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Description: | Ms letter (6pp) written to her father in the United Kingdom on 10 March 1919 from Ontario, Canada, where she had arrived with her Canadian husband as a British War Bride, containing descriptions of her voyage to Canada on board the SS TUNISIAN and the warm welcome she received, particularly from the representatives of charitable organisations such as the Salvation Army and YMCA; the letter was written in response to reports in the British press of Canadian hostility to war brides such as herself. The collection also includes two postcard photographs depicting her in Canada, an unused Canadian Red Cross Society 'Overseas Writing Tablet', her National Registration Act 1915 card and cloth wallet, newspaper clippings marking the end of the First World War and an official souvenir programme to the Second Bradford Festival of Remembrance (36pp, November 1937). Together with an ms letter (6pp, 3 October 1930) regarding the recent death of her husband; an ms letter (5pp plus envelope, October 1941) written by Mrs Phyllis Royston and her younger son Michael to Mrs Kendrey's son Donald, who was serving with the Royal Artillery in Malaya, returned undelivered following his capture by the Japanese but describing recent air raids on Hull; various ms and ts correspondence regarding the return of Donald Kendrey's personal effects; and a ts transcription (5pp, November 1941 - March 1942) of letters sent home describing soldier Stanley Walker (Mrs Kendrey's brother-in-law)'s voyage to Singapore and, following the Japanese invasion in February 1942, his escape to India.
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Catalogue date 1999-01-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Kendrey, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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