I found this entry whilst perusing the saleroom auction site:
With what little information can be gathered from the images it does seem that it may be Bader’s logbook (or a copy thereof) for the 1940 period.
I have contacted the auction house who have given me a reply to the effect that they don’t want to make any comment!
Any thoughts?
Regards
Ian
By: PanzerJohn - 6th January 2018 at 21:45
It’s one of those folder type publications with lots of facsimile documents and such enclosed, rather good. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Britain-Experience-Richard-Overy/dp/0233004521
By: Pete Roberts - 5th January 2018 at 19:22
Battle of Britain thingy? ‘Panzer John’, that looks really interesting – can you help with more information on those items please?
Thanks
PR
By: scotavia - 5th January 2018 at 19:12
real logbooks are not held together by staples, they are bound bookstyle.
By: ian_st - 5th January 2018 at 18:05
Mystery Solved!
Thanks to all and particularly PanzerJohn
By: avion ancien - 5th January 2018 at 16:54
….. and now, perhaps, we know why the auction house ‘don’t want to make any comment’? Caveat emptor.
By: PanzerJohn - 5th January 2018 at 15:55
Funny I have these here… from the Battle of Britain thingy with the facsimile paperwork [ATTACH=CONFIG]258152[/ATTACH]
By: scotavia - 5th January 2018 at 12:36
Original in RAF museum see https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/douglas-bader-fighter-pilot/personal-documents/douglas-baders-log-book-battle-of-britain.aspx
By: Moggy C - 5th January 2018 at 12:34
By: SqL Scramble. - 5th January 2018 at 11:28
The initials on the logbook – D.R.S. a bit too much of a coincidence for the surname to read ‘Baden’, when you consider ‘Douglas Robert Steuart Bader’
By: avion ancien - 5th January 2018 at 11:10
Does the ephemera include any hotel bills? I dare say that these would clinch it!
By: Soggy - 5th January 2018 at 10:54
Doesn’t it belong to one ‘BADEN’ rather than Bader?
By: gedburke3 - 5th January 2018 at 10:26
I am not certain but it looks like the contents of one of those ‘modern’ style books with loose items that slip into envelopes.
I recall that there was a BoB one released a few years ago.
I’m pretty sure that Baders original log book is stored at the National archives.
Gerry
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