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Description: | Collection of letters received by him immediately prior to, and after the publication of OLD CONTEMPTIBLE, the autobiography of a Mons veteran sheltered by Belgian civilians after the Mons battle, which he edited and wrote an introduction for; his correspondents include Belgians who witnessed the operation of the escape line during the First World War, by which means British soldiers evaded capture and were eventually smuggled across the Dutch frontier; also 38 photographs, mainly relating to the life and death of nurse Edith Cavell, the majority of which were used in Clark-Kennedy's biography of her published in 1965.
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Catalogue date 1985-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clark-Kennedy, Archibald Edmund | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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