IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Norway--Stavanger]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> Atlantic Ocean--Helgoland Bight]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Elgin]]> Norway--Hardanger]]> England--Runnymede]]> France]]> Sudan]]> North Africa]]> Germany]]> Norway]]> England--Surrey]]> Sudan--ʻAṭbarah]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Geleen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> 1940-12-10]]> 1942-01]]> 1944-12-23]]> 1942-12-20]]> 1942-12-21]]> 1944-04-01]]> 1945-04-21]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> 1944-04-19]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Royal Air Force ex-Prisoner of War Association. Batchelder, HE]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Bonn]]> Netherlands]]> Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany]]> 1942-06-16]]> 1942-06-17]]> 207 Squadron association]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Germany]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-22]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jayne L Bailey]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--London]]> Germany]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> France]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Sainte-Mère-Eglise]]> 1943-11]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-05-06]]> 1944-06]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1945-06-24]]> 1945-06-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> A Yates]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lakenheath]]> Germany--Freising]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Görlitz (Görlitz)]]> Poland--Łambinowice]]> Poland]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Suffolk]]> 1942-09-10]]> 1942-09-11]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1945-04-29]]> Pat Jackson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> MAnkersonR[Ser#-DoB]-180129-610002,
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Cromer]]> Germany]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> France--Troyes]]> Germany--Aachen]]> France--Paris]]> England--Kent]]> Germany--Pforzheim]]> Denmark]]> England--Berkshire]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Liège]]> France]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-12]]> 1944]]> 1945]]>
Right - view from behind of pilot in left hand in cockpit of an aircraft with head and shoulders of another airman on the right. Captioned 'At the controls of a Whitley Mk 5'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> France--La Pallice]]> He describes their capture, mistreatment and interrogations at various locations. After interrogations at Dulag Luft they were sent to a transit camp in Frankfurt then on by train to Heydekrug, Stalag Luft VI. Although their camp section was new it was cramped and basic. He describes camp life in detail. As the Russians got closer they were sent by train to an Army camp at Thorn. He read a copy of NCO education in the camp. These courses were extremely popular and supported by text books sent from the UK. Exams were sat and papers sent to the UK for marking. At Thorn they marched to Stammlager 357 but not for long. They then marched back to the railway and were sent to Fallingbostel. He describes the rail journey in detail, then in greater detail he describes camp life.
Later he was moved to an officer's camp at Eichstadt. This turned out to be an Army camp which refused them and they were sent to Sagan. He stayed there for a short time then was moved to Stalag Luft 3, then 111A. As the Russians neared they moved again. After a couple of days waiting in trucks they returned to their camp. The railway system was breaking down as the end of the war neared.
After the Russians reached them they were allowed out of the camp but still remained billeted there. He writes about his impressions of the Russians.
His journey home was delayed by rain that did not allow aircraft to fly.
His story ends with his retelling of the night his aircraft was shot down, his night in Brussels and his return to England.]]>
Alan McInnes]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Australia]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lichfield]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Stendal]]> Switzerland]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Lithuania--Šilutė]]> Poland]]> Italy]]> Canada]]> United States]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Poland--Toruń]]> Greece]]> Greece--Crete]]> Poland--Vistula River]]> England--Staverton (Northamptonshire)]]> Germany--Bad Fallingbostel]]> Poland--Żagań]]> Poland--Bydgoszcz]]> Poland--Poznań]]> Germany--Pasewalk]]> Germany--Neubrandenburg]]> Germany--Stavenhagen]]> Germany--Malchin (Landkreis)]]> Germany--Güstrow]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Lübeck]]> Germany--Eichstätt]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Eisenach]]> Germany--Fürth (Bavaria)]]> Germany--Treuchtlingen]]> Germany--Ingolstadt]]> Germany--Regensburg]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Plauen]]> Poland--Wrocław]]> New South Wales--Sydney]]> Victoria--Melbourne]]> New South Wales]]> India--Jammu and Kashmir]]> China]]> England--London]]> Germany--Elbe]]> Germany--Potsdam]]> Germany--Jüterbog]]> Ukraine--Odesa]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Halle an der Saale]]> Belgium--Brussels]]> England--Brighton]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Ukraine]]> Germany--Luckenwalde]]> Poland--Poznań]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hof (Hof)]]> 1944-01-21]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Robin Christian]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Germany]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Hameln]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Oranienburg]]> Germany--Stendal]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> France]]> France--Neufchâteau]]> Germany--Rüsselsheim]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Worms]]> Germany--Pforzheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-24]]> 1943-10-14]]> 1943-10-18]]> 1943-10-19]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-04]]> 1943-11-17]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1943-12-21]]> 1944-01-30]]> 1944-01-31]]> 1944-02-19]]> 1944-02-20]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-02-26]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-04-28]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-07-29]]> 1944-08-25]]> 1944-08-26]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1945-01-08]]> 1945-01-09]]> 1945-01-28]]> 1945-01-29]]> 1944-02-21]]> 1944-02-22]]> 1944-02-23]]> 1944-02-24]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-17]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> France--Chartres]]> Czech Republic]]> 1943-08-15]]> 1945-04-21]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> CC BY-NC 4.0 International license]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Denmark]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Denmark--Region Sjælland]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Bingen (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Saxony]]> Scotland--Lossiemouth]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-10-31]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-11-28]]> 1944-11-29]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1944-12-01]]> 1944-12-02]]> 1944-12-03]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1944-12-09]]> 1944-12-22]]> 1944-12-23]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-12]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]>