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Title
A name given to the resource
Dorricott, Leonard William
Leonard Dorricott
Len Dorricott
L W Dorricott
Description
An account of the resource
72 items. An oral history interview with Rosemary Dorricott about her husband Flying Officer Leonard William Dorricott DFM (1923-2014, 1230753, 1230708 Royal Air Force). Leonard Dorricott was a navigator with 460 and 576 Squadrons. He flew 34 operations including Operation Manna, Dodge and Exodus. He was one of the crew who flew in Lancaster AR-G -George, now preserved in the Australian War Memorial. He was a keen amateur photographer and the collection contains his photographs, logbook and papers. It also contains A Dorricott’s First World War Diary, and photographs of Leonard Dorricott’s log book being reunited with the Lancaster at the Australian War Memorial.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosemary Dorricott and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-07
2015-11-05
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Dorricott, LW
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Flight Lieutenant Sedgewick and three crew members
Description
An account of the resource
Four airmen standing at the tail of a Lancaster. Flight Lieutenant Sedgewick is holding a parachute harness and there are two more parachutes and harnesses on the ground. Leonard Dorricott is standing second from the right. An engine trestle is in the background. On the reverse of one photograph 'Fiskerton'.
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Two b/w photographs
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PDorricottLW15090061, PDorricottLW15090062, PDorricottLW15090063
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
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1945
Is Part Of
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Dorricott, Leonard William. Folder PDorricottLW1509
576 Squadron
aircrew
Lancaster
navigator
pilot
RAF Fiskerton
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Title
A name given to the resource
Dorricott, Leonard William
Leonard Dorricott
Len Dorricott
L W Dorricott
Description
An account of the resource
72 items. An oral history interview with Rosemary Dorricott about her husband Flying Officer Leonard William Dorricott DFM (1923-2014, 1230753, 1230708 Royal Air Force). Leonard Dorricott was a navigator with 460 and 576 Squadrons. He flew 34 operations including Operation Manna, Dodge and Exodus. He was one of the crew who flew in Lancaster AR-G -George, now preserved in the Australian War Memorial. He was a keen amateur photographer and the collection contains his photographs, logbook and papers. It also contains A Dorricott’s First World War Diary, and photographs of Leonard Dorricott’s log book being reunited with the Lancaster at the Australian War Memorial.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosemary Dorricott and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-10-07
2015-11-05
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Dorricott, LW
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Title
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Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Seven airmen and mascot
Description
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Four airmen standing, two squatting and one kneeling. One with the spotted toy mascot. Behind is an aircraft. They are wearing Mae Wests and parachutes. Leonard Dorricott is standing on the left and Flight Lieutenant Strachan is standing on the right.
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Format
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One b/w photograph
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PDorricottLW15090086
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
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1945
Is Part Of
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Dorricott, Leonard William. Folder PDorricottLW1509
576 Squadron
African heritage
air gunner
aircrew
bomb aimer
flight engineer
navigator
pilot
superstition
wireless operator
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Title
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Dorricott, Leonard William
Leonard Dorricott
Len Dorricott
L W Dorricott
Description
An account of the resource
72 items. An oral history interview with Rosemary Dorricott about her husband Flying Officer Leonard William Dorricott DFM (1923-2014, 1230753, 1230708 Royal Air Force). Leonard Dorricott was a navigator with 460 and 576 Squadrons. He flew 34 operations including Operation Manna, Dodge and Exodus. He was one of the crew who flew in Lancaster AR-G -George, now preserved in the Australian War Memorial. He was a keen amateur photographer and the collection contains his photographs, logbook and papers. It also contains A Dorricott’s First World War Diary, and photographs of Leonard Dorricott’s log book being reunited with the Lancaster at the Australian War Memorial.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosemary Dorricott and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-10-07
2015-11-05
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Dorricott, LW
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Title
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Flight Lieutenant Sedgewick and three crew members
Description
An account of the resource
Four airmen standing at the tail of a Lancaster. One man is holding a parachute harness and there is another parachute and harness on the ground.
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Format
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One b/w photograph
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PDorricottLW15090085,
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Language
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eng
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
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1945
Is Part Of
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Dorricott, Leonard William. Folder PDorricottLW1509
576 Squadron
aircrew
Lancaster
navigator
pilot
RAF Fiskerton
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Title
A name given to the resource
Dorricott, Leonard William
Leonard Dorricott
Len Dorricott
L W Dorricott
Description
An account of the resource
72 items. An oral history interview with Rosemary Dorricott about her husband Flying Officer Leonard William Dorricott DFM (1923-2014, 1230753, 1230708 Royal Air Force). Leonard Dorricott was a navigator with 460 and 576 Squadrons. He flew 34 operations including Operation Manna, Dodge and Exodus. He was one of the crew who flew in Lancaster AR-G -George, now preserved in the Australian War Memorial. He was a keen amateur photographer and the collection contains his photographs, logbook and papers. It also contains A Dorricott’s First World War Diary, and photographs of Leonard Dorricott’s log book being reunited with the Lancaster at the Australian War Memorial.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosemary Dorricott and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-10-07
2015-11-05
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Dorricott, LW
Access Rights
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Permission granted for commercial projects
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Title
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Three airmen and mascot
Description
An account of the resource
A sergeant kneeling holding a toy leopard mascot. Behind him are two airmen and further behind an aircraft. They are wearing Mae Wests and parachutes. Leonard Dorricott is standing on the left.
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Format
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One b/w photograph
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PDorricottLW15090078
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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Date
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1945
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1945
Is Part Of
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Dorricott, Leonard William. Folder PDorricottLW1509
576 Squadron
aircrew
navigator
superstition
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Dorricott, Leonard William
Leonard Dorricott
Len Dorricott
L W Dorricott
Description
An account of the resource
72 items. An oral history interview with Rosemary Dorricott about her husband Flying Officer Leonard William Dorricott DFM (1923-2014, 1230753, 1230708 Royal Air Force). Leonard Dorricott was a navigator with 460 and 576 Squadrons. He flew 34 operations including Operation Manna, Dodge and Exodus. He was one of the crew who flew in Lancaster AR-G -George, now preserved in the Australian War Memorial. He was a keen amateur photographer and the collection contains his photographs, logbook and papers. It also contains A Dorricott’s First World War Diary, and photographs of Leonard Dorricott’s log book being reunited with the Lancaster at the Australian War Memorial.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosemary Dorricott and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-10-07
2015-11-05
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Identifier
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Dorricott, LW
Access Rights
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Permission granted for commercial projects
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Title
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Flight Lieutenant Sedgewick and three crew members
Description
An account of the resource
Four airmen standing at the tail of a Lancaster. Flight Lieutenant Sedgewick is holding a parachute harness and there are two more parachutes and harnesses on the ground. Leonard Dorricott is standing second from the right. An engine trestle is in the background. On the reverse 'Sedgewick + Crew, Dorricott'.
Format
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One b/w photograph
Language
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eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Photograph
Identifier
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PDorricottLW15090056,
PDorricottLW15090057
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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.
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1945
Is Part Of
A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Dorricott, Leonard William. Folder PDorricottLW1509
576 Squadron
aircrew
Lancaster
navigator
pilot
RAF Fiskerton
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Dorricott, Leonard William
Leonard Dorricott
Len Dorricott
L W Dorricott
Description
An account of the resource
72 items. An oral history interview with Rosemary Dorricott about her husband Flying Officer Leonard William Dorricott DFM (1923-2014, 1230753, 1230708 Royal Air Force). Leonard Dorricott was a navigator with 460 and 576 Squadrons. He flew 34 operations including Operation Manna, Dodge and Exodus. He was one of the crew who flew in Lancaster AR-G -George, now preserved in the Australian War Memorial. He was a keen amateur photographer and the collection contains his photographs, logbook and papers. It also contains A Dorricott’s First World War Diary, and photographs of Leonard Dorricott’s log book being reunited with the Lancaster at the Australian War Memorial.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosemary Dorricott and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2015-10-07
2015-11-05
Rights
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Identifier
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Dorricott, LW
Access Rights
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Permission granted for commercial projects
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Title
A name given to the resource
Leonard Dorricott's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Description
An account of the resource
Royal Canadian Air Force observer's and air gunner's flying log book for Sergeant Leonard Dorricott from 27 November 1942 to 21 January 1946. Detailing training schedule, instructional duties and operations flown. Trained in Miami, Florida and served at RAF Bobbington (aka RAF Halfpenny Green), RAF Whitchurch (aka RAF Tilstock), RAF Lindholme, RAF Breighton, RAF Bottesford, RAF Swinderby, RAF Binbrook and RAF Fiskerton. Aircraft flown were Anson, Commodore, Oxford, Harrow, Whitley, Halifax and Lancaster. He carried out a total of 32 operations on two tours with 460 and 576 Squadrons as a navigator on the following targets in Germany and Italy: Berlin, Bochum, Cologne, Cuxhaven, Dortmund, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Lutzkendorf, Mulheim, Mönchengladbach, Munich, Nordhausen, Nuremberg, Oberhausen, Plauen, Stuttgart, Turin and Wuppertal. His pilots on operations were Flight Lieutenant Henderson, Flight Lieutenant Strachan, Flying Officer Crofts and Flight Lieutenant Halnan. The operations are annotated and the log book includes maps and newspaper cuttings. It also includes Operation Manna, Exodus, Dodge and Cooks tours.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Text. Log book and record book
Identifier
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LDorricottLW1230753v1
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1943-04-27
1943-04-28
1943-04-30
1943-05-01
1943-05-04
1943-05-05
1943-05-12
1943-05-13
1943-05-14
1943-05-23
1943-05-24
1943-06-11
1943-06-12
1943-06-13
1943-06-14
1943-06-15
1943-06-16
1943-06-17
1943-06-21
1943-06-22
1943-06-23
1943-06-24
1943-06-25
1943-06-26
1943-06-28
1943-06-29
1943-07-09
1943-07-10
1943-07-12
1943-07-13
1943-07-29
1943-07-30
1943-08-02
1943-08-03
1943-08-07
1943-08-08
1943-08-10
1943-08-11
1943-08-22
1943-08-23
1943-08-24
1943-08-27
1943-08-28
1943-08-30
1943-08-31
1943-09-01
1943-09-06
1943-09-07
1943-09-29
1943-10-02
1943-10-03
1943-10-07
1943-10-18
1945-04-03
1945-04-04
1945-04-05
1945-04-10
1945-04-11
1945-04-14
1945-05-02
1945-05-04
1945-05-11
1945-06-18
1945-07-09
1945-08-16
1945-08-20
1945-10-01
1945-10-10
1945-10-25
1945-10-26
1945-11-20
1945-11-26
1945-11-30
1945-12-08
1946-01-04
1946-01-14
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
United States
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
England--Leicestershire
England--Lincolnshire
England--Shropshire
England--Staffordshire
England--Yorkshire
Florida--Miami
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Bochum
Germany--Cologne
Germany--Cuxhaven
Germany--Dortmund
Germany--Duisburg
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Gelsenkirchen
Germany--Hamburg
Germany--Krefeld
Germany--Leverkusen
Germany--Mönchengladbach
Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr
Germany--Munich
Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)
Germany--Plauen
Germany--Stuttgart
Germany--Wettin
Germany--Wuppertal
Italy--Turin
Italy--Po River Valley
Florida
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
1656 HCU
1660 HCU
1668 HCU
460 Squadron
576 Squadron
61 Squadron
81 OTU
Advanced Flying Unit
Air Observers School
aircrew
Anson
bombing
bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943)
Commodore
Cook’s tour
Halifax
Harrow
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Lancaster Mk 1
Lancaster Mk 3
mine laying
navigator
Operation Dodge (1945)
Operation Exodus (1945)
Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945)
Operational Training Unit
Oxford
RAF Binbrook
RAF Bottesford
RAF Breighton
RAF Fiskerton
RAF Halfpenny Green
RAF Lindholme
RAF Sturgate
RAF Swinderby
RAF Tilstock
RAF Waddington
training
Whitley
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Title
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Dorricott, Leonard William
Leonard Dorricott
Len Dorricott
L W Dorricott
Description
An account of the resource
72 items. An oral history interview with Rosemary Dorricott about her husband Flying Officer Leonard William Dorricott DFM (1923-2014, 1230753, 1230708 Royal Air Force). Leonard Dorricott was a navigator with 460 and 576 Squadrons. He flew 34 operations including Operation Manna, Dodge and Exodus. He was one of the crew who flew in Lancaster AR-G -George, now preserved in the Australian War Memorial. He was a keen amateur photographer and the collection contains his photographs, logbook and papers. It also contains A Dorricott’s First World War Diary, and photographs of Leonard Dorricott’s log book being reunited with the Lancaster at the Australian War Memorial.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosemary Dorricott and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-10-07
2015-11-05
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Dorricott, LW
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Title
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Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Description
An account of the resource
Seven airmen in two rows. The front row is kneeling and four men at the back are standing. They are dressed in lifejackets and parachutes. Leonard Dorricott is first on the left. One man is kneeling and holding a spotted toy leopard. The pilot, Billy Strachan, is standing far right. On the reverse is 'F/L Strachan' and 'Dorricott'.
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One b/w photograph
Language
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eng
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PDorricottLW1505, PDorricottLW1506
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
Temporal Coverage
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1945
Date
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1945
Type
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Photograph
576 Squadron
African heritage
air gunner
aircrew
animal
bomb aimer
flight engineer
Lancaster
navigator
pilot
superstition
wireless operator
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Dorricott, Leonard William
Leonard Dorricott
Len Dorricott
L W Dorricott
Description
An account of the resource
72 items. An oral history interview with Rosemary Dorricott about her husband Flying Officer Leonard William Dorricott DFM (1923-2014, 1230753, 1230708 Royal Air Force). Leonard Dorricott was a navigator with 460 and 576 Squadrons. He flew 34 operations including Operation Manna, Dodge and Exodus. He was one of the crew who flew in Lancaster AR-G -George, now preserved in the Australian War Memorial. He was a keen amateur photographer and the collection contains his photographs, logbook and papers. It also contains A Dorricott’s First World War Diary, and photographs of Leonard Dorricott’s log book being reunited with the Lancaster at the Australian War Memorial.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Rosemary Dorricott and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-07
2015-11-05
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Dorricott, LW
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Title
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Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Description
An account of the resource
Seven airmen standing in front of a Lancaster. They are wearing lifejackets and parachutes. One man is holding a toy leopard. Leonard Dorricott is second left. On the reverse of one photograph 'April 1945 Taffy Morgan Bomb Aimer LWD Nav Bill Lund WOP ? Mid Upper Ed Travell? Bill Strachan Pilot ? Rear Gunner ? Flight Engineer Note chalk marks on S/I engine RR594 UL/T 576 Sqdn Dorricott'.
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Two identical b/w photographs
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PDorricottLW1504, PDorricottLW15090076, PDorricottLW15090077
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Date
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1945-04
Language
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eng
Temporal Coverage
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1945-04
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
576 Squadron
African heritage
air gunner
aircrew
bomb aimer
flight engineer
Lancaster
navigator
pilot
superstition
wireless operator
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Title
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Briggs, Roy
R Briggs
Description
An account of the resource
24 items. One oral history interview with Roy Briggs (1893726 Royal Air Force), his logbook, service material, training material, official documents and 12 photographs. Roy Briggs trained as a wireless operator and flew four operations with 576 Squadron from RAF Fiskerton. He also took took part in Operation Manna and Operation Exodus as well as Cook’s tours over Germany.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Roy Briggs and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2016-01-28
Identifier
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Briggs, R
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Title
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Roy Briggs' flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Format
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One booklet
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Log book and record book
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LBriggsR1893726v1
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
Atlantic Ocean--North Sea
England--Cambridgeshire
England--Herefordshire
England--Nottinghamshire
England--Shropshire
England--Staffordshire
England--Suffolk
Germany--Bremen
Germany--Cuxhaven
Germany--Helgoland
Germany--Plauen
Netherlands--Delft
Netherlands--Rotterdam
Netherlands--Valkenburg (South Holland)
Wales--Gwynedd
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1942
1943
1944
1945
1945-04-10
1945-04-11
1945-04-14
1945-04-15
1945-04-18
1945-04-22
1945-04-29
1945-04-30
1945-05-01
1945-05-02
1945-05-03
1945-05-07
1945-05-16
1945-06-05
1945-06-30
1945-07-04
1945-08-15
1945-08-17
1945-08-26
1945-08-28
1945-09-13
1945-09-15
1945-10-01
1945-10-03
1945-11-07
1945-11-09
1945-11-23
1945-11-24
1945-11-26
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Conforms To
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Pending review
Description
An account of the resource
Navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers flying log book for Roy Briggs. The log book covers the period 30 December 1942 to 17 March 1947. Roy Briggs trained as a wireless operator in Great Britain. He flew four night time and daylight bombing operations and six operation Manna supply drops in April and May 1945 with 576 Squadron from RAF Fiskerton. His targets were Bremen, Cuxhaven, Heligoland and Plauen. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Roberts. Aircraft flown were Anson, Dominie, Lancaster, Proctor, Stirling and Wellington. He also took part in Cook's tours and the repatriation of troops from Italy as part of Operation Dodge.
138 Squadron
156 Squadron
1660 HCU
30 OTU
35 Squadron
576 Squadron
Advanced Flying Unit
aircrew
Anson
bombing
bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945)
Cook’s tour
Dominie
Heavy Conversion Unit
Lancaster
Operation Dodge (1945)
Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945)
Operational Training Unit
Proctor
RAF Balderton
RAF Bridgnorth
RAF Bruntingthorpe
RAF Catterick
RAF Cranwell
RAF Fiskerton
RAF Graveley
RAF Hixon
RAF Llandwrog
RAF Madley
RAF Seighford
RAF Swinderby
RAF Tuddenham
RAF Upwood
RAF Warboys
RAF Wyton
RAF Yatesbury
Stirling
training
Wellington
wireless operator
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Title
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Jaques, Reg
Reg Jaques
Charles R Jaques
Charles Jaques
C R Jaques
C Jaques
Description
An account of the resource
17 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Charles Reginald Jaques (1913-1943, 136865 Royal Air Force) and contains a letter, his history, personnel document, items concerning his wedding, the names of the his crew's next of kin, condolence letter and nine photographs. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Susan Carol Doreen Chapman about her father, Charles Reginald Jaques. Reg Jaques was a navigator flying in Lancasters with 103 Squadron, RAF Elsham Wolds in 1943. He was killed along with his crew in a collision with another Lancaster on 16 December 1943. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Susan Chapman and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on Reg Jaques is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/112003/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2015-10-05
2017-10-14
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Jaques, CR
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[underlined] NEXT OF KIN CREW LANCASTER J.B. 670 “Q” – 16th. DECEMBER, 1943. [/underlined]
CAPTAIN
1271609 F/S. RICHTER, VALENTINE
Born 15-2-1921
O.D.
Mr. J.H. Richter, (Father)
32, Pretoria Road,
Chingford,
London.E.4.
[dividing line]
1804993 Sgt. COPPING, FREDERICK STANLEY
(FLIGHT ENGINNER)
Born 20-9-1922
C. of E.
Mr. F.H. Copping, (Father)
Ideal Cafe,
486, Forest Road,
Walthamstow,
London.E.17.
[dividing line]
136865 F/O. CHARLES REGINALD JAQUES.
(NAVIGATOR)
Born 25-3-1913
Meth.
Mrs. G.B. Jaques, (Wife)
2, Aydmore Road,
Gnosall. Staffs.
[dividing line]
Aus/413390 F/S. KAY, THOMAS LESLIE HOBSON
(AIR BOMBER)
Born 22-10-1915
C. of E.
Mr. A. Kay, (Father)
Cowli-shaw Street,
Redhead,
N.S.W. Australia.
also informed
Mrs. Ellison, (Cousin)
78, Broadsheath Terrace,
Southwick,
Sunderland.
[dividing line]
1579993 Sgt. COOPMAN, PETER
(W.T./A.G.)
Born 1-2-1922
Cong.
S/O. E.J. Coopman, (Wife)
Officers’ Mess,
Wellesbourne,
Mountford,
Warwick.
[dividing line]
1602397 Sgt. PLAMPTON, CYRIL WALTER
(AIR GUNNER)
Born 8-3-1911
C. of E.
Mrs. K.D. Plampton, (Wife)
145, Blackborne Road,
Dagenham.
Essex.
[dividing line]
980286 Sgt. FURIE, FRANK ANDREW
(AIR GUNNER)
Born 15-1-1919
R.C.
Mrs. H. Furie, (Wife)
75, Newlands Street,
Coatbridge,
Lanarkshire.
(attached from No. 576 Squadron).
[dividing line]
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Next of kin Lancaster JB670 'Q' - 16 December 1943
Description
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Details of names and next of kin with addresses of the crew of Lancaster JB670 including Charles Reginald Jaques.
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
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OJaquesCR136865-151005-06
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Temporal Coverage
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1943-12-16
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Andy Hamilton
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One-page typewritten document
103 Squadron
576 Squadron
air gunner
aircrew
bomb aimer
flight engineer
killed in action
Lancaster
navigator
pilot
wireless operator
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Jaques, Reg
Reg Jaques
Charles R Jaques
Charles Jaques
C R Jaques
C Jaques
Description
An account of the resource
17 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Charles Reginald Jaques (1913-1943, 136865 Royal Air Force) and contains a letter, his history, personnel document, items concerning his wedding, the names of the his crew's next of kin, condolence letter and nine photographs. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Susan Carol Doreen Chapman about her father, Charles Reginald Jaques. Reg Jaques was a navigator flying in Lancasters with 103 Squadron, RAF Elsham Wolds in 1943. He was killed along with his crew in a collision with another Lancaster on 16 December 1943. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Susan Chapman and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on Reg Jaques is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/112003/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-10-05
2017-10-14
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Jaques, CR
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Charles Reginald Jaques
24th March 1913-16th December 1943
Born: Coundon, Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
Married: Gwendoline Betty Stokes 1st January 1941 at Gnosall Staffs.
Occupation: Chief financial officer, Newport (Shropshire) Local Authority (a reserved occupation)
Service WW11
1941
August 5th 1941 date of enlistment. Official number 1577665 Aircraftsman second class
August 6th 1941 Service commenced "for the duration of the current emergency"
Unit Birmingham Training Reserve
August 6th 1941 Recommended for training as Pilot/Observer 26 Air Crew School (statement says "not to be employed other than as pilot or Observer without reference to Air Ministry (M.7)”
November 3rd 1941 transferred to 1ACRC (Air Crew School)
December 18th 1941 graduated as a Sergeant. RAF NPO 106 Ontario
December 31st 1941 Rank noted as AC2 (Aircraftsman Second Class). Very good character and trade as Aircraftsman/Observer
1942
January 7th 1942 No 1 RAF Station Moncton New Brunswick
January 17th 1942 transferred to 3 ITW (initial Training Wing)
24th February 1942 transferred to Canada
Moncton New Brunswick, Ontario, Niagara Falls photograph (Pilot Officer)
Home on the Queen Mary used as a troop ship (Auntie Adge)
April 1st 1942 transferred to 1EAOS (Air Observer School) rank Observer
April 29th 1942 photograph Eastbourne. No 1 E.O.A.S (Air Observer School)
December 12th 1942 rank LAC (Leading Aircraftsman) . Very good character rank U/t/Observer
December 17th 1942 Para. 652(14) discharged on appointment to a temporary commission.
[page break]
Total service 1 year 135 days.
Total Qualifying service 1 year 47 days
December 18th 1942 31 A.N.S (Air Navigation School) unit on appointment ? sergeant
1943
30th March 1943 Granted a commission for the emergency RAFVR (Royal Air Force volunteer Reserve)
2nd April Kingstown Carlisle Pilot Officer. ground instrument training, map reading in Tiger Moths, "due for 1st flight today"
30th April 1943 Flying Officer with effect from 15th June 1943
May 25th 1943 ???? Navigator training No 10(0) AFU (Advanced Flying Unit)
June 4th 1943 Aircrew (Navigator) NO 30 OTU (Operational Training Unit)
June 30th 1943 Dumfries/Harrogate. Flying hours 35 days and 11 nights
8th July 1943 letter Mum to Auntie Edna, Reg stationed 14 miles away? Seighford or Hixon. "using his bike to get home"
????"? date No 30 OUT(Operational Training Unit}
September 6th 1943 New crew. He says has changed stations from Hixon to its satellite of Seighford 3 miles from Gnosall
September 14th 1943 No 1662 CU 1 Group Flying (Navigator)
September 15th to report to Lindholm Doncaster a conversion unit for Halifax and Lancaster
8th October 1943 -3rd November 1943 RAF Blyton undertaking ground studies
3rd November 1943 RAF Blyton
November 12th 1943 No 103 Squadron Navigator Operational Flying
November?? RAF Elsham Wolds
December 15th 1943 letter written to Auntie Edna. He had been shopping in Scunthorpe for Christmas present for Maureen, Val and Pauline. Parcels at PO. Due for leave 22nd December.
December 16th Lancaster JB670 took off at 16.37 hours for Berlin. Collide with Lancaster LM332 576 Squadron over Ulceby. He, Flight Sergeant Richter and Sergeant Plampton were attached to 103 Squadron from 576 Squadron. Told scratch crew as Flu in the camp
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December 23rd buried with the crews of both planes at Cambridge City cemetery (RAF Regional cemetery) Mum (Betty Stubbins),Widow, Auntie Adge(Marion Slater) sister in law, Uncle Jack(Jaques) Auntie Vera(Waters) Auntie Edna(Wilson), siblings, attended
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Details from family, letters and photographs and diary of John(Jack) Jaques
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Reg Jaques biography
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Account of wartime service of Charles Reginald Jaques who joined the Royal Air Force in 1941 despite being in a reserved occupation. Includes training as a navigator in Canada and Great Britain, his commission, posting to 103 Squadron at Royal Air Force Elsham Wold and his death when his Lancaster JB670 collided with another Lancaster LM332 from 576 Squadron over Ulceby on 16 December 1943.
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Peter Bradbury
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24 items. One oral history interview with Roy Briggs (1893726 Royal Air Force), his logbook, service material, training material, official documents and 12 photographs. Roy Briggs trained as a wireless operator and flew four operations with 576 Squadron from RAF Fiskerton. He also took took part in Operation Manna and Operation Exodus as well as Cook’s tours over Germany.
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12 airmen waving off a Lancaster
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A group of 12 airmen waving off Lancaster U. They have their backs to the camera. On the reverse 'F/O Roberts F/S Pidding F/S Smale F/S Briggs F/S Rosario. Sgt Bewon Sgt Davies being waved off by members of 576 Sqdn when taking off on 1000 bomber raid on Heligoland on the 18th April 1945 Bomb load was one 4000 lb and 12 1000 lb'.
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Heath, Richard Gerald
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One oral history interview with Richard Gerald "Dick" Heath (1925 - 2022, 1853649 Royal Air Force).
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HH: Ok. So today is Monday the 6th of February 2017.
RH: Right.
HH: And I’m sitting, chatting with Dick Heath and I’m Heather Hughes for the International Bomber Command Centre. And we are talking about Dick’s involvement in Bomber Command. Thank you Dick for agreeing to do this interview with us.
RH: It’s very nice of you to have come along.
HH: Now Dick I wonder if you could talk just a little about where you were born and brought up.
RH: Well, I’m sorry.
HH: Don’t you worry.
RH: I was born in Southsea, Hampshire in 1925. 7th of October 1925. And later I went to a naval school. The Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Suffolk which was an Admiralty School and I was really destined to go in the navy. My father was navy and the family has been like that. And I was always interested in flying. The strange thing being that while I was at the naval school I won a first prize book which you chose the title that you want and then it was bound in the black school colours and so on and so on. And I chose, “The World’s Aeroplanes and Airships,” at the naval school. That was about 1936 I think. And, and the other one was, “Sports and Hobbyists for Boys.” Now, in 1941 the Air Training Corps was formed and I immediately joined and I think I was number sixteen. So that was 1941. And I was in it until 1944 which was a year later than [pause] I’ll explain, than I would have wanted. And I was a flight sergeant in the Air Training Corps. However, I applied to join the RAF in 1943 when I was eighteen and I went to Cambridge where one undertook tests and all that. And I was accepted for PNB — pilot, navigator, bomb aimer training and was given a service number and then one went home and waited to be called. Well I waited and waited and waited and nothing happened and nothing happened. And I was an apprentice boat builder at the shipyard in Littlehampton at the time and my sister worked in the office. And she disclosed to my mother that the firm had, the yard had put in for deferred service for me to prevent me going. So that, they were building motor torpedo boats and they considered that was more important etcetera. Which I obviously wasn’t very happy about. And we were several months into, that was 19, we were in to 1944 and so I applied to train for air gunner because one heard there was a shortage and we were young. We were young. We were all keen, you know. Shortly after that I was called for training which would have been as air gunner. So I’d forsaken PNB. And so I was, I then went in July 1944 and went to, found myself at Bridgnorth, Shropshire which was the, you know where everybody goes when they first go in. Square bashing and so on but having been in the Air Training Corps and a naval school before that I found it all pretty easy. And, but then instead of, as one thought would have gone to Air Gunnery School I found myself at Fiskerton. RAF Fiskerton. That was 576 Squadron.
[pause for machinery noise outside]
RH: Yes. Working in a bomb dump. We wore a white flash in our forage caps which denoted that we were aircrew cadets. But so I was a few months there but I’ve lost track and I haven’t got any records here. So I, but then eventually I went off. I was posted to Castle Kennedy. RAF Castle Kennedy, Scotland. Which was an Air Gunnery School. And there’s, do you want to stop for this —
HH: You carry on. So you were at Fiskerton and then you went up to Scotland.
RH: That’s right. That was the actual Air Gunnery School. The real start of things. And we trained on Ansons which had Bristol turrets.
HH: Yes.
RH: Single Bristol turret which one has memories of that in that one, the warning by the gunnery instructors were if you had a stoppage in firing and you had a long hook to clear the stoppage not to put your head to the side under pressure because there’s a lever. You went like that. It turned the gun itself independently of the turret and it would crush your head.
HH: Head.
RH: Like an egg shell as they told us. We never tried to prove it. And which completed the course, became a sergeant air gunner and the brevet and stripes. And so then we think right we’re now off to OTU and crewing up and this sort of thing. Instead, of which, in our case, my case, we get re – coursed on to Wellingtons. They’re going to try to see if Wellingtons would be suitable for flying out of this small place. And for the future I suppose. So, we do the whole course completely again on Wellingtons. So that’s even more time gone and so that’s that. We must be now, we’re definitely at the end of ’44. Maybe in to ’45. Yes. Definitely because a group of us as gunners, it was just gunners because the other aircrew were training in Canada. We flew over to Canada. No, we didn’t. We went by sea. That’s right. On the Athlone Castle.
HH: Was that in ‘45?
RH: That’s right. A troop ship. And that definitely dates it because while we were at sea the end of the war came, VE day. And they had the BBC on the tannoy system throughout the ship. With all the crowds in London and the cheering and everything else. And we were on a dry ship. There was nothing [laughs] No drink allowed. So we get over to Halifax and then we cross right across. I think it took five days or five nights on the train to Vancouver side. And we went to Abercorn and Boundary Bay which was, I think it was number 5 OTU and we, we are now on Liberators. That was all quite interesting. The war, Jap war was still on so when we were flying over the Atlantic, over the Pacific we were instructed to look out for Jap submarines. And also for pyrotechnic balloons which, the Japs used to set up with pyrotechnics. The plan was they would drift inland and when they landed they would set fire to the forest. We never saw one. And we didn’t see a Jap sub. And those were really good times. I took part in sports and athletics. I won, I won a very nice angling bag which I had for years back in England, you know. Until it wore itself out.
HH: And what did you win that for?
RH: That, I think that was either the mile or half mile. They used to give prizes like that in those days. And I, well then the atom bombs were dropped in August. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And I think about, perhaps a month after that, I haven’t got the records, we came back to England. Trained right across again. And this time we were on a ship which had been a brand new ship before. The Louis Pasteur. A French ship. Still as a troop ship. But these pipe cots, you know when you turn on one shoulder and you hit the one that’s above.
HH: Yes.
RH: So we’re back to England and I went on to various RAF stations which I can’t remember. I was trying to remember this morning and made a list and didn’t do too well but I finished up at Waddington at 61 Squadron on Lancasters. And —
HH: So that, by now, is the fourth aeroplane you’ve been in.
RH: I, well I —
HH: So it’s Ansons, Wellingtons, Liberators.
RH: That’s right.
HH: And Lancasters.
RH: Yes. And then they eventually became Lincolns. Still at Waddington. We’d did a con-course on to Lincolns which was very interesting because it was a sort of upgraded Lancaster really. And it had a cannon gun, mid-upper turret. 20 millimetre cannon guns. And I was lucky enough to be that mid-upper.
HH: Mid-upper gunner.
RH: Whereas previously in the Lancaster I’d been in the tail.
HH: Tail end Charlie.
RH: Yes. Yes. And how [pause] what else can I tell you?
HH: So how long were you in Waddington then?
RH: ‘Til the end of the war. No. That was long past.
HH: After the war.
RH: Yes. Until I was demobbed in July 1947.
HH: So were you at Waddington quite a long time then?
RH: Yes. I was there quite a while. I can’t remember the exact dates but I, I was known as a footballer and a funny thing happened there. Now, I’m at Lincoln station, railway station on the way to go to Waddington and I’m having a cup of tea at the cafe there and a RAF driver in uniform came around shouting for Flight Sergeant Heath which is me, you see. So I let him know I was there and he said, ‘I’ve come to pick you up,’ he said [laughs] ‘You’re playing for Waddington this afternoon.’ You know, so that’s the little things that have come back to my memory. And of course I always used to have the boots with me but they were in my kitbag so that was lucky.
HH: And was it a good match?
RH: I can’t remember. I can’t even remember if we won or lost.
HH: But you did ok.
RH: But I do remember. Yes. And, you know, I played and when I was, I was on an aerodrome near [pause] I can’t again, I was just trying to remember it this morning but there was a town called Welford. And their team, local team was Welford Sports. And I played. There were two other ex-RAF. Well no. They were RAF at the time. Professionals. And I played for them and we won the East Anglia Cup. It was a huge cup. I’m sure it was bigger than the FA cup. The first time they’ve ever won. And I doubt if they’ve won anything since.
HH: Good.
RH: So, and I was away. Oh I was in, I was in the Bomber Command Boxing Team.
HH: Were you?
RH: Welterweight. And one of the things — we flew in our own aircraft to Bad Heelsum in Germany to fight against the BAFO team. And — but the only thing about that was that there had been a big party the night before and anyway I was overweight when it came to the weigh in. And so I fought in the catch-weight I think they called it. I fought against someone anyway. I know I won anyway. So —
HH: Well done. Did you get another trophy for that?
RH: I don’t know. See that’s where the memory goes. Because I can’t remember whether as the team whether we beat BAFO or not. I think we did win but that doesn’t come. But the thing I do remember it was a, we had a West Indian, not necessarily straight from the West Indies but in England. He was a featherweight. Percy Lewis. And when he came out of the air force he became the British featherweight champion. Professional. And another one was Mick McManus. He was a W/O Gunner. Warrant officer. And he was the middle weight. And I used to spar with him because a welter is faster than a [pause] that was often the way. So I knew him pretty well but after, after he was out of the air force we think it was him but it may not have been. There was a professional wrestler Mick McManus and he looked just, just like this fellow but I’ve never ever been able to, I’ve never bothered to try and find out whether it was him because he was a very, quite a personality on TV. And he put on a lot of weight. He looked a lot heavier than he was at St [unclear]
HH: Which you have to do for wrestling.
RH: Yes.
HH: Was Percy Lewis in Bomber Command as well?
RH: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah because it was a Bomber Command team.
HH: Team. Ok.
RH: So he must have been. I think he was an LAC. And amongst my bits of paper I’ve got the, a programme for that fight in Germany. And it’s terrible paper where printing was done or not. Pre-used paper and this sort of thing.
HH: There was still a shortage of paper wasn’t there?
RH: Yes. But it’s got all our names there. Yeah.
HH: And so after you were demobbed what, what did you do then?
RH: Well, of course I went back to the boatyard. To the shipyard to finish my apprenticeship because I’d broken it in fact. To leave. So when I went back cap in hand to say, you know, ‘I’ve come. I want my job back.’ He was quite a chap actually, the manager, Tom Ashton. And he said, ‘I knew you were in,’ he said, ‘But I thought you were staying in.’ I said, ‘No. No. It’s just that it takes time I said. Youngest in. Last out. That sort of thing.’ You see. And so he said, ‘Yeah, well,’ he said, ‘You won’t get the rate you know. You’ll have to carry on as if it was before.’ Well of course I was only eighteen then. Now I’m twenty one or more. So what happened then? Oh I’ll tell you a funny, a funny thing. You went past, I had to go to the main office you see. So you passed through the outer door and then through another one and into the big, big one. And as I said my sister actually worked in the office but she hadn’t. She’d left long, long before then. She took up nursing. So I had the interview and he said, ‘Right. You can start on Monday.’ I said, ‘Right. Ok,’ you know. ‘Thanks very much.’ So I go through and I pass through you see. And I’m just going out the last door when the senior, Joan Huggins, she was, the senior lady that ran the, ran the main officer there. Because she’d heard him say, ‘And no buggering about.’ So what I used to get up to with as an apprentice before he hadn’t forgotten [laughs] and so she said the same thing again. So I finished my apprenticeship and I stayed on at the yard for a while and then I left and set up on my own in partnership with another fellow, a Scot who had actually come down. He’d been in the Royal Navy during the war. We got on very well and he, he was of independent means. So you might say the money side was more from him and the skills thing —
HH: Skills.
RH: From me. But he was put with me at the yard because he’s pitched up in a small yacht. He’d sailed it down up the east coast. Came into Littlehampton and said he’d like to take up boat building and they weren’t going to turn him down. They said yes but typical agai, ‘We won’t be able to pay you the rate you know.’ You don’t [laughs] and so we, we were building speedboats. Commercial ones that run off the pier at places at Brighton, Eastbourne and that sort of thing.
HH: Yes.
RH: And we built a yacht, a five tonner.
HH: Wow.
RH: A man came to us the one day and said, well he’d been Hillyards. Hillyards is the other yard in Littlehampton. They were famous for yachts. Sailing type yachts. Whereas Osborne’s, where I went, they were famous for power boats. They’d built torpedo boats during the war and so on. So this fella came along. He went to Hillyards because his father had had a boat built there between the wars and he wanted one built by Hillyards and they said. ‘Well, we’re very, very sorry, we’re full. We can’t possibly do it. But there are two young chaps down the river. They might take it on.’ Which we did. We already got doing another boat but we weren’t turning anything away. So we were trying to build the, burning the midnight oil. And so that was that. Now, when we’d finished this yacht which, the bigger one which wasn’t for him in fact. It was a smaller one but this bigger one the owner wanted it delivered by sail to Chichester harbour. And the night before we were going to take it this man Gilbert Howe, he’d been a senior person in the Overseas Civil Service in Northern Rhodesia. Well he said could he come along as well on this?
HH: To deliver this yacht.
RH: On this yacht. So we said yeah, fine but again at the last moment he came, he said, ‘Look I’ve got a man. He was a cadet with me in the year dot. Could he come too?’ So yes it was a big enough yacht so we were all there. We spent, or I did the whole time chatting about football and sports and so on because this chap who had been a cadet, I might think of his name in a moment. He finished up sir somebody. He was the last Governor General of Nyasaland. A heck of a nice chap. And he was, at the time, he was a Commissioner of Native Development in Northern Rhodesia.
HH: Goodness.
RH: So about three years after this the same Gilbert Howe came and actually saw me, and he said ‘Do you remember me telling you about this fellow?’ Sir Glyn Jones. That was it. He said, ‘I’ve had a letter from him he’s interested, he wants to know if whether you’d be interested in coming out to Northern Rhodesia and setting up a boat building school?’ You see where luck comes in as we were saying?
HH: Fantastic.
RH: Yeah. And so I said, ‘Yes. Ok,’ you know. In fact I remember I went and had a chat with my dad and I said look there’s this offer. I think it was three hundred and fifty pounds a year. Which was, of course, not very much. So my dad said well, ‘If you fancy it,’ he said, ‘Say yes,’ he said, ‘But you want a thousand,’ [laughs] typical of dad. So tongue in cheek I did and they fitted me in to the rates at that which put a lot of people’s noses out of joint when I got out there because they were in other fields on the technical side. So there we are. I’m then in Northern Rhodesia.
HH: Whereabouts?
RH: I was up on Lake Mweru which is up in the north. If you visualise Lake Tanganyikya, the southern end, and then down a bit from that there’s another large lake about a hundred miles by forty. And the bream there were teeming. So —
HH: And who did you teach to build boats?
RH: The Africans. The local Africans. Those who were already carpenters. Mainly taught in mission schools so they were good but they now what I’m going to do is teach them how to build boats in wood which is what I did. And I was there until Lake Kariba was going to be, but it was still being built.
HH: Gosh.
RH: And forming. And I was, I went and built another school there. A similar one. Only this was larger in that it took in the wives of the boat builders themselves and fishermen.
HH: Gosh.
RH: You know. Because it was too teach them how to fish as well. You know they were very primitive. If I —
Other: Tell her how it improved the industry because they had been fishing just from these little dugouts.
RH: Oh yes that’s right.
Other: And with these little boats that Dick taught them to build.
RH: That’s right.
Other: They could get bigger catches and then they set up this ice plant and they could freeze the fish and it benefitted them all around.
HH: So, yeah, it helped sort of industrial development.
RH: Yes, that’s right.
HH: Yeah.
RH: That is exactly.
HH: And. Yeah. And livelihoods so they could make more living out of it.
RH: Now, this was Glyn. Sir Glyn Jones. He wasn’t sir then but Glyn Jones who was the Commissioner for Native Development was the one who thought of the idea. It was a good idea and it worked.
HH: Especially with all those large sheets of water in those territories.
RH: Yes. Well not only. When I was there I was also covering Lake Bangweulu which is where Livingstone died. That area. The Kafue Flats. The Kafue River which was later dammed. The southern end of Lake Tanganyika.
HH: Gosh.
RH: Now, what I did, I taught these that take them individually. Once they were trained I had funds from the government to set them up in a boat building place. Most of them it was just wooden poles with a thatched roof as a shed. But that’s what I started with on Lake Mweru anyway, myself . So they knew what to do and I arranged that all the suitable tools could be brought out from the UK for them, including pit saws. You know these are the big saws where you saw the trees, the logs. We did that as well. So they sawed the planks.
HH: So in order to build your boats you first had to cut down the tree.
RH: Yes. That’s right. You know. And then pin them. Put them in layers with boards across so the air gets through. And that’s beautiful timber in Africa. Beautiful timber. And I experimented with different ones to find which were the most suitable for steaming.
HH: To shape.
RH: You know, for making ribs. I don’t know I can think much more about.
Other: Do you remember about the pits that you had to dig for the sawing of the planks, and you have, was it the underdog, Dick?
RH: Oh yes.
Other: The underdog or the top dog. And the underdog of course gets all the sawdust in his eyes but they had to do right from scratch from the tree.
RH: You see there are –
HH: Amazing.
Other: Do the planks and then build the boats.
HH: Wonderful really.
RH: Well you see this is — the yard where I learned. Served my time. They were still doing that so I was lucky to see that. A lot of yards you don’t do everything but where I served my time you did everything right the way through to finish boats with the joiner work and —
HH: It must have been very satisfying to see the boat completed.
RH: Yes. It really, really was. Yes. And I’ve been the man, the boy at the bottom with the saws so —
HH: Yeah. So were most of those rowing boats or sailing boats or what kinds of boats were you building?
RH: Well, first of all I was building doreys. The same thing as the grand banks doreys, the thing, and you had to row them. Well we can make very nice oars and if you’re there they keep perfect time and row and so on. As soon as you turn your back they lift them up in the air and they use them as paddles because they’ve, they’ve had a thousand years of paddling behind them you see. So I thought well this is a waste of time but the thing to do is to improve a better dugout canoe. So there’s an Irish boats called a currach. Now, these currachs were built with steamed timbers in but they were covered with cow hide and so on and so on and then tarred. But the shape was like a rocker. Like a banana almost.
HH: Yeah.
RH: Because where they rowed out with these long sweeps from the western Irish shore they had the Atlantic swell.
HH: Yeah.
RH: So I thought that might be the thing. So I built one experimentally in wood. Planked. Clinker built, you know, where the planks lap. And of course I haven’t got any photographs here of this but anyway it was successful so I set — they were twenty three feet long and when fibreglass came along later I built, made moulds and so on and we did them in fibreglass and do you know they’re being to this day in Southern Rhodesia.
HH: Amazing.
RH: Well it’s now Zimbabwe. In Bulawayo. And when we were over on holiday this one time we were down the Kariba on the Zimbabwe side and blow me there was one of these boats just as if I’d built it myself. All these years after.
HH: Amazing. Well that’s testimony to your boatbuilding.
RH: But it’s amazing isn’t it? I was absolutely amazed. And well that’s probably enough about that.
HH: How long were you there for?
RH: Fifteen years.
HH: Fifteen years.
RH: Yes.
HH: And did you miss the UK?
RH: No. I didn’t really. And my wife, Mary she loved Africa. She didn’t want to leave. But the children’s education. That became a thought. The schools were going downhill fast. And the same with the medicine side of things. Hospitals and that. Because looking for independence, so on, they had all this help from the Eastern Bloc. Czechoslovakia and so on. They were getting all these jobs instead of them being British. Well, you know, their, their English speaking was pretty awful. And the teachers. They were also coming from the Eastern Bloc. So I decided we’d have to leave. Well, the choice was either one went to, down south as the saying was but that meant that they would have to learn Afrikaans which I didn’t think was fair. So the decision was to come back to the UK.
HH: And where did you settle?
RH: Back where I’d been all the time really. Littlehampton. West Sussex area. Rustington. Where I’ve still got a home there.
HH: And you carried on building boats.
RH: No. I’ll tell you what happened there. I was very undecided what to do. I had an offer of a job doing a similar thing in Malawi. And while this was going on my wife had a lump in the breast and so on so we couldn’t possibly go. And so I then thought again. All sorts of sort of silly things like running a village post office and [pause] and anyway a friend who’d been a fisheries officer in, and who I knew quite well. He used to come and stay at our house on Lake Mweru. He was a fisheries officer as I said. Now when he was on leave in the UK he always sort of made his number as the saying was at the ministry which I never did. When I came over on leave I didn’t go anywhere near. So that’s the admin side of it. No point. Anyway he, when independence came in northern Rhodesia became Zambia he was actually on leave in the UK. So he wrote and said, ‘Do you want me to come back?’ and of course they were dead keen to take over all the jobs. They said, ‘No don’t.’ You know. ‘You can stay. It’s arranged.’ And they’d arranged that he’d got his compensation thing and all this you see and, in fact I think about three months afterwards he told me they wanted him back. They wanted to cancel it but he’d already got the money in the bank and in no way was he coming back. However, he, so he got a job with the [pause] what was his title? The how can that leave me? The White Fish Authority. It was a quango.
HH: Oh yeah. Yeah.
RH: Set up in London — with a headquarters in London. Chancery Lane. And he’s in the lift one day when the chief marine surveyor came in and they knew each other and he said, ‘How are you getting on?’ ‘Fine.’ Oh, he said. ‘I’ve got a hell of a thing on,’ he said. He said, ‘My surveyor was on the Isle of Wight and he’s had a heart attack,’ he said, ‘And I’ve got to get somebody,’ sort of thing. So, Jim Salisbury it was, he said, ‘I might be able to tell you the very man. I know he’s on leave in the UK at the moment.’ Which was me. So, to cut a long story short I had the interview and I then employed by the White Fish Authority as a surveyor.
HH: A surveyor.
RH: For the south of England.
HH: Gosh.
RH: Yes. It covered a big area but it suited me fine. Like a one man band. From oh where was it? Up the east coast. The name’s left me now but it’s just [pause] I’ll think of it in a minute.
HH: Sort of Essex way. Essex way.
RH: North of it. Yes. In Suffolk. Up as far.
HH: Oh ok. Suffolk way. Ok. Yes.
RH: Yes and right the way down and around the Kent and down to Lyme Regis in the west.
HH: That’s a long way.
RH: Yes.
HH: A large area.
RH: And to operate from home although I used to go up once a week up to the office in London which in time they closed that down and made the headquarters in Edinburgh because there was already a big set up there.
[background chat]
RH: Yes. So —
HH: So how long were you with the White Bait Authority?
RH: I was there from [pause] I think it was 1970 to ’82.
HH: Gosh.
RH: Yes. That’s right I was.
HH: Twelve years.
RH: Twelve years. And very interesting. And if somebody else was on leave, a surveyor for instance up in Fleetwood then I’d quite often go up and take his place for a fortnight. So I got to know these other places as well.
HH: Interesting.
RH: And the chief marine surveyor was Joe Sinclair. He was Scots with a name like that. And he had been doing a similar type of thing as me in Northern Rhodesia in Nigeria.
HH: Ok.
RH: He was older than me. I should think by about ten years. Which means he’s probably dead now. And so he, he knew, you know somebody who’s worked in the colonies you have to do everything. And that was a very interesting job.
HH: And how did you find your way back to South Africa then?
RH: Oh [pause] well Pam, my wife now, now there’s this little town of about a dozen families was called Kawumba. When we first went out my wife Mary and the kids were actually in Kawumba. Were given a house. But from the moment she got there she wanted to come down to the lake. Well there’d never been any European white woman there before. So they were dubious about this. However, it was agreed and she moved down and in fact she, she ran [pause] like a clinic for [Marone House?] For the local Africans. Including the ones that I was teaching to build.
HH: Gosh.
RH: Because we built kimberley brick houses for them all. That was all part of the job. I’ve forgotten what you actually asked me. Oh how did we got back. That’s right. Now, this young couple, the Devonish which is this Pam and her husband George, they became great friends of ours. They had just been married and that was the first thing that they —
HH: So that’s when you first became friends.
RH: Yes. That’s right. And we’ve known each other. Pam and my wife Mary have always they corresponded over the years and always kept in touch. And then George died of cancer and she took on this caring work in England which paid very well. And she used to call on us. Visit us and so on. And then so we were always in touch and then in 2005 Mary, my wife, died. And so the funny thing that comes in but the [pause] I’m trying to think of the name, there was a, what was it called. South African, well it was to do with South African airways anyway. And they had a magazine and there was a competition. You had to work out where the plane would be if it was flying at such and such a time and such a speed. You had to say where the plane was at a certain time. Something like that anyway. Well, anyway I won this prize for air tickets to South Africa.
HH: Do you think your time with Bomber Command had anything to do with that?
RH: I don’t know. I think, I think, I’ll tell you what it does do. It gives you confidence.
HH: So you won this prize.
RH: Yeah. Which was an air flight.
HH: To come to South Africa.
RH: Yes.
HH: Ok.
RH: So that’s really did that because Pam said, ‘Why don’t you come out and visit?’ Well I did and I came out regularly then. You know, once a year. And it was, I mean I’d retired by that time. I’d retired in 1994. That’s right. So I had time on my hands and [pause] and then eventually we married. In [pause] when was it? 2011. Yes.
HH: Brilliant.
RH: Yes. So its six years this February.
HH: And do you still commute back and forth to the UK?
RH: Yes.
HH: Between the UK and here.
RH: Yes. Yeah. Each year we go.
HH: Lovely.
RH: And so we spend this last time we were in the UK for six months which was actually too long but it was to fit in with various things and of course the family there they all live relatively near. My actual, my daughter, the youngest one she built on the plot of land alongside, I got planning permission for it years, years ago. Ostensibly I wanted to build a bungalow on it which would have suited my wife Mary who had not too well for quite a long time. But in their wisdom the powers that be, the planning lot said no, it’s not in keeping with the area. But I still put in planning for a house. And so eventually I said to Susannah, I said, ‘Well I’ve decided I’m going to sell the plot because it’s pointless. I keep paying every two or three years. I have to pay to get it renewed the planning permission.’ And she said, ‘Would you let me have it?’ You know. So she and her partner they, they built— he was in the, or is in the building trade and they built a very nice house.
HH: Lovely.
RH: And she’s right next door so she keeps an eye on my house.
HH: That’s so convenient.
RH: That’s right. And she looks after the mail and —
HH: Great.
RH: It’s worked out marvellously. A lot of luck I’ve had in life.
HH: Well you’ve also worked hard for it.
RH: Yes. And yet I never ever honestly really ever thought of it as hard work. I’ve always loved boats and it started so young. Going to a naval school. Holbrook, up on the Stour there. Now, we used to use, row admiralty whalers and all the, all the teachers, the teachers were university men. And all the naval side were all they’d all be pensioned. They’d be pensioned naval petty officers and chief petty officers for the nautical side. So that was a good grounding.
HH: And, and it just seems so strange given that background that you ended up doing your wartime service in the air rather than on the sea.
RH: Yeah. Well there again you see first off to thinking my dad would be pleased and my mother I suppose. I went for the Fleet Air Arm first. And I went to London quite different to when it was the RAF one and we went to Cambridge which I think was a couple of days. There one went up the one day to London and there was this great long table with all this gold braid chaps behind. I’m not joking. I can be quite cynical about this. And there was one chap who was a flying man with the wing on his sleeve, you know. Pilot. And the others I wouldn’t have thought had much link with flying at all. And bear in mind that I was in the Air Training Corps and I know I was a sergeant at that time when I went up and there was one other fellow also. Also and we went in uniform. Air Training Corps uniform which is like the RAF uniform or fairly close. And he was the same and do you know we were chatting. All these other boys, we all went to, they all went to grammar school at the very least. And every single one of them was accepted for pilot training and this one other chap and myself, and we’d been to a naval school, were only offered W/op AG. And I was so disgusted you know. I said, ‘Sorry, I’m not interested.’ They said, ‘Well, we’ll give you a half an hour to sit down and think about it.’ Well, I knew I didn’t need it so when I went back in I said, ‘No. I’m sorry.’ And I went straight around to the RAF recruiting centre and that was that.
HH: That was how it happened.
RH: And then, and then I was offered PNB. You can’t have better than that.
HH: No.
RH: But I never had the luck of the one thing I’ve regretted that If things had gone through as they should have done I would have, well I could have been anything. I could have been a pilot, a navigator, bomb aimer, or I could have been an a/g. I mean on ops. But I never did so I’ve regretted that.
HH: Do you think that, how did your time in in Bomber Command, do you think, shaped your life? I mean the skills that you learned there. Or were you quite happy to get back to boat building.
RH: Oh. I see. Yes. Yeah. I was quite happy to, to do that. I mean as an a/g there was no future. And as we know a bit further on there were rockets and goodness knows what. I mean gunners became redundant. Pretty well almost by the time I left. We couldn’t have been all that much longer after that when I think they would disappear. I did read. I was amazed. I saw a book in the window of a shop in Rustington one day and it was of a Lincoln bomber. And I didn’t buy it but I went in and I browsed through it only to find, I was amazed it was actually used in the Mau Mau thing.
HH: Gosh. I didn’t know that.
RH: No. Well, I didn’t you see. Obviously I thought if I’d have stayed in I might well have been there but it would have been small sort of thing to. So you could say, somebody else might say, ‘Well, you were blooming lucky. If you’d have gone through you may have been dead by now.’
HH: Possibly. Quite possibly.
RH: Law of averages. I would have been too.
HH: Now you said you had joined the Bomber Command Association.
RH: Yes. Yeah. I [pause] I can show my tattered membership card. Because I had to apply for another one and I kept the other one.
[pause]
RH: And I used to be a member of the 61 Squadron but I gave that up. Perhaps about two years ago because —
[pause]
There’s too many of these.
[pause]
HH: Is that your membership? There you go.
[pause]
RH: Yeah. It’s a bit tattered isn’t it?
HH: Bomber Command Association. RAF Museum Hendon membership card.
RH: And I know I’ve got, oh yes I said I phoned and asked for a new one.
HH: And did they give you another one?
RH: And that came and it said renew on the 1st of May in fact. Well of course it doesn’t need renewing. In fact.
HH: No.
RH: Because it’s life membership.
HH: Yeah. There you are. Bomber Command Association. There you are. Brilliant.
RH: Well that took some finding. I put it where it was easiest to see.
HH: I’m sorry if you had to empty your whole wallet out.
RH: And I looked it last. Well, I don’t know if what I’ve told is of any real interest?
HH: It is Dick and thank you so much for giving this interview. So, I’m going, we’ll stop it here and just by saying thank you very much for all the time you’ve spent. And when I get back I will make sure that you get a copy of this.
RH: Oh yes. Yes.
HH: So you’ll have a copy of the interview yourself for, for your records.
RH: Oh well that’s very nice.
HH: So thank you very much.
RH: Thank you well it’s such a coincidence with you coming out to do another
HH: Yeah. Yes.
RH: One of those sad things except it’s worked out ok.
HH: It has.
RH: Yes. You know. It’s amazing the small world again. That we should meet up.
HH: Yes. It is indeed and I’m delighted that there was that coincidence. You see it’s luck again.
RH: Yes.
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Dick Heath was an apprentice boat builder and joined the Royal Air Force in 1943. He began training as an air gunner but was posted to RAF Fiskerton working in the bomb dump. He was on his way to Canada by ship when the war in Europe ended. After he was demobbed Dick returned to boat building in the UK before transferring his skills to Africa.
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Canada
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1944
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17 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Charles Reginald Jaques (1913-1943, 136865 Royal Air Force) and contains a letter, his history, personnel document, items concerning his wedding, the names of the his crew's next of kin, condolence letter and nine photographs. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Susan Carol Doreen Chapman about her father, Charles Reginald Jaques. Reg Jaques was a navigator flying in Lancasters with 103 Squadron, RAF Elsham Wolds in 1943. He was killed along with his crew in a collision with another Lancaster on 16 December 1943. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Susan Chapman and catalogued by Nigel Huckins. <br /><br />Additional information on Reg Jaques is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/112003/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.
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PL: Hello. My name is Pam Locker and I’m here at the home of Mrs Susan Carol Doreen Chapman nee Jaques.
PL: On the 14th of October 2017. And can I just start Sue by saying an enormous thank you on behalf of the Bomber Command Digital Archive for offering us your story. And I understand that you’re going to read a narrative that you’ve put together about everything that has happened. So, when you’re ready.
SC: Ok.
PL: If you’d like to start.
SC: Thank you. My mother related the story of how one day she heard me tell someone that I had been a lucky girl as I had had two daddies. This is their and my stories from memories — mostly from family and friends of those who knew and loved them. My name is Susan Chapman nee Jaques. I was born at the Mary Rodham Nursing Home in Newport, Shropshire on the 15th of November 1943. My mother was Gwendolyn Betty Jaques, known as Teg to her family and Betty to everyone else, nee Stokes. And my father was Charles Reginald Jaques, known as Reg. He was born on the 25th of March 1913 and brought up in Leeholme, County Durham one of six, and the second boy. He had one brother. Another died in infancy and his four sisters. Their father was a builder. Their mother died young and Reg’s elder sister brought up the family. He left school at aged fourteen or fifteen and went to work in the offices of the local coal mine but educating himself, I am told, by using the streetlight to read. He had an aptitude for maths and also played the violin. He moved to work as chief financial officer in the local authority offices of Newport in Shropshire — living in digs with a couple who I’m told thought the world of him. It was while working here that he and my mother met. She was born on the 1st of January 1920 being christened Gwendolyn Betty. She was brought up in Heath House, Gnosall, Staffordshire where her father was a builder and joiner. Along with her only sister, who has provided me with a lot of this family history, she attended Stafford Girl’s High School, travelling by train every day. She also had an aptitude for music and played the piano to such a high standard that she won a prize at the Eisteddfod in Wales. Latterly, at school she played for the daily assemblies. She left school aged fifteen years of age and initially went to work in the offices of Stafford Laundry and then to Barclays Bank in Newport. The consensus seems to be that they literally met in the street as both worked close to one another. The distance from Newport from Gnosall is approximately seven miles and my aunt recalls that Reg walked her home after work one Saturday morning, he pushing his bike. They got engaged around the time of Dunkirk. That would be May 1940. Her engagement ring is an art deco design. On this happy occasion for them my aunt was not left out and they gave her a brooch as her present which she has recently given to me. I’ve just found this out and I’m very pleased to have this as another keepsake. My aunt says this act is another indication of how thoughtful and nice Reg was as a person. Comments that have been made to me over the years from people who knew him or of him fully endorse this. They married on the 1st of January 1941. Mum’s 21st birthday at Gnosall Methodist Chapel and spent their honeymoon in Shrewsbury. Her parents gave her money out of which she had to buy her wedding dress and she also brought her piano. They set up home in an area of Gnosall known as Audmore as Heath House was in fact in Gnosall Heath. From comments made by mum I think that they initially rented a property and on being refused the right to purchase Reg was very unhappy. They both attended the local chapel and he taught in the Sunday School. They visited his family in the north east and on get togethers’ later in life my mother and sister would reminisce of these occasions. Although in a reserved occupation he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on August the 6th 1941 and told for the duration of the current emergency as an aircraftsman second class. He was recommended for training as a pilot or observer with the statement that he was not to be employed other than as a pilot or observer without reference to the Air Ministry. Early in 1942 he was transferred to Canada for further training in Moncton, New Brunswick, Ontario. He came back from Canada on the Queen Mary which was being used as a troop ship. By April of that year he was classed as being an observer. In December ‘42 he was at Air Navigation School. And in April 2nd 1943 he was undertaking ground instrument training and map reading in Tiger Moths and due for the first flight today. A letter sent by mum to his younger sister on the 8th of July 1943 said that Reg is stationed fourteen miles away and is using his bike to get home. From September that year he had completed his training and was changing stations mainly in the east of the country. He spent some time at Doncaster which was a Conversion Unit for Halifax and Lancaster bombers. On the 12th of November he was at 103 squadron. A navigator. Operational flying. And the same month he was posted to Elsham Wolds in Lincolnshire. On the 15th of December he sent what was to be his last letter to his younger sister to tell her that he had been shopping in Scunthorpe for Christmas presents for his nieces and that he was due for leave on the 22nd of December. He obviously had leave to visit mum and I, still in the nursing home as a letter from, from my mother to the same sister says he had visited us both and she had caught him giving surreptitious glances to Susan in her cot. He must also have registered my birth and I was given the names Susan Doreen. There had been an outbreak of influenza at the camp which he had had and recovered from. On the evening of the 16th December 1943 he was navigator in a scratch crew from both 103 and 576 Squadron flying in Lancaster JB670 of 103 Squadron which took off at 1637 hours for Berlin. There was low cloud that night and the crews at briefing had been told to circle the airport once and then peel away. Among the first flight to take off was Lancaster LN332 of 576 Squadron on their first operation. Soon afterwards they were followed by JB670. Eye witness accounts tell that as JB670 took off and climbed away LN332 appeared out of the cloud. The collision was inevitable and the machines crashed head on. This occurred just outside the village of Ulceby and wreckage fell over a wide area. So, aged twenty four, Betty was a widow with a newly born daughter. My aunt tells me that my mother was welcoming her cousin back from the army on leave when she heard the news and this has also been verified by the sister of a cousin who told me this several years ago as to how elated they were at having her brother home but having to also deal with the death of Reg. The family had expressed their wish that they could bury him locally but this was not allowed and he was laid to rest in a Commonwealth grave in Cambridge Cemetery. This was December and a very cold day. They had had to travel from Strafford by train and the family included Reg’s brother, his eldest and youngest sisters, my mother and her sister. They were in the cemetery grounds when someone shouted, ‘Elsham Wolds’s party,’ and they all gathered for the burial of six of the crew. I am told that my mother went to try to talk to one of the officers to try to gain more information but little was forthcoming. And as she said you had to take what was told you and you did not ask questions. It was only in the early 1990s that she read a letter in the Lincolnshire Life Journal from a gentleman in Australia asking for information on LN322 and the crash in which his brother died. They started to correspond and he acquired much more information which he then passed on to her. So at twenty four, Betty, a widow with a newly born daughter. I was christened at Christmas in the home of my grandparents by a close family friend who was a JP and local preacher. Carol, the female equivalent of Charles was included in my naming which I continue to use although it gets a bit awkward at times when I have to state the names that are on my birth certificate only. A white and blue rimmed china bowl was used which I still have in my family history box. We carried on living in the same house with mum becoming a nurse at Stafford hospital and me being looked after by my grandparents. A brass plaque was erected in Gnosall Methodist Church in memory of Reg and a cousin of my mother — the one she was greeting who was killed the following year in Northern France and is buried in Cannes. From what I’ve already related to you, you will remember that there were other RAF stations located not far from Gnosall. On Sunday evenings the men billeted there would come to the church and be offered refreshments by the congregation. I do not know the exact date when they first met but this is where mum met my stepfather. He was called Stanley Stubbins and came from Winterton in Lincolnshire. He had been born and brought up in this village and never left it except for his war service. His father was the local builder, joiner and undertaker. Romance blossomed and they were married on the 26th of May, 1945. The story goes that the photographer forgot to attend so they went on honeymoon, the bridal flowers were placed in the cellar and photos were taken when they got back. For a young man taking on a new family it must have been quite daunting. Again, my aunt tells me that my grandad received a letter from Stan’s parents stating that I would not be treated as other than one of theirs. This was true fortunately because on one of our first trips to Winterton I’m told I picked off heads of his prized tulips and threw them into the garden pond to float. We remained in Gnosall where the elder of my two half-sisters was born until Stan was demobbed and could find us accommodation in Winterton. When I was told that Stan was not my biological father I don’t know. He was very tolerant of the fact that Reg’s RAF cap lived in the wardrobe and he would say that Christmas was always a difficult time for mum. Ironically Winterton is only a few miles from Elsham Wolds. Remembrance services were held every year with flypasts by Lancasters which mum and I used to attend. She maintained contact with Reg’s family and consequently they came to visit us and we them on a regular basis. So I have thirteen cousins on Reg’s side and six on Stan’s side who come together on family occasions. They all held Stan in such high esteem that when he died in 1997 there was a large contingent of cousins plus aged parents who came to his funeral. My memories of Reg are all that have been told me in the past along with some tangible items that I kept in my family box. His bible that was given to him by Gnosall Sunday School on his volunteering for the RAF, his hat and medals. On the death of his youngest sister her daughter passed on to me the letters written by Reg during his time in the RAF. And I also have a copy of a letter sent to his second eldest sister which her daughter found in her handbag. From Stan I have my childhood, adolescence and adulthood to recall. As a family we loved him very much.
PL: That was just wonderful Sue. Thank you so much. Is there anything else that you’d like to add yourself?
SC: Well, not just me there must have been thousands of others like me and maybe I’m the fortunate one in being able to sort of put this on to an actual archive. When I was relating only yesterday to somebody about the fact that my mother and father had given my aunt a brooch they said, ‘You must write it down.’ So this a bit more than writing down. It means a lot to me but to other people it may be more insignificant. I don’t know.
PL: Well, thank you very much indeed.
SC: It’s my pleasure.
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Susan Chapman talks about her father, Charles Reginald Jaques. Reg Jaques grew up in County Durham and to improve his prospects for employment he studied by the light of the streetlight. He secured a job with a local authority in Shropshire. He met and married Betty and they set up home. He volunteered to join the RAF. He trained as a navigator and became a father. His last letter was to his sister telling her he’d been Christmas shopping in Scunthorpe. The next day his aircraft took off from RAF Elsham Wolds. The aircraft that had taken off just before reappeared out of the cloud and the two aircraft collided.
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1940
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35 items. One oral history interview with Flying Officer Jeff Brown (b. 1925, 2205595, Royal Air Force), his log book, service material and photographs including 16 pictures of B-29s. He flew operations as a Flight Sergeant air gunner with 576 Squadron from RAF Fiskerton towards the end of the war and took part in Operation Manna.
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SP: So this is Susanne Pescott I am interviewing Jeffrey Brown today for the International Bomber Command Centres Digital Archive, we are at Jeff’s home and it’s 18th January 2017, so first of all Jeff thank you for allowing us to talk to you today and also present is Yvonne O’Rourke Jeff’s daughter. So Jeff do you want to tell me about your early life before you joined the RAF.
JB: Well after school when I was fifteen I became an apprentice electrician in the local bus depot working on buses and trolley buses and then when the, I was always interested in aircraft model aircraft my neighbour friend and I used to make and fly model aircraft er we had a good place to fly them because across the way from where we lived was the Ashton Golf Course so when nobody was playing golf it was our flying area [laughs], so when the Air Training Corps started I think it was 1941 I joined that and er got interested and of course the war was on then and er there was the possibility of later after a year or two I might be called up to go in the services so er at that time if you waited until you were called up at eighteen every tenth conscriptee was sent to work down the coal mines, it was a scheme developed by a Government Minister called Ernest Bevan because they were short of miners, and if you were unlucky enough to be caught in that you had to go and work in the coal industry now I didn’t want that I wanted to join the air force so to be sure of going in the air force at seventeen and a half you could volunteer for the air force and you went and had a medical and aptitude test and if you were accepted for training as air crew you were given an air force number, you were paid for the days you were at this centre which was at Warrington, and you were in the air force but you were then sent home on what was called deferred service until you were eighteen and at eighteen you could be called at any time to start serving properly and this ensured that when you registered at eighteen they couldn’t send you down the coal mines because you were already in the air force that was one way of avoiding coal mining [laughs]. So I was accepted initially to train as a wireless operator air gunner and at about eighteen two three months I was finally called up to serve and er in those days air crew trainees the first place you reported to was Lords Cricket Ground in London which was rather [laughs] an unusual place to start service and er there you were kitted all your equipment had medicals and so on and then after a few weeks you were sent out to start your training properly, after about three months of this er which was largely basic air force training and learning to receive and send Morse Code er we were called to a meeting by a group captain and he said ‘I’m sorry to inform you that we have so many wireless operators under training we cannot cope with the numbers so we are going to have to suspend your training may be for six months possibly indefinitely’ but he said ‘we are at the moment of short of trainee air gunners anyone wishing to change can do so by leaving a name now’ so most of us being young and daft said ‘oh yes we want to be air gunners’ so we started training again as air gunners, er the basic training was done at Bridgnorth in Shropshire er after that we were sent to an Air Gunners School at RAF Dalcross near Inverness, we trained there for about three or four months and then we qualified as air gunners er the training was done in Ansom aircraft er we flew with another aircraft pulling a target which was a long canvas sleeve and you fired ammunition which had been dipped in paint, the nose of the bullets were dipped in paint, so if you hit this white canvas sleeve besides making a hole in it it left a little colour smear this way the scores could be counted afterwards and er we did this all types of different exercises out over the sea the Moray Firth er following that I was sent on leave and then posted to Operational Training Unit which was at um a place called Westcott and there you were crewed up in a crew, um it was a rather haphazard method all the different air crew categories were put into one large hall and told ‘find yourself a crew’ and I wandered round a bit lost and I was approached a a little chap an air gunner he said ‘have you got a crew yet?’ I said ‘no’ ‘well would you like to join ours?’ and I said ‘yes I would’ and that was how I was crewed up, er my pilot was a New Zealand lad flight sergeant and the rest of the crew were all English boys, so [coughs] we were flying in Wellington aircraft we did various exercises all kinds of things for the different trades, navigation training, bombing training, gunnery training and so on and um after this we were sent to er what was it called Heavy Conversion Unit this was at RAF Bottesford in Nottinghamshire where we were introduced to the Lancaster bomber and also another member joined the crew this was the flight engineer, er in our case our flight engineer was also a pilot this had happened because they had a large surplus of pilots and to give them something to do they trained some of them er as engineers so we had two pilots in the crew which was handy, er we did this training again doing all kinds of exercises including the dreaded corkscrew evasive manoeuvre which was quite horrendous, and from there we were posted to RAF Fiskerton to join 576 Squadron this was in April 1945 towards the end of the war, we did further er what you might call squadron training for a week or two before we were considered qualified to go on operations and the big thing at that moment was called Operation Manna this was dropping food supplies in Holland because it was an area which had been cut off by the advance of the armies and in the last six months or so of the war there had been dreadful food shortages and people were dying of starvation thousands and thousands of Dutchmen died through lack of food so we and the American Air Force were tasked to drop food supplies for them and the area was still under German occupation er a rather dodgy truce was organised with the Germans a kind of er ‘don’t shoot at us we won’t shoot at you’ but it was a little bit of a flimsy thing and several aircraft were shot at ours luckily wasn’t but one American aircraft was shot down and the crew killed by the German Occupation Forces, so I did five of these trips er mainly to Rotterdam and we dropped these food supplies er they were simply bundled into the bomb bay of the aircraft and they weren’t dropped on parachutes they just opened the bomb bay doors and everything fell out in a huge cloud tins and boxes and sacks and all kinds of food which were collected by the Dutch authorities and then distributed to the people who needed it, er we did the last flight on 8th May 1945 which was VE Day, the war ended on that day. After the war we continued flying doing various exercises er one thing we did was to fly to Brussels and bring home Army personnel who had been prisoners of war, another thing we did was to fly to Naples in Italy and bring home again Army personnel who were due for early release from the forces er we continued to do this for about I think four or five months and then the big run down of Bomber Command started the squadrons were disbanded and we were all thrown on the scrap heap not really knowing what would happen to us, but um eventually much against my wishes I was sent on a course to be an equipper demanding and issuing supplies and in this role I was finally posted to a small radar unit in Germany er initially in the British zone of Germany and then er eventually in the American zone and finally in the French occupation zone and er I was there for two and a half years something like that, during that time we had on this little unit when I say little there were a total of about thirty five personnel you could tell how small it was we required an interpreter somebody who spoke German and French because we had the contact with the French Occupation Forces and a young lady called Dorothy Bush who lived nearby she was the daughter of the local school teacher became our interpreter and er many well not many years several years later Dorothy and I were married [very emotional].
SP: Do you want to stop?
JB: Right after some time on this small radar station in Germany I found that you could er re-engage you could sign up for regular service and that would be as air crew to be flying again so I applied for this er I was sent to London to have a medical examinations and so on and I was accepted to fly again as an air gunner but before you could start the flying training er as gunners we had to be trained with er er sort of auxiliary trade and we did this at RAF Kirkham near Preston it was a school of armament trades we learned about all the armament equipment in use at that time in the RAF guns and mines and all the er ancillary equipment, and then we had to do a course at a place called Wellesbourne Mountford on aerial photography that took another couple of months or so so we were quite highly qualified in the trades by that time and then we were posted to RAF Marham in 1950 to join 149 Squadron which was reforming it was the first squadron in the RAF to be equipped with American B29 Super Fortress Bombers the type of bombers that the Americans had used in the Pacific to bomb Japan and drop the atom bomb with so we did this course at RAF Marham and then we had to move out and make room for the next squadron to come in and do the course and we were sent to RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire which at that time was shut down and we arrived there but we didn’t have any aircraft because in the meantime the war in Korea had started and the Americans stopped the supply of B29’s to the RAF because they wanted them for themselves [laughs] so we sat at Coningsby fully trained squadron, air crew and ground crew, for six weeks and the only aircraft we had was an Oxford and a Tiger Moth [laughs] had the Russians known they could have walked in [laughs]. So finally one B29 arrived and our crew had the honour of making the first B29 flight from RAF Coningsby er in I think it was November 1950 er so eventually more aircraft came and the squadron got rolling and operating as it should do and er we were there for a couple of years doing all kinds of exercises, some very very long range flights lasting fifteen sometimes as long as eighteen, nineteen hours without landing or refuelling and then of course jet aircraft began to enter service and on these aircraft no requirement for air gunners so once again facing redundancy, several of the chaps applied to retrain and were accepted as navigators, pilots, so I thought I’m going to have a go at this so I applied and after the interviews and medicals I was accepted for pilot training but by this time the RAF had decided that if you were pilot or navigator you had to be commissioned not like in the old war time days where you could have sergeant pilots etcetera so we had do to a commissioning course which lasted about five months at Jurby in the Isle of Man, having qualified for that and gained a commission I was fortunate to be chosen with a small group of chaps to go and do our flying training in Canada under a NATO training scheme so we flew to Canada in er civilian aircraft and after some time in kind of transit units we eventually landed up in Alberta a place called Claresholm which was about sixty miles south of Calgary, this was a flying training school and unlike the British trainees who started their pilot training on a light aircraft like a Tiger Moth we went on day one on Harvard aircraft which for a trainee were quite a handful they were a sturdy little aircraft with a big five hundred and fifty horsepower engine and they took a bit of handling when you were a novice but er we coped with it and we did the all the necessary exercises day and night flying and er finally after I think it would be nine or ten months er we qualified but we were caught in a rather unusual situation previously at the end of flying school training they had a big parade and celebration and you were presented with your wings the Canadian authorities had decided they were not doing this any longer they were giving our chaps their wings when they’d done a further advanced flying training so what was going to happen to us we were due to come home then and nobody could really tell us what was going to happen when are we going to get our wings, so we flew home in a civilian aircraft we arrived in London airport and were taken in buses to the Air Ministry this was about half past six seven o’clock in the evening by then going dark and we were ushered into a dismal basement room where we met by a civilian clerk, who from the smell of his breath had been out and had a few pints whilst he was waiting for us so, he then issued er instructions of where we were to be posted to and in those days we were still on rations so he issued ration cards and as we were due to leave he said ‘before you go any questions?’ and one chap piped up he said ‘when do we get our wings?’ and this half drunken clerk said ‘oh it’s okay you can put them up now if you want to’ that’s was how we were awarded our wings I thought it was the most miserable bit of service time the whole of my air force career. So we were then posted to RAF Turnhill to do a course on instrument flying to get a qualification called the white card er instrument flying this and they wanted you to fly under various weather conditions, er the grades were white, green, and master green, if you were so experienced and qualified if you got a master green you could fly in any weather conditions whatsoever so we got the white card which had limitations and when we had arrived there some of the chaps not believing what this clerk at the Air Ministry had said arrived not wearing wings odd chaps who had previously been other air crew like a engineer or air gunners were still wearing their old air force air gunner engineer wings and the first day we were introduced er by a squadron leader to tell us what the course was all about and he started his speech and then after a moment he stopped and he pointed at the lad in the front row who was wearing the single wing of a flight engineer and he said ‘who are you what are you doing here?’ so the lad said ‘well I understand sir I’ve come to do an instrument rating course’ so he said ‘well are you a pilot?’ and the lad said ‘well I’ve done a pilot’s course’ and he said ‘why aren’t you wearing pilot’s wings?’ so the lad said truthfully ’because I’ve not been awarded them’ and the squadron leader took no notice of this at all he looked around the room and he said ‘well if you want to do this course you better get some wings up damn quick and that goes for all the rest of you not wearing them’ that was our introduction to being pilots. [Pause] So this business of the wings I thought was disgraceful and thinking about it years later I feel that about that time due to the way we had been treated I really began to lose interest it destroyed my enthusiasm for the RAF, and for flying, and for the whole bloomin thing, however, we did this um instrument training course and then we were posted on to er Meteor Jet Fighters a twin engine jet fighter of that day er and we did conversion on to those and er I did I did conversion I went on solo on them they were comparatively easy to fly engine wise because you didn’t have too many points to consider with a jet engine as you did with a piston engine aircraft and er we carried on with this course till we got to the stage where we started aerobatics and then I found that due to the violent manoeuvres with aerobatics er I started blacking out so I was removed from the course and after a while I was sent to the er er the School of Aviation Medicine School at Farnborough where they have flying doctors who took me up in a Meteor equipped with G measuring device and they flew the plane around and blacked me out all over the place and declared that I had a low G tolerance and I would be grounded so that was a big disappointment after all that I’d been through before, I I was then offered the choice of one or two ground trades which I didn’t fancy doing if I wasn’t flying I didn’t want to be in the air force so the other alternative was to leave so I was then discharged having been in the air force something like eleven years altogether, and um I came home and I started applying for jobs and I went for various interviews and er people asked me what I’d done and so on as usual the case ‘oh that’s very interesting but your no use to us’ so I got a bit despondent I was out of work for may be about six weeks and I was walking along one evening I bumped into an old school chum of mine and the conversation got around to jobs ‘what are you doing?’ I said ‘I’m looking for a job’ ‘what are you doing?’ he said ‘I’m on a management training course in Manchester for the CWS the Co-opertive Society’ er he said ‘come round to my house I’ll show you what we are doing’ so I went to his house and he showed me all these books and information and I thought oh how boring after flying [laughs] doing that didn’t appeal one one little bit, all this time his father had been sitting there quietly reading a newspaper and he chipped in he said ‘have you tried our place?’ so I said ‘well where is our place?’ he said ‘A V Roe’ and he gave me the address of the employment officer so I wrote in and er they called me in for an interview and I think they had it in mind that I would fit in to some kind of position in the works so they sent me home and said we’ll notify you and then a letter came sorry we can’t do anything for you so disappointment again and then almost immediately another letter came from them would I go for an interview with the chief draughtsman ‘cos at that time the Avro factory at Chadderton was the main design office for the company, so er I went for this interview it was a Friday afternoon and er I saw this gentleman the chief draughtsman and he asked me all about my service career and so on and then he said ‘I think we could find a place for you in here’ so he said er ‘when would you like to start Monday?’ [laughs] following just a weekend away [laughs] oh rather puzzled I said ‘oh yes that’d be fine’ so on Monday morning I turned up and I was placed in the middle of the design office and due to my armament work that I had done in the forces I was put onto what was called the armament section the design office was broken up into sections groups of about a dozen men each section did a different type of work some did air frames, some would do engines, some would be radio, and I was on the armament section and quite a lot of the work they were doing was stuff I already knew that I’d seen and worked on in the air force but of course there was a lot of new stuff because at that time they were just introducing the Vulcan Bomber so I fitted in very nicely and er got going steadily working on the Vulcan and the Shackleton and later on the Nimrod and er several aircraft we did er certain parts of those and er so I worked quite steadily and happily for several years I think about twelve years in the design office on armament equipment mainly of the different aircraft and then the company decided to have a huge reorganisation, er they moved the design office to the company airfield at Woodford and of course it was practically impossible for me to get there I didn’t have a car at the time it would have meant several bus trips a train journey and er it was just impossible so I joined a bunch of rebels who said ‘we’re not going’ [laughs] so we were kept for a while at Chadderton in the design office on a sort of queries section and I thought well this will just potter along until the company get fed up with it and then you’d be given the ultimatum either get to Woodford or get out [laughs] so I left and I got a job at a local firm building er commercial vehicles again in their design office which was quite different to what I had been doing before but it was in a way quite interesting. I did this for a year or two and eventually I bumped into a chap er who I’d worked with in the design office and er we got chatting and I said ‘I’m a little bit bored with this job I’m doing’ and he said ‘well we’re looking for people at Chadderton in the publications er department’ ‘cos each aircraft has a huge set of books for servicing and maintaining them er he gave me the address to write in to and er eventually after had an interview I was accepted there and I started back again on my beloved aircraft in the publications department and I worked in there for about twenty years [laughs] until I finally retired in 1989 [laughs] so that was the end of my life with aircraft more or less right through my whole working life [laughs] it had been aircraft one way or another.
SP: So Jeff you talked about when you first joined up you went to Lords Cricket Ground do you want to tell me a little bit more about that?
JB: Yes, oh for aircrew trainees during the war the place you reported to when you were called up was Lords Cricket Ground in London, rather unusual setting to think you are going in the air force er we were billeted in blocks of flats all around Regents Park and we were kitted out you got all your uniform and equipment and er you had your introduction to things like how to march and drill and so on, and one day we were taken back to a building on the side of er Regents Park which was a medical centre we were led into the backyard amongst piles of coke and coal [laughs] taken upstairs to about er the third floor on the way up you had to take your tunic off and roll both sleeves up when you stepped inside the door there was a duty airman on each side with a basin with some sort of disinfectant fluid in and a scrubbing brush and he scrubbed both your upper arms, you moved on into the next room and there were doctors in line and you were given various injections inoculations er oh what what was it something fever they had in those days, and then you were led out down some stairs onto a road at the side by the railings of Regents Park [laughs] it looked like a scene from a battlefield there were chaps hanging over the railings vomiting, there were others lying flat out on the pavement having fainted not being used to all this injections and inoculations [laughs], luckily it didn’t affect me although I did have a rather sore arm for a little while [laughs].
SP: So Jeff you were talking about during when you were on the plane the dreaded corkscrew.
JB: Yes
SP: Do you want to tell me a little bit about that?
JB: Yes er when we did the course er on er to train on the Lancaster er one of the exercises we had to do was to er learn er called an evasive tactic in case you were attacked by a fighter they had this manoeuvre called the corkscrew where the aircraft went into steep dives and turns and climbs in order to put the aim of the attacker off and you had certain drills to carry out er in order to aim your guns correctly and try and hit him whilst you were doing this, now the main people involved with this were the gunners and the pilot um you gave the instruction to the pilot when to start this manoeuvre and whilst he was doing it he told you what you were doing because you were thrown about so much you could hardly realise whether you were turning left, right, going up or down whatever it was very very violent and er you repeated back to the pilot so he understood that you knew and according to what he said you had to apply certain rules of sighting in order to hopefully hit the attacker, so the the manoeuvre would start like this, oh before I say anything more I should say that our first corkscrew was done by an instructor pilot an experienced fella, the manoeuvre went like this you as a gunner had a thing called a reflector sight you looked through a glass screen and it had a red ring with a dot in the middle you compared the size of this to the size of the attacking aircraft you had to learn the wing span of the groups of the attacking aircraft when he filled a certain amount of your ring and bead sight he was at six hundred yards that was the distance when you were to open fire ’cos it was the best range for the guns you were using, so you watched this attacker and make him he came in a curving dive which is called a curved pursuit and you raced him with your gun sight you warned the pilot he was coming in when he got to six hundred yards you said ‘corkscrew’ either port or starboard depending which side he was coming in from the pilot then we did the first one to port which is the left side he just simply stood the aircraft up on it’s port wing tip and we went down in a screaming dive after a few hundred feet he rolled and he went down on the other side the starboard side for a few more hundred feet and then he pulled up violently, on the way down you were virtually weightless you just floated up off your seat the only thing I was holding onto was the two control handles for the gun turret [laughs], all this time you were trying to apply these what we call sighting rules where you aimed your sight at the attacker you didn’t aim directly at him and then the pilot pulled up and he did the same manoeuvre going up and then the G Force came on you were slammed literally just slammed down into your seat became several times heavier than you normally are [laughs] and it was so severe you couldn’t raise your arms try as you may you couldn’t lift them and you had an oxygen mask on your face this pulled away on the straps and then you climbed up to your starting height and then you went down and started another corkscrew [laughs], all this time other members of the crew that weren’t involved with this as I said it was just the pilot and the gunner the other people such as the navigator and wireless operator were sitting there with their stomachs churning and quite a lot of them being airsick but due to the fact that you were so concentrating on what you were doing it didn’t make me airsick strangely enough so that was our introduction to the corkscrew [laughs].
SP: Jeff you also talked that you were at Fiskerton on VE Day do you want to talk me through what happened on VE Day what you did?
JB: Yes er VE Day 8th May 1945 we were scheduled to do the last Manna food drop in Holland [coughs] we got out of the aircraft and a photographer suddenly appeared and asked us the crew and the ground crew to pose in front of the aircraft and took our photographs which I still have, and then something happened that had never happened on any previous operation a car drew up and it was the station commander the group captain wishing us well [laughs] and hoping that we had a good trip of course we knew that it was the last day of the war [coughs], my pilot and two other pilots from our crew had made a secret arrangement that on the way back at one of the turning points on the route back was Cambridge that we were going to meet up formate and fly back from Cambridge to Fiskerton and beat up in the airfield in formation, so [laughs] we arrived at er at er Cambridge and [coughs] they’d arrange [coughs] not to use the radio so that it wouldn’t be identified [coughs] they arranged to fire off a coloured vary cartridges so these two planes were milling around at Cambridge when we arrived and they were shooting off these coloured vary cartridges I think they were green and we fired some off so we knew who we were and we all joined up together and headed off to Fiskerton, now we were flying a rather old Lancaster and we were slowly dropping behind these other two aircraft we couldn’t keep up with them ‘cos they were going flat out and our engineer told us he said they had er a sort of toggle which was called an emergency boost button to give the engines a little bit of extra power he said ‘I’ve pulled the emergency boost and we still can’t keep up with them’ and we were dropping more and more lagging behind them dropping away so eventually our pilot said ‘okay well we’ll forget it’ but because of all this extra power on this old aircraft was shuddering and shaking suddenly there was a loud bang and a whole sheet of metal fell off from underneath the starboard wing [laughs] we didn’t know what it was at the time [laughs] but I reported it to the pilot he said ‘well I don’t know what it is but we’re still flying okay so we carry on’ and we flew back to Fiskerton and of course this beat up had occurred by the time we got back and when we landed we found that this vibration had loosened some of the skin coverings on the outboard engine nacelle and it had ripped off with the airflow that’s what we saw some farmer would find a nice sheet of aluminium in one of his fields [laughs], so we then went to the debriefing and the station commander came up on the dais afterwards and he said ‘all pilots are to remain behind everyone else is dismissed’ he didn’t know he hadn’t identified who had done this beat up at the airfield so we scurried off to get our bacon and egg which was the meal you got after flying [laughs] whilst all the pilots got a tremendous bollocking from the station commander [laughs] that was VE Day [laughs].
SP: Jeff do you want to tell me about the time in the Wellington bomber that you were talking about?
JB: Yes um we were introduced to the Wellington at a unit called Operational Training Unit OTU this is where you joined a crew [coughs] and amongst various exercises you did of course there was quite a lot of practice bombing er you dropped small smoke bombs on er des designated targets where er how well or badly you had done there were staff there could record it and send the results back to your unit [coughs] now to do this exercise er we were based at this er place er Westcott near Aylesbury we had to fly er about thirty miles in a northerly direction to the area I think it was Northampton and back for the navigator to calculate the wind ‘cos this was a vital thing for the bomb aimer to know he set this into his equipment er the target we were to attack was on some moorland in the Oxford area, so we took off and we had to climb up to twelve thousand feet to fly this course to calculate the wind er on the way we flew through quite a few heaps of cloud it got a little bit bumpy and unknown to us behind all this cloud was a cumulus nimbus thunderstorm cloud and we flew straight into it and it was a fantastic all of sudden it went grey and then it went almost completely dark this is sort of ten o’clock in the morning and the turbulence we were thrown about up and down and in a flash then the the inside of the gun turret was painted matt black in a flash it just became white all over with hoarfrost and I made the aimless gesture of trying to scrape some of it off with my fingers [laughs] I don’t know why I did that [laughs] but we were thrown about we went up and down and the pilot said ‘we’re getting iced up I’m losing control’ he said ‘we’ll have to get out of this’ and he did the worst thing he could have done he tried to turn round to go back out of it, the rule was if you were in that position you flew straight through it, so he started this turn and he collected so much ice on the wings he lost control of it he called out ‘I can’t control it’ and he gave the order ‘fix parachutes and standby’ now you wore your parachute harness all the time in the aircraft but your parachute was in a pack in a stowage near to where you were sitting so we grabbed the er the parachute out of its stowage and it fell to the floor just at the moment we started to be lifted up at some tremendous speed and the G was so strong I couldn’t lift the parachute pack and I thought if this carries on I going to die pretty soon [laughs] ‘cos I’ve heard of stories of planes flying into thunderstorm clouds and coming out in bits in the bottom so we were flung up and down, up and down, and then eventually we came out of the clouds and we began to lose some of the ice that had got into all our and the pilot regained control so he said ‘stand down’ we didn’t need to put the parachute on to jump but we fell out of control iced up from twelve to four thousand feet totally out of control and the air speed indicator broke the the air speed indicator pointer the needle was just hanging down and swinging like a little pendulum so we’d no air speed however our pilot er was experienced enough to know that if he put certain power settings on the engine it would keep us flying [coughs], so we abandoned the exercise and flew back to Westcott where we were based told them what had happened they then divert, oh they asked how much fuel we still had so we had sufficient fuel, they then diverted to us to RAF Wittering which is in the Peterborough area and Peter and Wittering was a big pre-war airfield and across the fields from it was a smaller wartime airfield called Collyweston and there was a flat land flat fields between the two and they had laid what was called pierced steel planking between the two airfields to create an emergency landing strip was a bit longer than the normal landing strip so we were given instructions over the radio and we told them what had happened to us what power settings to set on the engine to make a faster than normal approach so there was no danger that we would stall and we all got down in what we call crash positions we were trained to do this and we landed on this pierced steel planking runway which made a hell of a noise [laughs] when you ran over it but we got down safely and then motored back to the Wittering side where we were interviewed as to what happened then we were taken for a meal whilst the aircraft was prepared and then later on that day we flew it back to Westcott, but that from that day on until we got on the Lancaster which was an all metal aircraft I was always a bit scared [laughs] when we flew into big heaped up clouds [laughs].
SP: So Jeff you talked about Operation Manna how did you feel about doing that?
JB: Well at times it was quite emotional because so many people had died twenty odd thousand in total I think in the last months of the war er and many people had suffered so greatly through this starvation and eating all sorts of weird food like the flower bulbs they used to fry flower bulbs and all kinds of stuff, they used to make from what we were told foraging trips the people in the big cities suffered the most because they could out may be on bicycle or walking ‘cos they’d no vehicles er into the country areas and barter for food with the farmers to get a few eggs or potatoes and give away their valuables and all kinds of thing and when you spoke with some of the people that had suffered with this er it’s quite er emotional, little old ladies would want to come and hug you [laughs] and that kind of thing, and er one boy I think about probably twelve years old came to me spoke very good English as most of them do and he said ‘I want to shake your hand and thank you’ so I said ‘well what do you want to thank me for you weren’t born at the time we did this’ he said no ‘you saved my grandparents lives’ and that was the kind of thing that er happened to you people come ‘thank you thank you’ and giving you gifts it was utterly amazing the gratitude that er they showed was just overwhelming at times.
SP: Okay thanks for that is there anything else at all that you feel you haven’t had a chance to say?
JB: Well one little amusing story er when we came back from Canada and we did this instrument flying course at Turnhill er the course included normal exercises besides instruments and navigation exercises and so on and er we were being briefed to do the first solo night cross country flight we we had a rather er broad spoken Yorkshire flight lieutenant flight commander who was giving this er briefing before the flight and er he told everything we were supposed to know the weather and everything and er at the end he said ‘just a word of advice before you go’ he said er ‘if’ in his broad Yorkshire accent he said ‘now if you get lost or owt bloody silly like that for god’s sake give us a call even if it’s only to say goodbye’ [laughs].
SP: [Laughs] That’s great Jeff so thanks for all the stories there [Laughs].
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Jeff Brown worked as an electrician until he joined the Royal Air Force. He flew with 576 Squadron from RAF Fiskerton.
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
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Article 1 has a photograph of the nose of Lancaster Mike Squared, S for Sugar at Waddington, the dispersal hut at Digby and Barry Halpenny in the cockpit of a Spitfire with his book 'Action Stations'. The cutting mentions Douglas Bader flying from Digby and Clark Gable flying from Goxhill, Flight Engineer Sgt Jackson's fall and survival with a burning parachute and Sqn Ldr Barry Douetil who fell out of his Lancaster after it flipped on its back, the only crew member to survive.
Article 2 titled Scramble by Paul Croft has photographs of Lancaster 'Santa Azucar' with stick woman and halo. Six aircrew are posed under the port engine. There is a photograph of four ground crew on a fighter's tale , identity BE483 and two airmen running towards an aircraft 'AE-X' captioned at Digby.
Article 3 is a photograph of the memorial garden for RAF Elsham Wolds and is captioned 'Ex-airmen and their families and friends congregate for the service to dedicate the memorial garden'. It was published in the Evening Telegraph Wednesday, September 2, 1981.
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1981-09-02
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Marshall, S
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
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RAF Elsham Wolds Reunion and Dedication of the Memorial
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The cover of a leaflet prepared for the Reunion and Dedication of the RAF Elsham Wolds Memorial. There are the two squadron crests and a crest with three aircraft and laurel leaves.
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1989-08-27
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eng
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Royal Air Force
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
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Second reunion at RAF Elsham Wolds
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Photograph 1 is a service being held outdoors behind a propeller mounted on a plinth.
There is a ticket for the reunion dinner.
Photograph2 shows the propeller and the associated garden. There are flowers in the shape of RAF wings and 'E W' with 103 and 576 in whites stones.
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1981-08-29
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RAF Elsham Wolds
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Marshall, S
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
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RAF Elsham Wolds Association
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103 and 576 squadron crests on a light blue background with a dark blue central horizontal stripe.
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RAF Elsham Wolds Association
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One printed sheet on an album page
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eng
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SMarshallS1594781v10040
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Marshall, S
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
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Reunion ticket and Ivor Cole with Syd Marshall
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An RAF Elsham Wold reunion ticket and a photograph of Ivor Cole and Syd Marshall standing with their tickets. Captioned 'Ivor Cole & self back at Elsham 34 years on.'
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1979-08-25
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One ticket and one colour photograph on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
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SMarshallS1594781v10039, SMarshallS1594781v10041
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
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IBCC Digital Archive
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1979-08-25
103 Squadron
576 Squadron
RAF Elsham Wolds
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Marshall, Syd. Album
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Marshall, S
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Syd Marshall and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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ELSHAM WOLDS’ GREAT PART IN BOMBING CAMPAIGN
Four Years of Magnificent Effort
ELSHAM Wolds began to operate with R.A.F. Bomber Command in July, 1941. The airfield was not quite completed when No. 103 Squadron arrived from Newton on July 11, but the Squadron soon settled in and has remained there ever since.
In nearly four years Elsham has built up a high reputation in the Royal Air Force. There was little delay before the airfield was placed on an operational basis and the Wellingtons were out on July 24, from 11 a.m. to 6.45 pm., attacking the battle cruiser “Gneisenau” at Brest.
Before long the Germans knew of the new bomber station, and in August, 1941, enemy aircraft attacked it. They did no serious damage. They tried again several times in later years, though never in strength.
The “Wimpeys” held the fort while the factories got busy with the production of the new four-engined bombers.
On September 10, 1941, Wellingtons flew to Turin for the loss of only one aircraft. By the end of December, Elsham was able to record as many as 17 Wellingtons airborne on a single night.
On one occasion two sergeants brought back their aircraft after four of the crew had baled out; a flare had caught alight in the rear fuselage.
AMONG THE 1,000
After taking part in the May and June 1,000 bomber raids in 1942, there was a lull.
Halifaxes began to arrive and in August made their first sorties from the station, against Dusseldorf. Hardly had the engineering staff accustomed themselves to these aircraft when there was another change, this time to Lancasters. By November 21 the Lancasters had replaced the Halifaxes and were doing excellently.
On the night of May 23-24, 1943, No. 103 Squadron put up 27 Lancasters, which at that time was a Command record.
The Commander-in-Chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C., visited the station in September and addressed the crews.
One of the flights of No. 103 Squadron was transferred to No. 576 Squadron, which was being formed at Elsham. This left 103 a two-flight squadron. The two squadrons were together in close association and friendly rivalry until October, 1944.
OVER BERLIN
No. 103 Squadron had 30 aircraft over Berlin on the night of November 26-27. Elsham became a base station from December 1 and controlled the airfields at Kirmington and North Killingholme.
The wild weather of January, 1944, made life at Elsham what the R.A.F. call “pretty raw,” but the ground staff worked wonders in clearing blocked roads, and runways.
During the spring the Base Commander, Air Commodore Ivelaw Chapman, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., was shot down over France and taken prisoner. He has recently returned to this country. Air Commodore F.R.D. Swain, O.B.E., A.F.C., who broke the altitude record some years ago, took over from Air Commodore Chapman.
In June both squadrons at Elsham dropped a thousand tons in a month for the first time, and kept this up for some time. In the summer people in the neighbourhood were able to realise the full power of Bomber Command. Daylight operations against V sites, railway centres, and in close support of the Army enabled them to see the sky full of four-engined aircraft day after day.
In October, No. 103 Squadron dropped 1,277 tons, and 86 aircraft of both squadrons operated against Duisburg within 24 hours. On October 31, No. 576 Squadron left Elsham for Fiskerton. With 103 Squadron they had dropped 5,748 tons in the previous five months.
BOMBER COMMAND’S PRIDE
Elsham was the home of Lancaster “M.2,” the pride of Bomber Command. Its long life showed what a high standard of maintenance had been kept up. “M.2.” first flew on operations on May 4, 1943, to Dortmund, with 103 Squadron. It was later transferred to 576 Squadron, and had been on 103 operations by the beginning of 1944. It was retired with 144 trips to its credit, 97 of them to Germany and 15 to Berlin.
During the last winter everyone at Elsham was working at full stretch, and the Lancasters were fully employed on targets like the Ruhr, Ludwigshafen, Nuremburg, Munich, Chemnitz, and Dresden. Many mines were laid in enemy waters.
For the last month of operations No. 103 Squadron was joined by No. 100 Squadron from Waltham (Grimsby), and both were in the attack on Berchtesgaden on April 25.
When there was no more bombing to be done, large convoys of Army vehicles began to drive up to the station. They carried food for the Lancasters to take to Holland. Another task was to bring back hundreds of freed prisoners of war from the Continent.
Many Elsham names will go down in history for acts of heroism. On May 4, 1944, an aircraft of No. 576 Squadron, captained by Pilot-Officer Reed, of Wellingborough, Northants, landed with the flight engineer helping Reed to hold the control column and the air bomber clinging to the rudder pedals. The Lancaster looked a total wreck. It had been shot up by a fighter over Mailly-le-Camp; it had caught fire, a large hole was knocked in the floor, electrical and navigational instruments were smashed, the rudders and elevators were damaged, and the rear-turret was hanging by a threat.
Two Lancaster from 103 Squadron were each attacked by two fighters on July 29, 1944, when bombing Stuttgart. All four of the enemy were destroyed in a couple of minutes.
Another 103 crew shot down a Ju. 88 over Karlsruhe on April 25, 1944, but sustained serious damage. The pilot had to ditch, and the crew were on the Goodwin Sands for seven hours before being picked up.
Just before the end of the war one of Elsham’s aircraft came back with a 250lb. bomb embedded in a wing. The pilot told the crew to bale out, and the baled out himself near base.
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Elsham Wolds' Great Part in Bombing Campaign
Four years of Magnificent Effort
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Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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France--Brest
Italy--Turin
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Syd Marshall and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Syd Marshall and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Lancaster Mike Squared
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Photograph 1 is of Lancaster Mike Squared, port side , undercarriage down.
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
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77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Syd Marshall and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Lancaster Mike Twice
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Aircrew and ground personnel sitting on loaded bomb trolleys infront of the Lanacster Mike Squared. Group Captain Sheene on a stepladder is painting a bomb symbol on the nose of the aircraft. Captioned '"Mike Twice" after 138 trips. C/V Sheene on steps.'.
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Great Britain
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