IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Between leaving school and joining the Royal Air Force, Kenneth worked as a bank clerk, before signing up as aircrew when he was 18 years of age.
Kenneth tells of his time as a Leading Aircraftsman in Morecambe, training as an aircraft mechanic, before being posted to 97 Squadron in Bourn in 1943, and his first involvement with the Lancasters of the Pathfinder Squadron.
He tells of Black Thursday, a day of heavy losses for Bomber Command and how it affected him and his fellow ground crew.
Kenneth was then posted to 635 Squadron in March 1944, which was based at Downham Market in Norfolk where they conducted operations to assist the D-Day landings, and then was interviewed to become part of a Meteorological Air Corp team, to gather information about the weather over the Atlantic.
Kenneth was promoted to Flight Sergeant at the end of his service with the Royal Air Force
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Mick Jeffery]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Vivienne Tincombe]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1943]]> 1944]]>
Chris Brockbank]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Cathy Brearley]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> Wales--Pembrokeshire]]> Heathrow Airport (London, England)]]> Page has hand written log of his flights at Empire Air navigation School in 1946, flying in Lancaster, Lancastrian 'Aries' and Halifax. Also a list of the RAF stations he was stationed at from 1939 to 1946.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Wales--Pembrokeshire]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> The code names for the routes are Magnum, Recipe, Rhombus, Bismuth, Mercer, Allah, Sharon, Epicure and Nocturnal.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map]]> Royal Air Force]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Bottom, an airman with an instrument on a tripod, Captioned 'Roger Rackwell', '1946 Chivenor'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> 1946]]> Bottom, photograph of an airwoman looking at meteorological equipment, other equipment in background. Captioned 'Wendy Lord', '1946', 'Chivenor'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> 1946]]> Right, same group standing by corner of building, dry stone wall in immediate background, village background of building, wall and church tower.
Left and centre, two small head and shoulders portraits of Wendy Lord in Women's Auxiliary Air Force uniform, from right side, captioned 'Wendy Lord' and 'Wendy Lord', 'Met office Brawdy'.
Bottom left, a Christmas card with has six children with angel wings around Christmas tree, inscribed 'Wesolych Swiat'.
Bottom right, a photograph of two very small children sitting on a blanket with part of building in background. Captioned '[undecipherable] Bishop's children', 'Mar 1947'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> pol]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> Wales--Pembrokeshire]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1947]]>
Bottom left, is of a bride in wedding dress with veil and flowers standing on path in front of bank of flowers and hedge, captioned 'Doris Batchelor', 'Cook - Chivenor 1945', 'Sep 1946'.
Bottom right, is of a wedding party, two ladies in long dresses with flowers , two men in suits and a young lady in long dress with flowers, standing on grass in front of a tall hedge. Captioned 'Wedding Doris Batchelor', 'Sep 1946'.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> 1946-09]]>
Photograph of three men sitting in shorts and vests on a stony beach. Captioned '[undecipherable]', 'September 1944', 'Millom'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cumbria]]> Northern Ireland--Antrim (County)]]> Great Britain]]> 1944]]> Julian Maslin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Australia]]> Christmas Island]]> Great Britain]]> Iraq]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Hampshire]]> Northern Territory--Darwin]]> Scotland--Stranraer]]> Northern Territory]]> 1943]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-09]]> 1950]]> 1956-02-18]]> 1956-07-10]]> 1957-01-19]]> Adam Sutch]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Schulze]]> Carolyn Emery]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Southeast Asia]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> United States]]> Alabama--Montgomery]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Tunisia]]> Tunisia--Tunis]]> North Africa]]> Julian Maslin]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tilly Foster]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending revision of OH transcription]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Merseyside]]> England--Liverpool]]> England--London]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1941]]> 1945-05-08]]> 1946]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Poland]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-06]]> He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and lists his operations he was involved in.

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WH Brooker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Georgie Donaldson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> New South Wales--Orange]]> Victoria--Geelong]]> New South Wales--Harden]]> Victoria]]> New South Wales--Lismore]]> South Australia--Adelaide]]> Great Britain]]> England--Newcastle upon Tyne]]> England--High Wycombe]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> France--Brest]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> France--Saumur]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Orléans]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Victoria]]> France]]> New South Wales]]> South Australia]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> 1944]]>
Department of Transport - Air Services Branch]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Herkes ]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Training material]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> British Meteorological Offices and Canadian Meteorological Division]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MEdwardsF1805103-180314-070002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MEdwardsF1805103-180314-080002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> 1942-10-19]]> Great Britain. Air Ministry Meteorological Office]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MEdwardsF1805103-180314-090002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Greece]]> Greece--Rhodes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MEdwardsF1805103-180314-110002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Meteorological Office]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> 1945-10]]>
Part 2, "No Problem Sport".Covers Alan Gamble's short flying history over France in 1945 before being shot down, and his experiences as a POW in southern Germany and subsequent liberation. The manuscript of Part 2 appears to be complete except for one or more pages missing about two thirds of the way through. This is at the beginning or the end of a fragment bound by metal clips, and could easily have become detached as the outside pages of some fragments' in Part 3 were also lost. It is therefore possible that only one page is missing.

Part 3. "Nil Desperandum".Covers Alan Gamble's post war experiences up to about 1963. This has not been read.

The manuscript of Part 3 is missing pages 24-86, 120 and 170, the latter two being the outside pages of bound fragments. (Page numbering here has assisted in reconstruction).

Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.





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A T Gamble]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Skegness]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> Wales--Porthmadog]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Barrow-in-Furness]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--North Friesland Region]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> France]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Jordan]]> Jordan--Amman]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-06-17]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-07-03]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-07]]>
Henry Wagner]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Roger Dunsford]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Essen]]> Great Britain]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-11-28]]> 1944-11-29]]>