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Description: | Papers relating to various members of Mrs M Blaikley's family, including a printed and typed notification issued by the Canadian Record Office to next of kin of the death in action of Private Basil Flood (Mrs Blaikley's grandfather?) while serving with the 52nd Canadian Battalion, 7 November 1918; an ms letter and three ms cards from Lieutenant A H Duncan (Mrs Blaikley's brother), written while a prisoner of war in camps at or near Eichstatt (Oflag VIIB and VIIC), together with four illustrated postcards and three picture postcards of the camps, 1940 - 1943; two ms letters (4pp) from Mrs M Flood-Thain (Mrs Blaikley's grandmother) written in Jersey before the German occupation, saying that the island has been declared "an open place" and describing the lengthy ("4 and 9 hours") queues for tickets off the island, dated 11 and 22 June 1914; two Red Cross letter forms sending messages from England to two people on Jersey, November 1941 and November 1942; two postcards written to Mrs Blaikley after the war by a German officer who was a POW in the Soviet Union (one card dated 1949 sent from captivity, the other dated 1955 after his release).
Cataloguer Backlog
Catalogue date 1982-05-21 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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