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Donaldson, David
David Donaldson
D Donaldson
Description
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309 Items and a sub-collection of 51 items. Concerns Royal Air Force career of Wing Commander David Donaldson DSO and bar, DFC. A pilot, he joined the Royal Air Force Reserve in 1934. Mobilized in 1939. he undertook tours on 149, 57 and 156 and 192 Squadrons. He was photographed by Cecil Beaton at RAF Mildenhall in 1941. Collection contains a large number of letters to and from family members, friends as well as Royal Air Force personnel. Also included are personal and service documents, and his logbooks. In addition, there are photographs of family, service personnel and aircraft. After the war he became a solicitor. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Frances Grundy, his daughter.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Anna Frances Grundy and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-06-02
2022-10-17
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Donaldson, D
Grundy, AF
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[inserted] 9A [/inserted]
Royal Air Force Station
Oakley,
Worminghall,
Nr. Aylesbury,
Bucks.
[underlined] OAK/DO/EPMF [/underlined]
Dear Donaldson
Two Wimpey crews are coming over to you on the 9th of this month – F/O Stephens and F/O Mitchell. They are both Australians, with mixed crews, and both were previously earmarked for posting to India. This posting fell through and now you have got them. They both have extremely good reports, both as regards themselves as Captains and as regards the Crew as a whole, so I don't think you will have anything to grumble about. However, if they do not uphold the traditions of the 11th Operational Training Unit – [deleted] train [/deleted] [inserted] tread [/inserted] 'em in!
I have met Stephens personally, and I think you will like him.
I think I had the Group Instructors' Flight when I last met you; I am now the Deputy Chief Instructor at Oakley, which is a satellite of Westcott. Once more I am in a semi-independent position, which is the next best thing to being completely independent – and is probably as much as I can hope for at present.
I hope the work's going well, and that you are bearing up under the strain; Regards to all those who haven't been posted and to the various bods at Group.
Yours sincerely
E P Fernbank (W/Cdr.)
Wing Commander Donaldson, D.S.O., D.F.C.,
RAF STATION FOULSHAM
[underlined] Norfolk [/underlined]
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Letter to David Donaldson from E P Fernbank
Description
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Writes to inform David of two crews coming to him from training unit; Flying Officer Stephens and Flying Officer Mitchell. Catches up with news.
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E P Fernbank
Date
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1944-11-05
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eng
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EFernbankEPMDonaldsonDW441105
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Norfolk
England--Buckinghamshire
Temporal Coverage
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1944-11-05
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IBCC Digital Archive
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One-page typewritten letter
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Frances Grundy
Operational Training Unit
RAF Foulsham
RAF Oakley
training
Wellington
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Title
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Donaldson, David
David Donaldson
D Donaldson
Description
An account of the resource
309 Items and a sub-collection of 51 items. Concerns Royal Air Force career of Wing Commander David Donaldson DSO and bar, DFC. A pilot, he joined the Royal Air Force Reserve in 1934. Mobilized in 1939. he undertook tours on 149, 57 and 156 and 192 Squadrons. He was photographed by Cecil Beaton at RAF Mildenhall in 1941. Collection contains a large number of letters to and from family members, friends as well as Royal Air Force personnel. Also included are personal and service documents, and his logbooks. In addition, there are photographs of family, service personnel and aircraft. After the war he became a solicitor. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Frances Grundy, his daughter.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Anna Frances Grundy and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-06-02
2022-10-17
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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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Donaldson, D
Grundy, AF
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[inserted] 10A [/inserted]
R.A.F. Station,
Foulsham,
Nr. Dereham,
Norfolk.
Ref:- 192/C.2151/P2. 9th November 1944.
Dear
Thank you very much for your letter with details of our two new crews.
I am so glad to see that you have regained your correct rank, and hope you will be kind to us when I come to you as a Flight Commander.
There is not much news from here. Everybody sends their regards. The Station Commander has been posted and there are strong rumours that Willis is going to take his place, but we have nothing definite yet.
Yours
Wing Commander E.P.M. Fernbank, D.F.C.,
Royal Air Force Station,
Oakley,
Nr. Aylesbury,
Bucks.
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Title
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Letter from David Donaldson to Wing Commander Fernbank
Description
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Thanks him for details of two new crews. Writes of news at RAF Foulsham.
Date
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1944-11-09
Language
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eng
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EDonaldsonDWFernbankEPM441109
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Norfolk
England--Buckinghamshire
Temporal Coverage
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1944-11-09
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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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David Donaldson
Format
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One-page typewritten letter
Contributor
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Frances Grundy
RAF Foulsham
RAF Oakley