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Letter from David Boldy to his father
Letter from sergeant David Boldy to his father about life in a Royal Air Force station near Nottingham, going dancing and his first operations.
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Letter from sergeant David Boldy to his father about seeing action in day and night operations. Mentions the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst battleship. He had some leave and went out to the Trocadero with Steve and Ajan.
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Letter from sergeant David Boldy to his father about his lack of operations recently. Mentions daily life and pastimes with his crew members in Leicester. He is concerned about how close the Japanese forces are getting to his father’s location.
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Letter from sergeant David Boldy to his father about the excitement of being in action again after a long pause. He saw his Mother in London and hopes his brother Steve completes his finals soon to become a doctor. Mentions daily life and pastimes …
Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Letter from David Boldy to his parents in Decca. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to sports and pastimes. Contains a drawing.
Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Letter from David Boldy to his parents. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to test scores, the books he is reading, sports and pastimes.
Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Letter from David Boldy to his parents with general conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling.
Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Letter from David Boldy to his parents. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to food, sport and parties.
Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Letter from David Boldy to his parents. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to his brother Stevie, the books they are reading, sports and a school play.
Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Letter from David Boldy to his parents. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to schoolmates having beetles, quarantined pets, and new watches.
Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Letter from David Boldy to his parents. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to test scores, the books he is reading and wants to read, sports and pastimes.
Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Letter from David Boldy to his parents. General conversation about life at St. Paul's school in Darjeeling, with references to test scores, pets, sports and pastimes. Some lines have been added by his brother Steve.
Letter to A D Boldy
Letter from the rector of St. Paul’s School in Darjeeling to Mrs A D Boldy. He asks her to reconsider the decision to withdraw his sons David and Stephen from the school as a consequence of a recent earthquake.
Letter to Mrs A D Boldy
Letter from a member of staff of St. Paul’s School in Darjeeling to Mrs Boldy. The letter expresses regret that David and Stephen will no longer be attending the school and gives a little information of her opinion of them.
Shooting target
Capstan 25 yards shooting target, with five shots taken, scored 48/50. On reverse, 'Don't worry about me when I get in Dave'.
Dinner menu card
No. 1. Course dinner menu card, 45 Air School. 21 signatures are arranged inside, under the heading 'Please sign return to BORDERLINE BOLDY. A dried bay leaf inserted.
Danzig bombed in daylight. R.A.F.'s great exploit. Attack on submarine yards.
Clipping from an unidentified Indian newspaper regarding a Royal Air Force attack on Danzig (Gdańsk).
The roll of honour. Royal Air Force casualties
Casualties list including listing David Boldy.
Memory of an airman
Newspaper cutting containing ten lines of poetry.
They live, though they have died
Eulogy published in The People
Still they seek those vanished aircrew. Work of R.A.F investigators
Account of the investigations of the Air Ministry Casualty Branch on the the fate of those declared missed in action.
Day raid on Danzig. U-boat yards bombed. 1,700 miles through storms
Newspaper cutting from The Times about a day bombing on Danzig and Flensburg.
Manchester
The article features a photograph the nose and an annotated picture of the whole aircraft in flight. Captioedn 'David rear gunner in this this before Lancasters'.
Certificate of birth and baptism for David Boldy
Certificate of birth and baptism for David Antony Boldy, 10 September 1918 by the Armenian Holy Church at Kolkata.
Complimentary slip
Complimentary slip produced by The Air Council of the Royal Air Force. Text reads 'With the compliments of THE AIR COUNCIL who hope you will read this booklet and help them to make this splendid project a success.