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Price, Arthur Phillip
Price, PA
Description
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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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[Royal Air Force crest]
Sgts Mess,
Woodhall Spa,
Lincoln.
6.5.43.
My Dearest Mum,
Many thanks for your very nice letter and for the Parcel.
I am settled down in this place now and I really like it, I have a Cycle now so I am O.K. for getting around. I use it to go to the Village of Coningsby to Dances and the local Pub, so it comes in very usefull. [sic]
I am pretty well established in the Section now and I have a good crowd of fellows here, we have 3 “Lanks.” [sic] now so we have a little work to do.
Oh by the way my throat was better practicaly [sic] the next day (Sunday) so I did’nt [sic] have any trouble with it at all. Oh and another thing you had better have a good stock of rations in when I am next home
[page break]
because I am eating like a horse here, my average is about 8 slices of bread to fill up with after a hot meal at tea time. Not bad eh?
I was sorry to hear about your cold I hope that is better now, you’ll have to look after yourself a lot more and not bother so much about other people. No 1 is the only one that matters these days.
The weather here has been pretty grand this last couple of days although typically Lincolnshire there is always a wind blowing, and it is pretty cool as we are only a very few miles from the Coast here, we can hear the Coastal Batteries very clearly.
You know Mum it is a lovely spot where our billet is, you wake up in the morning with the birds singing and have them to sing you to sleep at night, at the
[page break]
moment looking out of the window I can see a Cuckoo up in the tree and it is cuckooing its head off, it is getting a bit monotonous.
Oh by the way thanks so much for the Cigs. they came at a very opportune moment. I was right out and going to a Dance.
I see that Pete was mentioned in Dispatches for the Wedding, although by the looks of things he only just made it. Tell him he ought to feel proud that his name was in the Paper or has he being [sic] going around with his chest out already.
I suppose that all our “Friends”? of the district know my where abouts now, if not I do’nt [sic] suppose that it will be very long before they do.
Well Mum dear I think that I am running out of gas now although I think that I had better turn the page.
[page break]
Oh yes how did Dad get on at his Cricket match, I bet he got a ‘duck’ and had a good excuse for it, still I had better not say too much I might want to borrow his overcoat again soon.
Well Mum no more news for now, give my love to Dad, Pete, Joan and Jean and all my fondest love for you.
Your ever loving Son
Phil. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
P.S. Do’nt [sic] be too surprised at the length of this letter.
[underlined] Phil [/underlined] xxxx
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Title
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Letter from Arthur Phillip Price to his mother
Description
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Writes that he has settled in and has a bike and uses it to to get around and go to local village for dances and local pub. Mentions that they now have three Lancasters. Says he had gotten over a bad throat. Catches up with gossip and mentions weather and describes area of his billet. Continues to catch up with news of friends and family.
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A P Price
Date
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1943-05-06
Temporal Coverage
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1943-05-06
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Format
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Four page handwritten letter
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Pending text-based transcription. Under review
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EPriceAPPrice[Mo]430506
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF Woodhall Spa
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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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James Lee’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Description
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Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for J R Lee, flight engineer, covering the period from 15 November 1942 to 15 August 1943 where he was listed as missing and was the only survivor of his crew that crashed in France and became a prisoner of war. Following his repatriation, he returned to flying on 25 February 1946 until 22 November 1949. Detailing his flying training, operations flown, and post war flying duties with 511 Squadron and he carried out 321 flights in the Berlin airlift with 99 Squadron. He was stationed at RAF Scampton, RAF Bottesford, RAF Ossington, RAF Dishforth and RAF Lyneham. Aircraft flown in were Manchester, Lancaster, Oxford, York, Dakota, Anson and Hastings. He flew a total of 24 operations with 467 squadron. Targets were Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Lorient, Cologne, Berlin, Essen, Nurnberg, Duisberg, Pilsen, Dortmund, Friedrichshaven, Spezia, Gelsenkirchen, Genoa and Milan. His pilots on operations were Wing Commander Cosme Lockwood Gomm DSO DFC, Flight Sergeant Warder and Flight sergeant Dixon.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Mike Connock
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Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
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LLeeJR575842v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Transport Command
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Czech Republic
France
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Czech Republic--Plzeň
England--Lincolnshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Wiltshire
England--Yorkshire
France--Lorient
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Essen
Germany--Friedrichshafen
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Nuremberg
Italy--Genoa
Italy--La Spezia
Italy--Milan
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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1942
1943
1946
1947
1948
1949
1943-01-23
1943-01-31
1943-02-13
1943-02-14
1943-02-26
1943-02-27
1943-03-01
1943-03-02
1943-03-03
1943-03-04
1943-03-05
1943-03-06
1943-03-08
1943-03-09
1943-03-12
1943-03-13
1943-04-03
1943-04-04
1943-04-08
1943-04-09
1943-04-16
1943-04-17
1943-05-05
1943-05-06
1943-05-12
1943-05-13
1943-05-14
1943-05-23
1943-05-24
1943-06-20
1943-06-21
1943-06-23
1943-06-24
1943-06-25
1943-06-26
1943-06-28
1943-06-29
1943-07-24
1943-07-25
1943-07-27
1943-07-28
1943-08-07
1943-08-08
1943-08-15
1943-08-16
467 Squadron
99 Squadron
aircrew
Anson
arts and crafts
bombing
bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943)
C-47
flight engineer
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Manchester
missing in action
Oxford
prisoner of war
RAF Bottesford
RAF Dishforth
RAF Lyneham
RAF Ossington
RAF Scampton
training
York
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Title
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Valentine, John
John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
J R M Valentine
Description
An account of the resource
674 Items. Collection concerns navigator Warrant Officer J R McKenzie Valentine (1251404 Royal Air Force). The collection contains over 600 letters between JRM Valentine and his wife Ursula. It also contains his log book, family/official documents, a book of violin music studies and other correspondence. Sub-collections contain family photographs, prisoner of war photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings of events from 1942 to 1945.
He joined 49 Squadron in April 1942 and flew 10 operations on Hampdens. The squadron converted to Manchester in May when he completed two further operations. His aircraft was shot down on the Thousand Bomber raid of 30/31 May 1942. Five crew, including him bailed out successfully and became prisoners of war. The pilot and one air gunner were killed when the aircraft rolled over and crashed.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Frances Zagni and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2018-09-06
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Valentine, JRM
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NUMBER 32
6th May 1943
My Dearest Ursula: I have little news tonight for you. A book parcel arrived yesterday from the Christine Knowles organisation. I don’t know who the actual donor is & the books were an odd selection, they comprised “Oliver Twist, a manual on “Fortune Telling by Cards”; The Little Bible – a publication of the Oxford University Press of extracts from the bible; & a tract Booklet “Of Comfort for those in Captivity”. – a pocket set of dominoes was included. If you know the sender, would you offer my thanks The weather has been quite nice here recently but a cold wind has made the sunshine less pleasant than it otherwise might have been. Today, however has been really lovely & for a glorious 15 minutes my sense of taste returned & I hurriedly demolished part of a bar of chocolate which I had been saving for such an occasion. The lucid interval was unhappily of a fleeting nature & I am now back to my usual state. When one lives so intimately with people whose company is not of our own choosing, it is incredible how one can work up an intense dislike of someone else. A case in point is one of the Dutchmen in my room, Mike Loos. I simply don’t like him but, as he is always with me, there are times when I find it difficult to conceal my animosity. He is utterly selfish, mean & at times exceedingly bad tempered – especially when he awakes. Every morning he is like a bear with a sore head & the other 3 of us in the room are afraid to do anything that might provoke a crisis. There was one once, when after a battle of words Mike & Louis Den Boer – one of the others – came to blows in real earnest. Hans & Louis share my opinion of Mike & we three get on well together. Having had plenty of time to study my roommates I like Louis best although Hans has some very good points. However, as far as Mike is concerned it is a case of smothering ones real feelings & showing always a false face of friendship although it is incredibly difficult at times, & as time goes on it becomes more so. Was ever ones patience & tact tried more than here? News of any move from here is vague but my opinion is that we [underlined] shall [/underlined] move but not for some months yet. I am particularly keen to hear how many of my letters get through & I hope you will tell me in each letter. As far as yours are concerned I have Nos 1 -51 & 56. Keep yourself & Frances well & cheerful. Ever yours, with love
John
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90
[underlined] Kriegsgefangenenpost [/underlined]
[stamp]
An MRS U M. VALENTINE
LIDO
Emfangsort: TENTERDEN GROVE
Strasse: HENDON
Kreis: LONDON NW4
Land: ENGLAND
[stamp]
Absender:
Vor- und Zuname: Sgt John Valentine
Gefangenennummer: 450
Lager-Bezeichnung: M.-Stammlager Lufte 3
Deutschland (Germany)
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Letter from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Description
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Number 32. Writes of arrival of book parcel and asks her to track down sender and thank them. Mentions his sense of taste return briefly and describes relations with fellow Dutch prisoners. Still vague news of a move.
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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EValentineJRMValentineUM430506
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Poland
Poland--Żagań
Great Britain
England--London
Temporal Coverage
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1943-05-06
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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John Ross Mckenzie Valentine
prisoner of war
Stalag Luft 3