Edwin Jury's wartime log for British prisoners

Edwin Jury's wartime log for British prisoners

Gives personal details and at Stalag Luft 6. Note about Dennis Watkins air gunner killed and buried in Berlin war cemetery. Gives addresses of fellow prisoners not all readable names but includes D B W Brewell (air gunner), P Hewdick, D A , H J Hamlyn (bomb aimer), Wilkinson (pilot), S J (Paddy) Hope , H M Harrington (navigator), John R Hooley (Canadian), Bill Vine (pilot). Others are unreadable. At the back further names and addresses including B J Singleton (pilot), R A Kempsell (w/op), F E Darycott (navigator), L F Bradfield (bomb aimer), K J Walker (bomb aimer,) P Batman (pilot), A J Buckin (w/op), D M Smith (pilot DFM), Douglas B Grundy (navigator), William Powell, George Booth (w/op), Kenneth Harvey (w/op), Cedric L Hunnable, Harry Harcock, J P Ruddick (bombe aimer) and others unreadable. Americanss includes Joseph W Curtis, Stan Galuszeweki, Joe Pasda, Herbert W Dougherty, Robert S Greenleaf, Ralf D Vinson, Bernie Morell, James Dobson, List the crew of Halifax "B" Beer RCAF including: P/O Jackson (pilot), Sgt Westerman (2nd pilot), F/Sgt Carlton (navigator), P/O Fry (observer), F/Sgt Crandell (air gunner), Sgt Sebastion (flight engineer), F/Sgt Watkins (RIP) and F/Sgt Jury (air gunner). All accompanied by drawings of relevant brevet. Artwork includes by various other artists: P/O Prune on Prangmere aerodrome, a diving Hurricane, a diving spitfire, Field Marshall Rommel, a German D-Day poster, several faces, Stalag Luft theatre programme, airman tangled in parachute, a native woman, an RAF Badge, a memorial to F/Sgt Dennis Watkins, the front of a He 111, the British Lion, a Mosquito, a battleship, portrait of a women, men playing violin and accordion, a Me 210, camp (Stalag Luft 4), Venice canal, a Halifax 1, portrait of an airmen. Text included account of being shot down, bale out, capture, travel to Dulag Luft, then to Stalag Luft 1, before travelling to Stalag Luft 6. Taken by sea and land in February and March 1945 on seven week journey to Stalag X1B at Fallingbostel. Liberated 16 April 1945. Poem, "Lovely Hand", extracts from various letters, list of theatre events, poem "Woman". A map showing route to prisoner of war camps. Two photographs of children. Team diagram for soccer match Stalag Luft 6 verses Aberdeen. Poem "When the war will end". Eight verse poem "Into the Night". Ten verse poem "Kreigies Lament" by a prisoner of war. A daily diary of evacuation from Stalag Luft 6 giving distances marches and rations from February 6 1945 to March 27 1945. Account of liberation.

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