Description
Object description
19 ms letters, mostly undated, to his mother in Bletchley (December 1942 - 1944) written while serving in the RAF initially as a Corporal with No. 2 Squadron RAF Army Co-operation Command based at RAF Sawbridgeworth (December 1942), and at No. 5 Air Observer School at Jurby in the Isle of Man (? before January 1944) and as an Air Gunner with the rank of Flight Sergeant at RAF Woodhall Spa with No. 617 Squadron RAF (from after January 1944) until his death in action on 31 July 1944 during an attack on a V weapon storage depot near Rheims; papers relating to his death, including telegrams reporting him missing, letters from Wing Commander J B Tait, commanding No. 617 Squadron RAF, letters from the Red Cross and the Air Ministry relating to his likely place of burial, and a letter, dated 20 June 1945, from Flight Lieutenant William Reid VC describing the circumstances of Holt's death and his own escape from the aircraft in which they were flying after it had been hit first by enemy fire and then by a bomb from an aircraft above; together with 7 letters, telegrams and cards (January 1942 - January 1946) from his brother Lance Corporal F G Holt mainly written while serving with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Middle East and as a prisoner of war in Germany (? from 1944); papers relating to the death of his father, H Holt, a driver with 59th Division Ammunition Column, RFA, in September 1918; and family photographs including photographs of both brothers in uniform and A A Holt's wedding photograph.
Content description
19 ms letters, mostly undated, to his mother in Bletchley (December 1942 - 1944) written while serving in the RAF initially as a Corporal with No. 2 Squadron RAF Army Co-operation Command based at RAF Sawbridgeworth (December 1942), and at No. 5 Air Observer School at Jurby in the Isle of Man (? before January 1944) and as an Air Gunner with the rank of Flight Sergeant at RAF Woodhall Spa with No. 617 Squadron RAF (from after January 1944) until his death in action on 31 July 1944 during an attack on a V weapon storage depot near Rheims; papers relating to his death, including telegrams reporting him missing, letters from Wing Commander J B Tait, commanding No. 617 Squadron RAF, letters from the Red Cross and the Air Ministry relating to his likely place of burial, and a letter, dated 20 June 1945, from Flight Lieutenant William Reid VC describing the circumstances of Holt's death and his own escape from the aircraft in which they were flying after it had been hit first by enemy fire and then by a bomb from an aircraft above; together with 7 letters, telegrams and cards (January 1942 - January 1946) from his brother Lance Corporal F G Holt mainly written while serving with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Middle East and as a prisoner of war in Germany (? from 1944); papers relating to the death of his father, H Holt, a driver with 59th Division Ammunition Column, RFA, in September 1918; and family photographs including photographs of both brothers in uniform and A A Holt's wedding photograph.
History note
Cataloguer AAM
History note
Catalogue date 2000-03-23
