South Yorkshire Times January 12, 1946

Squadron Leader J.H. Dunk broadcast on Radio

Sometime ago we related how Mr John Dunk, secretary of Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries, and Mrs Dunk were listening to the radio in the Doncaster Road home when, over the air, came the first recorded ever made of the actual happening inside a British aircraft as it proceeded to discharge its hazardous mission over Essen in the Ruhr.

The crew began to talk, a Yorkshire voice among them. Mr Dunk listened intently.

“That’s like Jack’s voice,” he remarked. And so it was.

The Yorkshire voice was that of Squadron Leader J.H.Dunk, Conisbrough’s distinguished Pathfinder navigator, since autumn last returned to his solicitors practice in Sheffield. Now we learn that the local admirers of Squadron Leader Dunks meritorious war record may, is the desire, obtaining their own record of his experience on this occasion, as a gramophone record has been made of the radio version, with proceeds from the sales thereof for the R.A.F.Benevolent Fund. Here, certainly, is an opportunity for the Urban Council, and the Conisbrough branch of the British Legion to secure a permanent record of one task performed by a local Serviceman.