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Description: | Ms letter (8pp) dated 11 - 12 July 1917 and written from London WC1, describing how she witnessed the second Gotha raid on London (7 July 1917) from her Postal Censorship office on the Strand, seeing the enemy aircraft, anti-aircraft fire and damage inflicted to many buildings across the City; with a fragment of another ms letter (2pp, undated) describing further air raids on London during the First World War. Together with an ms bill from a café in Berlin (1p, 23 September 1914); 3 ts letters (3pp, November 1916 - July 1919) regarding payment for her Postal Censorship work; her National Registration Act 1915 identity card; a Ministry of Food ration book for 1918, including an advertisement for the Imperial War Museum; a photograph, possibly of her, as a nurse in uniform; an ms letter (2pp) dated 7 October 1932 in which she describes her voyage across the English Channel and train journey to Breslau, Germany, where she was staying with friends; a newspaper cutting concerning Donington Hall prisoner of war camp (1p, 20 July 1916); a printed Hymn of Thanksgiving' for the conclusion of the war in South Africa (ca 1902) and a hymn sheet for All Souls' Church Schools children's anniversary and reunion of old scholars (2pp, 14 July 1918) plus other miscellaneous family papers.
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Catalogue date 2007-12-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Harold, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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