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Description: | Ms letter (2pp on official German form, 11 January 1918) written home to his mother while interned in Bad Colberg camp, Strohen, Germany, having been captured while serving as 3rd Officer on board the steamship SS ESMERALDAS which was sunk on 10 March 1917 in the Azores, mentioning the lack of correspondence from home, requesting supplies and clothing to be sent to him, and describing recreational ‘fun’; together with a printed postcard addressed to the British Red Cross and Order of St John acknowledging receipt of a parcel of bread (28 November 1917) and a similar card addressed to Walker’s Tobacco and acknowledging receipt of a parcel of cigarettes (13 May 1918); and four postcard photographs showing Smart with fellow internees in the camp.
Cataloguer APR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smart, Alex G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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