William Akrill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Civilian]]> 1942-12-18]]>
1. Gremlin photoflash (Will Gremlin)
2. Gremlin crews for the convenience of Mark VIII (Georgie Gremlin)
3. Gremlin intercomm. Mark I B (Oswald Gremlin)
4. Gremlin meteorology Mark III C (Thor Gremlin)
5. Gremlin undercart Mark I C *** (Charlie Gremlin)
6. Gremlin compass Mark I (liquified) (Algenon Gremlin)
7. Gremlin navigator for distraction of (Douglas Gremlin)
8. Gremlin intercomm. Mark II* (Adolf Gremlin)
9. Gremlin computor Mark I (Cuthbert Gremlin)
10. Gremlin navigation Mark V (modified) (Popeye Gremlin)
11. Gremlin astro-nav Mark I (Professor Gremlin)
12. Gremlin turret Mark I (Dick Gremlin)
13. Gremlin astro-nav Mark II* (modified) (Stella Gremlin)
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William Akrill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Artwork]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1943-01]]>

Last night he went to the church fellowship in the village and then to his friends for supper. Has also had an invitation from their neighbours, so is getting to know lots of people.

Speculates about where he might be posted - hopes it will be somewhere close to home.

Talks of his drawings of gremlins which he has made up into a little booklet. Has been suggested he should send it to the RAF Journal.

Resuming the letter the following day, Bill thanks his mother for her parcel and replies to news from home.]]>
William Akrill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> 1943-01]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> France--Albert]]> France--Bergerac]]> France--Châteauroux]]> France--Clermont-Ferrand]]> France--La Ricamarie]]> France--Lyon]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-03]]>

In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this item is available only at the University of Lincoln.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1944-02]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Angela Gaffney]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Italy]]> a crossword puzzle.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Bradley Froggatt]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Poetry]]> Artwork]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1943-08]]> Alun talks of flying on the Anson and Whitley, and of being assigned to a Halifax crew. He describes a training flight accident at Garrowby Hill, Yorkshire in which his crewmates were killed. Alun, who was hospitalised at the time, was not on board the aircraft. He recalls his loneliness at being without a crew, and the unexplained animosity towards him from a senior officer. He talks of joining another aircrew and of adaptability being a part of the role of the bomb aimer, before reflecting on his feelings about the unjust dismissal of the crew’s pilot for lack of moral fibre.
Alun recalls his transfer to RAF Transport Command in 1945 and talks of organising the erection of a memorial to his crew at Garrowby Hill. He mentions his pride at the memorial, and his attendance at annual commemorations there for many years. He goes on to reflect on his preference for the Halifax over other aircraft, his enjoyment of flying, and on the great friendship and comradeship among aircrews, describing a closeness which continued after the war. He also mentions his affection for the animals that he kept in his billet during the war.
Alun relates that he first returned to his pre-war job after the war, but later joined the Welsh Council on Alcoholism to help others and in support of his sister, whom he describes affectionately.
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Anne Roberts]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Leah Warriner-Wood]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Wales]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> Wales--Porthcawl]]> Wales--Newport]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--East London]]> Germany]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Japan]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales--Penarth]]> 1944]]> 1955]]>
George Bubb]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> Karl Williams]]> David Bloomfield]]> Trevor Hardcastle]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Training material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Melksham]]> England--Wiltshire]]> 1943-09]]>