WoW! RAFTC items.
Evening gents,
I have struck lucky and come across some more items from Flt Lt Sim of the RAFTC. A great period image of him wearing tropics and a fantastic hand drawn cartoon over several pages covering a trans Atlantic flight in 1942. They will go with the other items I have of his (cap/docs folder/photograph album etc). I am so pleased to have found these pieces and put them back together. Leon.
It's great to see all this man's gear kept together as a whole for future generations, well done Leon on having the forethought to collect it and keep it safe!
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
Yup good man Leon!...
Thanks gent's, I have just mounted up the "cartoon" with the photograph of Flt Lt Sim. Looks good to me! Leon.
You might find this of interest. It's a US immigration entry form from 1943. Cheers, Tom
FK240 was a Liberator:
FK240
John Robert Sim, born in Glendale registration district, Northumberland, on 2nd December 1914. Passed away in Northumberland in January 2007.
Cheers,
Tom
Thank you very much Tom, my "google" searches only confirmed at some point he lived in Berwick upon Tweed, so you have really "moved it on" for me. I really appreciate you taking the time and effort looking this information up for me, Cheers, Leon.
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