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Title
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Burnside, James Gordon Bennett
J G B Burnside
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2017-11-16
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Identifier
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Burnside, JGB
Description
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44 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant James Gordon Bennett Burnside (b. 1909, 155209 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents, correspondence and photographs. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 619 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Reverend Canon Terence Alan Joyce and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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Transcription
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Officers Mess
R.A.F. Wigsley,
18-8-44.
Kay Darling,
I've done it!!
Do hope you received my wire, Am sitting in a café in Lincoln, trying to quell my Excitement. Will be staying at Wigsley for at least a fortnight then things may happen.
Please Darling let Percy have the Insurance Policy. Will do my best this weekend [indecipherable word] my love Thanks sweetheart for helping
[page break]
me, you won't regret it.
Good night & God bless.
My love
Yours always
Jim
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Title
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Letter from James Burnside to Kay
Description
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Writes that he was sitting in café in Lincoln and would remain at Wigsley for at least a fortnight. Mentions insurance policy.
Creator
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J G B Burnside
Date
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1944-08-18
Temporal Coverage
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1944-08-18
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Lincoln
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Technical aid
Text. Correspondence
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Identifier
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EBurnsideJGBBurnsideKE440818
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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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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Sue Smith
military living conditions
military service conditions
RAF Wigsley