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Description: | 19th June 1945.
Lord Mayor of Leeds Charles Walker making a speech of welcome to returned POW (Prisoners of War) at a rally held in Roundhay Park. The Yorkshire Evening News ran a POW club, sending out parcels and cigarettes to POW Camps. There were 20,000 members of the club in Yorkshire. On returning home from camps in the far east ?5 was given to each person from the Newspaper fund. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | POW Rally Roundhay Park | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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