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Description: | Papers relating to his service as an officer with the 1/5th Battalion Suffolk Regiment (163rd Brigade, 54th Division) during the First World War including a fine letter written from Gallipoli in October 1915, also correspondence, intelligence reports, messages and notes on the political situation in Syria and Palestine in 1919, collated while he was a political officer in Damascus, Deraa and Haifa and including letters from King Feisal and General Allenby and two albums collated during his service as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne, Switzerland, 1942-1946, with letters, photographs, presscuttings and other memorabilia relating to Allied internees, prisoners of war, his wife's welfare work (primarily with the Polish Red Cross) and the scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon and the burial of fourteen RAF aircrew, killed in crashes on Swiss soil in 1943.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 2001-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Norton, Clifford | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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