Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Kattegat (Baltic Sea)]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Belgium--Kortrijk]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Wiltshire]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Abbeville Region]]> France--Amiens]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Gironde]]> France--Laon]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Netherlands--West Frisian Islands]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1944-01-03]]> 1944-01-04]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-15]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-22]]> 1944-01-25]]> 1944-01-26]]> 1944-01-27]]> 1944-01-28]]> 1944-01-30]]> 1944-01-31]]> 1944-02-11]]> 1944-02-12]]> 1944-02-15]]> 1944-02-16]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-21]]> 1944-02-22]]> 1944-02-23]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-03-04]]> 1944-03-05]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-03-17]]> 1944-03-18]]> 1944-03-19]]> 1944-03-20]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-03-24]]> 1944-03-25]]> 1944-03-26]]> 1944-03-31]]> 1944-04-01]]> 1944-04-05]]> 1944-04-06]]> 1944-04-09]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-12]]> 1944-04-13]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1945]]> 73 Squadron]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Canada]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> Manitoba]]> 1944-01-26]]> Judy Mansbridge]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1944-01-26]]> Reg records his operational experiences the day he baled out. His captors were friendly but the food was awful. They were taken by bus to a station in Berlin to catch a train to Frankfurt. The transit camp had good food helped by Red Cross parcels. He was not impressed with the railway wagons nor the camp when they arrived. He describes camp life in detail. He meets colleagues that he trained with and from his squadron. However much of his diary concerns food and camp life. There is a little about studying and sporting activities, principally football. He states the quality of the sporting activities was very good. Drama, plays and musicals were successfully organised. The Russians were treated the worst by the Germans and suffered from no Red Cross parcels. He discusses the other nationals in the camp, including Italians, French and Poles.
Cooking fires figure strongly in his thoughts and the operation of the blower using a wheel to blow air through a fire.
 In January the Germans received news that Reg was now commissioned but before he could be transferred the camp was evacuated to Bavaria by train. The book also contains a receipt issued to Reg for his RAF watch, six poems by six authors about camp life, photos of his girlfriend, his parents and May, Doris and Vera, his sisters, four detailed sketches of camp buildings and interiors, sketches drawn by Reg, a Christmas card for 1944 and ‘the Last Flight of Old Flo’, his Halifax going down in flames over Berlin. ]]>
Reg Wilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> deu]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Artwork]]> Photograph]]> Text. Poetry]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> Switzerland]]> Germany--Bavaria]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Switzerland--Geneva]]> 1944-01-25]]> 1944-01-26]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-08]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-09]]>
Sarah]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> 1944-01-26]]> M Warburton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Hannover]]> 1944-01-26]]> 1944-01-27]]> 1945-02-06]]> Australia. Royal Australian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> Victoria]]> 1944-01-26]]>
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Australia]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> France--Argentan]]> France--Nantes]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (Landes)]]> Victoria--Ballarat]]> Victoria--Sale]]> Victoria]]> France--Saint-Martin-de-Varreville]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-01-25]]> 1944-01-26]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-05-29]]> 1944-06-03]]> 1944-06-04]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-08]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-10]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> 1944-01-26]]> 44 Squadron]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Frank Batten]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944-01-25]]> 1944-01-26]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> 1944-01-26]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Wales--Cardiff]]> Wales]]> 1944-01-26]]>