David Carter]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Photograph]]>
Text. Personal research]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
France]]>
Germany]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
Germany--Nuremberg]]>
Poland]]>
Poland--Tychowo]]>
1941]]>
1943-04]]>
1944-03-30]]>
1944-03-31]]>
1945-01-19]]>
John Taplin]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Correspondence]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Poland]]>
Poland--Łambinowice]]>
1943-04-04]]>
John Taplin]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Correspondence]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Poland]]>
Poland--Łambinowice]]>
1943-03-13]]>
John Taplin]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Correspondence]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Poland]]>
Poland--Łambinowice]]>
Irving Air Chute Company]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Steve Baldwin]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Correspondence]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Hertfordshire]]>
England--Letchworth]]>
England--London]]>
1943-10-01]]>
Clive Saunders]]>
44 Squadron Association]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Personal research]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
Zimbabwe]]>
Germany]]>
Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]>
Switzerland]]>
Poland]]>
Poland--Tychowo]]>
1943-10-01]]>
1943-10-02]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Susan Carter]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Personal research]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Memoir]]>
Text. Personal research]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Royal Australian Air Force]]>
Royal Canadian Air Force]]>
Civilian]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Bedfordshire]]>
England--Kettering]]>
England--Leicester]]>
England--Sileby]]>
Egypt]]>
England--Ashbourne]]>
England--Coventry]]>
England--Redcar]]>
Wales--Llandudno]]>
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]>
Germany--Leipzig]]>
Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]>
Lithuania]]>
Poland]]>
Poland--Szczecin]]>
Germany--Dresden]]>
England--Thurmaston]]>
Germany--Berlin]]>
Germany--Mannheim]]>
Germany--Leipzig]]>
Germany--Stuttgart]]>
Germany--Schweinfurt]]>
England--Cornwall (County)]]>
Germany]]>
1943]]>
1944-03-22]]>
1944-03-23]]>
1945]]>
#1 a Pathfinder badge.
#2 a Caterpillar club badge.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Physical object]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
D R Burns]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Memoir]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Wehrmacht]]>
Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Yorkshire]]>
England--Sheffield]]>
England--London]]>
England--Sussex]]>
England--Brighton]]>
England--Newquay]]>
England--Manchester]]>
Canada]]>
Manitoba--Winnipeg]]>
Nova Scotia]]>
England--Harrogate]]>
England--Lincolnshire]]>
Germany]]>
Germany--Schweinfurt]]>
Germany--Arnstein (Main-Spessart)]]>
Poland]]>
Poland--Opole (Voivodeship)]]>
England--Shropshire]]>
England--Leicestershire]]>
England--Nottinghamshire]]>
England--Cornwall (County)]]>
Manitoba]]>
1940]]>
1941]]>
1942]]>
1943]]>
1944]]>
1945]]>
1946]]>
1946-01-19]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Civilian]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Photograph]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Pat Jackson (nee Hancock)]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Personal research]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Poland]]>
Middle East--Palestine]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Yorkshire]]>
Netherlands--Friesland]]>
Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]>
Netherlands--Dokkum]]>
Germany--Fallingbostel (Landkreis)]]>
Germany--Dresden]]>
Germany--Hannover]]>
Netherlands]]>
Poland--Żagań]]>
Lithuania--Šilutė]]>
Germany]]>
Caterpillar Club]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
#1 is a note about the crew - 4 were killed and 3 baled out.
#2 is the reverse of the note explaining that the WAAFs at Edith Weston were very kind to the Forces. Ted sold his logbook and medals to raise money for a hospice in Leicester but wouldn't part with his 'Caterpillar'.
#3 is Ted's Lancaster and six of the crew. It is annotated with the crew's names and the date of its loss on 2/3 December 1943.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Pending text-based transcription]]>
eng]]>
Photograph]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Leicester]]>
England--Rutland]]>
Germany--Berlin]]>
England--Leicestershire]]>
Germany]]>
1943-12-02]]>
1943-12-03]]>
Caterpillar Club]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Caterpillar Club]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Physical object]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
There is a head and shoulders portrait of Ted with his POW number, 16865, printed on. There is a post it note with 'POW Germany Ted Thornhill 1943-1945'.
Inside the box is a Caterpillar Club pin and a membership card.]]>
Ted Thornhill]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Physical object]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
The Caterpillar Club]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Physical object]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Steve Baldwin]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Personal research]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--London]]>
Germany--Hamburg]]>
Netherlands--Wierden]]>
England--Ascot]]>
Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]>
Netherlands]]>
Germany]]>
Reg Wilson]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Sue Smith]]>
Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Memoir]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Royal Canadian Air Force]]>
Wehrmacht]]>
Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Craven Arms]]>
England--London]]>
England--London]]>
England--Peterborough]]>
Germany--Lübeck]]>
England--Runnymede]]>
England--Wetherby]]>
Scotland--Edinburgh]]>
Germany--Mühlberg (Bad Liebenwerda)]]>
England--London]]>
Germany--Berlin]]>
Germany--Colditz]]>
Germany--Torgau]]>
Germany--Dresden]]>
Germany--Hamburg]]>
Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]>
Germany--Neuss]]>
Poland--Żagań]]>
Poland--Gdańsk]]>
Sweden--Stockholm]]>
Poland--Szczecin]]>
Denmark--Copenhagen]]>
Poland]]>
Germany]]>
Denmark]]>
Sweden]]>
Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]>
England--Shropshire]]>
England--Sussex]]>
England--Yorkshire]]>
England--Surrey]]>
England--Bishop's Stortford]]>
Caterpillar Club]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
At the end there is a biography of the officer in charge of Arnhem, Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Browning and his wife Daphne du Maurier.]]>
Roger Millington]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Personal research]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]>
Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]>
Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]>
British Army]]>
Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]>
Royal Canadian Air Force]]>
Royal New Zealand Air Force]]>
Free French Air Force]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Cambridge]]>
England--Letchworth]]>
Wales--Bridgend]]>
Wales--Penrhos]]>
Egypt--Heliopolis (Extinct city)]]>
Singapore]]>
France--Cherbourg]]>
Netherlands--Eindhoven]]>
France--Brest]]>
France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]>
France--Dunkerque]]>
Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]>
France--Brest]]>
Netherlands--Rotterdam]]>
Germany--Cologne]]>
Germany--Hamburg]]>
Germany--Berlin]]>
Italy--Turin]]>
Germany--Düsseldorf]]>
Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]>
France--L'Isle-Adam]]>
France--Quiberon]]>
France--Boulogne-Billancourt]]>
Germany--Essen]]>
France--Le Creusot]]>
Germany--Leverkusen]]>
France--Caen]]>
Netherlands--Arnhem]]>
Norway]]>
Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]>
Belgium--Brussels]]>
England--Rochester (Kent)]]>
Northern Ireland--Belfast]]>
England--Longbridge]]>
France--Arras]]>
England--Darlington]]>
Italy--Genoa]]>
England--Longbridge]]>
Yemen (Republic)--Aden]]>
Europe--Frisian Islands]]>
Germany--Peenemünde]]>
Germany--Nuremberg]]>
Italy--Sicily]]>
France--Normandy]]>
Netherlands--Arnhem]]>
Netherlands--Eindhoven]]>
Netherlands--Nijmegen]]>
Wales--Pwllheli]]>
England--Yorkshire]]>
England--Leicester]]>
England--Sunderland (Tyne and Wear)]]>
Scotland--Edinburgh]]>
England--Rochford]]>
England--London]]>
England--Cornwall (County)]]>
Scotland--Ayr]]>
England--Friston (East Sussex)]]>
England--Gravesend (Kent)]]>
England--West Malling]]>
England--Hailsham]]>
England--Yelverton (Devon)]]>
England--Bentwaters NATO Air Base]]>
England--Great Dunmow]]>
England--Heacham]]>
England--Weybridge]]>
Wales--Hawarden]]>
England--Blackpool]]>
England--Old Sarum (Extinct city)]]>
England--Kent]]>
England--Folkestone]]>
England--Hambleton (North Yorkshire)]]>
England--York]]>
Scotland--Scottish Borders]]>
England--Cambridge]]>
England--Thurleigh]]>
England--Darlington]]>
England--Hitchin]]>
England--Lancashire]]>
Italy]]>
France]]>
Egypt]]>
Germany]]>
Belgium]]>
Netherlands]]>
Great Britain]]>
Yemen (Republic)]]>
Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]>
England--Bedfordshire]]>
England--Cambridgeshire]]>
England--Devon]]>
England--Durham (County)]]>
England--Sussex]]>
England--Essex]]>
England--Herefordshire]]>
England--Norfolk]]>
England--Suffolk]]>
England--Surrey]]>
England--Wiltshire]]>
England--Worcestershire]]>
England--Leicestershire]]>
England--Swindon (Wiltshire)]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]>
Sue Smith]]>
eng]]>
Text]]>
Text. Personal research]]>
Civilian]]>
Royal Air Force]]>
British Army]]>
Great Britain]]>
England--Runcorn]]>
England--Harrogate]]>
England--Ripon]]>
England--Cheshire]]>
England--Yorkshire]]>
2012-04-17]]>