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Description: | Cyclostyled ms transcription (1p) of a letter written as a prisoner of war in Clausthal camp, Germany, 12 January 1918, where he was taken after having been shot down on 21 August 1917 while serving as a pilot with the RFC on the Western Front, addressed to the mother of his navigator, Lieutenant J L Richardson, who was killed when their aircraft was hit by enemy fire after returning from a bombing raid, and describing in graphic detail the damage inflicted to the machine and his own narrow escape from the crash.
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Catalogue date 2003-08-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Davyes, C W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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