Prisoner of war card birthday greetings from Stalag VIIIB

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Title

Prisoner of war card birthday greetings from Stalag VIIIB

Description

Card with drawing of a black shape with eyes looking out and text ‘Oh! Mr Smith! Puh-leeze!’ and 'Many a girl with negative personality has been developed in a dark room'.

This card was sent by Todd to his mother.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

Creator

GCG Hawkins

Date

1942-04-19

Temporal Coverage

1942-04-19

Spatial Coverage

Great Britain
England--London

Language

eng

Format

Colour drawing and handwritten text

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

SHawkinsGCG746982v20009

Citation

GCG Hawkins, “Prisoner of war card birthday greetings from Stalag VIIIB,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 9, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/59741.

Item Relations

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