Telegram to Don Gray
Title
Telegram to Don Gray
Description
The telegram asks if he needs money or clothes.
Creator
Date
1944-05-01
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
One double sided printed sheet with handwritten annotations
Publisher
Rights
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Contributor
Identifier
ECullenDJGrayDA440501-0001, ECullenDJGrayDA440501-0002
Transcription
[Post Office crest]
POST OFFICE TELEGRAM
[postmark] 1 MAY. 44 CHICHESTER SUSSEX [/postmark]
TT
1005912 Sgt Gray D A St – Richards
Hospital C/o RAF Station
Tangmere Bognor Regis
do you require money clothes Etc CHEERS = The BOYS.
Handed in 1125
Office of Origin and Service Instructions or Nature of Service, if other than telegram. [indecipherable letter/number]1/T
Words 21
Received From BJS.
Received at 1155
Received By OSP
[page break]
F/S Cullen & crew
Sgt’s Mess,
R.A.F. Binbrook
Lincs.
2 Quid & handkerchiefs. [indecipherable word] an Hospital, Swindon, Wilts [indecipherable word]
POST OFFICE TELEGRAM
[postmark] 1 MAY. 44 CHICHESTER SUSSEX [/postmark]
TT
1005912 Sgt Gray D A St – Richards
Hospital C/o RAF Station
Tangmere Bognor Regis
do you require money clothes Etc CHEERS = The BOYS.
Handed in 1125
Office of Origin and Service Instructions or Nature of Service, if other than telegram. [indecipherable letter/number]1/T
Words 21
Received From BJS.
Received at 1155
Received By OSP
[page break]
F/S Cullen & crew
Sgt’s Mess,
R.A.F. Binbrook
Lincs.
2 Quid & handkerchiefs. [indecipherable word] an Hospital, Swindon, Wilts [indecipherable word]
Collection
Citation
The Boys (His crew), “Telegram to Don Gray,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 13, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/40731.