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Banks, Peter
P Banks
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IBCC Digital Archive
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eng
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Banks, P
Description
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17 items. The collection relates to James Henry Banks (b. 1916, 519903 Royal Air Force). He enlisted in the RAF 25 April 1935 and served as a photographer. The collection consists of two multiple page photograph albums, his service and pay book, his driving licence, statement of service and certificate of discharge, a NAAFI pass belonging to his wife, Grace Emily Banks, a pocket watch, loose photographs, and letters regarding his attempt to re-enlist in the RAF between 1948 and 1950. Also contains a RAF pocket book.<br /><br />This collection includes two albums:
<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/141" title="Album one" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Album one</a> contains photographs pre-war Harts and Harrow aircraft, of the RAF Advanced Air Striking Force in France in 1940, 2 Group aircraft and targets, and a number of aerial photographs of cities and targets in the Ruhr and the Low countries taken at low level during a sightseeing Cooks tour after VE Day. <br /><br /><a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/163" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Album two</a> consists of a number of post-war photographs of RAF Seletar, Singapore, Burma and Cambodia.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0px;">The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Peter Banks and catalogued by Barry Hunter and Nigel Huckins, with further identification kindly provided by the Archeologi dell'Aria research group (<a href="https://www.archeologidellaria.org/">https://www.archeologidellaria.org</a>)<span>.</span></p>
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R.A.F. RECORD OFFICE,
ROYAL AIR FORCE,
GLOUCESTER.
12 September, 1950
8A/RFR/519903
Dear Sir,
Further to my letter dated 21st August, 1950, in connection with your application to re-join the R.A.F.
2. Your application has again been carefully considered by the Air Ministry and, whilst it is gratifying to know that you have re-settled well in civilian life, and that your health is now good, it must be stressed that there is a strong risk of your breakdown under service conditions. It is regretted, therefore, that it has not been found possible to accept the offer of your services.
3. Permit me to take this opportunity of thanking you for your offer to serve again, and to assure you that this rejection is occasioned solely by service medical requirements and that there is no adverse reflection whatever on your previous service.
Yours faithfully,
[signature]
for Group Captain Commanding,
R.A.F. Record Office, Gloucester.
Mr. J.H. Banks,
28 Sturdee Avenue,
Kings Way,
IPSWICH Suffolk.
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Letter to James Banks from Royal Air Force Records Office
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From Group Captain in command of records office. Further to previous letter noting that while Mr Banks application to re-join the Royal Air Force had been considered, and that his health was now good, there was a risk of breakdown under service conditions. It was regretted that Mr Banks offer of service could not be accepted.
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1950-09-12
Language
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eng
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Text. Correspondence
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ERAFROCoBanksJH500912
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Royal Air Force
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1950-09
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Great Britain
England--Suffolk
England--Ipswich
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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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One-page typewritten document
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David Bloomfield