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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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25/8/45
Dear Johnnie,
I hope this padlock will be OK for your bike.
By the way, if you have any washing for me to do, send it off forthwith so that I can bring it back to you clean.
Love Ursula.
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Letter to John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Description
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Encloses padlock and ask if he has any washing for her to do.
Date
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1945-08-25
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
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One page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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EValentineUMValentineJRM450825-02
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
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1945-08-25
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Ursula Valentine
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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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Felmersham.
Saturday 25th Aug.
Darling Johnnie,
It only took me 10 minutes to get through to you this morning which I thought was remarkably good. It was grand to hear your voice, & to get 2 letters from you this morning. I wonder why Wednesday’s didn’t reach me till today, same as Thursday’s?
Osteoarthritis sounds a very grand name. I’m all in favour of their giving you a pension & sending you home, & then we’ll set to work to cure the knees. I gather from Dr Novokovsky that you might need weekly treatments for some months, but it would
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probably clear up in the end. I hope so. Alec More left for Germany today, quite unexpectedly, so Joan is bringing her sprogs to tea tomorrow. She is having the present furniture of her cottage removed on 5th & her own in on 6th Sept, & I have said she & her family may use our house for the change-over, as we shall be away, & it would otherwise be very awkward for the granny & 2 kids sleeping on the floor etc. I’m not sure yet whether she is taking advantage of the offer, but think so. This afternoon I am taking Frances & Philip over to the fair at St Peter’s. It’s pouring
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with rain & thoroughly miserable, but the fair ends today & Frances is terribly keen to go again, so as you’re not coming we may as well go. It’ll be more fun for her with Philip there, & Mrs Sharpe is in no shape to take him anywhere just now. Her infant is due in about 10 days (lucky dog!)
I have got you a padlock which I hope to post today. I’m also sending some Statesmen. You may have seen them, if so chuck them out or give them to others. I’m glad you’re in favour of the sheepskin rug, I’ll write for it this evening. I’ll bring the seed [deleted] catague [/deleted] catalogue with
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me when I come, & then we can discuss what we’d like & how many.
As regards the hypothetical debts to G.A.T. I don’t see why you need mention the matter at all. Let sleeping dogs lie. After all, if a firm of accountants can’t keep tabs on a simple allowance like that, they deserve to be done down. I’m sure they’d tell you if they’ve overpaid us. Do you propose to tell the Income Tax people too? After all, £200 we had as wedding present, £250 came out of your unused RAF pay. So did £90 out of our balance of £156, & the rest is the hard earned savings of your cheese-pairing wife. Why complain? Remember I earned quite a bit at the factory, with Pat Hodson
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& when letting the house last summer (£40 + £30 + £28 to be more or less exact, but don’t for heavens sake tell the Income Tax people that!)
Must go & get ready for our expedition to the fair now.
All my love to you, darling, I hope you’ll find some amusement this weekend (not necessarily with Cpt. Kealey though!)
Yours always,
[underlined] Ursula [/underlined]
Rather interesting cuttings from “Times” enclosed for your perusal
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Bike is now very satisfactory, hardly needs pumping at all! Still a new inner tube will be needed some day.
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Title
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Letter to John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Description
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Writes of recent letters and phone call. Discusses his osteoarthritis and possible future treatment, Continues with news of friends and family and mentions some items she is sending him. Writes of financial issue about his firms allowances and other matters. Concludes by saying she is off top fair and is enclosing interesting cutting from the "Times".
Date
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1945-08-25
Contributor
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Tricia Marshall
Format
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Six page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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EValentineUMValentineJRM450825-01
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Buckinghamshire
Temporal Coverage
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1945-08-25
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Ursula Valentine
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Batty, Philip
Phil Batty
P Batty
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19 Items. The collection consists of one oral history interview with Philip Batty (b. 1925). He discusses the death of his older brother Dennis early in the Second World War, his wartime service with 50 Squadron at RAF Sturgate as a wireless operator/ air gunner, and his long post war career. The collection also includes a number of group photographs of airmen after training, photographs of aircraft in southern Africa, his log book and propaganda material.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-10-14
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Batty, P
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Philip Batty's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Description
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Flying log book for navigator’s, air bomber’s, air gunner’s, flight engineer’s for Philip Batty, wireless operator, covering the period from 7 February 1944 to 31 October 1949. Detailing his flying training, post war flying and instructor duties. He was stationed at RAF Madley, RAF Staverton, RAF Dumfries, RAF Husbands Bosworth, RAF Winthorpe, RAF Sturgate, RAF Linton, RAF Weathersfield, RAF Tarrant Rushton, RAF Silverstone, RAF Heany and RAF Thornhill. Aircraft flown in were, Dominie, Anson, Proctor, Wellington, Lancaster, Halifax and C-47. He flew 4 Dodge operations to Pomigliano and Bari with 50 squadron. He also carried out paratrooper, supply drops and glider towing with 297 squadron.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
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LBattyPH220759v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
Italy
Zimbabwe
England--Essex
England--Gloucestershire
England--Herefordshire
England--Leicestershire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Northamptonshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Yorkshire
Italy--Bari
Italy--Pomigliano d'Arco
Scotland--Dumfries
Zimbabwe--Bulawayo
Zimbabwe--Gweru
Temporal Coverage
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1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1945-08-21
1945-08-25
1945-09-07
1945-09-10
1945-09-13
1945-09-15
1945-10-02
1945-10-04
1945-10-08
1945-10-10
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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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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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Mike Connock
1661 HCU
1665 HCU
297 Squadron
50 Squadron
85 OTU
97 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
C-47
Dominie
Flying Training School
Halifax
Halifax Mk 5
Halifax Mk 7
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Operation Dodge (1945)
Operational Training Unit
Proctor
RAF Dumfries
RAF Husbands Bosworth
RAF Linton on Ouse
RAF Madley
RAF Silverstone
RAF Staverton
RAF Sturgate
RAF Tarrant Rushton
RAF Weathersfield
RAF Winthorpe
training
Wellington
wireless operator