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Thompson, Keith G
K G Thompson
Description
An account of the resource
95 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Keith Thompson DFC (1238603 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents, photographs and training material as well as his navigation logs. He flew operations as a navigator with 101 and 199 Squadrons.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Mark S Thompson and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-09-07
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Thompson, KG
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[Collage of miscellaneous photographs and other items]
[news paper cutting]
“WINGS” FROM CANADA Sgt. K.G. Thompson completing his course in Canada.
[page break]
[telegram]
CABLE AND WIRELESS
Date stamp: 9 DEC 42
AA1182 MONTREAL EX TORONTO 20 7 =
PLT MR HARRY THOMPSON 50 GERARD ROAD
ROTHERHAM YORKS =
DON’T SEND ANY MORE LETTERS LOVE AND
KISSES = SGT KEITH THOMPSON *
[page break]
[duplicate copy of above telegram]
[page break]
[8 black and white photographs]
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
[underlined] LEAVE OR PASS FORM [/underlined]
Issued to Sgt. Thompson K.G.
4.12.42 to 9.12.42
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Keith Thompson's promotion to sergeant
Description
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Three photographs, two captioned ' A bevy of new sergeant air navigators, Dec '42'.
RCAF leave pass made out to Keith Thompson.
A photograph of female, head and shoulders captioned 'Tommy Adams Doris' friend'.
Four photographs of a small number of female servicewomen in uniform captioned 'New recruits (Doris) Saskatoon Apl '43'.
Telegram to his father, telling him not to send any more letters.
Letter and cutting from the Rotherham Advertiser, February 20th 1943 about Keith Thompson's training in Canada.
Date
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1942-12
Format
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Eight b/w photographs, one leave pass, a telegram, a letter, a newspaper cutting on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
Text
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PThompsonKG15010031, PThompsonKG15010032, PThompsonKG15010033, PThompsonKG15010034
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Royal Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Canada
Ontario--Malton
Saskatchewan--Saskatoon
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Temporal Coverage
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1942-12
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
ground personnel
promotion
training
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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Title
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Akrill, William
Billy Akrill
W Akrill
Description
An account of the resource
132 items. The collection concerns Sergeant William Akrill (1922 - 1943, 1436220 Royal Air Force). He was a navigator with 115 Squadron. His Wellington was shot down by a night-fighter on an operation to Essen and crashed into the Ijsselmeer 12/13 March 1943. The collection contains his photographs, letters, and cartoons as well as an oral history interview with Michael and Ann Akrill about their uncle. There is also a subcollection of letters written as a teenage boy to his father in hospital. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Michael and Ann Akrill and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on William Akrill is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/200183/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/akrill-we/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a>
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-12-04
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Akrill, M-A
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inserted] Just found I’d left this out of parcel! [/inserted]
Sgt. Akrill,
Sgts. Mess,
R.A.F. Stn., Upper Heyford,
Oxon.
Tues. 8.12.42.
Dear Mum,
Sorry if you’ve been looking for a letter. Things have been absolutely upside down since I started flying. Detailed for night flying every night only to have it cancelled after chasing all over the place, sweltering in flying kit by the crew room stove, shivering at dispersal, bumping in transport to the aircraft, wading thro’ mud & puddles in the dark and – very occasionally actually flying. Tonight, however the met report was really duff and they had the gumption to cancel flying at briefing before 4 o’clock so I’ve got a free evening and a chance of catching up with letters tho’ as I was flying last night & didn’t get to bed til the early hours & then had to be up early for first detail this morning, I shall be ready for an early bed. I’ll pack my washing up tonight & if I can will take it to the P.O.
[page break]
tomorrow. My bike’s got to Lower Heyford alright but I’ve not been able to collect it. Don’t worry I’ll not use it in the dark. Afraid I shan’t have much chance of going out at all.
I’ve flown with all of my crew and I’m proud of them all. Out pilot Sgt Fallon is very keen and [deleted] I [/deleted] very reliable, responsible chap. He’s exactly the type I should have wanted. I’ve every confidence in him. The Wop’s a keen little chap too, so’s the tail gunner (tho he’s very tall & can hardly curl himself up into the turret) and our Bomb Aimer seems to know his job too. I only hope now that the Navigator knows [underlined] his [underlined] stuff. Its not much fun flying in Wimps – we’re shut in a little cabin just like grapes & can’t see a thing of what’s going on. It’ll be better in Lancs (I hope)
On Sunday flying was cancelled just in time for me to get to chapel & we went to supper again at the Bates’s. Yes, tell Mary there [underlined] is [/underlined] a Miss Bun – an apple-cheeked and giggly young lady of about 13.
[page break]
John (the Welsh chap) had bad news (for me) that he is being posted on Thursday. He was a grand chap & a real friend. He’s going to Cranwell
Afraid I shan’t be home before Christmas We should be starting our final 5 or 6 weeks on Monday in the Operational Flights (Doesn’t mean we [underlined] are [/underlined] operational) so look for seeing me for 7 days then tho’ I guess weather will upset things somewhat. However we should get a break at Christmas and I’m certainly looking forward to Xmas just for that reason. Think I can’t do better than sleep and write letters. They’re asking for Senior NCOs to volunteer to wait on the airmen at Christmas dinner but I don’t fancy myself rushing around with plates of airforce custard and Christmas pud. David’s getting 10 days. Lucky chap. I [underlined] could [/underlined] get home if it were not for travelling restrictions. I think.
Been considering creeping out in civvies!
Pleased Mary’s teeth work so well. Tell her I’m longing to see how glamourous
[page break]
she looks in them. Tell her that on Friday flying was scrubbed just right for me to dash to the camp cinema so see “Jungle Book” I remember how she liked it so did my best get. I liked all the animals and things and had a big argument when it was done [deleted] as [/deleted] when a pal of mine tried to say that apart from the tiger man was the only animal that killed for sport. I suppose the picture tried to show that too.
Well must write to David who said he was ringing me up at the Mess on Sat. Afraid it won’t be much good as I don’t know when flying will be scrubbed. Love to all. Let’s here [sic] from you
Love
[underlined] Bill [/underlined]
[underlined] Wed. [/underlined]
Managed to dash off for my bike & got it O.K.
Thank Ros & Nip for letters & Ros for photo. Poor old Nip!! Had a laugh over Nip’s story. Will reply when I get a chance [underlined] B [/underlined]
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Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
Description
An account of the resource
Bill writes of being very busy with night flying - although often they are almost ready to go before it is cancelled due to bad weather. His bike has arrived at Upper Heyford station but he has not had time to collect it.
Describes his crew in some detail - has every confidence in them, and hopes he 'knows his stuff' as well.
Flying was cancelled on Sunday, so was able to go to chapel and to supper with his new local friends.
Bill mentions he will not be home for Christmas, since they are starting their last 5-6 weeks soon, but should get a break and is looking forward to that.
Was able to go to the cinema to see 'Jungle Book'.
Date
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1942-12-08
1942-12-09
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
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Great Britain
England--Oxfordshire
Temporal Coverage
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1942-12
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Four handwritten pages
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Text
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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William Akrill
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EAkrillWEAkrill[Mo]421208-0001
EAkrillWEAkrill[Mo]421208-0002
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EAkrillWEAkrill[Mo]421208-0004
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entertainment
faith
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF Upper Heyford
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Akrill, William
Billy Akrill
W Akrill
Description
An account of the resource
132 items. The collection concerns Sergeant William Akrill (1922 - 1943, 1436220 Royal Air Force). He was a navigator with 115 Squadron. His Wellington was shot down by a night-fighter on an operation to Essen and crashed into the Ijsselmeer 12/13 March 1943. The collection contains his photographs, letters, and cartoons as well as an oral history interview with Michael and Ann Akrill about their uncle. There is also a subcollection of letters written as a teenage boy to his father in hospital. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Michael and Ann Akrill and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on William Akrill is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/200183/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/akrill-we/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a>
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-12-04
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Akrill, M-A
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Sgt. Akrill.
Sgts. Mess.
R.A.F. Station,
Upper Heyford
Oxon.
Sunday 13.12.42.
Dear Mum,
Thank you for the letter which turned up yesterday. Sorry you were worried but as things are now I didn’t realise it was so long since I wrote. I could be like David & ring you up if you want me to but it really doesn’t seem worth it.
Things are keeping on just about the same. It gets a bit tiring but I’ll be able to have a rest at Christmas. On Friday night we were just taxying out to take off when we got bogged in the mud & messed round there from 6 to 10 in pouring rain & finally had to abandon it. Saturday was fine & I was all ready to come in an Anson to bring somebody to Scampton but [underlined] that [/underlined] was scrubbed. One day some of the lads took a S/Ldr to Winthorpe in an Annie. Wasn’t I wild when I found out later. I think we should have developed engine trouble if [underlined] I’d [/underlined] got as far as that!! Then somebody else went to Wigsley. People are always going to & from there so maybe I’ll get one day
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
We’ve got the “Circus” here paying us a visit. A Junkers 88, a Messerschmitt 110 and a Heinkel!!! They put up a good show in the air but I’ve been over them & I’m glad I’m not one of their crew. The crew doesn’t seem to be considered at all as they are in our own kites. The Ju 88 is one of the best aircraft in the world but the crew are packed like sardines. We look like a unit of the Luftwaffe at the moment!!
I got my Gift from the Comforts’ Fund the other day – it had been lying around sometime as someone had spelt my name wrongly & missed my number. Would you let me know where to write to acknowledge it? Please tell Mary that I’m stumped for blades again – on my last which is like a saw.
Enclosing £7. Havn’t [sic] got any Christmas Presents – see what I can do if ever I get into town.
Will try to write again soon.
Love to all
[underlined] Bill [/underlined]
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Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
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An account of the resource
Bill writes of flying activity, or lack of it when flights are abandoned or postponed. Mentions visit of circus comprising Ju 88, Me 110 and Heinkel which gave flying demonstration and after he was able to look over them. Was not impressed with crew space.
Has received a gift from the 'Comforts Fund'.
Date
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1942-12-13
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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EAkrillWEAkrill[Mo]421213
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Oxfordshire
Temporal Coverage
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1942-12
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IBCC Digital Archive
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William Akrill
Anson
He 111
Ju 88
Me 110
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF Upper Heyford
training
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Akrill, William
Billy Akrill
W Akrill
Description
An account of the resource
132 items. The collection concerns Sergeant William Akrill (1922 - 1943, 1436220 Royal Air Force). He was a navigator with 115 Squadron. His Wellington was shot down by a night-fighter on an operation to Essen and crashed into the Ijsselmeer 12/13 March 1943. The collection contains his photographs, letters, and cartoons as well as an oral history interview with Michael and Ann Akrill about their uncle. There is also a subcollection of letters written as a teenage boy to his father in hospital. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Michael and Ann Akrill and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on William Akrill is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/200183/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/akrill-we/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-12-04
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Akrill, M-A
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underlined] Sun [/underlined] 27.12.42.
[underlined] Heyford [/underlined]
Dear Mum,
Now that Christmas has come & gone there seem to be more letters than ever to write! I got yours of the 24th today as well as one from Miss Mary enclosing a card from her friends in Reading where I used to go (I hope to get to Reading again while I’m here do you still know Joan Reeson’s address?) and a letter from Mr. Sunman. Couldn’t think [underlined] who [/underlined] the Mary was at L’pool. I think it must be Miss Mary Newbone I knew in London & met again on the way to W. Freugh. I got Harry’s letter & the present on the 23rd. They’re nice hankies & it was good of them to use up [underlined] more [/underlined] coupons on me. On the 23rd also I got 2 parcels from
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
Kelsey – a lovely cake, chocolate & chocolate biscuits from Auntie and a Country book from Phyllis. On Christmas Day I got the R.T.G’s card. I suppose you saw it. I think it’s a very good idea for a present. If you didn’t [inserted] see it [/inserted] it was a “Book Token Stamp” a 3/6 stamp you can exchange for a book at most Bookshops. There are some books I’d like in Oxford. Also on the 25th a Greetings Telegramme [sic] from the Iliffes and a letter from Joyce and Harry Thats [sic] about the lot in the Mail line – except for [deleted] you [/deleted] mums & Mary’s letters
But I’ve had a marvellous Christmas, thanks to some [underlined] very [/underlined] good friends. They really are the grandest folks. It was just like being at home. They made
[page break]
[underlined] 3 [/underlined]
me feel I really belonged.
On Monday we saw the camp Panto. It was very good indeed – all the actors were from the station. Christmas Eve I was down for flying but it was scrubbed so 2 of us biked into Bicester – the nearest town – in the afternoon & bought some apples, cigs for the boys & had something to eat. We went to the Pictures in camp & saw a very good film “The Young Mr. Pitt” (He was the “Churchill” who fought Napoleon) at night. Went to bed early but soon got roused again so got up & cleaned buttons &c till 2 a.m. Got up 7.45 & scrambled for breakfast – quite good an [underlined] EGG [/underlined]!!! Later in the morning I biked down to Lower H. & found the Bates still busy at the bakehouse & on the
[page break]
4
rounds. So I joined Sgt. Hughes & his 3 youngsters who were busy making [deleted] toy [/deleted] model aeroplanes.
I joined the Bates’s for dinner. What a dinner. [underlined] Nearly [/underlined] as good as my mother could cook – Great leg of goose, sprouts, &c &c, plum pud, mince pies.
After dinner the party began. Sgt Hughes & Mrs Hughes came in with Alan & Jean (Michael being out in the pram) Len Bates collected his friend Harold. Sgt Harding turned up (he couldn’t get to dinner as he had to wait on the Erks at Hinton) & of course the [sic] was Mr. & Mrs Bates & Enid. We played the most riotous games – everybody romping round, & all [deleted] had a [/deleted] sat down to a great big tea, & carried on with [underlined] more [/underlined] games – supper & still more games til 12.30. I went round with Mr. Bates & Len to mix the dough after tea.
[page break]
[underlined] 5 [/underlined]
The youngsters of course went to bed before then. They had dragged me out to join in a Charade with Enid, Len, Harold, Alan & Jean, & were so pleased that I thought we were never going to stop doing Charades with me as producer & principal part. You should have seen me in a short skirt, trousers rolled up, umbrellas, hats &c as Grandma!! Then I did a ghost which made Alan – who’s only nine have a dream & sleepwalk when he got to bed!! What an uproar but I did enjoy it. They wanted Mr. Harding & I to stay overnight but we both had bikes & it was a fine night so we returned to camp where there was [underlined] plenty [/underlined] happening. The whole place sort of steamed & beer fumes hit you before you got there. There was a dance in the Naafi. In my room everyone was in bed after spending a very sober time playing “monopoly” all day. The Canadians have found
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[underlined] 6 [/underlined]
another room I’m glad to say. The lads really are a decent crowd & I was sorry to think they’d had such a dismal time when I’d been so well done to. They’d had an awful queue & rush for dinner which was small (& they weren’t sure what it was they’d had) & there had been no tea or sugar.
On Boxing Day I woke up at 20 to 10 to find everybody still asleep so we slept on til 11!! Had quite a good dinner & then got on my bike & went for a long ride. The Bates had asked me to go to tea again. I really felt I shouldn’t but they just wouldn’t hear of my not doing so we had another lively evening with more games & more tucking in at a great home cured ham for supper. It was a treat. Poor Enid (“Miss Bunn”) was rather jealous when Len invited Harold’s sister along!! She reminded me ever so much of Isobel.
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7
By 11.30 that night I think there was no game from “Oranges & Lemons” to “Murders” that we hadn’t played.
Night flying’s out of the question tonight so I shall get to chapel O.K. & will be expected there again. I hope Bill Harding can get. He’s a wonderful pianist, and we had no time for singing on Christmas and Boxing Day. Must go now or I’ll be late.
[underlined] MONDAY [/underlined] Went to the Bates’s again after chapel last night. Really feel I shouldn’t go so often but they won’t hear of my not going and make me feel really at home. They’re such a homely lot of folks. They’re having a party on Wednesday and are anxious for me to go again but of course I can’t be sure of getting. Sgt. Harding turned up last night having just heard that he’d become a father on Christmas day. He’s a
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[underlined] 8 [/underlined]
grand chap.
So you see in spite of all I’ve had a very, very happy Christmas. At camp things were dreadful. It didn’t seem like the same world after the home life at Lower H. I’m glad I got out of it. Anybody who didn’t drink had a miserable time of it. The trouble is that it’s encouraged & catered for so sober men – or women – were quite a novelty – You weren’t enjoying yourself unless you were reeling!
We were all amused about the Ities prisoners idea about the war being over. I expect they’re not particularly anxious to get much work done but if they can manage the carrots it will be something. How many have you got? I expect there’ll be somebody in charge.
However did Nipper manage to get home with all that lot?
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9
Talk about Santa Claus!!
I went to Oxford on my day off with a B. Aimer. It poured with rain & the place was packed – couldn’t get [underlined] near [/underlined] the shops. On [deleted] Monday [/deleted] Tuesday had a pleasant surprise when our crew was given [underlined] another [/underlined] day off! I just went for a ride into Bicester in the afternoon.
I don’t know quite how Isobel can be [underlined] getting [/underlined] fat!!
Expect David will be up. Don’t suppose he’d been home long when Mary called. Havn’t [sic] had a letter from him for a long while.
We moved into the Operational Flights yesterday. We should be finished here in about 6 – 8 weeks. I shall be glad. I’ve the worst part of the whole training ahead and bad weather in store too I expect. Still, I’d sooner have bad weather now than on the
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Squadron.
I’ll try to get my [deleted] laundry off [/deleted] dirty clothes of [sic] today. There may be some extra as I couldn’t get them to the Laundry.
Also enclosing £5.
We’re trying to get a 48. But as we get some lectures for 3 weeks there’ll be none til then & then I expect we’ll get it in crews & ours is at the bottom of the list. Anyway I’ll be hoping to see you all as soon as possible. A number of lads dodged of [sic] home on bikes, or in civvies or even forged permission to travel!! But the risk really wouldn’t be worth while as I’d got such good friends looking after me.
Love to all of you
[underlined] Bill [/underlined]
P.S. Where shall I write to the R.T.G’s to thank them?
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Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
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Bill writes after Christmas, relating the cards he received and all that happened to him. Everything went very well: he went to camp pantomime and cinema just before Christmas and spent Christmas Day at his friends' house in Lower Heyford. He describes the dinner, company and games. The fun he had contrasted sharply with the men at base, where they either got drunk or played Monopoly. Had a long lie-in on Boxing Day.
Have just been moved in operational flights and should be finished in 6-8 weeks.
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1942-12-27
1942-12-28
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Tricia Marshall
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Ten page handwritten letter
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eng
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EAkrillWEAkrill[Mo]421227
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
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1942-12
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William Akrill
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Akrill, William
Billy Akrill
W Akrill
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132 items. The collection concerns Sergeant William Akrill (1922 - 1943, 1436220 Royal Air Force). He was a navigator with 115 Squadron. His Wellington was shot down by a night-fighter on an operation to Essen and crashed into the Ijsselmeer 12/13 March 1943. The collection contains his photographs, letters, and cartoons as well as an oral history interview with Michael and Ann Akrill about their uncle. There is also a subcollection of letters written as a teenage boy to his father in hospital. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Michael and Ann Akrill and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on William Akrill is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/200183/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/akrill-we/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a>
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2017-12-04
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Sgt. AKRILL,
Sgts’ Mess,
R.A.F. Station,
Upper Heyford.
Oxon.
FRI. 18.12.42.
Dear Mum and All,
Thanks ever so much all of you for the parcel, which was a real excitement to open. It was good of you to get the pyjamas. My!! The cake certainly looks good! Its easy to say who made it. No I shan’t keep it ‘til Christmas as they go as dry as old bricks in no time. We’ll have a quiet little party tonight perhaps and get the best out of it while we can. Thank Sis for the carrot. I thought at first it was a pear! Think she might have chosen one that wasn’t cankered! Anyway it was O.K. As you can see I’m already using Nip’s notepaper and envelopes. They’re always a problem
[page break]
and about the most sensible present for anybody in the services. I must write to her. 3 Carr have I believe.
I shan’t bother with washing til after Christmas. The razor blades by the way came just right as my last one had broke in half though was still [deleted] usable [/deleted] useable. I must be very careful but should be glad if she’d try for some more. Can’t get near any round here, though I’m going to try in Oxford, & keep asking anybody who goes out.
Tomorrow our crew is being given the day off. We’d all got so tired & fed up with the last 3 weeks that our skippers all demanded a break so 3 crews a day are having time off. I shall have a long day in Oxford and go to the theatre at night. It’ll be a change to get into town. Quite a crowd are going up to London. Flying was scrubbed early – I expect you’ve
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[underlined] 3 [/underlined]
been quiet too with the fog your getting (so we hear from “Met”.)
Our landing field is now unsafe and unuseable so we have to go to our Satelite [sic] ‘drome for flying so this makes the general chaos and chasing round even worse. Last night we messed around in [deleted] our [/deleted] the kite and out from [deleted] 3 [/deleted] 1500 hrs to 0100 next morning & got to bed at 0200. after just 20 minutes flying. When they scrubbed it was a glorious night. It makes you fed up. It was a job getting our ships from Heyford to Hinton-in-the-Hedges our Satelite [sic] When we took off the ship just plunged & slashed through mud & water & shook us up somewhat but “Jock” (our Skipper) got her off alright. He’s a good chap.
There’s all sorts of jubilation being planned here but most of it seems to concern drink. Afraid Christmas on Camp won’t be a particularly happy occasion for me though I shall
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[underlined] 4 [/underlined]
be happy in my own way. Since I’ve been in the RAF I’ve often been thankful that I’ve a home like I have and that I’ve been brought up to find amusement in other things than drink and the like. However there are others like myself I’ve got to know some nice chaps. Most of our gang of Navigators are a fine lot – I like them all but – things will be just a bit too bright for them I’m afraid. At the moment we’ve a gang of Canadian Air Gunners in our room. They’re a disgusting, wide-mouthed crowd – we’re all fed up with them. Afraid they’re not very good “Ambassadors of Canada” Moffat, my A/G is a Canadian, too, but he’s quite a different chap – very keen on his job and a real nice fellow, - a lanky, bronzed and handsome “cowboy” type – the sort of Canadian you read about but
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[underlined] 5 [/underlined]
seldom see! We had some Yanks in [inserted] our room [/inserted] a while back & they were even more revolting. It’s very disturbing to [deleted] think [/deleted] wonder if these are a fair sample of American & Canadian manhood just what hope we have of building a new world. I sincerely hope our Allies have something better than that exhibited over here.
I havn’t [sic] been able to get to Lower Heyford lately. I was asked down to a Christmas Party last night but couldn’t make it
I’ve piles of letters ought to be written so must get cracking. If I havn’t [sic] chance again before Christmas I’ll wish you all a happy one now. You’ll be very quiet won’t you – just 3 of you. Well I’ll be thinking about you – there in spirit!!! (By the way what “Charlie” do you mean?)
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Remember me to Isobel if you see her. I expect David will be coming up. Tell him from me he’s a lucky ‘erb! Maybe I’ll be dishing out the Waaf’s Christmas Pud on Xmas day!! Imagine it!!
Will try to write again before Christmas.
Love to all of you
[underlined] Bill [/underlined] x
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Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother and all
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Bill thanks them all for the parcel which included pyjamas, a cake, a carrot and notepaper and envelopes.
They have been working very hard and have managed to get a day off tomorrow. Expecting to go into Oxford and go to a theatre in the evening.
The landing field at Upper Heyford is now unsafe, so they have had to the satellite station at Hinton in the Hedges. This has made the chasing about even worse.
Most of the Christmas activities planned seem to involve drinking, so Bill is not looking forward to that side of it. He mentions that there are some other men who he gets on with - 'nice chaps', but there are also some very loud Canadians and Americans. Most of the Canadians are not like this at all.
Sends Christmas greetings in case not able to write again.
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1942-12-18
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Tricia Marshall
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Six page handwritten letter
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eng
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EAkrillWEAkrill[Mo]421218
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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1942-12
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William Akrill
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Akrill, William
Billy Akrill
W Akrill
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An account of the resource
132 items. The collection concerns Sergeant William Akrill (1922 - 1943, 1436220 Royal Air Force). He was a navigator with 115 Squadron. His Wellington was shot down by a night-fighter on an operation to Essen and crashed into the Ijsselmeer 12/13 March 1943. The collection contains his photographs, letters, and cartoons as well as an oral history interview with Michael and Ann Akrill about their uncle. There is also a subcollection of letters written as a teenage boy to his father in hospital. The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Michael and Ann Akrill and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. Additional information on William Akrill is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/200183/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/akrill-we/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a>
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2017-12-04
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1 1436220 Sgt. Akrill. W.E.
Sgts. Mess,
R.A.F. Station.
Mon. 21.12.42. Upper Heyford.
Oxon.
Dear Ros & Harry,
I don’t know whether you’ll get this by Christmas, if not you’ll have to forgive me for not thanking you for letter and photograph of Michael before but opportunities for letters don’t present themselves very often.
Everybody has to look at my photo of Michael and the one of mum & him!! I don’t suppose they’re really interested - [deleted] they [/deleted]the boys prefer them of glamorous looking lady friends - but I show them all the same!! Sergt. Hughes (who is billeted with his wife and 3 youngsters at the Bates) has a baby of 4 months who’s also ‘Michael’ and a funny
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined] little mite who’se [sic] had a terrible cold and I thought it was a bit thoughtless of me to show him [underlined] my [/underlined] Michaels photo which looked so different from their poor little chap.
I got down to chapel last night for the first time for a fortnight though I had a rush as I didn’t land ‘til
late having been up since morning [deleted] 250 [/deleted] dropping 250 pounders on our target in the Bristol Channel, and had had no dinner or tea. I went to the Bates’s for supper afterwards. Both they and Sgt. Hughes asked me to spend Christmas day there. Sgt. Hughes declared the camp would be no place for me then!! He’s a grand chap & takes a fatherly interest in me. Sgt. Arding (Sgt. Hughes’s friend - they are both Link Trainer Instructors) will be there
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[underlined] 3 [/underlined] too. It’s very good of the Bates, I feel really that I shouldn’t go with rationing as it is. There’s now a rumour about having to fly over Christmas if the weather’s O.K. but I don’t think we will though it would be a great pity to miss a fine night or day. I should have quite an uneasy conscience!!
On Saturday, my monthly day off, I went into Oxford with one of the Bombadiers [sic] - “Junior” as we call him and tried to look round shops. Oh dear!! The last Saturday before Christmas in a garrison town on a poring wet day in war time. Couldn’t get near the shops which were empty anyway! So nobody’s getting presents or cards from me this year! There are lots of good book shops so I shall see if I can get in again when the rush is over and have a look round - just to amuse myself.
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[underlined] 4 [/underlined] As it’s too late now to write letters I’ve got a ticket for the Camp Pantomime tonight (W. Officers and Senior N.C.O’s & friends only - snobs night!!!!) but I feel pretty certain that the night flying detail will rather disorganise my arrangements! It’s Dick Whittington & is by personel [sic] of the Camp. They say it’s very good - lots of cracks about are various C.O.s [indecipherable word].
Tell Michael I’ve been looking out [deleted] for [/deleted] among the clouds for a sleigh and reindeer and dear old Santa Claus himself with his sack. Perhaps it’s a bit early yet. We may see him on Christmas Eve!! Maybe he’s got an aeroplane now though! Anyway I hope he’s a good Navigator and gets round to everyone alright. Expect he’s lots of
[page break]
[underlined] 5 [/underlined] things for Michael though toys seem to be out of the question. One of our boys made a beautiful model Wimpey [sic] out of an odd chunk of wood for his little lad.
Well, I’ll wish you all a very happy Christmas (if this isn’t too late!!)
Be sure I’ll be thinking about you all. Love to all [underlined] Bill [/underlined]
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Letter from Bill Akrill to Ros and Harry
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An account of the resource
Bill relates how he has been showing Michael's photograph to everyone he meet, whether they are interested or not. Mentions how he has had a long day flying and has been invited to spend Christmas with friends living locally. Describes a visit to Oxford - wet and busy and nothing in the shops anyway - so hasn't been able to get cards or presents for anyone. Looking forward to the camp pantomime. Sends message to Michael about looking out for Father Christmas.
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1942-12-21
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Robin Christian
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Five page handwritten letter
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eng
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EAkrillWE[Recipient]R-H421221
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Royal Air Force
Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Oxfordshire
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1942-12
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William Akrill
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RAF Upper Heyford
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Davies, Dave
D Davies
David Howell Davies
Description
An account of the resource
26 items, including 22 letters, three photographs, and a service and release book. The collection consists of correspondence sent by Sergeant Dave Davies (1923 - 1984, 1653015 Royal Air Force) during his pilot training in Canada to his fiancée, Betty Hughes, who lived in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales. It also includes photographs of Dave Davies in Royal Air Force uniform, one with his bride, Betty, in wedding dress; and his service and release book. Dave Davies served with 48 Squadron from 28 January 1942 to 1 October 1946.
The collection was digitised on behalf of the IBCC Digital Archive by Edward Davies and catalogued by Monica Emmanuelli with additional contribution by Natalie Brimecome-Mills.
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2018-08-10
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Davies, DH
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Miss. Betty Hughes
50. Portland Street,
Aberystwyth
Cardiganshire. WALES.
1653015 LAC DAVIES DH.
R.A.F. STATION. ESTEVAN
SASK. CANADA.
x
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1653015 LAC DAVIES D
R.A.F. STATION.
ESTEVAN.
SASK.
28/12/42.
My Dearest Darling,
Well I’m back at work again darling, after a mervelous [sic] 4 days leave, and a very merry Christmas at Winnipeg. Please forgive me darling for not writing sooner we forgot to take any writing material with us, and we could not get any in Winnipeg as everything was closed all the time we were there. I imagine that a lot of the
[page break]
other boys did the same too judging by the number writing in here tonight. We had a really good time at Christmas. I went with two of my pals. We had a place to stay through the Y.M.C.A. we stayed with [deleted] indecipherable word [/deleted] an old English couple in the heart of the city. They were really nice to us they made us feel quite at home, and we had a super Christmas dinner there. I’m sure I could’nt have had a better dinner at home, but I’m sure of one thing. I would have had a better Christmas if I could have shared it with you darling. I missed you more than ever. I was thinking of you all the time, and thinking what kind of Christmas you were having at home and the things you might be doing. I’m sure you felt the same darling, but never mind we shall spend the next Christmas together and what fun we’ll have. By the way I’m keeping your Christmas present until I come home. I was afraid of sending it to you in case it got lost or damaged in the Christmas rush. I hope you do’nt [sic] mind. What sort of Christmas did you have darling? I hope you had a happy one. You did’nt [sic] eat too much like we did did you? I’m longing to hear from you darling. I hav’nt [sic] heard for quite a while. I expect I’ll hear tomorrow though. Please forgive me if I do'nt [sic] write often enough darling. We have so much to do on this course and we’ll be busier still now to make up for this leave. There’s only 6 more weeks to the end of the course now darling. You’ll get plenty of letters from me then. I’ll have more time off - I hope. Well the flying is still going pretty well. I have done nearly 100 hrs [sic] here now, but we still have a lot to do though. They tell us we should be off the station by the first week in February though. I hope its [sic] true. I’m longing so much to see you again darling. I wish this war would end soon, then I could be with you always, and share everything with you darling. I’m longing to see you in white again.
[page break]
I’m afraid that’s all for now darling. I have to go and do some work before I go to bed. We’re not night flying tonight luckilly [sic]. I’m really tired after the twelve hour train journey from Winnipeg.
Think of me sometimes darling. Keep on waitnig [sig] patiently. I love you more than ever and ʹam [sic] always thinking of you whatever I do.
Your darling
Dave
xxxxx
xxxxx
xxxxx
xxxxx
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Letter from Dave Davies to Betty Hughes
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Dave has returned to work, following four days' leave for Christmas in Winnipeg. He apologises for writing infrequently. Dave explains that he has saved Betty's Christmas present, until he can give it to her in person. He describes the intense work load and promises to write more often once he has completed the course.
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Dave Davies
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1942-12-28
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Monica Emmanuelli
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One page handwritten letter
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eng
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EDaviesDHHughesB421228
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Royal Air Force
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Canada
Manitoba
Manitoba--Winnipeg
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1942-12
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IBCC Digital Archive
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RCAF Estevan
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Ford, Terry
Ford, T
Description
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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
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2017-03-13
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Ford, T
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1585520 LAC Ford. T.A.,
A2 Flt. 67 Course,
35 EFT.S,
Neepawa, Man.
6-1-43.
Dear All,
I’m writing a pretty detailed letter. I sent the airgraph on as these letters seem to take so long. I’ve had letters & airgraphs from you ranging from 23rd November to 12th December.
I’ve been writing pretty regularly so you should have been getting more than you have.
We are expecting to be posted to Weyburn on Saturday, & as I shall be very busy getting ready I’m afraid I shan’t be able to write everyone. I wished you’d thank Auntie Cis very much for the cable, Auntie Lot & Gran Ford for the airgraphs.
Thank you fishee for the card & airgraph. I’m glad to see you’re working hard, & I expect you will have done your 2 lengths by now. I expect you had a nice Christmas.
I’m sorry there wasn’t any more in the parcel. I’ve seen lots
[page break]
of things I wanted to buy for you all but having had my money stolen I’m afraid I couldn’t. I’m afraid there is no chance of seeing my money again now.
Thank you very much for the letters & Christmas card. It was nice to have so many at once.
I’m sorry to hear Gran Ford is not so well, & I sincerely hope she is better by now.
I didn’t write in more detail about the voyage as I didn’t think it would get past the censor.
I was only sick for the first day out, & it was more through stuffing myself with chocolate, oranges gassy lemonade & all the other rich food aboard than anything else.
You suggest I should send the stockings on, but I don’t know anyone going home & I don’t trust the post so I will hang on them.
I’m very interested to hear that Eric is on Ops. I hope he gets on O.K.
So Roy is going away eh? We are certainly scattered over the globe
[page break]
now.
[deleted] I got y [/deleted] I certainly had a marvellous leave in Winnipeg. Up to the 27th I didn’t do much, then I moved to Mrs Turnbull’s (where Don stays) which was near to where Arthur Walter, John Stockbridge (he is on singles with me) & Pete Worrall. We went playing skittles (they call it bowling here.) On New Years Eve we went to a party at the lady’s [deleted] sister [/deleted] [inserted] daughter [/inserted] where the lads are staying.
I drank a goodly drop of whisky , & considering I’ve never had any before I was not unduly affected. We were all taken home at about 5 a.m.
I got up at mid-day, & we went to a party at an American’s house. She is a oldish woman with a couple of daughters who comes from California. She has a marvellous house, modelled on an old English Tudor house.
Since then we’ve been ice skating, roller skating, bowling again, & tobaganning [sic], including falling in the river.
Mr & Mrs Turnbull & Mabel were very good & I had a splendid time altogether. I never got up before midday, the whole 13 days.
[page break]
I met a very attractive girl indeed in Winnnipeg & took her to a couple of shows. She’s a very nice girl & “doesn’t trust English airmen!!” although she likes them.
Unfortunately if I go to Weyburn I shan’t get another chance to go to Winnipeg, & that together with the fact that I shall be separated from all my new pals except John has left me rather cheesed. Still I expect I shall recover as usual. It will be very nice to see Don.
The S.F.T.S course takes from 12 – 16 weeks, when with luck I get my wings & start home again. Anyway I’m very glad I got onto singles, although it doesn’t necessarily mean I go on ops in them.
Well that’s all the news for now. I’ve only got 30 cents left to last me 9 days & I owe $6.50.
Much love to all
[underlined] Terry [/underlined]
P.S. Please send on the socks as I only have 3 pairs.
[page break]
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Letter from Terry Ford to his family
Description
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The author writes home with thanks for letters and Christmas cards. He tells of his New Year social activities and other personal items. He mentions his impending posting to Weyburn.
Creator
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Terry Ford
Date
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1943-01-06
Format
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Four handwritten sheets
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eng
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EFordTAFord[Fam]430106-0001,
EFordTAFord[Fam]430106-0002,
EFordTAFord[Fam]430106-0003,
EFordTAFord[Fam]430106-0004
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Royal Air Force
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Canada
Manitoba--Winnipeg
Manitoba--Neepawa
Saskatchewan--Weyburn
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-12
1943-01-06
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Steve Christian
aircrew
training
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Brooks, Harry
Brooks, C H S
Brooks, Charles Harry Sidney
Description
An account of the resource
Collection contains 18 items concerning Sergeant Harry Sidney Brooks (1915 - 1942, 1357673, Royal Air Force) who was killed in an aircraft accident 20 December 1942 while serving as a wireless operator with 9 Squadron at RAF Waddington. Collection consists of pages from logbook, letters and telegrams to his wife from Harry Brooks, Brooks' father, official sources and others of condolence as well as photographs of him and family. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pamela Tickner and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on Harry Sidney Brooks is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/102784/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-02
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Brooks, HS
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341 High St.,
Lincoln
Lincs. 31.12.42.
Dear Mr. Moth,
I hardly know how to begin this letter, but first of all, let me thank you for writing. I cant [sic] express my feelings in words at this moment, I am so terribly sorry for poor Winnie, and all dear Harry’s relations. What an awful shock it was, I cant [sic] get over it, really. Will you please convey my deepest sympathy to Winnie, may God bless her & help her to bear her sorrow. Tell her not to worry about thanking me for anything, I was only too pleased to help, it was so nice of her to even think of me when she was in so much trouble. I only wish I could do something now, I would spare nothing, but I am afraid it must be left to time, which heals all wounds. She wont [sic] be able to realise
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined].
that at the moment, we know, no-one would, but I pray that she will be given strength to carry on bravely for darling Pamela’s sake.
I should very much have liked to have sent a token of remembrance to dear Harry, but I didn’t have time to wire a wreath as your letter didn’t reach me until Wednesday morning. However, my thoughts were with you all. Well, I dont [sic] think I can say any more just now, if Winnie feels like writing later on I shall be pleased. I dont [sic] expect it now. I know you will look after her, & I will never forget her in my prayers. Giver her my love, all my best wishes to you,
Yours very sincerely,
[underlined] Doris. [/underlined]
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Letter of condolence from Doris to Mr Moth
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Letter to Mr Moth from Doris explaining how sorry she feels for Winnie and all of Harry Brooks' relations and asks recipient to convey her sympathy to Winnie. Apologises that she had insufficient time to wire a wreath for Harry's funeral.
Date
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1942-12-31
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Two page handwritten letter
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eng
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EDoris[Recipient]421231-01
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
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1942-12
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Robin Christian
faith
grief
killed in action
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Edwards, Ellis
E D Edwards
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Six items. The collection concerns Sergeant Ellis Drury Edwards (1236492 Royal Air Force) and consists of his logbook, memorial booklet and four letters. Ellis Edwards was a bomb aimer with 149 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Lakenheath. He was killed when his Halifax crashed on an operation to Berlin 30 March 1943. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pauline Harkett and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br />Additional information on Ellis Edwards is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/208271/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-17
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Edwards, ED
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Sgts Mess.
Stradishall.
Sunday
My dear Maggie
No doubt by now you are calling me all the names under the sun for not writing before, but I suppose by now you know me well enough to realise how very [underlined] good [/underlined] I am at letter writing
Well firstly thanks for the parcel which I got quite safely. and thanks for putting in my photo, good job it didn’t print too well what do you say it was really a terrible effort. Well you say you are busy well so am I. I was up in Yorkshire for 4 days last week took a plane & two passengers up to Doncaster & spent two whole days there and had a
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
very good time, since coming back have been down for early flying, so that means getting up at 6 o/clock
So with that & flying you can guess that bed called very early in the evening today we flew all morning & this afternoon we had a Trial football Match to pick out the better team to play the regular station team on Xmas Day. Well our side won 3 – 2 I scored one goal What do you think about that? So I don’t know if we will be playing Xmas day or not yet I cannot imagine it is Sunday here each day is the same we work all day & every day now we are flying
[page break]
[underlined 3 [/underlined]
but as yet have done no night flying here. How long will you get at Xmas we of course get none officially so it remains with the CO whether we fly or not on Xmas day I hope we don’t there will be some moans & groans if we do, because I guess most of the crowd will have had more than one over the eight. We are so isolated here, miles away from anywhere & cannot do any shopping so don’t be surprised if you don’t get a card at Xmas. I know you will understand.
Well I think that is all for now so will finish off now
[page break]
4
& toddle down to post with it so that it can get off at 6 o clock [sic] tomorrow morning, also I shall have to go & see if I am on early flying in the morning & if so get the Guard room to give me a shake or otherwise I shall be here in bed all day because now after my first game of football for 3 years I feel as if I had been kicked all over & my eyes are refusing to stay open
So cheerio, tell Dad I write him tomorrow, kind regards to Jim & Bertha
So Thanks again
Your loving brother
Ellis
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Letter to his sister from Ellis Edwards
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Apologizes for not writing and relates daily goings on at RAF Stradishall. Mentions a visit to Doncaster, having to get up early for flying almost every day, a football match, not night flying yet and the fact that they are very isolated.
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Ellis Edwards
Format
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Four handwritten pages
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eng
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Text
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EEdwardsEDEdwardsM[Date]-01
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Suffolk
England--Doncaster
England--Yorkshire
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1942-12
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Dianne Kinsella
Sally Des Forges
Emily Jennings
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF Stradishall
sport
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Edwards, Ellis
E D Edwards
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An account of the resource
Six items. The collection concerns Sergeant Ellis Drury Edwards (1236492 Royal Air Force) and consists of his logbook, memorial booklet and four letters. Ellis Edwards was a bomb aimer with 149 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Lakenheath. He was killed when his Halifax crashed on an operation to Berlin 30 March 1943. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Pauline Harkett and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br />Additional information on Ellis Edwards is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/208271/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-17
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Edwards, ED
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[underlined] R.A.F Strad [/underlined]
5/1/43
My dear Maggie
Thanks awfully for the nice assorted parcel which I have just collected from the Post Office.
They all will be very useful especially now I was out of Shaving Cream & had only 20 cigs left. We are now flying every night so are unable to get out to replenish the stock.
Well as Regards Xmas it was quite OK but couldn’t do a lot because on Xmas day we were the only crew who were sufficiently advanced to be able to fly as a crew so were standing by in the event of Air Sea Rescue being required
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined]
but luckily we were not called on.
On Xmas Eve we were flying until about 5 o’clock, and on Dec 22 we flew up to Lossiemouth & back the next day Thats [sic] the reason the Xmas cards were late arriving. Xmas night I was invited to the WAAF NCO’s party had quite a good time there, plenty to eat and drink Free and since then have not been flying on the Sunday after Xmas we flew down to Newquay Cornwall & back quite a nice trip but flew over cloud the whole way never saw the ground once either there or back.
And each day since we have
[page break]
been night flying and even if the weather is bad when we are due to start we still have to hang about to wait for either better or worse weather to come We have only one more night trip to do here so shall be moving on again
Well I think thats [sic] all for now except to wish you all the best for 1943
Thanking you
Your loving brother
Ellis
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Thanks for parcel she sent, especially as night flying had precluded his from shopping for essentials. Continues to describe activities around Christmas 1942 including being on search and rescue standby on Christmas day and a sortie to Lossiemouth and Newquay as well as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force non-commissioned officer's party. Notes that he has only one more operation to go.
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14 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Norman Gorfunkle (1920 - 1942, 1260360 Royal Air Force) and contains photographs and documents. He flew operations as an observer with 76 Squadron and was killed 7/8 November 1942. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lester, Russell Gellman and catalogued by Barry Hunter. <br /><br />Additional information on Norman Gorfunkleis available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/210756/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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Letter to Norman Gorfunkle's Mother from 76 Squadron
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Seven items. The collection concerns William Reynolds who was stationed at Branston Mere Y Station, a wireless intercept and direction finding station. the collection consists of three photographs and four copies of 'Mere Gen', the stations unofficial newsletter.
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Christmas Number
MERE GEN
1942
[underlined] Good Wishes [/underlined]
[page break]
[underlined] MERE GEN [/underlined]
[underlined] EDITORIAL [/underlined]
“By virtue of having assisted the somewhat troubled passage of Mere Gen over the vagaries of 1942 I am now allotted some 60 odd words in which to extend, in the approved Xmassy Editorial fashion, the usual Seasonal Greetings to each and every one of you. As I am normally accused of being unnecessarily verbose, I will condense my good wishes and say that such a grand crowd of people as yourselves deserves the Happy Christmas I personally intend to have, and may 1943 look after its self, and ourselves.” Ted Liddell.
“I also would like to take this opportunity of wishing all readers of our Mere Gen a very Happy and Convivial Christmas, and a Prosperous and Peaceful New Year. Chances of conviviality on our watered beer, and peace for the New Year would seem rather remote, but never mind – just get your feet up and enjoy this super edition. It’ll shake you.” Gordon Batley.
“Gone for a while are the piping days of Roast Turkey Mince Pies and Johnny Walker. Luckily Christmas isn’t dependent on these things, but on something that Lord Woolton can’t ration – Goodwill, Mind you, a ‘wee drappie’ oils the wheels of fellowship quite nicely. This year Best Mild is the fashion, so here’s your health: Good Luck, a Happy Christmas, and a jolly New Year. Cheerio Folks.” Harold Speak.
“The trouble of asking my Editorial Board to wish you the Season’s greetings is that it leaves me with very little to say for myself; but those of you who know me will rightly whisper ‘impossible’ – so I’ll take that as licence to repeat their good wishes. I give you a toast: ‘Confusion To All Our Enemies.’ And if that doesn’t bring you a Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year, nothing will.” Stanley Lott.
[page break]
[underlined] RADICAL RESOLUTIONS FOR 1943 [/underlined]
While I am old fashioned enough to respect the thoughts that gave birth to the usual crop of New Year Resolutions, I am Service minded enough to realise that they are but figments of overtaxed imaginations! However here are several of our better known contemporaries revealed in a rare resolute mood for 1943:
Sgt. Tweedie has promised to learn to speak English and never again to employ that belligerent word “Quiet”. F/Sgt. Alcorn intends to dispense with all notice boards; and Sgt. Parsons will never again resort to profanity following a windy cycle ride from Lincoln! L.A.C. Speak refuses to discuss insurance; and W.O. Noble promises to memorise all Christian names with the praiseworthy object of fostering Service goodwill! Kasher Langley and Cpl. Waights are going on a rigorous diet; Harry Maher talks of cleaning his buttons and Stan Lott is giving up his drums! (What more can we ask of 1943?)
Cpl. Jack Tones is shaving off his moustache for the duration; A.C.W. Cole is ceasing to write scurrilous verse; and Sheila Edwards will control her temperament! Cpl. Johnson promises to wear his respirator occasionally; Audrey Weston is learning to Tango; and Eric Brame is giving up binding as a hobby. Cliff Norton is sending that curly chibouque (so similar to a pipe) for salvage; Playboy Howard is taking up “sugar beeting” and Johnny Gorman is renouncing his views on propagation!
Phyl Carr is no longer to use “Stablonde” – Jack Bellerby is changing his dancing partner (incidentally so is Phyllis Goddard) and Geoff Price is learning to play Table Tennis. Austerity Allman is taking up Waafing! Sgt. Unsworth is out to regain that figure he had in pre-Skegness days. Mesdames Bass, Burton, Beard and Gledhill are never again to apply for a late pass. Bill Adams is giving up his pipe smoking (with a view to growing up.). Cpl. Ripley is taking up permanent residence at the Oxford Hotel! And so the wishful thinkers resolve…what’s that? “How about myself?”. Well I could refrain from writing ‘bilge’ like this. But that is not a promise.
T.L.
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[sketch cartoon of car with caption]
HD
[page break]
[sketch cartoon of female in bed]
The Optimist
GRB
[page break]
[underlined] WITHERNOAK [/underlined]
When my American aunt died and left me all her property I at last saw my way clear to the realization of my ambition. Because of the unlikelihood of my ever seeing her in the flesh I used to tell her pretty freely of my ambitions. In her will she said “This is your chance, John.” I took it.
There was an old Georgian house tucked away at Borridge handy to Birmingham by car, but remote enough from its dirt, smoke and bustle. I lost no time in buying it, and within two months of my aunt’s sudden demise, Mary, I, and the five children were installed.
Aunt Polly’s chunk of the City of Albany brought me £100,000 when I sold it to an American housing syndicate. So I didn’t have to count the number of Woodbines I smoked, nor did Mary and the Gang (as we called the youngsters) need to deny themselves. Prosperity was here for us, and we meant to enjoy it. Also I intended to become the world famous writer I secretly believed myself to be.
By paying decent wages, we soon enticed a staff of servants from their situations in the locality. The house had been remarkably cheap to buy - £5000 - and with most of the £100,000 carefully invested we found we could afford a cook, two maids, a butler and a boot-boy, as well as a full time gardener.
Mary, my wife, said that the house had a chilly atmosphere, but that, of course, was because it had been empty so long. Its previous tenants were a maiden lady and her brother. They were both eccentric, their chief peculiarity being their fondness for disappearing during the night and staying at Torquay or the South of France for months on end. Finally they had gone to Nice, and from there the brother had written instructing the solicitor to sell the place, as he and his sister intended spending the remainder of their lives in the more equable clime of the Riviera. That was twenty years ago. The house, owing to its size, had stood empty ever since.
[page break]
We moved in during the summer, and the months went by like a dream. Julia, our six year old little girl, told me once that “the pretty lady with the bad throat” had been in her room during the night. This puzzled me until I remembered that Agnes, the maid, used to wear a lace neck-band to show Jane, the other maid, just who was the senior servant. So I forgot the incident, and went back to work. Being relieved of the more pressing cares of family life, I was doing well as a writer. My articles and stories were being accepted, mainly perhaps, because I used to suggest to the Editors of the more hard-up publications that payment was superfluous.
One night I was working in my study when I saw a faint light in the garden. It appeared to come from somewhere by the enormous dying oak that gave the house its name of “Withernoak”. I was just about to go out to investigate, when the thought that that was the Butler’s job, caused me to ring for him. Percival entered with the impassive air that had so awed me before we had discovered a mutual fondness for Ansell’s beer. “Perce.” I said, “Just slip out and see who is in the garden by the oak. Probably some lout pinching our flowers. If so, warm the seat of his dignity and threaten to hand him over to the Bobby”. Percival departed. He was soon back. “Hafter a most hexhausting search sir, I find that there hisn’t nobody in the garding. Will that be all now sir?” I intimated that he had earned “half a snifter” and when he had poured out, we drank to each other’s health and blessed Mr. Ansell. He retired and I went on with my work.
November with its dead sodden leaves, its mists, rains and frosts came and went. December gave every prospect of being Christmassy. Snow fell and blanketed the countryside to a depth of several inches. We lit fires in every room, and the local coalman sent us a calendar.
Mary intended giving the Christmas party we had always dreamed about. An enormous Christmas tree had arrived, cases of wine, boxes of cigars and cigarettes, barrels of good old beer, and food and sweets of all kinds. A Father Christmas outfit came for me to wear. Father Christmas was going to arrive on Christmas morn, after we had all been to Mass, and
[page break]
Mary and I were as thrilled as the Gang were at the approach of the Festival.
Orders were given to keep the children out of the drawing room, and Mary and I spent hours in fixing the presents and ornaments on the tree. My study was above this room, and I was in there working on a ghost story that would ‘shake’ them, one night about a week before Christmas, when I was astounded to hear crashes and thumps from the room below. I dashed downstairs to the drawing room, and flung open the door. The tree was lying on its side, the presents and broken ornaments were scattered over the floor. The room was empty. I dashed to the window. It was fastened. I pulled the bell rope, and the portly butler appeared as if by magic.
“Who’s been in here Perce?” I demanded. “Hi was just coming to hinvestigate, sir”. “Is the Gang in bed?” “Of course sir.” “That’s darned funny, Percival, how that tree came to fall like that.”
A most peculiar thing happened then, a picture fell with a resounding crash.
“Strike me pink!” ejaculated the butler. I thought rapidly. “Listen Perce. Keep your mouth shut in the servants’ hall about this. If Agnes and Jane get scared, they will leave, and we shall be in the soup over Christmas. I’ll find the cause of this little lot.”
I told Mary an accident had occurred to the Christmas tree, letting her think it was some clumsiness on my part. Then I went back to my study. There I had another shock. My books and papers were scattered all over the floor.
The window was fastened on the inside. The wind could not have caused the damage, because the weather, as often after snow, was still and frosty. I would not admit the suggestion clamouring to enter my mind. Then I dashed to see the Gang’s rooms. If anything had happened to them! Thank Goodness! All five were sound asleep. I rang for Agnes, and when she arrived I told her she must make her bed in Julia’s room until further notice. She was curious but I ignored her questioning looks. I decided to tell Mary and trust her natural courage.
[page break]
She was in the sitting room, her pet “Blue Room”. She looked lovely since she had had the bulk of her domestic worries eased by our inherited money. I told her all about the night’s happenings. “The children often tell me about the poor pretty lady with the bad throat who stands by their bed at night” she said. I was staggered.
“Isn’t it Agnes seeing that they are alright?”
“No, love, and you and I know it isn’t.”
“Who do you think it is?” I asked, knowing her answer.
“The same person you think it is” she smiled.
I kissed her and told her not to worry as we should solve the problem somehow. She smiled and said that so long as the ghost refrained from annoying our Christmas guests, she could stick it out. “It will look bad if your guests are hit by bottles thrown by spirits” she added.
Well, I thought it over for a couple of days, meanwhile all sorts of things happened. Pictures fell off the wall, bells were rung, ornaments were smashed, soot fell down the chimneys, and screams were heard in the drawing room, followed by a loud thump. That decided me. I have read too many true stories of these happenings to disbelieve in ghosts.
I went to see Father Murphy at his presbytery, and told him what was happening. He told me that local gossip always alleged that the sister had been murdered by her brother. He also told me that the eccentric couple were Catholics. I asked him what he thought of the business at Withernoak. He replied that while we must be very cautious over accepting the truth of ‘Ghost Stories’ there were undeniable and fully authenticated cases of haunted houses and similar phenomena. The majority were clearly cases of evil spirits at work, but cases had been known of human souls which had met untimely ends, haunting the place of their deaths until Absolution and Christian Burial had been given to their remains. I hazarded that this at Withernoak was a similar case. He said he would come along the following day and see what he could do. I thanked him and went home.
Jane and Agnes were in the hall, trunks packed.
“Too early for summar [sic] holidays isn’t it?” I grinned.
“We’re leaving sir.” said Agnes uncomfortably.
“Over the happenings?”
“If you can stand old ladies with their throats cut, wandering
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Mere Recruiting
[sketch cartoon]
[page break]
“From This And Other Operations, One Of Our Hoppers Failed To Return.”
[sketch cartoon]
GRB
[page break]
about, we can’t”, said Jane, in a manner that indicated her belief that I was to blame. I managed to persuade them to stay until after the visit of Father Murphy on the morrow, on the understanding that if he couldn’t cure the trouble, they could go.
That night was a repetition of the others. Chairs flew across rooms, ornaments smashed, soot fell down chimneys, doors slammed, the bells rang, windows rattled, pictures crashed to the floor. Then the familiar but none-the-less dreadful screams, followed by the inevitable thump in the drawing room. I also noticed the faint light by the withered oak, and then the solution dawned on me. What we were hearing was a re-enactment of the sister’s death struggle, the cutting of her throat, and her burial at the foot of the tree.
The priest arrived next day, but we had been up early through being too scared to sleep. Percival, the boot-boy and I, had been digging at the foot of the oak. We had found fragments of clothing and a decomposed female body. The butler had gone off to notify the local police. I greeted Father Murphy, and told him that it was Absolution and the Burial Service that he would have to say. After the ceremony was over the policeman arrived, and made arrangements to remove the body.
Well, we had a grand Christmas party, Mary says I was drunk, but I wasn’t - merely excited. Percival however allowed his fondness for Ansells to overcome his devotion to duty. We found him sound asleep in the beer cellar. Agnes and Jane stayed on and helped to make the party a success. The Gang had a perfectly marvellous time, and the guests were loud in their appreciations. One of them sent me a lovely silver cigarette case. Glancing idly through some of the newspaper he had used to pack it I saw the following:
“English Resident of Nice Dies Suddenly”
The death took place on the same day and at the same time as the Burial Service at Withernoak. Of course it was the brother of the murdered woman.
J.G.
[page break]
[underlined] MEMORIES OF AN AIRMAN IN SEARCH OF A BILLET [/underlined]
“I’m sorry but my husband is on nights and people might talk.”
“I’m afraid not. You see my wife’s expecting a happy event soon.”
“Well if you can make your own bed, wash up, chop sticks, queue for rations, and dig the garden, we might consider it.”
“We thoroughly disapprove of the war, and can’t be associated with an airman.”
“Are you a wee slee’un?” (Usual spelling Wesleyan)
“We are reserved for officers!”
“I should say not, we’ve got a daughter 19.”
“My husband has a much better scheme, he keeps writing to the papers about it.”
“Certainly not, my home is nicely furnished!”
“I’ll take you, but it must be clearly understood, my dogs come first.”
“The doctor says my nerves won’t stand it!”
“Why don’t you try Mrs. So-and-so?”
“Why doesn’t your officer put you in a tent or something?”
“Certainly, I know how my boy in the Army feels about being away from home.”
T.L.
[underlined] SAYING OF THE WEEK [/underlined]
“Sometimes people commit bigamy to please the landlady.”
Said by Sir Gerald Dodson. (Recorder of London)
At a recent dance the local Home Guard band played Strauss. Need we add that Strauss lost?
[page break]
“Into Battle”
[sketch cartoon]
GRB
or “COME WITH THE WIND”
[page break]
[sketch cartoon]
GREETINGS TO OUR N.C.O.S
GRB
[page break]
[sketch cartoon of arm-in-arm couple]
GRB.
[page break]
[sketch cartoon of three Father Christmases]
FOILED!
GRB
[page break]
[underlined] GEN [/underlined]
Any casual reader glancing at the cover of this magazine would form the impression that ‘gen’ was being referred to in the same disparaging manner as Captain Fotheringale Smythe used when he beat the Major at 101 up: “A mere bagatelle my dear fellah!”
This would be an entirely erroneous conclusion to take, and I have it with good authority that the Editorial Board will prosecute through their lawyers (Messrs. Speak, Speak, Speak and Silence.) any persons communicating or alleging any misconception of this magazine’s title. Gen, and the peculiarly exciting interest that surrounds it, are too deeply rooted in the everyday life of the Service to be dismissed at a single stroke of the pen; and Mere gen is our local variety.
There are three forms of Gen which the personnel of this station are likely to come into contact with, they are, in order of importance, pukka gen, duff gen, and landlady gen. The last named is, I believe, peculiar to this area. The amount of traffic passed in the above categories is in direct contrast to their importance. I will deal with them in increasing order.
First, pukka gen, or reliable information. This is so scarce, that, on second thoughts, it may be dismissed as negligible. Indeed some old sweats are firm in their belief that it is of an entirely mythical origin, or ceased to exist about the time F/Sgt. Thompson joined up.
Second, duff gen, or unreliable information. Even the greenest sprog cannot fail to recognise it when he, or she, comes into contact with it, because of its recurring characteristics, viz:-
(a) It is information that is alleged to have come from the orderly room.
(b) It is information that has supposedly been picked up by an eavesdropper listening to the W/O or the F/Sgt.
(c) The information is never first hand, but has been passed on from somebody ‘in the know’.
[page break]
(d) It is always profuse and sweeping in its statements.
Apart from the Service, the spreading of duff gen has captured the imagination of the outside world. A learned doctor in Germany has brought this occupation to a fine art. And I cannot see him being surpassed, unless he is challenged by the bloke who keeps on telling me that credits are due to be paid next week.
Lastly, Landlady Gen. This is by far the most prolific, but its field of activity is usually confined to the social life of we immoral airmen. This type of information does not appear to have any material use, but appears to give the purveyor unlimited pleasure. If possible, this gen should be avoided, but I am afraid that it is, like Shakespeare said of greatness, “thrust upon us”. The centre of this illicit traffic is, I understand, the local out post of the C.W.S. In conclusion I might say that Landlady Gen is generally irritant, and always persistent.
N.L.
There was a young lady of Malacca,
Who smoked all the Sergeants tabacca,
As she took his last fag,
He longed for a gag,
Or a slipper with which he could smacca.
Is it true that a certain W.A.A.F. at Mere House is so dumb that the others noticed it?
FROM THE LINCOLN ECHO…….
‘The Waafs he says, are mostly “small rounded unaffected and friendly, and clump busily around in flat shoes, hideous grey cotton stockings and broad smiles” ‘
He was lucky – even on nights ours do wear overalls.
[page break]
[sketch cartoon of three Waafs smoking]
The Shape of Things to Come
GRB.
[inserted] NOW SHOWING [/inserted]
[page break]
“Hopalong Wilkie”-
[sketch cartoon]
GRB
- Loses His Man!
[page break]
[underlined] “LOVE COMES IN THE NEW YEAR” [/underlined]
Alf was bartender and Alf knows me, so I didn’t have to ask, he had it waiting for me. Three more, and the garish room seemed to mellow. The bright green of the murals swelled and swam, twining in the darks and lights into patterns that left the balloons and streamers aloof and detached. Tobacco smoke wreathed the shining lights, and the blackout curtains were sombre panels in the shifting colours on the walls. I peered through the throng, there were too many people I thought, too many ruddy people, how was I going to find ‘Beth with all these people in the way? I’d come to see the wife I hadn’t seen in nine months, and I would. I shifted a Jockey’s Cap and a Harlequin and peered again. A girl dressed in some sort of Toga pushed up against me. The Toga was loose, she smelt nice. “Take me to the baths” she giggled, she was cockeyed, she left me cold. I caught the top of her Toga and pulled, she spun away leaving the thin silk in my hand. There was a scream from a couple of other girls who’d’ve liked to have thought up the idea themselves, and she revolved away in pinkness to the arms of some protecting male. Perhaps he protected her in the baths. I don’t know, for there was ‘Beth, gently serene, standing by my side, damn her, she must have seen. I took a deep breath and stood up.
“Don’t bother old man” she has a voice that smooths your hair down. “sit where you are, and tell me why” “Why?”,. I was a little tired maybe, or it wasn’t under-proof as I thought. “….oh you mean the Toga woman?”
“No dear, she deserved that; why have you been drinking?”
“I always drink”.
“No New Year’s Resolution?”
“No.”
There was a pause, perhaps she sighed, I don’t know.
“Arthur wants me to marry him.”
“Arthur can go to hell.”
“With you?”
“Yeah yeah, with me …I’ll take him there.”
I did stand up, I was going to look dignified, I was dignified.
“Arthur” I was addressing a meeting, “Arthur is the cause of all this, and he shall be the end of it.”
I left her.
[page break]
There was something more than smoke and colour in the ballroom to tie me down, after a while I got what it was; noise. A band was tearing its guts out, though I guess it stopped every so often to pour them back again. I needed something to help me with mine. I called a waiter.
“Something” I said, “to make me forget I’m drinking to be independent. Something” I said, “to drown a rat.”
He brought it.
The noise was louder now, fiercer, I went nearer. A clarinet stood up in front of the pounding rhythm, quiet sobbing notes that hung there and were shattered like flying glass before the exultant surge of the trumpet, a trumpet that lifted you up with it and flung you, higher and faster, higher and faster, until it left you to the merciless whiplash of a drumbreak.
‘Beth and Arthur were dancing. Arthur was smug, greasy. He’d have laughed at you if you had called him what he was; home truths don’t kill, and he’d got what he wanted, so why should he worry. Money gets most things, and Arthur had money. I felt in my pocket for mine; a bunch of keys, a pocket knife, it was Jimmy’s – he dropped things – two half crowns, a shilling two sixpences and four pennies. I was rich. Maybe I could write another article when I sobered up; that’s what ‘Beth didn’t like about me, why she left me; I’d earn what I had to enjoy the rest. The drinks were free, I chalked up another and looked around. It was nearly midnight, they were getting excited, forming a ring, tight packed humanity, too many ruddy people. I watched Arthur, he was pulled apart from ‘Beth in the sway, he was caught in the ring, ‘way down on the left. “Should auld Acquaintance be Forgot…..” The lights swung round, I swayed a little, and held a table hard against my side to support me. The corner was jabbing into my thigh, hurting me, no, it was the knife in my pocket, I put my hand in to move it. They were swinging round now, opening the circle I was pushed back to the wall. ‘Beth was out of it, I couldn’t see her, but Arthur was being dragged towards me, I could have touched him with my hand, Twopence for a rat’s tail.
“…..For The Sake Of Auld Lang Syne”. I was sick of it. I got out into the other room. I was looking for people I knew. Jimmy wouldn’t be there, he’d gone an hour ago, he worked on a paper. Alf was still sitting behind the bar. Alf is a friend of mine. I sat down. It was 1943.
[page break]
“I think I’ll let the New Year in here, Alf.
“Yes, sir, A Happy New Year sir.”
“Not yet Alf, not yet.” I was grinning. “you’re too early yet.”
The noise in the end room was terrific, they were enjoying themselves. All of a sudden there was a hush, then a scream, then pandemonium. I drank up. The walls were steady now, though the air was still thick. Alf and I were alone in a dissipated wilderness, I told him so, I felt good I could say it.
They were rushing in from the ballroom. ‘Beth was there she saw me.
“Oh Gem, it’s Arthur. He’s….he’s dead….stabbed.” I pushed a drink across as she collapsed into a seat. She looked ill.
“They carried him round in the crush….thought he was tight….but he was dead….Gem don’t sit there….”
A new fear crept into her voice.
“Where were you Gem?” She whispered.
“Here having my last drink….I made my Resolution….after just one to let the New Year in….Alf’ll tell you.”
“Yes, sir.”
It was too soon for her to understand.
“Oh thank God….Take me away Gem.”
I got up and took her by the arm.
“Fetch me a taxi Alf. My wife and I are going home.”
“Yes sir.”
“Oh, and Alf….”
“Sir?”
“A Happy New Year to you.”
S.M.L.
The Editorial Board wishes to thank A.C. Freddie Veal for printing the covers of this magazine: A.C.’s Bolt and Buckhill for their work on the cartoons: and Messrs. Walkers of Lincoln for the duplication. The Editorial Board will then turn round and congratulate itself on the work entailed in bringing you this special number. We sincerely hope you like it.
[page break]
[underlined] WE LIKE THE WAY THEY SAY [/underlined] ….
“Regret day off cannot be changed – same to be taken as per watch list.”
“Any snags you blokes?”
“How is it chums, O.K.?”
“Yeezavhadit!”
“Now when I was at Cheadle….”
“But good heavens man, this isn’t at all the sort of stuff we want!”
“Gosh, I’m hungry! Anybody got any pig food?”
“Now there’s a thing if you like!”
“….and I don’t mean maybe’.”
“I made the blinkin’ path so I ought to know.”
“When I get my course…”
[underlined] BUT MOST OF ALL WE LIKE THE WAY THEY SAY [/underlined]….
“Shall I brew up now, Sergeant?”
F.B.
If I could learn to love this place
And learn to love Dad Alcorn’s face
To love the way he stalks and walks
And even love the way he talks,
If I could learn to love his pranks
And get a weekend with his thanks,
My seven days get in advance
And learn to love his backward glance
And also love his jet black hair
Admiring ripples which aren’t there
If I could learn to love his grin
And learn to love the man within,
If I could learn to love his eyes
And also love the way he sighs,
If I could learn to love his soul
My name would be ----- instead of Cole!
D.C.
[page break]
[sketch cartoon]
GRB
AN AIRMAN’S DREAM OF CHRISTMAS
[page break]
GREETINGS
From
“The Men Who Give You The Gen”
[sketch cartoon]
or “The Rags Who Give You The Mags”
GRB
[page break]
[underlined] BEWARE THE TIDES OF TALK. [/underlined]
In days before Marconi achieved undying fame,
Ere Alexander Graham Bell had learned to write his name,
Before the Congo Cannibals, by beating on the drum,
Relayed to far off cookhouse that soon dinner would come;
In days before old Reuter and Associated Press
Sent news of which new territory old Hitler would aggress;
Before some redskin newshawk, in fear of ‘Catchem Poke’
Scooped the redskin newsworld, and sent the news on smoke,
Before all ways, both old and new, of slick communication,
The fastest service of them all existed in this nation.
In Branston down in Lincolnshire, there dwells an ancient folk,
Which spurns the use of wireless waves and sneers at redskin smoke
The womenfolk of Branston who use an ancient ritual,
Have such an instinct for new gen that it becomes habitual,
When on the trail of copy they use the third degree
Of soft and cunning questions, when airmen have their tea;
And some who’ve been in Service, and are of course go-getters,
Have mystic ways of finding out the news in airmen’s letters.
The ancient mathematics rule that two and two make four,
When handled by such expert minds they often make a score.
And news from airmen, slyly got by intellectual pillage,
Travels faster e’en than light itself, and soon is round the village.
The devious methods of their art go down from Ma to Daughter,
No difficulties them deter, they’ll go through fire and water.
Long ere the Waafs were posted here, before the airmen knew,
‘Twas common gen in Branston to more than just a few;
Their ancient sense for news that’s fresh, now scented strongly, scandal.
They thought the airmen gunpowder, the Waafs would light the candle.
So airmen taking Waafs a walk, or to the Hall for dances,
Gave Branston dames the chance to hint at illicit romances.
And now of course it is well known – excuse the lack of refinement
The Branston ladies long to hear the news of a Waaf confinement.!
J.G.
[underlined] HOME [/underlined]
I always dream of home sweet home,
The dearest place I’ve ever known;
A small square house with doors of green,
The grandest place I’ve ever seen.
The windows gleaming, oh so bright,
The sills that are so very white;
The casement curtains look so neat,
And in the Hall – an old oak seat.
The brasses on the parlour wall
Smile serenely over all;
For they know that Love is here,
And Happiness is everywhere.
A welcome, and a shining face,
Is what you meet within this place;
And though a stranger you may be,
There’s welcome there for you from me.
Mollie Ford.
[underlined] CONVERSATION PIECE [/underlined]
(Scene – Any Branston Pub.)
“The Country’s decadent” he said,
“We’ve left the Reds to bear the brunt”
“We’ve no real leaders at the head.”
“We ought to have a Second Front.”
“What’s that? Was I in it before?”
“Now really do be sensible!”
“How could I fight in any war?”
“You know I’m indispensable!”
T.L.
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Mere Gen 1942
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A duplicated magazine, produced by the personnel at Branston Mere. It includes 'in' jokes, poems, cartoons, and a ghost story.
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1942-12
1943-01
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29 duplicated pages
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eng
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Text. Poetry
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MReynoldsWT[Ser#-DoB]-150731-01
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
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1942-12
1943-01
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Steve Baldwin
arts and crafts
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Tansley, Ernest Henry
E H Tansley
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2016-09-22
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Tansley, EH
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98 items. <br />The collection concerns Pilot Officer Ernest Henry Tansley (1914 - 1943, 149542 Royal Air Force). He flew operations as a pilot with 57 Squadron and was killed 2 December 1943. Collection consists of photographs, letters, memoires, biographies, accounts of operations, logbook extracts and official/personal documents.<br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Anne Doward and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br />Additional information on Ernest Tansley is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/122894/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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Missing Flier Reported Killed
[photograph]
Sgt. Harold Moad
Sgt. Harold Moad, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Moad, of Clanwilliam. is now reported as having lost his life on the raid from which he was reported missing Dec. 2, 1943. The information, which came from German sources through the International Red Cross, stated that he was buried at Trevin, near Berlin, Dec. 5, 1943.
Sgt. Moad enlisted in the R.C.A.F. in 1941, and later transferred to aircrew, graduating as an air gunner at Macdonald in December, 1942. He was 23 years of age. His brother, Calvin, is a prisoner of war in Germany
[page break]
FLIGHT SERGEANT HAROLD ALEXANDER MOAD.
R134973 [underlined] R.C.A.F. [/underlined] REAR GUNNER.
SON OF JOHN + ETHEL MOAD, ONE OF NINE CHILDREN (4 SONS + FIVE DAUGHTERS.)
BORN 1920 IN CLANWILLIAM, MANITOBA
16 DECEMBER
ONE OF THE MANY SMALL LAKES IN NORTH OF MANITOBA WAS NAMED “MOAD LAKE” IN HIS MEMORY.
PTO
[page break]
ONE OF HAROLD’S BROTHERS CALVIN 61923 ALSO IN RAF.
SHOT DOWN + P.O.W FOR 3 YEARS
AFTER HIS RELEASE HE MARRIED IN 1946, BUT SADLY DIED THE FOLLOWING YEAR
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Missing flyer reported killed
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Article concerning Sg Harold Moad previously reported missing is now reported as having lost his life. Gives some details of grave, enlistment and age. Mentions his brother is a prisoner of war. Contains full face b/w portrait. Two attached notes, one provides personal details of Harold, the other about his brother Calvin.
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One newspaper cutting
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eng
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Text
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PTansleyEH16020044
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Canada
Manitoba
Germany
Germany--Trebbin
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1942-12-02
1941
1942-12
1920-12-16
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
Steve Baldwin
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Workflow A completed
air gunner
aircrew
final resting place
killed in action
missing in action
prisoner of war
Red Cross
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Edgar, Alfred George
Edgar, A G
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An account of the resource
83 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Alfred George 'Allan' Edgar DFC (b. 1922, 172180 Royal Air Force) He flew operations as a pilot with 49 Squadron.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by Pip Harrison and Sally Shawcross nee Edgar, and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-07-04
2019-10-01
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Edgar, AG
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Moncton Airfield
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An oblique aerial photograph of Moncton airfield in the snow. Seven hangars and many aircraft are visible. On the reverse 'We see Moncton 'Drome from the air. A marvellous sight. Dec 42'.
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1942-12
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PEdgarAG19010088,
PEdgarAG19010089
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Royal Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force
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Canada
New Brunswick--Moncton
New Brunswick
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-12
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aerial photograph
hangar
training
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Blamires, Robert Geoffrey. Album
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25 items. Album containing photographs of his service including training in South Africa, time in Italy, and operations with 103 Squadron.
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2022-05-11
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Blamires, RG
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Naples Italy 1945, Port Elizabeth 1942
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Four photographs of Naples area August 1945.
Open menu airmen's mess, 42 ANS Port Elizabeth. Captioned 'The only good meal we had in the mess'.
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1945-08
1942-12
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Italy
Italy--Castellammare di Stabia
South Africa
South Africa--Port Elizabeth
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Photograph
Text
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Four b/w photographs one printed menu
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PBlamiresRG22020026, PBlamiresRG22020027
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Pending identification. Places
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1942-12
1945-08
mess
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Dunmore, George
G Dunmore
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-05-26
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Dunmore, G
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17 Items concerning Flight Lieutenant George Dunmore DFM (5601) who flew 45 operations as a flight engineer on Lancaster with 83 Squadron at RAF Scampton and then as part of the Pathfinder Force at RAF Wyton. Commissioned in 1944 he continued to serve in the general duties branch as flight engineer and then equipment branch until 1967. The collection contains his logbook, an account of a maximum effort operation, official documents and letters, a history of an individual aircraft, pathfinder certificate, recommendation for DFM, career notes as well as photographs and memorabilia. A sub-collection of 58 photographs of aircraft under repair or being manufactured in factories.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Louise Dunmore and catalogued by Nigel Huckins
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OPERATIONAL HISTORY OF [underlined] AVRO LANCASTER IB R5868 MERLIN XX [/underlined]
29 Jun 42 Joined No 83 Squadron RAF Scampton – a/c letter “Q”
[underlined] OPERATIONAL FLYING WITH 83 SQUADRON [/underlined]
[list headings] [underlined] Date [/underlined] [underlined] Pilot [/underlined] [underlined] Target [/underlined] [underlined] Hrs Mins [/underlined]
[list] 8/9 Jul 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC Wilhelmshaven 1,260 x 4 IB 4 13 [space] 11 Jul 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC Danzig 5 x 1,000 10 5 Daylight. 14/15 Jul 42 P/O J.E.Partridge Bordeaux Mining 1 x 22 1 x 14 1 x 13 set 6 1 x 22 7 40 [space] 18 Jul 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC Essen – Krupps Works 6 x 1,000 4 0 Daylight. 19/20 Jul 42 F/Sgt Calvert D. Vegesack 6 x 1,000 6 0 [space] 21/22 Jul 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Duisburg 112 x 30 IB 3 41 [space] 25/26 Jul 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Duisburg 1 x 4,000 6 x 500 2 x 250 3 32 [space] 26/27 Jul 42 P/O J.E Partridge DFC* Hamburg 1,260 x 4 IB 5 8 Holed in port wing on way out by flak ships. 5/6 Aug 42 W/C D.Crighton-Biggie Mining in Gironde River 22 – 13 set 2 13 set 6 44 – 13 set 1 7 14 Slight flak damage. 6/7 Aug 42 P/O J.Marchant Duisburg 1 x 4,000 900 x 4 IB 4 3 [space]
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[page break]
[list headings] [underlined] Date [/underlined] [underlined] Pilot [/underlined] [underlined] Target [/underlined] [underlined] Hrs Mins [/underlined]
[list] 9/10 Aug 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Osnabruck 1 x 4,000 900 x 4 IB 3 57 Alternative target. 10/11 Aug 42 P/O J.Hodgson Mainz 1 x 4,000 8 x 30 IB 5 38 [space] 18/19 Aug 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Flenxburg 14 x 4 Flares 5 5 PFF. No attack. 24/25 Aug 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Frankfurt 112 x 30 IB 5 45 [space] 8/9 Sep 42 F/Sgt Jackson L.T. Frankfurt 6 x 4 Flares 8 x 250 IB 5 24 No attack. Flares dropped but cloud and haze plus intercom failure prevented bombing. 13/14 Sep 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Bremen 1 x 4,000 6 x 4 Flares 4 24 [space] 14/15 Sep 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Wilhelmshaven 6 x 4 Flares 8 x 250 IB 4 6 W/Op wounded by frire from another 4-engined twin fin a/c overtaken on return flight over the sea! 2/3 Oct 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Krefeld 4 x 7 Flares 10 x 250 inc 3 40 [space] 5/6 Oct 42 F/Lt J.E.Partridge DFC* Aachen 8 x 4 Flares 2 x 7 Flares 1 x 4,000 HC 5 45 No attack. Weather u/s. 2 x 4 flares dropped, remainder brought back. 6/7 Oct 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Osnabruck 1 x 4,000 HC 9 x 4 Flares 1 x 4 Flares 4 25 [space] 13/14 Oct 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Genoa 10 x 4 Flares 6 Flares internally 1 x 4,000 HC 9 20 Landed at Mildenhall (weather).
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[list headings] [underlined] Date [/underlined] [underlined] Pilot [/underlined] [underlined] Target [/underlined] [underlined] Hrs Mins [/underlined]
[list] 7/8 Nov 42 S/L J.K.M.Cooke DFC Genoa 10 x 4 Flares 6 Flares loose 1 x 4,000 HC 7 10 [space] 9/10 Nov 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Hamburg 9 x 4 Flares 1 x 3 whole and ! green with stars 1 x 4,000 HC 5 0 [space] 13/14 Nov 42 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Genoa 9 x 4 White 3 x 1,000 RDX 7 55 [space] 15/16 Nov 42 P/O R.N.H.Williams DFM Genoa 9 x 4 Flares 3 x 1,000 GP 7 20 [space] 29/30 Nov 42 Sgt Partridge H.A. Turin 1 x 4,000 gel 4 x 500 GP 7 25 [space] 2/3 Dec 42 P/O J.Marchant Frankfurt 10 x 250 inc 1 x 4,000 gel 5 55 [space] 21/22 Dec 42 F/Lt J.Hodgson DFC Munich 1 x 4,000 gel 7 07 [space] 15/16 Jan 43 S/L R.L.Hilton DFC* Berlin 1 x 4 Green 1 x 4 White 6 T.I. Red 6 T.I. inc 1 Red Flare int 7 20 No attack claimed. Flares brought back except 1 x 4 White. 11/12 Feb 43 F/Sgt Partridge H.A. Wilhelmshaven 6 x 4 White Flares 3 T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 HC 3 x 500 GP 5 23 Flares and T.I.s brought back as instructed. 13/14 Feb 43 F/Sgt Partridge H.A. Lorient 6 x 4 White Flares 4 T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 gel 4 40 [space] 14/15 Feb 43 S/L J.K.M.Cooke DFC Milan 9 x 4 White Flares 1 x 4 Red Flares 2 T.I. Red 1 Green Flare 1 x 4,000 HC 7 35 9 x 4 Flares brought back.
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[list] 16/17 Feb 43 S/L S.Robinson DFM Lorient 8 x 4 White 4 T.I. Red 1 x 4,000 HC 4 22 Bomb sight u/s. 18/19 Feb 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Wilhelmshaven 1 x 4,000 gel 12 x 8 x 30 inc 4 22 Rear turret u/s for 3/4 of trip. 19/20 Feb 43 W/C R.L.Hilton DFC* Wilhelmshaven 4 T.I. Red 6 x 500 GP 4 07 [space] 25/26 Feb 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Nurnberg 1 x 4,000 gel 10 x 8 x 30 inc 6 24 [space] 26/27 Feb 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Cologne 1 x 4,000 HC 12 x 8 x 30 inc 3 24 Dropped but bombing circuit u/s – bomb doors damaged by bombs falling on them. 28/1 Mar 43 P/O U.S.Moore DFM St Nazaire 8 x 4 White 4 T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 HC 4 34 [space] ½ Mar 43 P/O U.S.Moore DFM Berlin 4 T.I. Green 1 T.I. Yellow 1 x 4,000 HC 6 15 Minor flak damage. 8/9 Mar 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Nuremburg 2 x T.I. Yellow 2 x T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 HC 8 x 8 x 30 inc 6 47 [space] 11/12 Mar 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Stuttgart 4 x T.I. Green 6 x 4 Flares 2 x 90 x 4 inc 1 x 4,000 HC 5 37 Mid-upper and Gee both u/s 12/13 Mar 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Essen 4 x T.I. Green 1 x T.I. White 1 x 4,000 HC 2 x 250 GP LD 1 x 250 GP LD 4 08 [space] 27/28 Mar 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Berlin 6 x T.I. Green 6 x T.I. Yellow 1 x 4,000 HC 2 x 250 GP (LD) 6 56 [space]
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[list] 29/30 Mar 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Berlin 2 x T.I. Yellow 1 x Green with Red 3 x 4 White 4 x T.I. Red 1 x 4,000 HC 7 08 Flak damage. 2/3 Apr 43 F/Sgt McNichol G.A. St Nazaire 4 x T.I. Red 6 x 1,000 GP 4 x 500 GP 4 36 [space] 23/24 May 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Dortmund 4 x T.I. Green 1 x T.I. Green (LB) 4 x 1,000 GP (NF) 1 x 4,000 HE 2 x 1,000 GP (LD) 4 33 [space] 25/26 May 43 F/O F.J.Garvey Dusseldorf 1 x T.I. Yellow (LB) 1 x T.I. Green (LB) 3 x T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 HC 3 x 1,000 GP 1 x 1,000 GP (LD) 4 08 [space] 27/28 May 43 F/Sgt King R. Essen 1 x 4,000 HC 4 x 1,000 GP 6 x 500 MC 4 34 [space] 29/30 May 43 F/O M.R. Chick Wuppertal 1 x 4,000 HC 1,008 x 4 inc 72 x 4 ‘x’ inc 4 48 [space] 11/12 Jun 43 F/O M.R.Chick Munster 1 x 4,000 12 SPC x 8 x 30 4 52 [space] 12/13 Jun 43 F/O M.R.Chick Bochum 1 x 4,000 HC 1 x 1,000 GP 1 x 1000 GP (LD) 12 x 90 x 4 inc 4 36 [space] 16/17 Jun 43 F/Sgt Cummings M.K. Cologne 1 x 4,000 HC 12 x 90 x 4 inc 4 07 [space]
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[list] 19/20 Jun 43 P/O H.Mappin Moutchanin 5 x 1,000 MC 8 x 500 MC 3 45 [space] 21/22 Jun 43 F/O M.R.Chick Krefeld 1 x 4,000 HC 12 x 90 x 4 inc 4 18 [space] 22/23 Jun 43 F/Lt F.J.Garvey Mulheim 8 x T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 HC 6 x 1,000 GP 4 07 Flak damage. 24/25 Jun 43 F/Lt F.J.Garvey Elberfeld 1 x T.I. Green LB 4 x T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 HC 6 x 1,000 GP (2LD) 4 24 [space] 28/29 Jun 43 F/Lt F.J.Garvey Cologne 3 x T.I. Green 1 x T.I. Green LB 1 x 4,000 HC 6 x 1,000 MC 4 19 [space] 3 Jul 43 F/Lt F.J.Garvey Cologne 1 x T.I. Green LB 3 x T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 HC 6 x 1,000 MC Backer Up 4 48 Windscreen holed. 12/13 Jul 43 F/O W.R.Thompson Turin 8 x 500 GP LD 6 x 8 x 30 inc 9 30 [space] 24/25 Jul 43 S/L R.J.Manton Hamburg 1 x 4,000 HC 4 x 1,000 MC 1 x 12 x 20(F) 6 11 [space] 25/26 Jul 43 F/Lt F.J.Garvey Essen 1 x 4,000 HC 3 x 1,000 MC 2 x T.I. Green (LB) 3 x T.I. Green 4 39 Passenger: General Anderson USAF
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[list] 27/29 Jul 43 F/Lt F.J.Garvey Hamburg 2 x T.I. Green LB 3 x T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 HC 3 x 1,000 GP LD 5 34 [space] 29/30 Jul 43 S/L R.J.Manton Hamburg 1 x 4,000 HC 10 x 500 MC 5 42 [space] 12/13 Aug 43 F/Lt F.J.Garvey Milan 2 x T.I. Green LB 2 x T.I. Green 1 x 4,000 7 47 [space] 14/15 Aug 43 F/Lt F.J.Garvey Milan 4 x T.I. Yellow 1 x 4,000 3 x 500 8 07 [space]
[underlined] OPERATION FLYING WITH 467 SQUADRON (BOTTESFORD) – a/c letter “S”
*27/28 Sep 43 P/O A.M.Finch Hanover 1 x 4,000 HC 104 x 30 1,260 x 4 inc 5 23 Recommended a/c after [underlined] 78 [/underlined] trips unreliable for ops. *29 Sep 43 P/O N.M.McClelland Bochum 1 x 4,000 HC 104 x 30 1,260 x 4 inc 4 50 [space] *2/3 Oct 43 F/Lt H.B.Locke Munich 1 x 4,000 HC 84 x 30 600 x 4 inc 8 17 [space] *3/4 Oct 43 F/O J.A.Colpus Kassel 1 x 4,000 HC 24 x 30 1,440 x 4 inc 6 11 [space] *4/5 Oct 43 P/O B.R.Jones Frankfurt 1 x 4,000 HC 1,440 x 4 inc 6 51 [space] *7/8 Oct 43 F/O J.A.Colpus Stuttgart 1 x 4,000 HC 72 x 30 990 x 4 inc 6 50 Landed at Tangmere
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*18/19 Oct 43 P/O N.M.McClelland Hanover 1 x 4,000 HC 104 x 30 1,260 x 4 inc 5 15 This aircraft ‘S’ is only fit for a conversion unit *3/4 Nov 43 P/O N.M.McClelland Dusseldorf 1 x 4,000 HC 108 x 30 1,560 x 4 inc 4 21 [space] *10/11 Nov 43 P/O A.Fisher Modane 1 x 4,000 HC 44 x 30 840 x 4 inc 7 35 [space]
11 Nov 43 Moved with Squadron to Waddington.
*18/19 Nov 43 P/O N.M.McClelland Berlin 1 x 4,000 HC 52 x 30 1,170 x 4 inc 8 21 Shot-up over Bonn. *23/24 Nov 43 P/O N.M.McClelland Berlin 1 x 4,000 HC 48 x 30 900 x 4 inc 6 31 [space] *23/24 Nov 43 P/O N.M.McClelland Berlin 1 x 4,000 HC 64 x 30 1,230 x 4 inc 6 31 [space] 26/27 Nov 43 F/O J.A.Colpus Berlin 1 x 4,000 HC 56 x 30 1,050 x 4 inc 7 46 Had collision with another Lancaster just after bombing the target. Went into severe dive to port, but by use of rudder aileron and engines, aircraft maintained height and landed at Tholthorpe. 15/16 Feb 44 P/O J.W.M.McManus Berlin 1 x 4,000 HC 6 x 30 900 x 4 ‘X’ 6 48 [space]
* Sorties credited to other aircraft in the official records for which there is sufficient evidence to indicate that they were flown in R5868.
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[list] 19/20 Feb 44 P/O J.W.M.McManus Leipzig 1 x 4,000 HC 36 x 30 1,050 x 4 150 x 4 ‘x’ 7.24 [space] 20/21 Feb 44 P/O J.W.M.McManus Stuttgart 1 47 DNCO (Did Not Complete Operation) Port Outer shaky on take-off, cut at 13,000 ft. Bomb load jettisoned. 24/25 Feb 44 P/O J.W.M.McManus Schweinfurt 1 x 4,000 HC 104 x 30 900 x 4 inc 7 32 [space] 25/26 Feb 44 P/O J.W.M.McManus Augsburg 1 x 4,000 HC 92 x 30 650 x 4 100 x 4 ‘x’ IB 7 45 [space] ½ Mar 44 P/O J.W.M.McManus Stuttgart 1 x 4,000 HC 72 x 30 800 x 4 100 x 4 ‘x’ IB 8 08 [space] 18/19 Mar 44 P/O J.W.M.McManus Frankfurt 1 x 4,000 88 x 30 1,200 x 4 inc 150 x 4 ‘x’ 5 58 [space] 22/23 Mar 44 P/O J.W.M.McManus Frankfurt 1 x 4,000 60 x 30 1,500 x 4 inc 5 12 Tail wheel tyre collapsed on landing (possibly flak damage). 24/25 Mar 44 P/O J.W.M.McManus Berlin 3 19 No attack. Port outer failure. Port inner oil leaks. Bombs jettisoned. 25/26 Mar 44 P/O R.E.Llewelyn Aulnoye 13 x 1,000 MC 5 15 Bombed with port outer engine failure – returned at 5,000 ft resulting in just making Tangmere. 11/12 Apr 44 P/O A.B.L.Tottenham Aachen 16 x 5000 MC 30 x 4 inc 4 11 [space]
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[list] 18/19 Apr 44 P/O A.B.L.Tottenham Juvisy 14 x 1,000 M fused 6 hr delay 4 15 [space] 20/21 Apr 44 P/O A.B.L.Tottenham La Chappelle 18 x 500 MC 4 17 [space] 22/23 Apr 44 P/O A.B.L.Tottenham Brunswick 1 x 2,000 HC 12 x 500 ‘J’ clusters 5 27 [space] 24/25 Apr 44 P/O A.B.L.Tottenham Munich 6 x 500 ‘J’ inc 144 x 30 inc 9 39 Landed at Market Harborough. 26/27 Apr 44 P/O A.B.L.Tottenham Schweinfurt 1,800 x 4 inc 150 x 4 ‘x’ IB 8 58 [space]28/29 Apr 44 P/O A.B.L.Tottenham St Medard-en-Jalles 6 x 1,000 (USA) GP 5 x 500 MC 7 29 [space] 3/4 May 44 P/O T.N.Scholefield Mailly 1 x 4,000 HC 16 x 500 MC 5 33 [space] 6/7 May 44 P/O T.N.Scholefield Sables-sur-Sarthe/Louailles 13 x 1,000 GP (USA) 4 46 [space] 10/11 May 44 P/O T.N.Scholefield Lille 1 x 4,000 HC 16 x 500 MC 3 28 [space] 11/12 May 44 P/O T.N.Scholefield Bourg Leopold 3 36 Ordered NOT to bomb. Fighter attack for 9 1/2 mins by 2 Ju 88s. Successfully forestalled 9 or 10 attacks carrying full bomb load. 5/6 Jun 44 F/O I.Fotheringham St Pierre du Mont 11 x 1,000 GP (USA0 4 x 500 GP 4 12 [space]
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[list] 6/7 Jun 44 F/O I.Fotheringham Argentan 2 x 1,000 MC 2 x 1,000 SAP (USA) 10 x 500 GP 3 59 8/9 Jun 44 F/O I.Fotheringham Rennes 12 x 500 GP 2 x 500 LD 2 x 1,000 SAP (USA) 6 11 Landed Metheringham. 12/13 Jun 44 F/Sgt Millar K.V. Poitiers 11 x 500 MC 2 x 1,000 GP (USA) 12/13 Jun 44 F/Sgt Millar K.V. Poitiers 11 x 500 MC 2 x 1,000 GP (USA) 1 x 1,000 MC 6 35 [space] 14/15 Jun 44 F/O I.Fotheringham Aunay sur Odon 11 x 1,000 MC 4 x 500 MC 4 35 Army Support. 24/25 Jun 44 F/O G.C.Skelton Prouville 14 x 500 MC 2 x 1,000 MC 3 22 ‘P’ Plane Installations. 27/28 Jun 44 F/O I.Fotheringham Vitry 9 x 1,000 GP (USA) 2 x 500 GP (USA) 2 x 500 GP LD 72 hrs 7 31 [space] 29 Jun 44 F/Sgt Johnson M.G. Beauvoir 11 x 1,000 4 x 500 3 25 Buzz-Bomb site. Daylight attack.4/5 Jul 44 F/O W.R.Williams St Leu d’Esserent 11 x 1,000 4 x 500 4 23 Buzz-Bomb site. 7/8 Jul 44 P/O M.G.Johnson St Leu d’Esserent 11 x 1,000 4 x 500 4 49 Buzz-Bomb site. 14/14 Jul 44 P/O M.G.Johnson Villeneuve St Georges 16 x 500 GP 2 x 500 GP 6 hr LD 6 44 [space] 18 Jul 44 F/Sgt Cowan I.R. Caen 11 x 1,000 SAP (USA) 4 x 500 MC 3 30 Daylight.
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[list] 18/19 Jul 44 F/O M.G.Johnson Revigny 10 x 1,000 MC 12 hrs LD 3 x 500 12 hrs 5 07 [space] 8 Dec 44 W/C J.K.Douglas Urft Dam 14 x 1,000 4 25 Daylight attack. Landed at Ford. 17/18 Dec 44 S/L E.L.Langlais Munich 1 x 4,000 9 09 [space] 18/19 Dec 44 F/O P.K.Shanahan Gydnia 9 x 1,000 9 19 [space] 21/22 Dec 44 F/O G.A.Stewart Politz 1 x 4,000 HC 5 x 1,000 MC 10 51 Landed at Leuchars. 27 Dec 44 F/Lt M.G.Johnson Rheydt 13 x 1,000 MC 4 53 Daylight. ½ Jan 45 F/O W.K.Boxsell Gravenhorst-Mittelland Canal 13 x 1,000 MC 6 38 Landed at Lossiemouth. 13/14 Jan 45 S/L E.L.Langlais Politz 1 x 4,000 HC 9 x 500 MC 2 x 500 MC LD 10 10 [space] 14/15 Jan 45 F/O J.J.J.Cross Merseberg 1 x 4,000 HC 9 x 500 GP 9 11 Landed at East Moor. 16/17 jan 45 F/Lt F.Lawrence Brux 1 x 4,000 HC 10 x 500 MC 2 x 500 MC LD 9 43 Hit by light flak. Bomb Aimer slightly injured. 1/2 Feb 45 F/Lt F.Lawrence Siegen 1 x 4,000 HC 16 x 500 MC 6 11 [space] 2/3 Feb 45 S/L E.L.Langlais Karslruhr 1 x 4,000 HC 12 SBCs (150 x 4 inc) 7 04 [space] 16/17 Mar 45 F/Lt P.K.Shanahan Wurzburg 1 x 4,000 HC 11 SBC (150 x 4 inc) 6 40 [space]
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[list] 20/21 Mar 45 F/O L.W.Baker Bohlen 1 x 4,000 HC 14 x 500 MC 8 19 [space] 22 Mar 45 W/C I.H.A.Hay Bremen 14 x 1,000 MC 5 19 Daylight attack. 23/24 mar 45 F/O L.W.Baker wesel 13 x 1,000 MC 5 32 [space] 27 Mar 45 F/O L.W.Baker Farge 11 x 1,000 4 35 Daylight attack. 7 small flak holes in wings. 4 Apr 45 W/C I.H.A.Hay Nordhausen 1 x 4,000 HC 16 x 500 MC 7 09 Daylight attack. 6 Apr 45 S/L W.M.Kynock Ijmuiden 14 x 1,000 MC 3 18 Daylight. No attack made. Army already there. Turned back by the Master Bomber. 9 Apr 45 W/C I.H.A.Hay Hamburg 13 x 1,000 MC 4 18 Daylight. 16/17 Apr 45 F/O R.A.Swift Pilsen 1 x 4,000 HC 13 x 500 MC 8 23 Landed at Boscombe Down. 18/19 Apr 45 F/O L.W.Baker Komotau (Czechoslovakia) 18 x 500 MC 8 08 Landed at Lyneham. 23 Apr 45 F/O L.W.Baker Flensberg 8 x 1,000 MC 6 x 500 MC 5 24 No attack made Weather u/s.
Grand Total of Operational Flying = [underlined] 795 25 [/underlined]
Bombs Dropped Operationally = [underlined] 466 tons approx. [/underlined]
[underlined] POST-WAR HISTORY [/underlined]
[list] 23 Aug 45 to 15 MU – exhibition aircraft. 16 Mar 56 Struck off charge as an exhibition aircraft and transferred to 13 MU Wroughton to the Historical Aircraft Collection (Museum). 1959 To Scampton – for display. 24 Nov 70 to 71 MU for refurbishing. 12 Mar 72 To RAF Museum, Hendon.
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Operational history of Lancaster 1B R5868
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List of 135 operations flown by Lancaster R5868 from 8/9 June 1942 until 23 April 1945. List includes pilot, target, bomb load. hours flown and comments. Was with 83 Squadron at RAF Scampton and Wyton then 467 Squadron at RAF Bottesford and then RAF Waddington until the end of the war.
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1942-06-29
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Thirteen page typewritten document
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eng
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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England--Lincolnshire
England--Cambridgeshire
England
Germany
Germany--Wilhelmshaven
Poland
Poland--Gdańsk
France
Germany--Essen
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Vegesack
Germany--Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Germany--Flensburg
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Krefeld
Germany--Kiel
Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea
Germany--Aachen
Italy
Italy--Genoa
Italy--Turin
Germany--Munich
Germany--Berlin
France--Lorient
Italy--Milan
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Cologne
France--Saint-Nazaire
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Wuppertal
Germany--Bochum
France--Montchanin
Germany--Kassel
France--Modane
Germany--Leipzig
Germany--Schweinfurt
Germany--Augsburg
France--Maubeuge Region
Germany--Braunschweig
France--Bourg-en-Bresse
France--Saint-Médard-en-Jalles
France--Mailly-le-Camp
France--Sablé-sur-Sarthe
France--Lille
Belgium
Belgium--Leopoldsburg
France--Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (Landes)
France--Argentan
France--Rennes
France--Poitiers
France--Villers-Bocage (Calvados)
France--Abbeville Region
France--Vitry-en-Artois
France--Beauvoir-sur-Mer
France--Creil
France--Caen
Poland--Gdynia
Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)
Germany--Rheydt
Germany--Mittelland Canal
Germany--Merseburg
Germany--Siegen
Germany--Karlsruhe
Germany--Würzburg
Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Netherlands
Netherlands--IJmuiden
Czech Republic
Czech Republic--Pilsen Basin
Czech Republic--Chomutov
Germany--Düsseldorf
Great Britain
Germany--Münster in Westfalen
Germany--Hannover
Germany--Osnabrück
Germany--Stuttgart
France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Great Britain
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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1943
1944
1945
1943-07-24
1943-07-25
1943-07-27
1943-07-28
1943-07-29
1943-07-30
1944-04-18
1944-04-19
1944-05-03
1944-05-04
1944-07-04
1944-07-05
1944-06
1944-07
1944-08
1942-07
1942-08
1942-09
1942-10
1942-11
1942-12
1944-02
1944-03
1944-04
1944-05
1944-12
1945-01
1945-02
1945-03
1945-04
1944-06-05
1944-06-06
1944-06-14
1944-06-15
1944-06-24
1944-06-25
1944-07-18
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Robin Christian
467 Squadron
83 Squadron
bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943)
Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944)
bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944)
bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944)
bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944)
bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944)
Lancaster
mine laying
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Pathfinders
RAF Bottesford
RAF Scampton
RAF Waddington
RAF Wyton
tactical support for Normandy troops
target indicator
V-1
V-weapon
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Royal Air Force ex-Prisoner of War Association
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97 items. The collection concerns Royal Air Force ex-Prisoner of War Association and contains items including drawings by the artist Ley Kenyon.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Robert Ankerson and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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2018-01-29
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RAF ex POW As Collection
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Record of Loss of Halifax W7884
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A record of the loss of a Halifax. It lists the crew and their fate - five became prisoners of war and returned safely to the UK but Cyril John
Pope (1578663) and Theodore Ian Mardon Edwards (R/97583) were killed. Their burial details are recorded.
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1942-12
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Germany--Rheinberg
Germany--Bad Dürkheim Region
Germany--Frankfurt am Main
Germany
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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eng
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Text
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One printed sheet with handwritten annotations
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MAnkersonR[Ser#-DoB]-180129-83
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102 Squadron
aircrew
final resting place
Gee
Halifax
Halifax Mk 2
killed in action
prisoner of war
RAF Pocklington
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Searle, Rex. Album 1
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2017-07-25
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Searle, ROJ
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74 items. The album contains photographs and papers relating to Rex Searle's pre-war family life as well as his wartime and postwar service.
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Rex Searle and family
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Six photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a family on a promenade, captioned 'Dec 1942 Hearty Greetings for Christmas and the New Year'.
Photo 2 is Rex Searle captioned '1942-3'.
Photo 3 is Rex Searle dated 1947.
Photo 4 is a girl captioned 'Valerie'.
Photo 5 is Rex Searle.
Photo 6 is Rex Searle dated 1943.
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Six b/w photographs from an album
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eng
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Photograph
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PSearleROJ17030013
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Civilian
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-12
1943
1947
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1942-12
1943
1947
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Valentine, John. Ursula Valentine's newspaper cutting scrapbook
Description
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131 items contained in a scrapbook. Mainly newspaper cuttings of events from May 1942 to 1945.
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THE TIMES FRIDAY DECEMBER 18 1942
ROMMEL’S ARMY CUT IN TWO
ARMOURED FORCES TRAPPED
HEAVY AXIS CASUALTIES IN EFFORTS TO BREAK OUT
CONSTANT ALLIED AIR ATACKS
Advanced forces of the Eighth Army have cut Rommel’s retreating columns in two at Wadi Matratin, some 50 to 60 miles beyond El Agheila.
Enemy troops east of this area include armoured formations, which have already been severely mauled in their efforts to break out.
In a raid lasting over eight hours the canal linking Tunis and La Goulette has been partly blocked.
DARLAN ANSWERS QUESTIONS
“FRENCH NAVY TO JOIN ALLIES”
DESIRE FOR UNITY
NEW YORK, Dec. 17. – Admiral Darlan, in a statement to a correspondent of the Associated Press of America, said that units of the French fleet at Dakar, Alexandria, and North African ports would join the British and American fleets and fight the Axis.
Asked if he would recognize General de Gaulle’s French National Committee as representing any part of France, Darlan replied: “For the present I have no statement to make on the subject, but I eagerly wish that all Frenchmen who are able to fight the Axis will do it in close union.”
Darlan made these answers in written replies to questions by the correspondent. In answer to the query “Do you plan to use the French fleet against the Axis?” he wrote “Yes, definitely.” Other replies given by Darlan were:-
Do you plan any coalition with other French movements so as to present a united French front to the enemy? – My only scheme is to work in complete agreement with Britain and the United States and their allies to contribute to the greatest extent to the war effort.
Is it your intention to hold North Africa in trust for Marshal Pétain? In other words, is the Imperial Council headed by you a permanent Government, or do you intend to step aside for Marshal Pétain when France is free again? – I consider the part of the High Commissioner [Darlan] is to represent French interests as long as France is unable freely to express her opinion – that is to say, to give herself the Government she chooses.
Darlan added: “So long as the allies were not ready to help France to resume the struggle I tried, sad and resigned, to prevent France from dying under the German heel. When the hour so much desired had struck I acted, as the man who was to take Pétain’s place, and tried to muster to the side of the allies all Frenchmen still able to fight.” – [italics] Reuter [/italics].
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Rommel's army cut in two and Darlan answers questions
Description
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Article 1. Headlines: Rommel's army cut in two, armoured forces trapped, heavy casualties in efforts to break out, constant allied air attacks. Article 2. Headlines: Darlan answers questions, French navy to join allies, desire for unity. Mentions French fleet at Dakar, Alexandria and North African ports would join American and British fleets to fight the Axis. Darlan offered no comment on whether he would recognise de Gaulle represented any part of France.
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The Times
IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-12-18
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Two newspaper cuttings mounted on a scrapbook page
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eng
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Text
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SValentineJRM1251404v10044
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Royal Air Force
Wehrmacht
British Army
Royal Navy
Spatial Coverage
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Libya
North Africa
Tunisia
Tunisia--La Goulette
Temporal Coverage
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1942-12
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David Bloomfield
Steve Baldwin
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Workflow A completed
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Saunders, Ernest John. Album 1
Description
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A history of Sam Saunders RAF experiences complete with a biography. It is presented in an album.
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Penny Thicket
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2020-02-13
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Saunders, EJ
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[three photographs]
Here are the shoe shine boys in Cairo, the local lido and The Nile.
[photograph]
The Second Battle of El Alamein took place over 13 days from 23rd October to 4th November 1942 and the Allies’ victory marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The Allied victory turned the tide in the North African Campaign and ended Axis hopes of occupying Egypt, tak-ing control of the Suez Canal, and gaining access to the Middle Eastern and Persian oil fields. By the end of October Daddy’s total flying hours were 283.45 by day and 283.40 by night.
In November and December 1942 he occasionally flew in Hudson bombers as well as the Halifaxes, Opera-tions 31 to 45. There were attacks on Daba on the Fuka Road, Tunis and Elmas aerodromes, docks and jetties in Tunisia and then on to to [sic] Malta. He was finally taken as a passenger from Malta to Benghasi, [sic] El Adem and on to Shallufa, north of Cairo.
[page break]
Between the 4th and the 24th of January 1942, Flight Lieutenant E J Saunders travelled with British Airways from Cairo to Poole in Dorset. This took 13 separate flights. An astonishing set of connections with him as a passenger, he went from Cairo to Wadi Halfa (Egypt) to Khartoum (Sudan) to Malakal to Laropi to Stanley-ville (Belgian Congo) to Coquihatville to Leopoldville to Libreville (French West Africa) to Lagos (Nigeria) to Bathurst (Gambia) to Lisbon (Portugal) to Foynes (Eire) to Poole. We have no idea why he went on this ex-traordinary journey; perhaps many airmen travelled this way in order to take up leave. One of the planes was RMA, BA Bangor (A flying boat) and the other RMA BA Carpentaria (RMA, Royal Mail Aircraft). These long range clippers were American Boeing 314s and servedBA then BOAC when BA joined Imperial Airways in 1939.
At this point he was awarded his DFC, The Distinguished Flying Cross for “an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy”.
In [sic] 25th January 1943 he completed a Decompression Test and after a brief time with 16 Operational Training Unit (OTU) carrying out special navigational training, he moved to24 Squadron where he stayed until the end of June.
Initially there were Special Navigational flights in Wellingtons and Hudsons, practising cross-country naviga-tion flying out of Hendon Approach, which is now the RAF museum at Hendon.
Then came daytime transport flights in Hudsons and Dakotas out to Maison Blanche (Algeria) and RAF Castel Benito (late RAF Idris) near Tripoli in Libya, and to Malta and Tunisia. Then in Dakotas and Hudsons, he was flying the same long North African routes across RAF bases and through the Mediterranean sometimes out of Portreath in Scotland. These were mainly transport flights but occasionally carried VIPs. The same destina-tions; Blida, Maison Blanche, Luqa, Casablanca, Oujda, La Senia, Gibraltar, Ain Oussera. There were frequent-ly several flights a day with flying time from 15 minutes to 3 hours.
Total Flying Hours to date were an astonishing 653.15 by day and 471.55 by night.
[photograph]
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Sam Saunders in Egypt
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These pages are mostly biography of Sam's time in Egypt and his time with transport aircraft in the Mediterranean region.
Photos 1, 2 and 3 are scenes from Cairo.
Photo 4 is a side head and shoulders profile of Sam.
Photo 5 is a Battle aircraft in flight.
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Penny Thicket
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2013-10
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Two printed sheets with five photographs
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eng
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Photograph
Text
Text. Personal research
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BThickettPSaundersEJv10013
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Air Force. Transport Command
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Algeria
Algeria--Algiers
Algeria--Blida
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kisangani
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Mbandaka
Egypt
Egypt--Cairo
Egypt--Suez
Great Britain
England--Cornwall (County)
England--Poole (Dorset)
Gabon
Gabon--Libreville
Gambia
Gibraltar
Ireland
Ireland--Limerick (County)
Libya
Libya--Tripoli
Malta
Morocco
Morocco--Casablanca
Morocco--Oujda
Nigeria
Nigeria--Lagos
Portugal
Portugal--Lisbon
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa
Sudan
Sudan--Khartoum
South Sudan
South Sudan--Malakal
Tunisia
Uganda
North Africa
Egypt--Alamayn
Gambia--Banjul
Sudan--Ḥalfāʼ al-Jadīdah
Libya--Banghāzī
Congo (Democratic Republic)
England--Dorset
Temporal Coverage
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1942-10
1942-11
1942-12
1943-01
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Steve Christian
aircrew
Battle
bombing
C-47
Distinguished Flying Cross
Halifax
Hudson
navigator
Operational Training Unit
RAF Hendon
training
Wellington
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Price, Arthur Phillip
Price, PA
Description
An account of the resource
90 items including two photograph albums in sub-collections. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant Arthur Phillip Price (572090 Royal Air Force) and contains photographs, documents and correspondence. He served as ground personnel with 619 Squadron and was killed 9 June 1943 while on an air test.<br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2062">Price, Arthur Phillip. Album 1</a><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2064">Price, Arthur Phillip. Album 2</a><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by John Barnes and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on Arthur Price is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/119025/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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2019-05-17
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Price, AP
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[Crest]
No. 36 Service Flying Training School ROYAL AIR FORCE, PENHOLD
CHRISTMAS DINNER 1942 SERGEANTS’ MESS
MENU
Chilled Grapefruit
Cream of Tomato Soup
Filets of Halibut
Roast Turkey Roast Pork
Seasoned Stuffing Giblet Gravy
White Bread Sauce Cranberry Sauce
Apple Sauce
Roast Potatoes Creamed Potatoes
Brussel Sprouts Green Peas
Christmas Pudding Rum Sauce
Mince Pies
DESSERT
Strawberries and Cream
Oranges Apples Grapes Beer
Coffee Bread Rolls
J Mitchell
T Corfield
D.E. Head
E.P. [?]
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[Reverse}
G Ford (Doc)
R Rudsley
[?] G Hall
G [?] Hawker
[?] Waddington
[signature]
[signature]
P.J. George
J Lowman
[signature]
Hugh Hammond
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
N.P. Ron
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
E Green
J Wolsley
[signature]
R Keffel
Doug [?]
[signature]
[signature]
W. Samuel
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Title
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Sergeants' mess Christmas dinner menu 1942
Description
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No 36 Service Flying Training School. RAF Penhold, Christmas dinner menu for 1942. Includes several signatures and named 'Sgt Price A.P'. at top. On the reverse, many more signatures.
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1942-12
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1942-12
Spatial Coverage
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Canada
Alberta--Red Deer Region
Alberta
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Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Format
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Printed document
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MPriceAP572090-190517-01
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Verity Garner
mess
military living conditions
training
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Lee, James Roy
J R Lee
Description
An account of the resource
23 items. Concerns James Roy Lee (b. 1923, 575842 Royal Air Force). He flew operations as a flight engineer with 467 Squadron until he became a prisoner of war. Collection contains his flying log book, personal and official documents, correspondence, a history of 467 Squadron operations and photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Marilyn Palmer and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-03-20
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Lee, JR
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[underlined] SERVICE HISTORY [/underlined]
DEC42 – AUG 43 – 467 R.A.A.F. BOTTESFORD
P. O. W. STALAG IV – 1945
JUN 45 – NOV 46 - HT CU OSSINGTON (B.O.A.C.)
NOV 46 – MAR 47 - HCU DISHFORTH
MAR 47 – NOV 47 511 SQDN LYNEHAM
NOV 47 – DEC 50 - 99 SQDN LYNEHAM (BERLIN AIRLIFT 321 FLIGHTS)
DEC 50 – FEB 51 24 SQDN LYNEHAM
FEB 51 – MAY 52 - 99 SQDN LYNEHAM
MAY 52 MAR 55 - A & A.E.E. BOSCOMBE DOWN
MAR 55 – NOV 55 - CCGS LECONFIELD
NOV 55 – JUN 58 – 242 OCU DISHFORTH
58 – 60 – JURBY BRITANNIA TRAINING
60 – AUG 61 – 511 LYNEHAM
AUG 61 – MAR 63 – A.T.S. LYNEHAM
MAR 63 – MAY 65 – SHORT & HARLAND BELFAST (TEST CREW ON BELFAST)
MAY 65 – AUG 65 – ATS LYNEHAM
AUG 65 – MAR 66 – A & A.E.E. BOSCOMBE DOWN
MAR 66 – SEP 67 – 99 SQDN LYNEHAM
TOTAL 6169.30 FLYING HOURS.
SHOT DOWN 15/16 AUG 1943
24TH OP
[page break]
AIRCRAFT FLOWN IN
MANCHESTER B MK1
LANCASTER B1 & B2
YORK C MK1
HASTINGS C1 & C2
LINCOLN B MK1
SHACKLETON
CANBERRA PR7
MARATHON T2
VARSITY
VIKING
BLACKBURN FREIGHTER
VALETTA
ANSON
D. H. BEAVER (CANADA)
SEA BALLIOL
PEMBROKE
AVRO 707 (C) DELTA
OXFORD
BEVERLEY C1
DAKOTA
DEVON
VAMPIRE
VALIANT MK1
VULCAN MK1
PIONEER
BRITANNIA C1 & C2
BELFAST C1
COMET C2
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Title
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Service history
Description
An account of the resource
Service history from December 1942 to August 1943 on 467 RAAF squadron at RAF Bottesford. Prisoner of war at Stalag IVB - 1945. Then list post war postings from June 1945 until September 1967. Shot down 15/16 August 1943.
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Two page handwritten document
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eng
Type
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Text
Identifier
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MLeeJR575842-180320-09
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Leicestershire
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
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1942-12
1943-08
1943-08-15
1943-08-16
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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David Bloomfield
467 Squadron
Anson
C-47
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
Lancaster Mk 3
Lincoln
Manchester
Oxford
prisoner of war
RAF Bottesford
Shackleton
shot down
York
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Baker, William Benjamin
Biff Baker
W B Baker
Description
An account of the resource
45 items. The collection concerns William Benjamin "Biff" Baker DFC (Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents art work and and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner with 115 and 626 Squadrons.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Pamela Baker and catalogued by Nigel Huckins and Peter Adams.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-11-28
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Baker, WB
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In reply to your request for service details, I trust the following will suffice. They are, to my knowledge as near correct as I can muster, although one or two items may appear to be a little vague. However, take your pick.
(Q's)
(1) Joined sometime during 1942 at the ripe old age of 29/30 years.
(2 St. John's Wood, London. Brighton. Blackpool. Bridlington.
33 Dec. 1942. No. 7. A.G.S., Stormy Downs. Whitleys & Defiants.
& Gunnery Instructor – Kent Walton, now B.B.C., wrestling commentator.
4) Feb' 1943. No. 1483, Gunnery Flight. ? Wellingtons.
Feb' 1943. No. 1651 Conversion Unit. Waterbeach. Sterling.
March 1943. No. 115 Squadron. East Wretham. Lancaster.
Remainder of crew completed tour. Screened for Gunnery Instructors' course.
July. 1943. One more trip with new crew whose rear gunner went absent just before take-off. Should have had my bumps read. This crew went missing the following night.
August 1943. No. 28 O.T.U., Screened for Gunnery Instruction. Joined new crew looking for a gunner. Considered this much safer than instructing, after trying to persuade trainees not to try leaving the turret whilst on the beam -- whilst still airborne. Wellington.
Oct' 1943. No. 1481 Gunnery Flight. Binbrook. Wellington.
Oct' 1943. No. 1662 Conversion Flight. Blyton. Halifax.
Nov' 1943. No. 626 Squadron. Wickenby. Linc's. Lancaster.
Dec' 1943. Crashed at Wittering, following trip to Berlin. No casualties.
Jan' 1944. Crashed at Docking, after being shot up by fighters over the Big City.
Aircraft flown in:- Whitley, Defiant, Sterling, Halifax, Wellington, Lancaster & Oxford.
July 1944. No. 28 O.T.U., Wymeswold instructing.
On completion of flying duties posted to Nairn, Scotland for rehabilitation. Other stations graced with my attendance:- R.A.F. School of Administration, Hereford. Melksham Admin. Hendon Admin. Finally 100 P.D.C.
(5) 14 Op's on first tour. 20 Op's on second tour.
(6) Commissioned January, 1944.
(7) & (8) On night of Jan' 30 1944, involved in a rather one sided argument with a fighter over Berlin. Wireless Operator killed and four other crew members injured. Immediate awards, C.G.M., to Jack Meek, Navigator and two D.F.C's to other crew members. (see continuation sheet).
(9) Left Service about May., 1946.
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Records of incident of January 30th 1944.
February 22nd. 1944. London Gazette.
January 30/31. 1944. Station narrative report.
February 5 1944. Squadron report. Combat report No. 17. Ref: 626S/S/5/6/Air.
January 30 1944. Operations Records Book.
January 1944. Recommendations for Honours and Awards. Immediate. OB.
[underlined] Operations [/underlined]
First Tour.
29/3/ 43. Berlin. Aborted. Aircraft U/S.
2/4/ 43. La Rochelle. Gardening.
3/4/ 43. Essen.
4/4/ 43. Keil.
8/4/ 43. Duisburg.
11/4/ 43. Frankfurt.
16/4/ 43. Pilson. Skoda Arms Works. Czechoslavakia.
13/5/ 43. Duisburg. 1X8,000olb. [sic]. cookie.
14/5 43. Bochum.
24/5 43. Dortmund.
25/5 43. Dusseldorf.
27/5 43. Essen.
29/5 43. Elberfeld-Wuppertal & Barman.
25/7 43. Essen.
Operations. Second Tour.
16/12/43. Berlin. Crashed landed at Kelstern.
23/12/43. Berlin.
24/1/44. Brunswick.
21/1/44. Madeburg. Landed West Raynham.
27/1/44. Berlin. Landed Wittering.
30/1/44. Berlin. Attacked by fighter. Crash landed Docking.
18/4/44. Rouen.
20/4/44. Cologne.
22/4/44. Dusseldorfe.
26/4/44. Essen. Coned over target area.
27/4/44. Friedrichshafen.
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Joined in 1942 and then details training and tour on 115 Squadron, gunnery course, tours as gunnery instructor. Further tour with 625 Squadron, crashed twice before another instructors tour. Mentions 14 ops on first tour and 20 on second. Comments on operation to Berlin when aircraft was attacked by fighter, wireless operator killed, four crew injured. Immediate award of Conspicuous Gallantry Medal to navigator Jack Meek and two Distinguished Flying Crosses to other crew members. Left service in 1946. Lists operations from March 1943 to 27 April 1944.
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115 Squadron
1651 HCU
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Parry, William Edward
Parry, W E
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34 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer William Edward Parry DFC (1912 - 1996, 1177401 Royal Air Force) and contains his decorations, documents and photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 9 Squadron.
The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Frances Lee and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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2022-05-31
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Sgt Lees B.A (Geoff)
Sgt Daswell F. E (Dassy)
P.O Brown Nav (Sam)
FO Cowan Pilot (Jim)
Sgt R.G. Brown (Dickie)
Sgt Hewinson W.O.P. (Hewie)
Sgt Talbot M.U.G. (John)
December 1942
Waddington
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Seven Airmen and a Lancaster
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Seven crew, in flying kit, standing in front of a Lancaster. Each man is named on the reverse.
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1942-12
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PParryWE2208, PParryWE2209
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1942-12
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Alan Brammer
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air gunner
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bomb aimer
flight engineer
Lancaster
navigator
pilot
RAF Waddington
wireless operator