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Title
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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.
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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Sept 24th 1924
Newlands
Seaford
Sussex
Daddy and Nanny,
I hope you are quite well. I am. I am still feeling a good deal homesick. Please come down in about 5 weeks. We went blackberrying today; and got [deleted] more [/deleted] the record amount. Please send on my Wembley and Totland bay photos. I am longing for the hols as I am still feeling a bit homesick. We played football on Monday and handball on tuesday [sic]. It rained so much on tuesday [sic] that we played [deleted] handf [/deleted] handball in the gym. It has been frightfully hot today. I am in the [character deleted] third class. Much love from
David
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Title
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Letter from David Donaldson to his mother and father
Description
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Mentions he is still a little homesick and asks if they can come in 5 weeks. Writes of activities at school.
Date
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1924-09-24
Format
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One page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
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Text
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Identifier
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EDonaldsonDWDonaldsonT-N240924
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Sussex
England--Seaford
Temporal Coverage
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1924-09-24
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.
Creator
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David Donaldson
Contributor
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Frances Grundy