Description: | Collection of wartime ephemera amassed by him during his time as a prisoner of war in Germany between 1941 and 1945, including his 'Wartime Log for British Prisoners' (27pp), with timeline of his capture and incarceration, drawings, anecdotes, speeches and quotations; RAF Service and Release book for POWs, 7 ts letters (8pp) written by the British government to his mother regarding his capture and status, an album of 18 family photographs, 132 photographs illustrating life in the camp, newspaper clippings regarding the progress of the war, ts 'Notes for relations of POW's' (6pp) sent by the British Red Cross, 'Prisoner's of War Magazine' dated January 1942, his membership card to 'The Goldfish Club', 3 German propaganda pamphlets, a German banknote, a map of POW camps in Europe dated September 1943, programs from the productions put on by the prisoners in camp, Italian and British propaganda pamphlets, a cloth map of France, a declaration of friendship for troops to carry in 16 languages, and his regimental tie.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-07-25 |