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D G Smith]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Royal Air Force]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Leicester]]> 1941-12-23]]> 1942-01-09]]> M Adder]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Diary]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Hull]]> England--London]]> England--Scarborough]]> England--Manchester]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1942-02-28]]> 1942-04-25]]> 1942-09]]> E W Scott]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Lincoln]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--London]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Stratford-upon-Avon]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Manchester]]> Scotland--Glasgow]]> Canada]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> United States]]> Georgia--Albany]]> Florida--Arcadia]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> North Africa]]> Algeria]]> Algeria--Blida]]> Tunisia]]> Tunisia--Qayrawān]]> Middle East--Palestine]]> Middle East--Jerusalem]]> West Bank--Bethlehem]]> Israel--Tel Aviv]]> Israel--Haifa]]> Italy]]> Italy--Foggia]]> Romania]]> Romania--Ploiești]]> Slovenia]]> Slovenia--Maribor]]> Poland]]> Poland--Opole (Voivodeship)]]> Germany]]> Germany--Potsdam]]> England--Shropshire]]> Florida]]> Georgia]]> New Brunswick]]> Israel]]> West Bank]]> England--Lancashire]]> Danube River]]> 1941-02]]> 1941-10]]> 1941-11-03]]> 1941-12]]> 1942-01-06]]> 1942-01]]> 1942-02-09]]> 1942-03-24]]> 1942-05]]> 1942-06]]> 1942-07-02]]> 1942-11]]> 1943-04-19]]> 1943-05-27]]> 1943-06-09]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-10-21]]> 1945-03]]> #1 is call up papers
#2 is Conditions of Entry into the RAF
#3 is a ration card for sweets and cigarettes
#4 is a photograph of Ernest and his crew at RAF Silverstone. 'Ft Bill Bouskille, Don Boon, Ron Warren. Bk. Harry Horner, Bruce Maund and me.']]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]>
W Brookes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> Scotland--Moray]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Saint-Vith]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Great Britain. The secretary of state for air]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> 1942-06-22]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Westmorland]]> England--Appleby-in-Westmorland]]> 1941-08-15]]> A Gaunt]]> J Smith]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Spalding]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Liverpool]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> South Africa--Durban]]> India]]> India--Mumbai]]> Iraq]]> Iraq--Baṣrah]]> United Arab Emirates]]> Iraq--Ḥabbānīyah]]> Gaza Strip--Gaza]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Alexandria]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Heilbronn]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Poland]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Houffalize]]> Germany--Wolfsburg (Lower Saxony)]]> France]]> France--Royan]]> Czech Republic]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Atlantic Ocean--Oslofjorden]]> Germany--Würzburg]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Egypt]]> Gaza Strip]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Czech Republic--Most]]> United Arab Emirates--Shāriqah (Emirate)]]> 1937]]> 1940-09]]> 1940-11-04]]> 1941-03]]> 1941-08-31]]> 1943-02]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-08-24]]> 1944-11-09]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-19]]> 1944-12]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-04]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-02-23]]> 1945-03-14]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-03-23]]> 1945-04-03]]> 1945-04-23]]> 1945-05-06]]> 1945-05]]> A Gaunt]]> J Smith]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Spalding]]> England--Cheshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Liverpool]]> South Africa]]> South Africa--Cape Town]]> South Africa--Durban]]> India]]> India--Mumbai]]> Iraq]]> Iraq--Baṣrah]]> United Arab Emirates]]> Iraq--Ḥabbānīyah]]> Gaza Strip--Gaza]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Alexandria]]> England--Herefordshire]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Heilbronn]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Poland]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Houffalize]]> Germany--Wolfsburg (Lower Saxony)]]> France]]> France--Royan]]> Czech Republic]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Atlantic Ocean--Oslofjorden]]> Germany--Würzburg]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> Germany--Flensburg]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Egypt]]> Gaza Strip]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Czech Republic--Most]]> United Arab Emirates--Shāriqah (Emirate)]]> 1937]]> 1940-09]]> 1940-11-04]]> 1941-03]]> 1941-08-31]]> 1943-02]]> 1943-12]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-08-24]]> 1944-11-09]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-06]]> 1944-12-19]]> 1944-12]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1945-01-01]]> 1945-01-04]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-02-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-20]]> 1945-02-23]]> 1945-03-14]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-03-23]]> 1945-04-03]]> 1945-04-23]]> 1945-05-06]]> 1945-05]]>
She also discusses her research into her family's history and the connections between the Carby family, Coleby in Lincolnshire and slavery in the Caribbean, for her book, Imperial Intimacies. ]]>
Heather Hughes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Julie Williams]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Sound]]> Second generation]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Coastal Command]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Jamaica]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany--Essen]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> New Brunswick]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1947]]>
Tom Payne]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hemel Hempstead]]> England--Herefordshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain. The secretary of state for air]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> 1941-10-04]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> Western Australia--Perth]]> Western Australia]]> 1943-01-15]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1938-11-04]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Physical object]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> 1940-08-27]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> 1940-12-06]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Poetry]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> P Potter]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Essex]]> England--Stanford-le-Hope]]> England--London]]> England--Shropshire]]> Wales--Carmarthenshire]]> Wales--Kidwelly]]> T J Page]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Kent]]> England--Ramsgate]]> England--Middlesex]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Slough]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> England--Greater Manchester]]> England--Oldham]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Italy]]> Italy--La Spezia]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Friesland]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> Italy--Turin]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> Egypt]]> Zimbabwe]]> Pakistan]]> England--Morecambe]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Middle East--Euphrates River]]> Middle East--Tigris River]]> Germany--Juist Island]]> 1939-09]]> 1940-01]]> 1940-07-19]]> 1940-12]]> 1941-07]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1942-10]]> 1943-02-20]]> 1943-02-26]]> 1943-03-06]]> 1943-03-26]]> 1943-03-31]]> 1943-04-12]]> 1943-04-13]]> 1943-03]]> 1943-04-26]]> 1943-04-28]]> 1943-05-13]]> 1943-07-12]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-20]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1947-02-16]]> 1948-06-03]]> 1940-01]]> 1954-04-09]]> 1956]]> 1958-04-01]]> 1968-05-06]]> T J Page]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Fighter Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Kent]]> England--Canterbury]]> England--Ramsgate]]> England--Middlesex]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Slough]]> England--Shropshire]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Derby]]> England--Greater Manchester]]> England--Oldham]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Friesland]]> Czech Republic]]> Czech Republic--Plzeň]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Lancashire]]> Germany--Juist Island]]> 1939-09-03]]> 1940-01]]> 1940-07-19]]> 1941-07]]> 1942-05-02]]> 1943-02-26]]> 1943-03-06]]> 1943-03-26]]> 1943-04-26]]> 1943-05-13]]> 1943-07-12]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-20]]> 1944-04]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1947-02-16]]> Henry Wagner]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> He passed through the Aircrew Reception Centre in London, Brighton, and Liverpool, Henry found himself sailing to Durban, South Africa. He tried to become a pilot but failed a test in a Tiger Moth so was placed in the Navigational Training School. He met Graham Walker while there. On 23 December 1943 Henry became a Sergeant with a Navigator’s brevet. (Navigator brevet p27).
After moving through RAF West Freugh, Scotland, Henry was then posted to the OTU RAF Abingdon to learn more complex skills in addition to lectures about the Luftwaffe, Intelligence information and ‘Escape and Evasion’. Henry crewed up at Abingdon. (Photographs of crew p 34-5). The next move was to 4 Group Training School, and this confirmed for the crew that they would be flying Halifax Mark 3 aircraft. Here lectures were ‘all good stuff’.
The penultimate move was to 1952 HCU RAF Marston Moor to learn about the Halifax Mark 3 and meet Sergeant Eric Berry, flight engineer. (Photograph p37). Henry describes the duties of the navigator, the use of the ‘Master Bomber’, some of the anti-aircraft techniques that were used in the technological war. (Photograph using of the H2S p39, pieces of the ‘Window’ radar defence p50).
Finally, they moved to RAF Snaith. There Henry took part in raids on Julich near Essen x 2, Hagen (an aborted mission), Soest, in the Ruhr Valley, Duisburg x 2, Aachen, Munster, and Osnabruck. There was a degree of acceptance that they were statistically going to die during their duties.
Henry was returning from a raid when he appraised the pilot that there was a fire onboard. The pilot to decide to abandon the aeroplane, and Henry parachuted from his plane. He landed in the garden of a domestic house and explains the contents of his evasion-pack. He was captured, moved to the Aircrew Interrogation Centre was in Oberursel and then onto Stalag Luft 7 Bankau, Silesia. Here he rejoined John Trumble with whom Henry had undergone part of his training. There was an army padre at the camp and the influence Captain John Collins had on the POWs both at Stalag Luft 7 and when the men were marching to other camps is described. They arrived at Stalag 3A, Luckenwaldwe. Henry describes Red Cross parcel, daily life there, attacks of dysentery, and ‘Goon-baiting’.
When the ‘gen’ revealed the Russians were only 12 miles from the camp, the Germans abandoned them, and RAF Wing Commander Beamont assumed command of the camp. On 22 April 1945, the Russians arrived. They refused to release the POWs, so Henry and John walked 7 miles westwards where they were met by the Americans and taken to the Reception Centre, Schonebeck.
With VE declared and de-lousing completed they were returned to RAF Wing, Aylebury. He shows the graves of his crew (photographs p 99-101).
On demobbing Henry resumed his university studies and became a teacher. He married and had children. Henry went to a Stalag Luft 7 reunion in 1982.

Claire Campbell]]>
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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).

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