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Writes she is angry with hospital authorities for misleading them and he won't get away before the end of July. Catches up with family news, writes of gardening and domestic matters and that his kit-bag has not arrived yet. Thanks him for his letters…

She writes to him in hospital about his return home. She writes explaining the different bus routes he can take and types of transport, and directions to take in the village when he gets there, or if she would like to meet him in London? She writes…

He describes how his aircraft was shot down on an operation to Revigny by an Me 110 night fighter, his bale out and capture. After being interrogated he became a prisoner of war. In February 1944, as the Russians advanced, he and his fellow…

Poem written on RAF Waddington notepaper called The Homing Bomber. It describes a damaged bomber and its wounded crew making its way back to the UK.

Describes the journey taken by foot and, eventually, train after the evacuation of the Bankau Stalag Luft 7 prisoner of war camp (18 January - 8 February 1945).

Describes events following the German authorities' announcement that prisoners from a number of camps in the east would be moved to other areas of the Reich. Due to lack of transport, prisoners would be required to walk. Describes events at Stalag…

Part of a letter to Ted Neale and Mary from a friend in South Africa. The writer apologises for taking so long to reply and writes of his new house.