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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms diary (44pp), written in French, recording his service with the Free French forces fighting with the English during January - May 1942, beginning shortly after he was take prisoner in North Africa and transported to a camp in Tunis, describing the sale, purchase and exchange of food, his diet and the nationalities of prisoners and his transfer to a camp in Palermo and then Capua; returning to Paris in May 1942 after his release, the diary resumes in January 1945 and describes his service as a liaison officer to the American Forces in liberated France as well as containing the text of various English wartime songs. Also a microfilm copy of three albums, one containing photographs relating to the First World War military service of Mrs Jaulmes' father, Captain F A Pearl, and recording Mrs Jaulmes' life in Paris during the Second World War, while the others contain miscellaneous items such as letters, postwar press cuttings, stamps dedicated to heroes of the resistance, scenes in Paris at the liberation, illustrations and summaries of events. Together with five files of original papers, mostly in French, concerning the administration of the military railway transport in the Blainville area of France following the liberation, kept by Lieutenant Yves Jaulmes while a Marechal des Logis in Blainville, attached to an American Army railway unit, and including ts summary tables of all military train movements in the area (November - December 1944), railway schedules for military trains (January - June 1945), copies of three hand drawn maps showing the rail network of the 3rd Arondissement (Nancy), ts lists of train engines taken by Germany and restituted, or to be restituted, to France (June 1945), 18 ts tables showing the number of American military trains loaded and unloaded (November 1944 - January 1945), a ts report on a small railway crash in the area (December 1944), and other papers and forms.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jaulmes, Evelyn Juliana | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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