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]]>