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Title
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Boldy, David
Dave Boldy
D A Boldy
Description
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334 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant David Adrian Boldy (1918 – 1942, 923995 Royal Air Force) and consists of his school reports, letters from school and photographs of family and locations in India, letters from training and service, and photographs from his social life and time training. It also includes newspaper cuttings and letters about him being missing in action. David Boldy was born and attended school in India and studied law at Kings College London. He volunteered for the Royal Air Force and trained as an air gunner in South Africa. He flew operations in Manchesters and Lancasters with 207 Squadron from RAF Bottesford. His aircraft failed to return from an operation to Gdańsk 11 July 1942. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Boldy and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.<br /><br />Additional information on David Boldy is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/102182/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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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. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.
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Boldy, DA
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[underlined] TELE. ADDRESS: “PAULITE, DARJEELING” [/underlined]
ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL,
JALAPAHAR,
DARJEELING.
June 2nd 1928
My dear Mummy and Daddy.
I hope you are quite well and happy. Thank you for your letter. I am quite well and happy and so is Stevie. [deleted] H [/deleted] How are Dorge and Pompom getting on? We are still in quarantine. Waterson hurt his chin and had to have 2 stiches [sic] put in but they are pulled out now. Some of the boys have got beetles. The beetle season has just started. Has Dorge got any more kittens yet? We had a picnic on Thursday we had a treasure hunt and lots of nice things. We had drinks, sandwiches and heaps of other things. We had lots of fun and uncle serarb [sic] gave
[page break]
me 1 rup [deleted] p [/deleted] ee and gave Stevie 1 rup [deleted] p [/deleted] ee too. At Stevie’s party we had the gramophone. [inserted] We had [/inserted] two cakes one from aunty and one from you. We got our w[deleted] h [/deleted] atches on Thursday and we have still got them. Nothing is broken of [sic] our watches yet. I will try and keep mine for a long time. For Stevie’s birthday the boys at the party only got through 1 cake and the other cake we are having [inserted] as [/inserted] stores. We had the party in Miss Humphries room. We had drinks too [sic] for the party. With lots of love and kisses
from David.
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Description
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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.
Creator
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David Boldy
Date
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1928-06-02
Format
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Two page handwritten letter
Language
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eng
Type
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Text. Correspondence
Text
Identifier
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EBoldyDABoldyAD-LM280602
Coverage
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Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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India
India--Darjeeling
Temporal Coverage
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1928-06
Publisher
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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.
Title
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Letter from David Boldy to his parents
Contributor
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Andy Hamilton
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