful to have cooler days but I am dreading the cold as our coal supply is very inadequate. Shall have to go to bed to keep warm. All our love & prayers. Mother & Dad
755052 Hudson
Camp Militaire
Laghouat. Algerie.
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Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
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Acknowledges cable on father's birthday and is at loss to understand why her message to him did not meet censors approval. Still awaiting news of missing friend. Comments on recent weather and on book she is reading. Catches up on family correspondence and passes on news. Hopes his next letter swill hold results of bridge tournament and news of resumption of his journalistic activities.
Creator
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P Hudson
Date
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1942-09-07
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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EHudsonP-HEHudsonJD420907
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Algeria
Algeria--Laghouat (Province)
Great Britain
England--Lancashire
England--Nelson
North Africa
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1942-09-07
1942-10-10
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
prisoner of war
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
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674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2018-09-06
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Valentine, JRM
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To Sergeant J.R.M. Valentine
British Prisoner of War No. 450,
Stalag Luft III, Germany.
28
From Mrs. J.R.M. Valentine,
Lido, Tenterden Grove,
London, N.W. 4.
Saturday 10th Octo
R&A 11/11/42
My darling Johnnie,
Your letter of 3rd and postcard of 6th September gratefully received. They were both cheerful in tone and made me feel happy. As regards the medical supplies you ask for, I went up to the Red Cross Headquarters today to enquire and was told that no more invalid food parcels can be sent to individuals, but was put in touch with the medical department. Unfortunately they had all gone home, as it was getting on for lunchtime on Saturday, but I have written to the lady in charge and will enclose your letter and hope that she may be able to do something, I am very glad to hear that you are in the church choir. You have a decent voice, and anyway signing in unison is such fun. I am glad you have decided to do English Literature instead of shorthand. I don't think you would have had much use for the latter, and a sound knowledge of literature is always an acquisition. Really I am getting quite jealous of you and all your new-found accomplishments, it is making me feel that I must take up something new, when I already haven't enough time to get through the things I have on hand! I hope your agricultural papers will have arrived by now. I'm glad you can borrow a copy of the textbook in the meantime, though I have now bought a new copy which ought to reach you in due course and which will be nice to add to our library as a book of reference. The next point in your letter is the paucity of mail from your people. I don't think you have offended them, I don't see how you could have. Your Mother and Ann have now taken to writing regularly - I think it was the summer holiday which interfered with it before. I was under the impression that your father was writing regularly all along and don't know why you haven't received more. I hardly like to catechize him on the subject. Your father did write to me when you were shot down, an encouraging sort of letter telling me to keep my pecker up and all would come right - and so it did! He offered financial assistance etc, but of course nothing like that was necessary. Bunty and Stewart wrote too, and Leslie's was the nicest letter of all.
You say I may expect you home for my 28th birthday. Right, I will, and mind you don't be late! I do hope you will be able to send me the photo you say has been taken, in time for my next birthday. Don't let any vain pride, because the photo isn't good-looking enough, prevent you!
Now to answer the points on your p.c. There was no photo enclosed in my No. 7 - you really can't expect one [underlined] every [/underlined] time! So glad you have got your own fiddle and are making satisfactory progress. Frances's hair is quite unchanged in colour, when it is just brushed and catches the sunlight it is really a glorious sight. It is getting longer and curlier now and sometimes looks very pretty indeed. I'll work out my chess move when I've had more time to think it over.
Ann is staying here this weekend. She came over on Friday evening and stays till Monday morning. This afternoon we have been to a special concert at the Nat.Gallery, the third birthday concert. We went up to town good and early, first to the Red Cross, and then to queue up for the concert, which was absolutely packed out. We were there early enough to get decent seats and took our own sandwich lunch. It turns out to be the first time Ann has been to a concert, and I believe she was thrilled. It was a long and varied programme, not quite what I should have chosen for her, as some of it was rather modern, but she seemed to
Just picked the remaining green tomatoes - 12lbs of them, making about 18 lbs in all from the 12 plants (2 died)
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enjoy it all, the crowds, the players, the instruments and the music, and thanked me most enthusiastically. We looked at the exhibition of paintings first, and had quite a good time. Barbara was looking after Frances all this time of course, although she had been on late duty, and she and Ann have now both retired to bed. Ann is certainly easy to entertain, she is so unspoilt and appreciative, but I think it is time she went out a bit more, at her age, and I shall try to take her to something whenever she comes to stay with me.
Last Wednesday was about the most awful day I have spent since I knew you were safe. Frances ran away from home! Choosing a moment when I thought she was with Florence upstairs and Florence thought she was with me in the garden, and when the front door had somehow been left ajar, she calmly took her yellow beret and walked out. She must have been gone a few minutes before I came in and missed her; then of course I dashed out in search of her, which was made the more difficult by a swirling mist; I went down to Finchley Lane first but she was nowhere in sight so then I went back up the Grove and met Mr. Moss who joined in the chase; then back up to the Quadrant and to the police station to see if she had been found and taken there, but no, and then a bobby on a bike joined in; I met Mrs. Greenish and Helen and Mrs. Regan and they all started searching. I was getting really desperate by this time, not knowing who could have taken her in, when Mrs. Greenish ran her to earth in Hill's Garage, sitting up on a stool in the office drinking cups of milk! She was perfectly good-humoured and thoroughly enjoying herself, of course, and I was so over come when I got her back that I couldn't even scold her, let alone spank her - not that it would have done any good anyway. I took me nearly an hour to pull myself together enough to get on with my washing! But imagine it, at the ripe age of 17 months! What she will do when she is old enough to think out escapades, I dread to think. The thought of her crossing Finchley Lane on her own still sends cold shivers down my spine.
In the afternoon we pulled ourselves together sufficiently to go to tea with Mrs. Boyd and enjoyed ourselves as usual. But now there is another trouble looming up, which I sincerely hope will come to nothing. I have discovered to my horror that Frances has been in contact with a case of measles. It was out of doors, luckily, and 8-year-old neice of Clare's, who played with Frances a bit while we were out for a walk, and then developed measles the next day. Bethune says there is nothing to be done about it, so I am just praying that her natural good health will carry her through. By this time next week I ought to know the worst. Unfortunately she has got a bit of a cold, from those that Barbara and I had I suppose, so I am trying hard to cure that and get her on top of her form again. She is full of beans as ever and eating lots, so the cold hasn't pulled her down much.
Sunday 11th Oct.
(Frances 18 months old)
s regards the 1st chess game, you moved PxP(Q5). I take this to mean PxP(K5) since you haven't yet moved your King's pawn which could have taken my Queen's pawn. On this assumption, my 3rd move is P-KB3. I must say I think this method of describing the moves is open to grave objection!
Had a letter from the squadron yesterday about the £5.10.0 As I thought he regrets that this must be presumed lost (except £3.0.0 which was credited to you) and points out that aircrew are not guiltless since money ought to be deposited with the Adjutant or something. Pity. A dividend from Aspros has come too, to the tune of 11.3d which I have put in our joint account. My allowance has now gone up 1/- a week, increase on child's pay.
With all my love to you, my dearest,
Yours always,
Ursula.
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Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
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Thanks him for recent letters and mentions raining medical supplies issues with Red Cross headquarters. Glad he has joined church choir and decided to study English literature. Discuses other potential study and lack of mail from his family. She goes on to cover other points he raised in his letters and then catches up with news and activities of friends and family. Mentions daughter Frances going missing and search by neighbours until she was found sitting in a garage office drinking milk. Concludes with other news including that Frances had been in contact with case of measles.
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1942-10-10
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Margaret Carr
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Two page typewritten letter
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eng
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EValentineUMValentineJRM421010
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
Poland
Poland--Żagań
England--London
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1942-10-10
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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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Ursula Valentine
prisoner of war
Stalag Luft 3