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Cole, Colin
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Colin Cole
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31 items. The collection relates to Warrant Officer Colin Cole (1924 – 2015 RAF Volunteer Reserve 1605385) who served with 617 Squadron. The collection contains two oral history interviews his, logbook, service documents, medals, memorabilia from the Tirpitz and six photographs.
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2015-07-27
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Air Training Corps lapel badge
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William Sparkes
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56 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant William "Ned" Sparkes (1601722 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book and an album with photographs, newspaper cuttings and documents including descriptions of his operations. He flew operations as a flight engineer with 431 Squadron.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Clive Sparkes and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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[underlined] Extract from 'BUT NOT IN ANGER' [/underlined]
Fate Deals a Blow 18
Shortly before 2000 hours on 20 December, 1950, Hastings TG574 of No 53 Squadron, Transport Command, prepared to take-off from El Adem, near Tobruk. The captain was Flight Lieutenant Graham Tunnadine and co-pilot, Flight Lieutenant S.L. Bennett. There were four other crew members and 27 passengers.
TG574 was returning from Singapore nearing the end of an experimental slip crew schedule. Since 1945 Transport Command's Far East route had been operated in rather leisurely fashion, the same crew flying the aircraft throughout and night-stopping at selected points. As postwar commitments increased, the Command felt obliged to abandon this uneconomic use of aircraft and revert to the wartime slip crew system, whereby the aircraft flew day and night, making only the essential refuelling and servicing halts, with fresh crews taking over at appropriate staging posts.
Early in December four crews were accordingly pre-positioned along the route, and TG574 was flown to Singapore trying out the new, fast schedule. She was now homeward bound, carrying the four experienced Hastings crews who had completed their legs of the flight – plus Squadron Leader Thomas Colin Lyall Brown, a Transport Command medical officer who was studying any aircrew fatigue problems emerging from the new timetable. Three other passengers had joined at Karachi.
After staging through Colombo, Karachi, Habbaniya and Fayid, the Hastings had made an unscheduled stop at El Adem to top up with fuel before pressing on to Castel Benito, Tripoli. At 1958 she was airborne and the passengers were mentally blessing the operations staff for having planned to complete their experiment in comfortable time before Christmas. The aircraft plodded up to 8,500ft, and they listened with experienced ears to the changing engine note as she settled down to the 185-knot cruising speed. All was well. Fully conditioned to the monotonous roar of four Hercules engines, some promptly fell asleep, a few played cards or read, while one or two watched the black and silver desert sliding past, lit by the three-quarter moon.
On the flight deck, Tunnadine, aged 28, with some 2,300 flying hours in his log book, told Bennett to get his head down for a while in the rest compartment rigged up just forward of the passenger cabin, as it would be his task fly the aircraft on from Castel Benito after refuelling. His place up front was taken by Squadron Leader William G. James, another qualified Hastings pilot.
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There was a fleeting hint of trouble 42 minutes after take-off. One of the back-seat drivers thought he noticed a vibration, possibly caused by an engine becoming unsynchronised. Moments later, while he was considering whether to pass some gently chiding note up to the flight deck, there came a sharp bang from the front of the aircraft. This was followed by a violent juddering which suggested something badly amiss. Awakened instantly, the passengers remained seated, confident that whatever the problem, the pilots would ask if they wanted any assistance. After another minute or two, which dragged by like hours, the air quartermaster appeared and requested Squadron Leader Brown to go forward, then asked one of the most experienced pilots to talk to the captain on the intercom.
On the flight deck nobody yet knew exactly what had happened. Tunnadine reported that he had lost all power from the port inner engine (No 2), and had no elevator or rudder control. Only the ailerons were working. With nothing but lateral control, the aircraft was descending and there seemed to be little he could do about it.
Meanwhile, Brown, having negotiated a sizeable gash in the floor, found Bennett still on the rest bunk, pinned to the floor beneath a pile of wreckage, barely conscious, with his right arm severed and other grievous injuries.
It did not take the crew long to establish the cause of their perilous situation. What had happened was that the propeller of No 2 engine had shed one of its blades. In flying off it had scythed through the fuselage – where part of it was still embedded in the opposite wall – cut the tail control rods as well as critically injuring Bennett. The three remaining blades, out of equilibrium, had wrenched the engine – plus part of the wing leading edge and the port undercarriage – free from its mounting to fall away to the desert a mile and a half below. The disturbed airflow over the great gash in the wing was seriously aggravating the handling difficulties.
A rapid check by Flight Sergeant Idwal Johns, the engineer, showed that there was no hope of locating and repairing the severed tail control rods. RAF Benina, near Benghazi, had acknowledged 574's May Day call, and was only 19 minutes normal flying time away, but at the present rate of descent the aircraft would hit the ground long before that. After further discussions over the intercom it was decided that the only possible way of maintaining fore and aft control was quickly adjusting the position of the load. First the baggage and small freight items were shifted
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to the rear, but this made insufficient difference, so while one of them remained in contact with the captain, the passengers themselves moved aft. Gradually the nose began to rise, though there were several over-corrections and some hasty to-ing and fro-ing before Tunnadine was able to acquire reasonably positive control of the flight attitude by adjusting the position of one or two passengers. Having established the Hastings in level flight, he was then able to begin a gradual descent, headed towards Benina, which in normal circumstances would have been overflown. Next he tried gentle turns to port and starboard, using the throttles to boost or reduce engine power as necessary to swing the aircraft in the required direction. At the first attempt the nose went up and the aircraft began to shudder, indicating that a stall was imminent, but an urgent order to move some passengers forward brought the nose down again just in time.
Rarely can any transport pilot have faced such an appalling dilemma. The easiest of the decisions – whether to make a belly landing – had already been made for him since half the undercarriage lay on the desert surface some miles behind. The only way of achieving a reasonable crash landing would be to lose height as gradually as possible, then try to raise the aircraft's nose with a burst of engines just before she touched the ground. But he had only three engines and was already fighting the asymmetric effect caused by the unbalanced power on each wing. And how long those three engines would continue to operate was debatable; they had already exceeded maximum temperature in fighting the drag caused by the damaged wing.
As the Hastings neared Benghazi the beach to the north-east, with its mile upon mile of sand gleaming whitely in the moonlight, looked particularly inviting – but Benina's station commander advised against its use because of obstructions. Tunnadine was now able to talk on his VHF radio direct to the control tower at Benina, and he told them that he had decided to use their runway. A flarepath was laid out, the military hospital at Benghazi alerted and an army fire tender despatched to help on the airfield.
TG574 arrived overhead near Benina with about 6,000ft still in hand. The flickering flames of the gooseneck flares marking the runway, and the lights of Benghazi offered some comfort, though the most difficult part was still to come. Tunnadine made several wide circuits of the airfield, gingerly descending to 1,000ft, with the passengers still acting as a human counterweight to trim the aircraft. The six escape hatches were removed, but the large parachute doors were left in position lest any sudden inrush of air should affect the flying characteristics in any way.
Brown, still tending the terribly injured co-pilot, was no novice in flying matters, having made 80 jumps while on the staff of the Parachute Training School. He fully understood the perils of the landing which lay ahead, and knew that those in the front would be poorly placed if the Hastings crashed. Nevertheless he insisted that his duty was to remain with his patient. He had injected morphia and treated the injuries as best he could, and was lying down with Bennett in his arms, providing warmth from his own body and holding together the worst wounds with his hands.
At 2149 hours the medical officers and ambulances from Benghazi reached Benina. The flarepath was complete and the crash crews, ambulances and fire tenders positioned at a point on the perimeter track near the downwind end of the runway. Benina control informed Tunnadine:
'We are all ready for you to come in to land'.
'Going out to sea to make final approach', replied Tunnadine.
'Good luck. Hope you make it'.
'I'll need a bit of luck'.
It was now 69 minutes since Hastings TG574 had been damaged. As Tunnadine brought the aircraft down from 1,000ft by throttling back his engines he began to turn through 180 degrees to line up on the flarepath. The lights of Benghazi were on his port wing-tip. His airspeed indicator showed 140 knots, the lowest speed at which he could maintain any control. Ten miles away the flares showed up against the blackness of the desert. He dare not risk using the flaps, which might produce a nose-down attitude which he would not be able to correct.
For the passengers, knowing only too well the critical nature of the next few minutes, the ordeal was one of agonising suspense. 'Any one of us would cheerfully have jumped out on the end of an umbrella had one been available' said one of them afterwards. They waited in silence, each man alone with his private thoughts. Some were still standing, ready to move as required for instant trim changes and the nightmare atmosphere was heightened by the intermittent bellowing of the engines, since violent throttle movement was necessary to adjust the aircraft's attitude during final stages of the descent. When the aircraft was within feet of the ground, the passengers still standing slid rapidly into adjacent seats and strapped themselves in. Tunnadine was desperately trying to keep the Hastings level. The ground came nearer.
'I can't see the end of the runway'.
These were his last words to the control tower. After their exhibition of such superb airmanship, it was tragic that luck should desert the crew in the final seconds.
The aircraft struck the ground about a quarter of a mile short of the runway. In front of a gently sloping hillock which had obscured the lights. The initial impact was very gentle, though inevitably the propellers ploughed into the ground and the engine nacelles began to break up. Had it not been for the slope all would have been well. This caused the Hastings to become airborne again for about 100 yards, then the starboard wing hit the ground and broke off. The aircraft rolled on to its back, slewed round in the reverse direction and slid along the rough ground for 360 yards before coming to a halt. The time was 2155.
Crash crews were on the scene within 90 seconds, though fortunately there was no fire. To their surprise they found that most of the passengers had scrambled out, having suffered little more than relatively minor cuts and abrasions. Those still inside the fuselage, dazed and shaken, were quickly helped out. The wreckage of the hideously crumpled nose section held little promise of any survivors, and the four crew members on the flight deck were killed. Despite Brown's valiant efforts, Bennett also died before he could be rushed to hospital.
Apart from its unusual features this accident has a place
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in history for another reason. There is little doubt that most of the passengers owed their survival to the fact that the Hastings were fitted with suitably stressed rearward facing seats. This was the first major crash of a large passenger aircraft equipped in this fashion.
As the network of RAF scheduled transport services expanded during the later stages of the war it became apparent that there was a percentage of accidents where, despite relatively minor damage to the fuselage, passengers were killed or badly injured when the force of the impact wrenched the seats from their fittings and hurled them forwards. In 1945 the Royal Aircraft Establishment and No 46 Group made studies which led to the decision that future RAF transport aircraft should have rearward facing seats to protect passengers in these circumstances. The Hastings and the twin engined Valetta, which both entered service in 1948 were the first types so equipped. Rather more was involved than simply turning round existing seats, since to do the job properly they had to be specially designed. Those in the Hastings were stressed to withstand forces of 20g, and also featured a high back to protect passengers' heads. Two months after the Benina accident an RAF Valetta crashed in Sweden and provided more evidence of the seats' protective value. Although developments in aircraft design and performance have altered some of the parameters which led to the adoption of rearward facing seats in 1948, the RAF has continued to fit them on the basis that in any sudden deceleration it is better for the seat to take the first stress rather than the human body.
The subsequent inquiry into the Benina accident established that metal fatique had caused the propellor blade to break. It was pure bad luck that in flying off it should have caused such a crash. The blade had an arc of 360 degrees in which to leaves [sic] its consorts. In only about 40 degrees of this arc would it have hit the aircraft, and in still fewer could it damage the controls. It was additional bad luck that after Tunnadine's brilliant performance in coaxing the crippled Hastings to the brink of safety it should have struck the small ridge which launched it back into the air for that fatal somersault.
In the [italics] London Gazette [/italics] of 18 May 1951 it was announced that Squadron Leader Brown had been awarded the George Medal. The citation briefly described the sequence of events and ended: '... There is no doubt that he (Brown) consciously risked his life in order to save that of the injured officer. He carried out his duties in accordance with the traditions of his profession without regard for his own personal safety.'
Tunnadine and his crew were awarded the King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air. But for the rigid rules restricting posthumous awards they would undoubtedly have been recommended for some higher recognition.
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[photograph]
T. G. 574 comes to rest at Benina
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CASSANDRA
JONAHS OF THE SKY
FOR about twenty-four hours sixteen gentlemen have been floating about in the blue (I hope), briny (not very) tideless (nearly), warm (I trust) Mediterranean.
They were on air-inflated rubber rafts, and some of them were quite important people.
They all belonged to the Royal Air Force and were in a Hastings aircraft that crashed in the Gulf of Sirte between Tripoli and Benghazi.
Among them was Air Commodore Morshead, who is the Chief Staff Technical Officer of Transport Command.
I suggest that if Air Commodore Morshead is not getting a little tired of being personally ditched and narrowly escaping with his life, together with those of other members of the RAF in this particular type of aircraft, he is a more patient man than he might be.
The Hastings is one of the most hapless aeroplane ever to climb into the hostile sky. Its record of peril is approached only by the Hermes – which is the civil version of the same machine.
Why these earth-attracted brutes are not grounded, I do not know.
Since 1949 the Hastings has crashed at Salisbury, Benghazi, Sicily, Ismailia,Greenland and Abingdon. It has also had many narrow squeaks that have fortunately ended in safe but breathless and blood-chilling landings. It has killed thirteen and injured many others.
The Hermes has been involved in at least nine accidents in the past two years, some of which have been fatal.
These machines, both the Hastings and the Hermes, share many odd and lethal vices among which shedding propellers – which most pilots find a handicap – has been noticeable.
How much longer do these four-[text missing]
[boxed with picture] CASSANDRA SAYS:
[italics] "Why this earth-attracted brute is not grounded, I do not know." [/boxed]
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[columns] a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h. [/columns]
[a] 8.12.50 [b] 09.05 [c] TG530 [d] F/LT Hanson [e] Passenger [f] Lyneham – Castel Benito [g] 6.50
[a] 9.12.50 [b] 04.00 [c] TG530 [d] F/Lt Hanson [e] Passenger [f] Castel Benito – Fayid [g] 5.00
[a] 9.12.50 [b] 11.55 [c] TG530 [d] F/LT Hanson [e] Passenger [f] Fayid – Habbaniya [g] 2.50 [h] 1.00
[a] 10.12.50 [b] 04.15 [c] TG530 [d] F/LT Hanson [e] Passenger [f] Habbaniya - Mauripur [g] 7.10
[a] 11.12.50 [b] 01.55 [c] TG530 [d] F/LT Hanson [e] Passenger [f] Mauripor – Megombo [g] 7.10
[a] 15.12.50 [b] 04.50 [c] TG.574 [d] F/LT Foster [e] Engineer [f] Megombo – Changi [g] 6.20 [h] 2.00
[a] 18.12.50 [b] 02.40 [c] TG.574 [d] F/LT Foster [e] Engineer [f] Changi – Megombo [g] 8.00
[a] 18.12.50 [b] 13.10 [c] TG.574 [d] F/LT Stafford [e] Passenger [f] Mecombo - Mauripor [h] 6.40
[a] 18.12.50 [b] 22.35 [c] TG.574 [d] F/LT Davenport [e] Passenger [f] Mauripor – Habbaniya [g] 2.00 [h] 5.35
[a] 19.12.50 [b] 12.15 [c] TG574 [d] F/LT Tunnadine [e] Passenger [f] Habbaniya – El Adem No 2 Eng U/S. [g] .45
[a] 20.12.50 [b] 08.45 [c] TG.574 [d] F/LT Tunnadine [e] Passenger [f] Habbaniya - El Adem [g] 5.50
[a] 20.12.50 [b] 18.00 [c] TG.574 [d] F/LT Tunnadine [e] Passenger [f] El Adem – Bennina CRASH LANDED [h] 1.50
[a] 24.12.50 [b] 08.15 [c] TG [deleted] 514 [/deleted][inserted] 526 [/inserted] [d] F/O Perrin [e] Passenger [f] Bennina - Castel Benito [g] 215
TOTAL TIME ... [g] 967.40 [h]348.35
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Fate Deals a Blow
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Extract from "But Not in Anger". Story of a Hastings of 53 Squadron on route from El Adam to Castel Benito Tripoli which shed a propeller blade which struck the fuselage injuring the co-pilot and cutting the tail control rods. Relates story of crew flying the aircraft using passengers moving up and down fuselage to raise and lower the nose. The aircraft landed short of runway at Benghazi and the crew were killed in crushed cockpit but most of the passengers survived. George Medal and King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air were awarded as result to an officer who tended the wounded co-pilot and the rest of the crew.
Top left - remainder of the extract.
Top right - photograph of the crashed Hastings upside down at Benina.
Bottom left - newspaper cutting - Jonahs of the sky. Story of a Hasting that crashed in the Gulf of Sirte leaving passengers and crew in life rafts. Comments on poor reputation of Hastings aircraft for crashes.
Bottom right - extract from Ned Sparkes's log book from 8 December 1950 to 24 December 1950 listing 13 sorties.
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Cole Christopher & Grant Roderick:
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1950-12
1950-12-20
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Libya
Libya--Banghāzī
Libya--Tripoli
North Africa
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PSparkesW17010028, PSparkesW17010029
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Tansley, Ernest Henry
E H Tansley
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2016-09-22
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Tansley, EH
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98 items. <br />The collection concerns Pilot Officer Ernest Henry Tansley (1914 - 1943, 149542 Royal Air Force). He flew operations as a pilot with 57 Squadron and was killed 2 December 1943. Collection consists of photographs, letters, memoires, biographies, accounts of operations, logbook extracts and official/personal documents.<br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Anne Doward and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br />Additional information on Ernest Tansley is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/122894/">IBCC Losses Database.</a>
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20.9.94
[underlined] Evangelical Parish of Trebbin [/underlined]
Dear Mrs. Doward,
By a roundabout route your request came to us. We understand that you wish to learn something about the shooting-down & death of your father. Our records reveal the following Entry in the burial register of Trebbin (see enclosed).
On the 6th December 1943 8 bomber soldiers (5 Anglo-Americans and 3 Canadians) were buried at St. Anne’s (?) cemetery behind the rearmost chapel. They were shot down on a bombing raid to Berlin by a German night-fighter on the 3rd December and crashed in flames on the new clubhouse of the Rifle Club (behind Ludwig’s Meadow).
The list of personnel is in the hands of the Magistrate
High Command of the German Army,
Army Records Office for War-Related
Persons & Prisoners.
Dept IU 2 Saalfeld
No. 471/7.11 1617/44
Dalton, Brown, Park, Groves, Lewis, Moad and 2 unknown.
So your father must be one of the 2 unknowns. In the cemetery register of the parish there are also entries (see enclosed) but the names have been crossed through at a later date and someone has added the following:- “Sent back home”.
Consequently your father was buried in Trebbin but at some point was taken away again. Home, in this case must mean England. Certainly there are places in your Country which undertook such re-burials and could give you information in this respect.
Kind regards from Trebbin
M. Fiedler, Pastor.
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[original letter in German]
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[burial register extract]
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[burial register extract]
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Letter to Anne Doward from Pastor M Fiedler
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Handwritten translation of original Germany reporting her request for information about the shooting down and death of her father. Writes that crew were buried on 6 December 1943 is St Anne's (?) Cemetery. They were shot down by a night fighter on 3 December. Mentions location of crash and German documentation. Her father was one of unknowns recorded and was subject to later reburial. Includes German burial records.
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M Fiedler
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1994-09-20
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eng
deu
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EFiedlerMDowardA940920
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Essex
England--Rochford
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Germany--Trebbin
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1994-09-20
1943-12-03
1943-12-06
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Steve Christian
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Pending review
crash
final resting place
killed in action
shot down
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Donaldson, David
David Donaldson
D Donaldson
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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.
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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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Officers' Mess
R.A.F. Station,
Foulsham,
Norfolk.
R.N.Z.A.F.
Brighton.
Wednesday.
Dear Winco,
Just a short note from me to say cheerio to you & very many thanks for a happy time spent at 192 under your command.
We are leaving here tomorrow for Blackpool where we are staying for a week before embarking for home. We are going on the “ANDES” I think but have not much idea of which way we are going. There are going to be 1500 N.Z.ers
[page break]
going on this liner & they hope to have everyone home around Christmas.
Chaos reigns supreme down here as you can imagine but they are muddling their way through. However seeing the powers that be learned of it all only a week ago I don't suppose they are doing too badly.
One of the lads down here from Foulsham told me of about your bar to the D.S.O. My very heartiest congratulations to you on receiving it.
[page break]
Please give my regards to Ken, adj & the rest of the crowd there.
I hope to be able to get to Derby and see my wife again before I go as I've still a few things to clear up. They gave us no notice of this boat & I have to get my brother-in-law to sell my car for me.
I must close now wishing you all the very best in the future & I'll always remember the happy months spent at 192 with all of you.
Goodbye & good luck
Yours sincerely
Trevor Hicks.
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Letter to David Donaldson
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Thank you from a former 192 Squadron member Trevor Hicks who is leaving shortly to return to New Zealand. Congratulates David on Distinguished Service Order award. Sends regards to all.
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? Hicks
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Three page handwritten letter
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eng
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EHicksDonaldsonDW[Date]-01
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal New Zealand Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Norfolk
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Frances Grundy
192 Squadron
Distinguished Service Order
RAF Foulsham
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Cluett, Albert Victor
Albert Victor Cluett
A V Cluett
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World War (1939-1945)
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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68 items. The collection concerns Leading Aircraftman Albert Victor Cluett (1209046, Royal Air Force). After training in 1941/42 as an armourer, he was posted to 50 Squadron at RAF Swinderby and then RAF Skellingthorpe. The collections consists his official Royal Air Force documents, armourer training notebooks, photographs of colleagues, aircraft and locations as well as propaganda items, books in German and Dutch and items of memorabilia.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Albert Victor Cluett's daughter Pat Brown and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2015-05-15
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Cluett, AV
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Permission granted for commercial projects
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Lancaster in flight drawing
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Front quarter view drawing of Lancaster in bank to port with clouds in the background.
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[..] West
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One b/w painting
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Artwork
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PCluettAV1568
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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IBCC Digital Archive
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arts and crafts
Lancaster
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Wilson, Reginald Charles
R C Wilson
Description
An account of the resource
166 items. The collection concerns Reginald Charles Wilson (b. 1923, 1389401 Royal Air Force) and contains his wartime log, photographs, documents and correspondence. He few operations as a navigator with 102 Squadron. He was shot down on 20 January 1944 and became a prisoner of war.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Janet Hughes and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-01-13
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Wilson, RC
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Telegram to Reg Wilson's Father
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The telegram advises that Reg is missing.
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102 Squadron
Date
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1944-01-21
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Great Britain
England--Romford
England--Essex
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
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Two printed sheets with typewritten annotations
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EOC102SqnRAFWilsonWJ440121
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1944-01-21
102 Squadron
missing in action
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Brooks, William Alfred
W A Brooks
Brooks, Chunky
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2020-01-17
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Brooks, WA
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37 items. The collection concerns William Alfred Brooks (b. 1922, 1318320 Royal Air Force). He flew operations as a bomb aimer with 10 Squadron before being shot down and becoming a prisoner of war. The collections contains photographs and correspondence and his prisoner of war log. The collection also contains a photo album of military service in Singapore.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Peter Nicol and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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R.A.F. FORM 2788 (Revised)
NOTIFICATION OF FINAL PAYMENT OF PAY AND ALLOWANCES AND AMOUNT DUE FOR WAR GRATUITY AND POST WAR CREDIT
ALL CLASSES OF RELEASE – OTHER RANKS
TO
1318320 w/o Brooks
49, The Drive
North Harrow,
Middx
Postal drafts to the value of £28: 4s. 2.d. Are enclosed in final settlement of your pay account, including leave rate of ration allowance, up to and including 3.6.46 which is the last day of your release leave (and includes pay and ration allowance for overseas service).
[paragraph deleted]
Note:- Income Tax £18/5. recovered at this Centre
Income Tax deductions in respect of your Civil Employment will be made as from your first payment of wages or salary, unless you are within the normal exemption limits.
If you propose to encash a postal draft for an amount £10 or more at a small Post Office, you are advised, in your own interest, to give the Post Office 24 hours notice before payment is required.
In addition you are entitled to a payment for War Gratuity and Post Ware Credit. The period of your Release Leave does not count for the purpose of calculating entitlement to War Gratuity, but Post War Credit is payable up to and including the last day of Release Leave. Payment will be made into a Post Office Savings Bank Account to be opened in your name, and the amount will be credited to the account on the 57th day after you leave the Dispersal Centre. A Post Office Savings Bank book will be dispatched to reach you as near to the 57th day as possible. The amount cannot be withdrawn from the Post Office before the 57th day. The book will be forwarded to the address shown above. It is therefore important that you notify any change of address prior to the receipt of this book, to the Director, Post Office Savings Bank, 25, Church Street, Manchester 4, quoting your service number, rank and name (in block letters) and the particulars of your Savings Bank Account as follows :-
Account Reference HE 81778
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Bill Brooks' RAF Form 2788, War Gratuity and Post War Credits
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Sent from the Release Centre, giving an entitlement of £94-7-6.
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Printed form with handwritten annotations
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eng
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MBrooksWA1318320-200117-050001, MBrooksWA1318320-200117-050002
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Jan Waller
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104 Personnel Dispersal Centre, RAF Hednesford
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Bird, JH. Photo Album
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2018-02-15
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Bird, JH
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The album contains images taken during his service in Italy and includes target photographs and descriptions of bombing operations.
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Award for the Best Photographs for August
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Sergeant Bird's crew award for the best photographs for August 1944. The artwork comprises a drawing of a Wellington with Bird and his crew, Boulton, Bentley, Dean and Beckett named below, set against a circular ribbon with the words: 'THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST WERE RETURNED BY THE CREW' Some laurel leaves surround the ribbon and below is written: '104 SQUADRON'. On the reverse is handwritten 'also for June & July'.
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104 Squadron
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1944-08
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1944-08
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Royal Air Force
Language
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eng
Type
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Artwork
Format
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One printed sheet
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PBirdJH18010038, PBirdJH18010039
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Andy Fitter
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104 Squadron
aircrew
arts and crafts
rivalry
Wellington
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Shaw, Stanley R
S R Shaw
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Shaw, SR
Description
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37 items. An oral history interview with Stanley Shaw (3002545 Royal Air Force) Photographs, documents and his log book. He served with a Repair and Salvage Unit and attended many crashes. He later served in North Africa and the Middle East.
The collection also contains two photograph albums; one of his RAF service and one of his time in a cycle club.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by Stanley Shaw and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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2016-01-14
2016-02-11
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Stan Shaw's Air Training Corps Membership Card
Description
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A membership card issued to Stan Shaw by the Borrowash Flight 1117 Squadron.
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1117 Squadron
Date
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1941-07-02
Format
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One double sided printed card with handwritten annotations
Language
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eng
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Text
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MShawSR3002545-160211-040001, MShawSR3002545-160211-040002
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Derby
England--Derbyshire
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IBCC Digital Archive
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115 Squadron Diamond Jubilee certificate
Description
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Certifies that Mr A J Pearce flew with 115 Squadron on the day of their Diamond Jubilee, 15 April 1978 in an Andover aircraft (XS 639).
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115 Squadron
Date
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1978-04-15
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One page printed document mounted on an album page
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eng
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Text
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PPearceAT16030041
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Royal Air Force
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1978-04-15
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
115 Squadron
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O'Hara, Herbert
Paddy O'Hara
H F O'Hara
Description
An account of the resource
59 items. The collection concerns the wartime career of Flight Sergeant Herbert Frederick O'Hara (1917 – 1968, 655736, 195482 Royal Air Force). Herbert O'Hara served on 12 Squadron at RAF Wickenby between February and May 1944. His aircraft was shot down over France in May 1944 and he evaded until he was liberated in September 1944. He was then commissioned. The collection contains service records and two logbooks, notification of him missing as well as correspondence from and photographs of French people who helped him evade. In addition there is an account of travelling across the Atlantic for flying training in Florida as well as notes from his aircrew officers course at RAF Credenhill. Finally there are a number of target and reconnaissance photographs and six paintings.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Brian O'Hara and catalogued by Nigel Huckins and IBCC staff.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-11-21
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O'Hara, HF
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No. 12 (Bomber) Squadron Reunion Dinner, 1950
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A programme and menu relating to the 1950 reunion of 12 Squadron personnel held in the Lord Raglan hotel, London.
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12 Squadron Reunion Committee
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1950-10-14
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Three page booklet
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eng
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Text
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MOHaraHF655736-161121-03
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Civilian
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Great Britain
England--London
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1950-10-14
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12 Squadron
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McDermott, Colin
C McDermott
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-11-03
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McDermott, C
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87 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Colin McDermott (1119618 Royal Air Force). He served as an air gunnery instructor and flew operations as an air gunner with 98 Squadron. Contains his log book, papers and photographs and includes issues of 'Evidence in Camera'. <br /><br />The collection also contains albums of photographs from his training at <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1696">Evanton</a> in 1943, taken during his service in <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1699">Denmark </a>and some <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1698">duplicate </a>photographs.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Bury and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[inserted] F/LT. McDermott. [/inserted]
MOVEMENT INSTRUCTION FOR VEHICLES IN CONVOY No. BLC/071
[underlined] SCHEDULED TO DEPART ON 28th APRIL 1945. [/underlined]
Convoy will move in four sections of 30 vehicles, and one further section containing all the remaining vehicles.
2. Vehicles will be numbered BLC/071, and underneath the section number, namely I, 2, 3, or 5, followed by an oblique stroke and the vehicle number of that section, such as 1/10, which would be the tenth vehicle in number one section.
3. Vehicles will finally assemble fully loaded, with all personnel aboard, not later than 05.30 hrs. Place of assembly – Evere taxi track. Convoy Commanders will be issued with nominal rolls of their vehicles, and personnel. They will also be issued with route maps. Drivers will be issued with route cards which form the enclosure to this order,
4. Section I will move off at 06.00 hrs., Section II at 06.30 hrs., Section III at 07.00 hrs., Section IV at 07.30 hrs. and Section V at 08.00 hrs.
5. The route to be followed is as under:-
Route 230 to Malines; Iderre – Gheel – Cross Roads K3484 – route 355 to Eindhoven – route 220 to Helmont – onwards to Beek – Handel – Gennep. E.T.A. 14.30 hrs.. One hour’s long halt to be taken before Gennep.
On to Bergen – Goch – Calcar and Rees. E.T.A. 16.30 (Rhine crossed here). Route 250 to Haldern – Hanningkelen, 135 miles. Bivouac the night in the vicinity of Hanningkelen. Section Commanders to arrange bivoucking [sic] details, and posting of necessary armed guards.
Depart on 29.4.45 same times as the day before, namely, first section take off 06.00 hrs., and thereafter at half-hourly intervals.
Route Borken – Gescher – Osterwick – Altenberge – Greken – Lengerich.
The O.C. Convoy is to detail a Despatch Rider to leave at 06.00 hrs. 29th April to proceed as fast as possible to Lengerich. He is then to explore the route Lengerich – Tecklenberg – Westerkapelen – Sceste – Achmer Airfield. He is then to return to Lengerich and wait for each section of the convoy. Is [sic] the route is passable he will direct each section leader to take this road. If the route should prove impassable he will direct each section leader to proceed to Osnabruck, where enquiry for continuing the route is to be made from the Traffic Control. E.T.A. at Achmer 14.30 hrs. Approx. total distance 260 miles. Speed 25 miles in two hours, observing routine instructions for convoys, namely, 20 minutes rest every two hours. Density 40 vehicles to the mile, i.e., 44 yards apart.
6. A Despatch Rider will be detailed to proceed with each section of the convoy.
7. Rations of r48-hours plus will be issued to each section, and will be in charge of the Section Commander.
[signature]
Group Captain, Commanding,
No. 139 Wing.
[underlined] DISTRIBUTION. [/underlined]
Commanding Officer,
Os.C.Nos. 98, 180, 320 Sqdns.
Os.C.Nos. 6098, 6180, 6320 S.E.s,
W/Cdr. Flying,
C.T.O.,
S.L.A.
Adjutant.
Wing Armament Officer,
S.F.C.O.
Snr. Int. Officer
Sqdn. Traffic Officers
W/Cdr. Admin.
Copy for each vehicle driver (180)
copy: Headquarters No. 2 Group.
Form 540 (3 copies)
[page break]
[duplicate page]
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Movement Instructions for Vehicles in Convoy
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Instructions for a convoy of four sections of 30 vehicles and a fifth with the remaining vehicles. It details the route and where stops will be made.
There is a second copy.
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139 Wing
Date
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1945-04-28
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One typewritten sheet
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eng
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MMcDermottC1119618-161216-14, MMcDermottC1119618-161216-13
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Royal Air Force
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Belgium--Mechelen
Germany--Osnabrück
Germany
Belgium
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
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1945-04-28
service vehicle
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Neale, Ted
E T H Neale
Description
An account of the resource
123 items. The collection concerns Edward Thomas Henry Neale (b. 1922, 1395951 Royal Air Force) who served as a navigator with 37 Squadron in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. The collection contains his training notebooks from South Africa as well as propaganda leaflets dropped by the allies in the Mediterranean theatre.
The collection also contains a photograph album, navigation logs and target photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alison Neale and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-07-31
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Neale, ETH
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Ted Neale Travel Pass
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A pass issued to Ted Neale authorising him to travel from CMF to UK.
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144 Maintenance Unit
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1945-11-02
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One typewritten sheet with handwritten annotations
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eng
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MNealeETH1395951-150731-109
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1945-11
aircrew
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Moore, Dennis
D Moore
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-05-06
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Moore, D
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37 items and two albums.
The collection concerns (1923 - 2010, 1603117, 153623 Royal Air Force) and contains his log books, documents, photographs and two albums. He flew operations as a navigator with 218 and 15 Squadrons.
Album one contains photographs of his family and his training in Canada.
Album Two contains photographs of his service in the Far East.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Terrence D Moore and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[inserted] TAKEN FROM THE SERGEANT'S MESS KITCHEN COPY WHICH WAS USED TO MARK OFF THE "EGG & BACON" MEALS.
THE ORIGINAL STILL HAS 1945 BACON FAT ON IT!
Les Brown [/inserted]
[inserted][signature][calculations][/inserted]
[underlined] S E C R E T. [/underlined] [underlined] No 15 SQUADRON. [/underlined]
Serial No 1126. [underlined] 1st Battle Order for the 9th April 1945. [/underlined]
[a] A/C No. [b] Letter. [c] Capn & 2nd Pilot. [d[ Nav & W/Op. [e] A/B & M/U Gnr. [f] R/G & F/Eng. [g] M/Under.
[a] HK.699. [b] B. [c] [deleted] W/O. Woodman. [symbol] [/deleted] [d] Sgt. Relf. [symbol] Sgt. Gennoy. [symbol] [e] F/O. Moffat. Sgt. Hammond. [symbol] [f] Sgt. Dickinson. [symbol] [deleted] F/S. Freementle. [/deleted] [symbol] [g] F/O. Houston
[a] ME.849. [b] C. [c] F/L. Lacey. [symbol] [d] F/O. Blakney. F/S. [deleted] McKee. [symbol] [/deleted] [e] F/O. Underbakke. [deleted] Sgt.Coles. [/deleted] [symbol] [f] [deleted] Sgt. [indecipherable name] [/deleted] [symbol] Sgt. [deleted] [indecipherable name] [/deleted] [symbol]
[a] HK.799. [b] D. [c] F/L. Ayres. [symbol] [d] [deleted] F/S. Risley. [/deleted] [symbol] P/O. Greene. [e] F/O. Forsyth. F/O. Chambers. [f] F/O. Girardot. [symbol] P/O. Anderson.
[a] PA.235. [b] E. [c] F/O. Burns. [symbol] [d] F/S. Dukes. [symbol] F/S. Nicholson. [symbol] [e] [deleted] F/O. [indecipherable name] [/deleted] [symbol] [deleted] F/S. Deakins. [/deleted] [symbol] [f] Sgt. Giddings. [symbol] [deleted] Sgt. Franks. [/deleted] [symbol] [inserted] F.L. [indecipherable name] [/inserted]
[a] HK.648. [b] F. [c] F/S. McLennan. [symbol] [d] F/S. Fudge. [symbol] F/S. Noble. [symbol] [e] F/S. Ellis. [symbol] Sgt. Linsell. [symbol] [f] Sgt. Willacy. [symbol] Sgt. [deleted] Clear. [/deleted] [symbol] [g] P.O. Flack.
[a] LL.806. [b] J. [c] F/S. Sievers. [symbol] [d] [deleted] F/S. Clarkstone. [/deleted] [symbol] Sgt. King. [Symbol] [e] F/O. Hunter. J.D. Sgt. Williamson(396). [symbol] [f] Sgt. Wells. [symbol] Sgt. Blankharn. [symbol]
[a] NX.561. [b] L. [c] F/L. Gray. [symbol] [d] F/L. Berry. [symbol] F/S. Metcalf. [symbol] [e] F/S. Dykstra. [symbol] Sgt. Cooper(427). [symbol] [f] Sgt. Ferguson. [symbol] Sgt. Rawson. [symbol]
[a] NG.338. [b] M. [c] F/L. Rosenhain. [symbol] [d] F/O. Overbury. P/O. Edgecombe. [e] F/O. Lane. W/O. Drought. [symbol] [f] F/O. Foster. F/O. Taylor. [symbol]
[a] PP.672. [b] N. [c] F/O. Watts. [symbol] [d] F/O. Cox. [symbol] F/S. Taylor(520) [symbol] [e] Sgt. Chapman. [symbol] Sgt. Kenny. [symbol] [f] Sgt. Doherty. [symbol] F/S. Lewis. [symbol]
[a] HK.789. [b] R. [c] F/L. Bithell. [symbol] [d] F/O. Harris. F/S. Reece. [symbol] [e] F/O. Wallace. F/O. Schanschieff. [f] Sgt. Price. [symbol] Sgt. Draper. [symbol]
[a] PP.664. [b] U. [c] [ deleted] W/O. McGrath. [symbol] [/deleted] [d] F/O. Gilbertson. F/S. Cooper(356). [symbol] [e] F/S. Howard. [symbol] Sgt. Cheyney. [symbol] [f] Sgt. Watson. [symbol] Sgt. Sharpless. [symbol]
[a] HK.619. [b] V. [c] F/O. Darlow. [symbol] [d] Sgt. Porter. [symbol] Sgt. Gabb. [symbol] [e] Sgt. Cooper(900). [symbol] Sgt. Bathgate. [symbol] [f] F/O. Cork. W/O. Lane. [symbols] [g] F/S. Palmer. [symbol]
[a] ME.844. [b] W. [c] F/L. Clayton. [symbol] [d] P/O. Graham. F/S. Brown(297) [symbol] [e] F/O. Robertson. [symbol] P/O. Hardy. [f] Sgt. Fletcher. [symbol] P/O. Raine.
[a] NF.957. [b] X. [c] F/L. Jolly. [symbol] [d] F/O. Cope. F/O. Crowther. [e] F/O. Gourley. W/O. Hall. [symbol] [f] F/S. Wyatt. [symbol] F/S. Parsons. [symbol]
[a] NO.444. [b] Y. [c] [deleted] F/L. Lewis. [/deleted] [d] [deleted] F/S. Bellis. [/deleted] [deleted] F/S. McDonald. [/deleted] [e] [deleted] F/S. Cowie. [/deleted] [symbol] [deleted] Sgt. [indecipherable letter]atts. [symbol] [/deleted] [f] [deleted] F/S. Langan. [/deleted] [symbol] [deleted] Sgt. Parry(021). [/deleted] [symbol]
[a] HK.765. [b] Z. [c] F/S. Bruce. [symbol] [d] F/S. Rolfe. [symbol] F/S. Ardley. [symbol] [e] F/S. Knott. [symbols] [deleted] F/S. [indecipherable name] [/deleted] [symbol] [f] Sgt. Chettoe. [symbol] [deleted] Sgt. [indecipherable name] (994) [/deleted] [symbol]
[a] NG.358. [b] H. [c] S/L. Percy. [symbol] [d] F/O. Moore. F/S. Evans. [symbols] [e] F/O. Butler. F/S. Bourke. [symbols] [f] F/S. Clarke(655). [symbol] P/O. Forster. [symbols]
[a] NG.364. [b] P. [c] F/L. Ostler. [symbol] [d] F/O. McCulloch. [symbol] W/O. Spratt. [symbol] [e] P/O. Bartholomew. Sgt. Hands. [symbol] [f] Sgt. Hamilton. [symbol] Sgt. O'Keefe. [symbol]
OFFICER I/C FLYING RATIONS – F/O. HUNT.
F/O. HUNT'S CREW TO REPORT TO RADAR OFFICER.
F/L. BAGENAL & CREW – DUTY CREW.
[underlined] BRIEFING TO BE NOTIFIED LATER. [/underlined] [symbols] [inserted] Williams [/inserted]
[inserted] 79 [symbol] [/inserted]
(signed) N. G. MACFARLANE.
Wing Commander,
Commanding,
No 15 Squadron.
[page break]
SEE ENTRY 9/10th April 1945
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15 Squadron Battle Order 9th April 1945
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A document with the battle order for the squadron. It lists each aircraft and each crew member for operations that night. Annotated on it is 'Taken from the Sergeant's Mess kitchen copy which was used to mark off the "Egg and Bacon" meals. The original still has 1945 bacon fat on it' and is signed 'Les Brown'.
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15 Squadron
Date
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1945-04-09
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One typed sheet
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eng
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SMooreD1603117v10019, SMooreD1603117v10020
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1945-04-09
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Babs Nichols
15 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
bomb aimer
flight engineer
mess
navigator
pilot
wireless operator
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Stone, George Bernard
G B Stone
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-10-06
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IBCC Digital Archive
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14 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer George Bernard Stone and contains an album, photographs and documents. He flew operations as an air gunner with 156 Squadron and was killed 13 August 1944. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Nigel Stone and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun SCXW27189654 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW27189654 BCX0">Additional information on George Bernard Stone</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW27189654 BCX0"> is available via the</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW27189654 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":200,"335559740":276}"> <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/227051/">IBCC Losses Database.</a></span>
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No. 156 Squadron,
Royal Air Force,
Upwood,
Huntingdonshire.
13th August, 1944.
Dear Mrs Stone
It is with deep regret that I write to confirm the sad news which you have already received regarding your husband, Pilot Officer G. B. Stone.
His aircraft was engaged in an attack on Russelsheim on the night of the 12th/13th. August 1944, but as no message was received from the aircraft after leaving this country there is little that I can add to the bare statement reporting him as “Missing”.
Your husband was a member of a most outstanding crew, and I had the fullest confidence in his abilities. I am sure that he and his companions gave a very good account of themselves under whatever circumstances prevented them from bringing their aircraft back to this country. I can only hope that they were able to make a safe landing, either by parachute or in the aircraft itself.
News of this nature however, reaches us only through the International Red Cross Committee, and normally takes up to six weeks to come through. My sympathy, and that of all members of my squadron is with you in this anxious time of waiting.
It is desired to explain that the request in the telegram notifying you of the casualty to your husband was included with the object of avoiding his chance of escape being prejudiced by undue publicity in case he was still at liberty. This is not to say that any information about him is available, but is a precaution adopted in the case of all personnel reported missing.
Mrs. G. B. Stone,
Nancyville,
Plantation Tce.,
Dawlish,
[underlined] Devon. [/underlined]
P.T.O.
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Letter to George Stone's Wife from his Squadron
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The letter confirms the news that Ivy Stone's husband is missing.
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156 Squadron
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1944-08-13
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One typewritten letter
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eng
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PStoneGB16010006
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Cambridgeshire
England--Devon
England--Dawlish
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1944-08-12
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Jan Waller
156 Squadron
missing in action
RAF Upwood
Red Cross
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Stone, George Bernard
G B Stone
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-10-06
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IBCC Digital Archive
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An account of the resource
14 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer George Bernard Stone and contains an album, photographs and documents. He flew operations as an air gunner with 156 Squadron and was killed 13 August 1944. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Nigel Stone and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br /><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun SCXW27189654 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW27189654 BCX0">Additional information on George Bernard Stone</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW27189654 BCX0"> is available via the</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW27189654 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":200,"335559740":276}"> <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/227051/">IBCC Losses Database.</a></span>
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POST OFFICE TELEGRAM
OFFICE STAMP EXETER DEVON 13 AUG 44
109 11.10 PE/T OHMS 64
PRIORITY CC MRS G B STONE NANCY VILLE PLANTATION TOE DAWLISH
REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR HUSBAND P/O GEORGE
BERNARD STONE IS MISSING AS RESULT OF AIR OPERATIONS
STOP LETTER FOLLOWS PENDING RECEIPT OF WRITTEN
NOTIFICATION FROM THE AIR MINISTRY NO INFORMATION SHOULD
BE GIVEN TO THE PRESS STOP ANY FURTHER INFORMATION
RECEIVED WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO YOU IMMEDIATELY
156 SQD RAF + 156 PE/T
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Telegram to Ivy Stone from 156 Squadron
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The telegram advises Ivy that her husband, George is missing. There is also a newspaper cutting stating an unidentified body was found beside seven identified airmen.
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156 Squadron
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1944-08-13
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One typewritten sheet and one newspaper cutting
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eng
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PStoneGB16010018
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Dawlish
England--Devon
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
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1944-08-13
156 Squadron
aircrew
killed in action
missing in action
-
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Horry, Margaret
M Horry
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Horry, MA
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20 items. An oral history interview with Margaret Horry, and her brother, Gordon Prescott's log book (1582098 Royal Air Force), documents and family photographs. She discusses her brothers' and husband's service during the war. Gordon Prescott flew operations as a wireless operator / air gunner with 12 Squadron and was lost without trace 7 January 1945. <br /><br />Additional information on Gordon Prescott is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/119000/">IBCC Losses Database.</a><br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Margaret Horry and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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2016-08-19
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Muster Roll 17th/21st Lancers Old Comrade's Reunion
Description
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A roll of those present at the Farewell dinner to the Regiment.
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17th/21st Lancers
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1930-09-20
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One double sided printed sheet
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eng
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SHorryM[Ser#-DoB]v10012-0006-0001,
SHorryM[Ser#-DoB]v10012-0006-0002,
SHorryM[Ser#-DoB]v10012-0006-0003
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British Army
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
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1930-09-20
-
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Turner, Charlie
C F Turner
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An account of the resource
26 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer Charles Turner DFM (1042292 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and photographs. He flew operations as a rear gunner with 186 Squadron.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Barbara Turner and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-08-22
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Turner, CF
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Commissioning of Air Crew Personnel
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A form filled in for P A Upson, Navigator. It details 26 operations by date, day or night, location and duration.
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186 Squadron
Date
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1945
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Two typed sheets with handwritten annotations
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eng
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MTurnerCF1042292-160822-010001,
MTurnerCF1042292-160822-010002
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany--Essen
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Homberg (Kassel)
Germany--Solingen
Germany--Bottrop
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Siegen
Germany--Trier
Germany--Rheydt
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Neuss
Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Germany--Saarbrücken
Germany--Osterfeld
Germany--Mönchengladbach
Germany
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
Germany--Heinsberg (Heinsberg)
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1945
186 Squadron
aircrew
navigator
promotion
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Turner, Charlie
C F Turner
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An account of the resource
26 items. The collection concerns Warrant Officer Charles Turner DFM (1042292 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and photographs. He flew operations as a rear gunner with 186 Squadron.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Barbara Turner and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-08-22
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Turner, CF
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OPS. GELSENKIRCHEN 5.35 DAYLIGHT
[underlined] NO. 186 SQUADRON BATTLE ORDER – 5TH MARCH1945. Serial No. 25 [/underlined]
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘C’ HK. 694
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
W/O S.F. Cooke
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/O C.D. Wale
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/O A.E. Dent
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
F/O A. Crispin
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt A. Graham
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt F.G. Victor
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt E.W. McGaw
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘E’ NG 146
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/L G.M. Templeton
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/S J. McKey
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
P/O A.J. Beaven
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
F/S W.V. Barker
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
F/S F.A. Mahoney
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt Hargreaves
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt J. Coulton
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘F’ NG. 140
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/O A.P. Gillespie
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
Sgt P. Feasy
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/S F.I. Dow
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
W/O D.C. Strickland
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt R. Whitehouse
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt S.A. Bedwell
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt E.J. Roberts
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘G’ NG. 149
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/L A.N. Marshall
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/O L.E. Jordon
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/O G. Arrand
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
W/O S.J. Spay
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
W/O L.H. Wilson
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
F/O A. Aspin
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt E.J. Roberts
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘J’ HK. 682
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/L E.L. Field DFC
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/S P.A. Upson
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/O G. Littleboy
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
F/S C.J. Morris
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt W. O’Connell
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
F/S C.F. Turner
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt Enright
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘L’ HK. 802
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/O H.S. Young
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/S D. Bone
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/S S.J. Reilly
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
F/S F. Holroyd
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
F/S R. Lambert
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt J. Green
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt N. Simpson
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘Q’ HK. 659
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/L R.A. Hanson
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/S L. Collins
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/S S.F. Mullett
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
W/O Robertson
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt S. Roger
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt R. Thomas
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt D. Say
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘S’
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/L F.H. Mason
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/S H. Coleman
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
P/O W.G. Williams
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
F/S W.S. [?]
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt D.J. [?]
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
F/S W.F. Upton
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt A. Heaslet
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘T’ HK. 794
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/O L. Idle
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/O A.A. Purkiss
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/S J.K. Snell
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
W/O M. Honor
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
[?] MacDonald
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt A.G. Philbey
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt J. Hamilton
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘U’ NG. 293
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/S P. Gray
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/S G. Merrick
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/O E. Marner
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
Sgt W. Jenkinson
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt I.W. Foster
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt E.C. Booth
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt F. Parkhouse
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘V’ RF. 126
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/L L.A. Green
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/S J. Baggott
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
W/O K.E. Pryor
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
F/S N. Robson
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt D. Furguson
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt W. Deards
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt L. Beamish
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘W’ HK. 796
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/O R. Goglier
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
F/S McKendrick
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/S R. Hawkins
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
F/S A. Scragg
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
F/S F. Boyle
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
F/S M. Gilmartin
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
W/O F.W. Lemon
[underlined] Aircraft [/underlined]
(XY) ‘Z’ HK. 606
[underlined]Pilot [/underlined]
F/O J.M. Forand
[underlined] Navigator [/underlined]
P/O E.C. Audell
[underlined] Air Bomber [/underlined]
F/S A. Cecotti
[underlined] W/O/Air[/underlined]
Sgt D. Harris
[underlined] Mid Gunner [/underlined]
Sgt J. Degay
[underlined] Rear Gunner [/underlined]
F/S W.F. Trivett
[underlined] F/Engineer [/underlined]
Sgt J.L. Butters
(XY) ‘D’ NG. 137 TO BE PREPARED AS A SPARE AIRCRAFT.
OFFICER i/c FLYING: W/C J.H. Giles DFC BRIEFING TIMES WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER.
LEADERS: F/O RICHARDSON, F/L HOLMAN DFC, F/L BAXTER, F/L BUCKLAND DFC, SGT WALLWORK, F/L MACDONALD, W/O CASEY AND S/L DODWELL.
F/O VERRY, F/O DAVEY, F/S CORKAN, SGT BARWA, SAGT WARD, SGT HASSELL, SGT BROWN are to report to the Station Radar Officer at the time of the Navigators Briefing.
N.B. Alterations to this Order may only be made with the sanction of the Squadron Commander and notification to the Squadron Adjutant.
[signature] F/L
(J. S. Walker)
Flight Lieutenant, for,
Wing Commander, Commanding,
[underlined]No. 186 Squadron[/underlined]
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Battle Order 5th March 1945
Description
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A battle order for 186 Squadron for an operation to Gelsenkirchen. It details each aircraft and all seven crew members for each aircraft.
Creator
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186 Squadron
Date
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1945-03-05
Format
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One typed sheet
Language
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eng
Type
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MTurnerCF1042292-160822-08
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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.
Temporal Coverage
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1945-03-05
Contributor
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David Bloomfield
186 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
bomb aimer
bombing
flight engineer
Lancaster
navigator
pilot
wireless operator
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Ellis, Roy
Royston Hazeldine George Ellis
R H G Ellis
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-09
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Ellis, RHG
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62 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Roy Ellis (1916 - 1943, <span>918424 Royal Air Force</span>) and contains correspondence, his decorations and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner with 199 Squadron and was killed 31 August 1943.<br /> <br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Norman Smith and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br />Additional information on Roy Ellis is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/208468/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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No. 199 Squadron,
Royal Air Force,
Lakenheath,
Suffolk.
23rd September 1943.
Dear Mrs. Ellis,
I thank you for your letter of the 20th September 1943, and in response to your request I am pleased to forward you the names and addresses of the members of your husband’s crew, which are as set out below.
The necessary instructions have been given here, for your husband’s sycle [sic] to be forwarded to you on which Air Ministry’s sanction is being obtained.
With regard to your husband’s uniform jacket and trousers, please forward same to this Unit.
Pilot – Aus. 408833 F/Sgt. Harlem A.A.
Next of kin – Father, Mr. Bertram Julius Harlem, 34 Salisbury Rd, Ross Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
Navigator – 3079475 F/Sgt. Julian W.B.
Next of kin – Wife, Mrs. Marjorie Julian, 14 Newby Terrace, Ripon, Yorkshire.
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner – Aus. 412129 F/Sgt. Gee F.E.
Next of kin – Father, Mr. Rupert Stephen Gee, Regent St, Forbes, New South Wales, Australia.
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner – 1206613 Sgt. Elphick H.
Next of kin – Wife, Mrs. Vera Maud, Margaret Elphick, 22 Daison Cres. Torquay, Devon.
Air Bomber – 988491 F/Sgt. McLaren I.N.
Next of kin – Father, Mr. William McLaren, 86 Moss Street, Keith, Banffshire, Scotland.
Rea Gunner – 408569 Warrant Officer Finlayson A.D.
Next of kin - Father, Mr. Alexander Duncan Finlayson, “Mutcharinga” Yeoong Creek, New South Wales, Australia.
[page break]
Flight Engineer – 1603576 Sgt. Smith J.T.
Next of kin – Wife, Mrs. Ellen Louise May Smith, Hill Cottage, Virley, Nr. Maldon, Essex.
Yours sincerely,
[signature] F/Lt.
for Wing Commander,
[underlined]Commanding No. 199 Squadron[/underlined]
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Title
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Letter to Mrs Roy Ellis from 199 Squadron
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The letter supplies names and addresses of Roy's crew members.
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199 Squadron
Date
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1943-09-23
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One double sided typewritten sheet
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eng
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SEllisRHG918424v10021-0001, SEllisRHG918424v10021-0002
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
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1943-09-23
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Suffolk
199 Squadron
aircrew
bomb aimer
flight engineer
killed in action
navigator
pilot
RAF Lakenheath
wireless operator / air gunner
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1507/28630/SEllisRHG918424v10009.2.jpg
d69d7cf8d4f018a5095f59ea334ae7a0
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Title
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Ellis, Roy
Royston Hazeldine George Ellis
R H G Ellis
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-09
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Ellis, RHG
Description
An account of the resource
62 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Roy Ellis (1916 - 1943, <span>918424 Royal Air Force</span>) and contains correspondence, his decorations and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner with 199 Squadron and was killed 31 August 1943.<br /> <br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Norman Smith and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br />Additional information on Roy Ellis is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/208468/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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POST OFFICE
TELEGRAM
OFFICE STAMP UPPER TOOTING SW17 31 AUG 43
WD 92 B 2.20 NR/T OHMS PRIORITY CC 55/56
PRIORITY MRS D C M ELLIS 253 BALHAM HIGH RD LONDON SW 17
REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR HUSBAND 918424 SGT
ELLIS R H G IS REPORTED MISSING AS THE RESULT OF AIR
OPERATIONS ON THE NIGHT OF 30/31 AUGUST 1943 LETTER
FOLLOWS STOP ANY FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE
COMMUNICATED TO YOU IMMEDIATELY = 199 SQUADRON +
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Telegram to Mrs Doreen Ellis
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The telegram reports Roy Ellis is missing.
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199 Squadron
Date
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1943-08-31
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One typewritten sheet
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eng
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SEllisRHG918424v10009
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--London
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
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1943-08-30
1943-08-31
199 Squadron
missing in action
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1507/28635/SEllisRHG918424v10014.2.jpg
25d7fc2ce0b9b8504c2e03f1f46b4133
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Title
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Ellis, Roy
Royston Hazeldine George Ellis
R H G Ellis
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-09
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Ellis, RHG
Description
An account of the resource
62 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Roy Ellis (1916 - 1943, <span>918424 Royal Air Force</span>) and contains correspondence, his decorations and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner with 199 Squadron and was killed 31 August 1943.<br /> <br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Norman Smith and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br />Additional information on Roy Ellis is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/208468/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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No. 199 Squadron,
Royal Air Force,
Lakenheath,
Suffolk.
7th September, 1943.
Dear Mrs. Ellis,
In reply to your letter dated 5th inst., it is confirmed that your husband was missing on the operation against München, Gladbach, on the night of 30/31st August 1943.
It is hoped that better news will be received concerning him in the near future.
Trusting the above is all the information you require.
Yours sincerely,
[signature] F/Lt,
For Wing Commander,
[underlined]Commanding, 199 Squadron. [/underlined]
Mrs. Ellis,
253 Balham High Road,
London S.W. 17.
[page break]
[underlined] CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE [/underlined]
The names of all who lose their lives or are wounded or reported missing while serving with the Royal Air Force will appear in the official casualty lists publish from time to time in the Press.
Any publication of the date, place or circumstances of a casualty, and particularly any reference to the unit concerned, might give valuable information to the enemy, and for this reason, only the name, rank and Service number are included in the official lists.
Relatives are particularly requested, in the national interest, to ensure that any notices published privately do not disclose the date, place or circumstances of the casualty, or the unit.
The press have been asked to co-operate in ensuring that no information of value to the enemy is published.
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Letter to Mrs Doreen Ellis from 199 Squadron
Description
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The letter reports that Doreen's husband is missing on an operation against Munchen. Included is a sheet with advice regarding publication of details of the circumstances of a casualty.
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199 Squadron
Date
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1943-09-07
Format
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One typewritten and one printed sheet
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eng
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Text
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SEllisRHG918424v10014
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Great Britain
England--London
England--Suffolk
Germany--Munich
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1943-09-05
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
199 Squadron
aircrew
missing in action
RAF Lakenheath
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1507/28636/SEllisRHG918424v10017.2.jpg
802a69df431901feffb357c0b7c9d862
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Title
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Ellis, Roy
Royston Hazeldine George Ellis
R H G Ellis
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-09
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Ellis, RHG
Description
An account of the resource
62 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Roy Ellis (1916 - 1943, <span>918424 Royal Air Force</span>) and contains correspondence, his decorations and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner with 199 Squadron and was killed 31 August 1943.<br /> <br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Norman Smith and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br />Additional information on Roy Ellis is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/208468/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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No. 199 Squadron,
Royal Air Force,
Lakenheath,
Suffolk.
31st August, 1943.
Dear Mrs. Ellis,
By the time you receive this letter you will have been informed that your husband, 918424 SGT Ellis, R. H. G., was reported missing as a result of air operations on the night of 30/31st August, 1943, and I am writing to extend to you my most profound sympathy in your anxiety for him.
He was the air gunner of an aircraft which took off that night on a mission against the enemy, but which failed to return, and I have heard nothing further of this aircraft or its crew since it left its base. Although I do not wish to raise your hopes unduly, there is always the chance that your husband may have escaped with his life and been taken prisoner of war, and I am hoping that some such news will come to hand in the near future. You will of course be informed if I should receive any further news.
The Royal Air Force Central Depository at Colnbrook, Slough, Bucks, to whom your husband’s personal effects are being sent will be writing to you about them in due course.
All officers and men of this Squadron with whom your husband was most popular, wish me to extend to you their most sincere sympathies, and should I be able to help you in any way, please do not hesitate to write.
Yours sincerely,
[signature]
[underlined]Wing Commander. [/underlined]
Mrs. D.C.M. Ellis,
253 Balham High Road,
[underlined]London, S.W. 17. [/underlined]
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Letter to Mrs Doreen Ellis from 199 Squadron
Description
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The letter advises Doreen that he husband is missing in action. The possibility that he husband may have escaped or taken prisoner is mentioned.
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199 Squadron
Date
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1943-08-31
Format
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One typewritten sheet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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SEllisRHG918424v10017
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Civilian
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
England--Suffolk
Rights
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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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David Bloomfield
Temporal Coverage
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1943-08-31
199 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
missing in action
prisoner of war
RAF Lakenheath
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1507/28640/SEllisRHG918424v10025.1.jpg
c92b96c0c2e5a7b4a5d8cd1b443df5b2
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Title
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Ellis, Roy
Royston Hazeldine George Ellis
R H G Ellis
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-05-09
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Ellis, RHG
Description
An account of the resource
62 items. The collection concerns Sergeant Roy Ellis (1916 - 1943, <span>918424 Royal Air Force</span>) and contains correspondence, his decorations and photographs. He flew operations as an air gunner with 199 Squadron and was killed 31 August 1943.<br /> <br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Norman Smith and catalogued by Barry Hunter.<br /><br />Additional information on Roy Ellis is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/208468/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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AIR MINISTRY
(Casualty Branch)
77 Oxford street, London W.1.
25th October, 1943.
FF. 306271/43/P.4.Kits.
[underlined] 918424 Sergeant Ellis, R. H. G. [/underlined]
Madam,
I am directed to refer to your request to forward your husband’s bicycle to your address and to enclose an indemnity form which I am to ask you kindly to complete and return.
On receipt, instructions will be given to despatch the cycle.
I am, Madam,
Your obedient Servant,
[signature]
for Director of Personal Services.
Mrs. R. H. G. Ellis,
253 Balham High Road,
London, S.W.17.
[page break]
No. 199 Squadron,
Royal Air Force,
Lakenheath.
15th October, 1943.
Dear Mrs. Ellis,
In replying to your letter of the 6th inst. I beg to inform you that I have no knowledge of your husband leaving a letter for you. There is no compulsion for aircrew to leave such correspondence for next of kin.
Any letters received by your husband prior to his being reported missing would be forwarded to Colnbrook together with his effects and with regard to any will which you mention, I regret no trace of any can be found.
I regret that up to the time of writing no information has been received of any members of your husband’s crew.
I remain,
Yours sincerely,
[signature]
[underlined] Flight Lieutenant [/underlined]
Mrs D. C. H. Ellis,
253, Balham High Road,
[underlined] London S.W.17.[/underlined]
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Two Letters to Mrs Doreen Ellis
Description
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The first letter is from the Air Ministry and is in response to a request to return her husband's bicycle.
The second letter is a reply to a request to send a last letter from her husband.
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199 Squadron
Great Britain. Air Ministry
Date
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1943-10-15
1943-10-25
Format
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Two typewritten sheets
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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Identifier
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SEllisRHG918424v10025
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--London
England--Suffolk
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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IBCC Digital Archive
Contributor
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David Bloomfield
Temporal Coverage
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1943-10-15
1945-10-25
199 Squadron
aircrew
missing in action
RAF Lakenheath
-
https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1246/16776/MNealeETH1395951-150731-096.1.jpg
9acaf92c3b098433ec6d5f9c53c08321
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Neale, Ted
E T H Neale
Description
An account of the resource
123 items. The collection concerns Edward Thomas Henry Neale (b. 1922, 1395951 Royal Air Force) who served as a navigator with 37 Squadron in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. The collection contains his training notebooks from South Africa as well as propaganda leaflets dropped by the allies in the Mediterranean theatre.
The collection also contains a photograph album, navigation logs and target photographs.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Alison Neale and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-07-31
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Neale, ETH
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[crest] 205 GROUP ROYAL AIR FORCE [crest]
Albania, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria, Syria, Iraq, Rhodes, Crete, Piraeus, Corinth, Leros, Daba, Capuzzo, Fuka, Halfaya, El Adem, Martuba, Tobruk, Benghazi, Tripoli, Mareth, Gabes, Cape Bon, Tunis
[map]
Palermo, Pantellaria, Syracuse, Messina, Salerno, Anzio, Viterbo, Guilianova, Verona, Turin, Pisa, Leghorn, Trieste, Milan, Sofia, Budapest, Steyr, Valence, Munich, Fiume, Bucharest, Ploesti, Danube
In the 1939 – 1945 World War
205 Group provided the only mobile force of heavy night bombers in the Mediterranean theatre. During the North African and Italian campaigns the Wellingtons, Halifaxes and Liberators of the Group, operating as a tactical force, attacked communications and concentrations of Rommel’s Africa Korps and of the Italian armies during their advance to the Quattara Depression, the Battle of El Alamein and during their retreat until their final capitulation in Tunisia. Without respite they operated against Kesselring’s army during the invasions of Sicily, Italy and the South of France. As a strategical force their targets – ports, airfields, marshalling yards, oil refineries and factories-ranged over the Mediterranean area and Europe. Aid was given to patriots in France, supplies and arms’ were dropped to Partizans in the Balkans and to the patriots in Warsaw. The Danube was mined persistently.
Shining courage is the epitaph of those who died.
We will remember them.
JUNE 1940 MAY 1945
[indecipherable word] A.B. Rud
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205 Group Royal Air Force
Description
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A commemorative poster with a map of Southern Europe and North Africa. Around the outside is a list of locations where operations were carried out. There is a paragraph with details of the operations.
Creator
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205 Group Royal Air Force
Format
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One printed sheet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Memoir
Identifier
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MNealeETH1395951-150731-096
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
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.
Temporal Coverage
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1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
Spatial Coverage
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Albania
Austria
Austria--Steyr
Bulgaria
Bulgaria--Sofia
Croatia
Croatia--Rijeka
Danube River
France
France--Valence (Drôme)
Germany
Germany--Munich
Greece
Greece--Corinth Canal
Greece--Crete
Greece--Piraeus
Greece--Rhodes (Island)
Hungary
Hungary--Budapest
Iraq
Italy
Italy--Anzio
Italy--Giulianova
Italy--Livorno
Italy--Messina
Italy--Milan
Italy--Palermo
Italy--Pantelleria Island
Italy--Pisa
Italy--Salerno
Italy--Syracuse
Italy--Trieste
Italy--Turin
Italy--Verona
Italy--Viterbo
Libya
Libya--Banghāzī
Libya--Martuba
Libya--Tobruk
Libya--Tripoli
North Africa
Romania
Romania--Bucharest
Romania--Ploiești
Syria
Tunisia
Tunisia--Mareth Line
Tunisia--Qābis
Tunisia--Sharīk Peninsula
Tunisia--Tunis
Egypt--Fukah
Greece--Leros (Municipality)
Contributor
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Steve Baldwin
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