Dear Dr Evans

I have just received a plea from someone called John Watson (Presumably
Sherlock Holmes is out on a case) asking about RAF museums and online
services.


The e-mail


Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 22:47:41 -0500
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Subject: RAF Museums

        Hi John
   I have visited the RAF museum which is just outside London. Do you know
if they have an internet address ? I am also interested in any other museums or
military archives in the UK that I can access via the Internet ? My family
was born and raised in Scotland, and I am searching for info on various
regiments which my family belonged to and fought in. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
    Do you play any wargames...i.e. Steel Panthers ?
                                Scotty in Montreal

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                Thanks!... John.





I believe that your very useful and kind e-mail to me would be also of
immense value to him. I could simply forward it to him, but as your e-mail
was a personal note to me, I feel that it would be more proper if you
contacted him directly, if you would  wish to.

I am enclosing your letter, to save you re-typing it.

You note to me  was of immense use and I have ordered a complete set of Bob
Ogden's guides. Thank you very much for your help.

Very best wishes


John Howes




>While revising my list of UK military museums, I found a most useful
>reference book was Bob Ogden's  _Aircraft Museums & Collections of the
>World, Vol 2: Great Britain & Ireland_ .  It appears to cover all the
>aircraft collections in the British Isles, including many little
>specialist collections not normally open to the public.
>
>The book cost me 7.50 UKPounds and is published by:
>
>            Bob Ogden Publications
>            13 Western Avenue,
>            Woodley,
>            Berkshire  RG5 3BJ,  UK
>            Tel: (01734) 693276; Fax: (01734) 440954
>
>The ISBN of this volume is 1 873854 07 2
>
>There are other volumes in the series. The list at the back of my
>British Isles copy gives:
>
>    Vol 1: Asia
>    Vol 2: Great Britain & Ireland (2nd revised edition)
>    Vol 3: Benelux Germany & the Nordic Countries
>    Vol 4: Austria France Portugal Spain & Switzerland
>    Vol 5: USA - The Western States
>    Vol 6: USA - The South Eastern States
>    Vol 7: USA - The Central States
>
>    further volumes are in preparation. All can be bought from the
>    publisher's address in Woodley.
>
>The list of military museums, if you are interested, is accessible at
>the URL: gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/11/lists-f-j/history-sources/files
>or it can be downloaded by anonymous ftp from mailbase.ac.uk where it
>is in the directory: /pub/lists-f-j/history-sources/files. It is the
>file called: military-museums.  It covers museums in the UK only.
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