We are recruiting you for Operation Gratitude, to join us in our fight against loneliness. Can you to write a letter or make a card to a veteran to let them know they are not alone in these challenging times?
You could:
Write about your day
Share your Favourite Jokes and stories
Draw a picture of where you live
Draw a picture of a Bomber Crew
Make a VE Day Card
Write about your hobbies
Don’t forget to include your first name and age inside the card so we know who you are! Then pop it in an envelope with another blank, stamped envelope and post it to:
Operation Gratitude
International Bomber Command Centre
Canwick Avenue
Lincoln
LN4 2HQ
Betty Walker, nee Gledhill, born Bradford 1923. My mother enlisted in the WRAF as soon as she was old enough, seeing it as a big adventure then spending most of the war in Lincolnshire as a driver, and told me many stories about that time when I was a child. She was shown how to […]
CHRISTIAN, Sgt. (W.Op/Air Gnr) HENRY LISLE 41572 R.N.Z.A.F. 289 (R.A.F.) Squadron Henry Lisle Christian was born in Owhango, central North Island, New Zealand on 18 May 1916, the only child of Henry Christian, a native of the Isle of Man, and his wife Hilda (née Jacobsen). His father, Henry senior, was working in the Owhango […]
Transcript of Robert Jefcoate’s diary of time in Burma, originally sent to Charles Savage and recorded by Amelia Jefcoate. We left England on 2nd January 1942 and on 23rd reached our destination at a drome in South Sumatra. This trip out was all sand and sea, sand-sea until we hit Burma and then it was […]
