A loose leaf diary detailing WD Walker's daily life including study, medical duties, travel and personal routine. This item covers locations around ukDigby (United Kingdom) and environs.
Photographs include:
- WD Walker at ukDigby sickquarters 5 July 1933
- Digby Commanding Officers parade from roof 7 July 1933
- remains of P/O Tomlinson's crashed plane at Digby 9 July 1933
- railway engine at ukPeterborough 21 July 1933
- Digby air station, Jaguar enging on crane, the hangers with Atlas aircraft, Siskin and F3 aircraft 25 July 1933
- ukDigby mess antiroom 26 July 1933
- Happy, F/Lt Major, S/Ldr Dalison, Stowell, F/Lt Titmas, Group Captain Maund, Geoffrey Cock, F/Lt Smythies and S/Ldr Darbishire at ukDigby 27 July 1933
- German nudist photographs 29 July 1933
- WD Walker self portrait in ukDigby room 4 August 1933
- flashlight photographs of room at ukDigby 5 August 1933
- Digby village and church, sun dial 13 August 1933
- hay stacks and harvesting at Ashby de la Launde 16 August 1933
Individuals, subject matter and locations noted include:
- ukLincoln, Carnegie Free Library, Tennyson, Director of Australian Medical Services in Relation to the Air, camera, John Titmas 1 June 1933
- S/Ldr Brown and F/O Woodhouse, Filton, Siskin to get a Bulldog, Vivienne Titmas, Illingworth and Dick, Grantham, Miss Young 2 June 1933
- news clipping the London Daily Express dated 5 June 1933 headline 87 degrees and more sun today: warmest Whitsun Holiday since 1899. Thousands sleeping out. Annotated in red and blue pencil
- news clipping the London Daily Telegraph dated 5 June 1933. Headline Liverpool's Great new Cathedral. Reverse headline The King's Birthday. Official dinners
- Peter May and Sgt Bredenkamp, crazy flying at Hendon 6 June 1933
- Sleaford, Mrs Barber, F/Lt Toogood, flying lesson, Spragues, Cranwell 7 June 1933
- flying lesson F/Lt Toogood 8 June 1933
- S/Ldr Barber, F/Lt Major 9 June 1933
- Jimmy Tooley, Vivienne Titmas 10 June 1933. This item is restrictricted.
- Mrs Deaton, Len Deaton, Donald MacKay, Central Australia Survey 11 June 1933. This item is restricted.
- Gray Hill, Trethowar, Cashalton 12 June 1933
- F/Lt Hoover, Peter May, Sgt Bredenkamp, F/O Pearson, crazy flying, F/Lt Powell, F/Lt Major, Grantham 13 June 1933
- F/Lt Toogood, flying lesson, James Alexander, financial position, four hundred and sixty one pounds in debt 14 June 1933
- Cranwell air crash, F/Lt Toogood, flying lesson 15 June 1933
- Joan Titterton, F/Lt Toogood, flying lesson, Mrs Toogood 16 June 1933. This item is restricted.
- P/O Kirkpatrick, Mrs Wright, Mrs Barber, Miss Gun, S/Ldr Barber, tennis, F/Lt Toogood 17 June 1933. This item is restricted.
- Jimmy Tooley 18 June 1933. This item is restricted.
- F/Lt Toogood, flying lesson, Villiers air crash, Lord Knebworth, Hendon 19 June 1933
- S/Ldr Rhodes, flying lesson, F/Lt Smythies, Hendon air show, Peeling and van Neck, voigtlander camera 20 June 1933
- Villiers air crash funeral, 21 June 1933
- Cranwell, xray of tooth, Villiers air crash funeral, P/O Thurston, Huntley, F/Lt Smythies 22 June 1933. This item is restricted.
- S/Ldr Barber, P/O Thurston 23 June 1933
- Peeling and van Neck, F/Lt Smythies, Raymond Firth, Aboriginal Report, Hendon, F/Lt Stainforth, Peter May, Sgt Bredenkamp, Bert Cleland 24 June 1933
- Cranwell, F/O Darbishire, Robins, P/O Thurston, S/Ldr Dickinson, Watson, Anderson, Harrison, S/Ldr Rhodes, F/Lt Toogood 27 June 1933. This item is restrictred,
- medical examination of athletes, Tait (runner), Huddestone (boxer), S/Ldr Barber, Aboriginal report, Peter Dawson, Mollie, elected life member of the SA CWA, Mr Mallyon died 28 June 1933
- Mrs Foster, Sgt Foster, F/Lt Major, Geoff Overbury, F/O Pearson, Paddy Gaynor 29 June 1933. This item is restricted.
- Mrs Chapman, F/Lt Major, flying lesson, lecture "Glimpses of the Interior" 30 June 1933
- F/Lt Hayes and Paddy Gaynor 1 July 1933. This item is restricted.
- F/Lt Titmas, Bobby Stowell, Mrs Titmas 2 July 1933. This item is restricted.
- Mrs Major, F/Lt Major 3 July 1933. This item is restricted.
- P/O Tomlinson, P/O Fear, P/O Kennedy court of inquiry, Skegness, Italian Air Armada, Gen Balbo, F/Lt Major, Atlas, flying lesson 4 July 1933
- 2 roneoed sheets "Orderly Officers Report" annotated in red pencil "2FTS ukDigby" list of pilots
- foolscap duplicated sheet headed "Bomb Aimers Form 3073 incorporating a compass rose annotated with a flight path
- Wing Commander Biggs, S/Ldr Barber, FRCS, F/Lt Major, flying lessons 5 July 1933
- S/Ldr Butler, F/Lt Titmas, Group Captain Maund 6 July 1933
- S/Ldr Cock, F/Lt Major, Kirkpatrick, WO Claydon, Sgt Carter, Lt Goold, Private Wilson, Mrs Titmas, Cpl Stubberfield, Mrs Drage, Mrs Watt, Mrs Rymill, Mrs Hill, Lady Sowden, Lady Campion, Lady Aberdeen, Mrs Zimmern, Mrs Blackall, John Flynn, financial position dire, International Country Women's conference at Stockholm, Canadian National Salon, Dr Hewlett Johnson, Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Crawford, Vines, Porton, 'Gas Experimentation' (poison gas trials) 7 July 1933
- medical examination of athletes ongoing, Helen Wills, Dorothy Round, CG Grey 8 July 1933
- 'consider the swallows of the air, they stall not neither do they spin' 9 July 1933
- Sir Philip Sassoon 10 July 1933
- F/Lt Major, flying lesson, CG Grey 11 July 1933
- John Flynn 12 July 1933
- Private Wilson, Scopwick 13 July 1933
- LAC Jellibrand, F/Lt Toogood, F/Lt Major, F/O Slatterley 14 July 1933
- S/Ldr Barber, Capt Geoffrey de Haviland, Cpl Bagot, Cranwell 15 July 1933. This item is restricted.
- LAC Cartwright, Atlas 16 July 1933
- Wing Commander Biggs, S/Ldr Barber, Villiers air crash 17 July 1933
- Air Vice Marshall Languire, LAC Bunner, P/O McGhie, Mrs Maund 18 July 1933
- James Alexander, Mr Cook, Flight, the Flying Doctor 19 July 1933
- James Alexander, Dr Cordiner, Royal Northern Hospital, CG Grey, Rocyn Jones 20 July 1933. This item is restricted.
- Private Wilson 21 July 1933
- edited the Flying Doctor article for Flight 22 July 1933
- rafSavage 23 July 1933. This item is restricted.
- Air Vice Marshall Languire, S/Ldr Barber, Sgt Carter 24 July 1933
- flying lesson 25 July 1933
- S/Ldr Barber, Alastair Morrison, Cranwell, the gardiner Gray, F/O Slattery, P/O Fear, P/O Kennedy, F/Lt Smythies 26 July 1933
- Alastair Morrison, Geoffrey Cock, F/Lt Gaynor, rCharlton 27 July 1933
- F/Lt Major, F/Sgt Donaldson, Mrs Lambert, F/Lt Hayes, S/Ldr Darbishire 28 July 1933. This item is restricted.
- Bigelow, Bobby Stowell, Sgt Gentry, Flight reprint editing 29 July 1933
- P/O Kennedy, P/O Fear, Wiley Post 30 July 1933
- F/Sgt Macdonald, F/Lt Smythies, voigtlander camera, Peeling and van Neck 31 July 1933. This item is restricted.
- Cranwell, Atlas, Paddy Gaynor, Charlesworth 1 August 1933
- P/O Kennedy, P/O Tomlinson, F/Lt Smythies, S/Ldr Cock, Bobbie Stowell 3 August 1933
- P/O Tomlinson, P/O Fear, P/O Kennedy 4 August 1933
- Mrs Kirby 5 August 1933
- Mrs ,Carter, S/Ldr Morton 7 August 1933. This item is restricted.
- P/O Tomlinson, P/O Fear, P/O Kennedy, Private Wilson, Mrs Lambert, Mollie, 8 August 1933
- Titmas 9 August 1933
- Cranwell, F/Lt Webb, Bobbie Stowell, F/Lt Gaynor, Charleston, F/Lt Smythies, S/Ldr darbishire, S/Ldr Cock, S/Ldr Rhodes, F/Lt Gaynor, Mollie, 10 August 1933
- S/Ldr Rhodes, flying lesson, Mrs Lambert, F/Lt Titherington, Joan Titherington 12 August 1933
- George Madock 13 August 1933
- Mrs Baldock, attended court marshal for P/O Tomlinson, P/O Fear, P/O Kennedy 14 August 1933. This item is restricted.
- S/Ldr Barber, Mrs Lambert 15 August 1933
- roneoed foolscap extract from Daily Routine Orders dated 11 August 1933 relating to court marshal for P/O Tomlinson, P/O Fear, P/O Kennedy list of pilots
- roneoed foolscap extract from Daily Routine Orders dated 4 September 1933 relating to court marshal for P/O Fear, P/O Kennedy
- Parsons Bus Service, S/Ldr Tomson, Grantham, Wing Commander Biggs, S/Ldr Barber 16 August 1933
- S/Ldr Rhodes, flying lesson, S/Ldr Barber 17 August 1933
- roneoed foolscap notice of change of mess rules dated 18 May 1933
- S/Ldr Rhodes, Major Brackley 18 August 1933
- Johnston, The Railway to Nowhere, Kenneth Quintrel, Wing Commander Williamson, Mr Christy 19 August 1933
- Charleson, John Flynn 20 August 1933
- Rhoda Lees, Ronald Arthur Lees, Baden Powell 21 August 1933
- Cpl Bagot, Welton, motor crash, Grantham 23 August 1933
- Mrs White, Cranwell, Sgt White, Cpl Stubberfield 1929, F/Lt Hayes 24 August 1933. This item is restricted.
- Winnett Orr, Theobald, Leslie Harris 27 August 1933
- Cranwell, John Young, Geoffrey Cock, Ruskington, Mrs Cock 28 August 1933
- Typed instructions for the Duty Orderly, ukDigby, issued by WD Walker and signed by medical staff, Sgt Carter, Cpl Beighton, LAC Coles and AC Laws dated 31 August 1933
- typed audit report for medical stores ukDigby dated 29 August 1933
- F/Lt Smythies, flying lesson, AC Laws, Johnston, Lord Apsley, Col Lennard 29 August 1933
- Dr Rendall, S/Ldr Barber, Armstrong Whitworth 30 August 1931
- F/Lt Guy Hayes, flying lesson 31 August 1933
Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/4/15/3
Date Range:
01 June, 1933
-
31 August, 1933
Quantity:
1cm,
Formats: Newspaper Clippings, Diaries, Indexes
Series:
AA357/04