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A letter from the British Red Cross and the Order of St John regarding the death of her son as a report of their death had been received in Geneva and enquiries into place of burial and death will be made and she will be notified.

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A priority telegram from the Air Ministry telling that his son has been killed in action.

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A letter from the British Red Cross Society to Mrs H. Wells, expressing condolences and confirming that her son Sergeant R. H. Wells (No. 1318974), has been missing and believed killed in action on 2 December 1943. The letter notes that the report…

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Telegram from Air Ministry to Mrs. Wells informing her son Sergeant Wells was believed to lost his life as a result of air operation on 2 December 1943.

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The letter repeats the information that his son is missing.

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Written to son as prisoner of war. Glad to receive his letter. Leave writing to dad. Thinking of him. Catches up with news of family and friends as well as activities at home.

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Indicates a photography books dispatched to him from B H Blackwell Ltd.

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From Mr F Jury to E Jury. From Red Cross war organisation, Essex joint county committee prisoner of war stores. Next of kin parcels centre. List of contents includes clothes, bathroom items, bedding and chocolate.

SDeansJAG-ParkTMv1.pdf
Dr Park's memoirs relating to the Long March.

1. Summary of two typed accounts of the Gresse Bombing during the Long March from Stalag 357 (Fallingbostel) in 1945.
Dr Park left Fallingbostel as part of a column, 1500 strong. The column mainly RAF…

SDeansJAG-MoggRv1.pdf
Ronald was as navigator in a Wellington shot down over Osnabruck 30 October 1940. He was interrogated and then detained in Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft I (Barth), Stalag Luft 3 (Sagan), Stalag Luft 6 (Heydekrug), Stalag XX-A (Thorun) and the…

SDeansJAG-HeapeJv1.pdf
An account of the march from Stalag 357 (Fallingbostel). On 8 April 1945 the camp commander (Oberst Hermann Ostman) ordered 12,000 British troops to be evacuated, marching from the camp in columns of 2,000. After ten days they arrived at Gresse here…

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Discusses Spitfires flying around the bridge Then talks about a visiting German officer and then advancing British forces, Swedish red cross food distribution to prisoners, recapturing escaped prisoners, jumpy mood of Germans, woken early to move to…

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A description of the Long March. It covers the attack on the column of men by RAF Typhoons who mistook the prisoners of war for German soldiers.

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He describes their capture by the Germans (just prior to the Dunkirk evacuation) and transfer to various POW camps.

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Label made out to Sgt/Observer Gordon C G Hawkins, British P.O.W. 131, Stalag Luft VI Germany.

MDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]-251114-11.pdf
Edwin Mower had heard rumours, but there was little notice given for their move out of Obke camp. Not knowing their destination, they gathered what they could carry (mainly food) in rolled up blankets.
On 7 April 1945, guarded mainly by elderly men…