Papers of Victor William Lander
From: Letter in the AtticThe collection consists of digital copies of postcards, letters and documents relating to the Lander and Steel families; Emilia ‘Millie’ Mary Steel married Percy W Lander, Victor William Lander was their son, they also had another son, Percy John Lander. LIA/34/2 consists entirely of postcards sent or recieved by members of the two families from around the time of the First World War to 1946. The earliest documents in the archive date from the First World War and there is a letter and several postcards to Emilia Mary ‘Millie’ Lander née Steel who was in service in Brighton from her brother Alfred Steel, (known as Jack). At the time of writing he was serving in France as a Lance Corporal with 120th Railway Company Royal Engineers. There are several documents from the time of the Second World War including a letter to VWL’s brother Percy John Lander in March 1944. The sender was his friend Sergeant Kenneth Ealy Oclee. KEO was a rear gunner flying in Handley Page Halifax aircraft of No 158 Squadron RAF. The squadron was based at Lissett near Driffield in Yorkshire. PJL was a ground crew electrician with No 102 Squadron based at Pocklington Near York in Yorkshire. PJL and KEO had joined the forerunner of the Air Training Corps in 1938. They both lived in Brighton, Percy Lander in Whitehawk Road and Ken Oclee in Rugby Place. KEO was killed when shot down on his eighth operation to Frankfurt on the 22nd March 1944. There is also a letter from J Lyons and company thanking EML for her work during the war years at Lyons tea shop in Brighton. There are also some offical documents such As VWL’s evacuation ticket and National identity Card and papers from the 1950s including a National Identity Card and a letter from Howard Johnson MP thanking EML for her work for the Conservative Party during the General Election.
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