Short conversation with Norman Didwell 2
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Short conversation with Norman Didwell 2
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Norman discusses Harry Booth and photograph of Fred Calcraft? taken at RAF Mildenhall in 1938.
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ND: Harry Booth.
SB: Yeah.
ND: Harry joined the squadron from training. Flight engineer err flight mech engines. Harry was on the squadron when I joined it in June and he was an LAC 1 GC then.
SB: Right.
ND: And he was right with the squadron right through until the end of the war and just before the end of the war he got made corporal.
SB: Right. And that’s him on the right.
ND: That’s, that’s Harry. Harry Booth. That’s Forsyth.
SB: The bloke on the left is Forsyth.
ND: And that is dear old Fred [Kelker]
SB: Right.
ND: Who, he come from Grimsby. [Kelk]
SB: And that’s at Mildenhall in.
ND: That was taken in 1938.
SB: Right. Ok. Nice picture that.
ND: She was a nice girl the girl he married. I’ve got another photo, some photographs of him somewhere and I can’t find it. But I got on very well with him because I worked on, as I say they were —
SB: Yeah.
ND: Harry joined the squadron from training. Flight engineer err flight mech engines. Harry was on the squadron when I joined it in June and he was an LAC 1 GC then.
SB: Right.
ND: And he was right with the squadron right through until the end of the war and just before the end of the war he got made corporal.
SB: Right. And that’s him on the right.
ND: That’s, that’s Harry. Harry Booth. That’s Forsyth.
SB: The bloke on the left is Forsyth.
ND: And that is dear old Fred [Kelker]
SB: Right.
ND: Who, he come from Grimsby. [Kelk]
SB: And that’s at Mildenhall in.
ND: That was taken in 1938.
SB: Right. Ok. Nice picture that.
ND: She was a nice girl the girl he married. I’ve got another photo, some photographs of him somewhere and I can’t find it. But I got on very well with him because I worked on, as I say they were —
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S Bond and N Didwell, “Short conversation with Norman Didwell 2,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 16, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.omeka.net/collections/document/49113.