Description
Object description
Collection of ms diaries, letters and other documents relating to his service as a Leading Aircraftman with No 267 Squadron RAF in North Africa (1942), Palestine (1943), Italy (1944) and the Far East (1945), January 1942 - October 1945, briefly describing his initial overseas posting, embarkation leave, RAF life and routine, the voyage to North Africa via Durban and shipboard life, the different planes he worked on, levels of morale, periods of hospitalisation, recreational activities including cinema trips and seeing Marlene Dietrich, lessons in Italian and mathematics, leave and sightseeing in Cairo and Jerusalem. The papers include letters from his local MP to servicemen in general thanking them for their service and discussing post-war plans and employment, together with photographs, 1945 election leaflets, official passes and forms including some relating to post-war training, a certificate of pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, various notes and orders, his RAF service and release books, tickets and other ephemera and birthday cards.
Content description
Collection of ms diaries, letters and other documents relating to his service as a Leading Aircraftman with No 267 Squadron RAF in North Africa (1942), Palestine (1943), Italy (1944) and the Far East (1945), January 1942 - October 1945, briefly describing his initial overseas posting, embarkation leave, RAF life and routine, the voyage to North Africa via Durban and shipboard life, the different planes he worked on, levels of morale, periods of hospitalisation, recreational activities including cinema trips and seeing Marlene Dietrich, lessons in Italian and mathematics, leave and sightseeing in Cairo and Jerusalem. The papers include letters from his local MP to servicemen in general thanking them for their service and discussing post-war plans and employment, together with photographs, 1945 election leaflets, official passes and forms including some relating to post-war training, a certificate of pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, various notes and orders, his RAF service and release books, tickets and other ephemera and birthday cards.
History note
Cataloguer KB
History note
Catalogue date 2002-05-17