IBCC Digital Archive]]> Memoro. Die Bank der Erinnerungen]]> Peter Schulze]]> Royalty-free permission to publish]]> deu]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> Germany--Grünwald]]> Germany--Berlin]]> 1943]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Memoro. Die Bank der Erinnerungen]]> Peter Schulze]]> Royalty-free permission to publish]]> deu]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> 1945]]> Sara Troglio]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lapsus. Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo]]> Francesca Campani]]> ita]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Italy--Milan]]> Italy]]> Luca Novarino]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Memoro. La banca della memoria]]> Francesca Campani]]> Royalty-free permission to publish]]> ita]]> Sound]]> Italy--Turin]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Italy]]> 1945-04-26]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Memoro. Die Bank der Erinnerungen]]> Peter Schulze]]> Royalty-free permission to publish]]> deu]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Memoro. La banca della memoria]]> Francesca Campani]]> Royalty-free permission to publish]]> ita]]> Sound]]> Italy--Turin]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Italy]]> Zeno Gaiaschi]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lapsus. Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo]]> Francesca Campani]]> ita]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Italy--Milan]]> Italy]]> 1944-10-20]]> 1943-09-08]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Memoro. La banca della memoria]]> Peter Schulze]]> Royalty-free permission to publish]]> ita]]> Sound]]> Italy--Foligno]]> Italy]]> 1943-11-22]]> Zeno Gaiaschi]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lapsus. Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo]]> Peter Schulze]]> ita]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Italy--Milan]]> Italy]]> 1945-04-26]]> Sara Troglio]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lapsus. Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo]]> Peter Schulze]]> ita]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Italy--Milan]]> Italy--Lodi]]> Italy]]> 1943]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Hamilton]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> India]]> India--Kolkata]]> 1918-09-10]]> Sara Buda]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Lapsus. Laboratorio di analisi storica del mondo contemporaneo]]> Greta Fedele]]> ita]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Italy]]> Switzerland]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Italy--Lodi]]> Italy--Milan]]> 1943]]> Bertie Gray]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Andy Hamilton]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> France--Le Havre]]> France]]> 1944-06]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1939]]> Additional information Miss Meally was a nurse at East Grinstead Burns Unit.
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M E Meally]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Physical object]]> Civilian]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> lat]]> Artwork]]> Civilian]]> Brian O'Higgins]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> lat]]> Artwork]]> Civilian]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Civilian]]> Gemma Clapton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England]]> France]]> Spain]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Essen]]> Pyrenees]]> Netherlands]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Poland]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Oberursel]]> Poland--Tychowo]]> Germany--Riesa]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Leonard, her husband, was a navigator with 460 Squadron based in Binbrook. She was with him when he was presented with his Bomber Command clasp in front of the two Lancasters at RAF Coningsby.]]> Jim Greenhalgh]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1940]]> 1945]]> Tom Ozel]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Netherlands]]> 1945-04]]> 1945-05]]> In October 1940, she was posted to RAF Bassingbourn, an Operational Training Unit for Wellingtons. Hope Embry, wife of Basil Embry was stationed there.
Priscilla was sent to the Air Ministry War Room in Whitehall and received correspondence in pneumatic tube system. She recalls an extraordinary message about Amy Johnson crashing into the Thames. She would see Churchill and his wife. They provided the Cabinet War Office with information, including statistics.
Priscilla went on a corporal’s course and was stationed briefly at RAF Hooton Park. After promotion to sergeant, she was sent on an officers’ course at Loughborough and then posted to RAF Tangmere and the ground-controlled interception (GCI) radar station at RAF Durrington. Priscilla was put in charge of the GCI station near RAF Ford. She did another course at Alnwick and was then made adjutant at RAF Biggin Hill.
Priscilla expresses her disappointment with how Bomber Command was treated after the war. She praises the land girls and mechanics, who were often overlooked.
Priscilla went to RAF Montford Bridge and was an adjutant at RAF Rednal. She returned to the Air Ministry War Room in 1943 and was involved in the Far East operations until the end of the war, monitoring signals. On D-Day they all went down to Buckingham Palace.
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Margaret Carr]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Sally Coulter]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Sussex]]> England--London]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> 1944]]>
Adam Purcell]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cathie Hewitt]]> Pending review]]> Pending OH summary]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Great Britain]]> England--Suffolk]]> United States]]> Ian Locker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Christine Kavanagh]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> 1943]]> 1944]]>