GB 0099 KCLMA Hall - HALL, Sqn Ldr John Anthony Sanderson 1921-2003

1 volume or 0.01m3

GB 0099 KCLMA Hall 2005 Collection level 1 volume or 0.01m3 Hall , John Anthony Sanderson , 1921-2003 , Squadron Leader

Born 1921, Oxford; educated Leighton Park School, Reading, and British Institute in Paris, 1934-1939; joined Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 1940; commissioned as Pilot Officer, Sept 1941; joined 85 Squadron, Feb 1942; Flying Officer, Sept 1942; Flight Lieutenant, Sept 1943; joined 488 New Zealand Squadron, Allied Expeditionary Airforce, Nov 1943; Acting Squadron Leader, Sept 1945; retired with rank of Squadron Leader, Nov 1946; died 2003.

Presented to the Centre by the family, September 2005 and June 2006.

John Hall: A Memoir by Alison Fenton (Oxfordshire: The Charlbury Press, 2005). Includes descriptions of Royal Air Force training in night flying and air gunnery, 1940; defending the British coastline from incoming bombers; providing air cover for the D-Day landings, 1944; and providing air support for the British Liberation Army, including for the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. Includes text of `Pilots Personal Combat Report', 21 January 1944, describing combat with a Dornier Do 217 and Junkers Ju 88 over English Channel; and text of BBC broadcast by John Hall about his experiences of night flying, 14 February 1944.

1 volume

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.
English

Summary guide entry on-line.

Decorations: DFC plus Bar
Compiled by Katharine Higgon in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997. July 2007 Wars (events) Hall , John Anthony Sanderson , 1921-2003 , Squadron Leader International conflicts RAF , Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force War World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)

Presented to the Centre by the family, September 2005 and June 2006.

John Hall: A Memoir by Alison Fenton (Oxfordshire: The Charlbury Press, 2005). Includes descriptions of Royal Air Force training in night flying and air gunnery, 1940; defending the British coastline from incoming bombers; providing air cover for the D-Day landings, 1944; and providing air support for the British Liberation Army, including for the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. Includes text of `Pilots Personal Combat Report', 21 January 1944, describing combat with a Dornier Do 217 and Junkers Ju 88 over English Channel; and text of BBC broadcast by John Hall about his experiences of night flying, 14 February 1944.

1 volume

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.

• English

• Latin

English

Summary guide entry on-line.

Decorations: DFC plus Bar

Decorations: DFC plus Bar

Compiled by Katharine Higgon in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

• English