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  • Tags: Stalag 8B

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He is well and asks for lots of letters. He mentions that they should receive a letter for his Caterpillar Club membership. He asks for shoes, slippers, tobacco and pipe.

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He is well and repeats his request for a pipe and also tobacco.

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He is well and asks for a pipe.

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He is well and has been studying.

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He asks for cigarettes. He is studying accounts.

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Part of a letter but only the address side.

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He is desperate for a cigarette parcel. He has been studying and hopes to be home soon.

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He has received parcels of cigarettes from home. It has been very hot.

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Part of his message has been censored. He asks about folk back home and hopes he will be home soon.

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He hopes that they are well.

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Gordon wishes them well and explains it is very hot. He signs the card as Navigator.

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He writes that they are fed up.

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SBeckettG622136v10067.pdf
Sergeant George Read - survived by parachute. Includes photographs of himself and his wife, flight engineers station in cockpit, view down from cockpit to hatch in nose of Lancaster, caterpillar club membership card, prisoners of war in Stammlager…

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A map of 41 POW camp locations. The key gives each camp's name and number.

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E[Author]GTOwenHW570116.pdf
A letter referring to the night of the crash and George's subsequent escape via Switzerland. He was caught while trying to get to Spain and sent to Paris. After the war he worked for the post office in Calgary.

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MTrevaynePR1291380-191205-02.pdf
A detailed account of the last flight of a Stirling operation on Hamburg.

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MWilsonRC1389401-170113-100002.pdf
Reg starts with a page about the Caterpillar Club then describes his life after the war. Over the years he had many reunions and undertook research regarding the four crew members who died the night they were shot down. In 2001 he and 90 or so…

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From George Grundy, card produced on behalf of the prisoners of war in Stalag VIIIB, Christmas 1941. Annotated from 'George with Love'.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are…

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From George Grundy thanking her for her letter and comments on the letter contents.

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Card is addressed to George Grundy a prisoner of war in Stalag VIIIB. No date.

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Newspaper cutting, no source, no date showing a Christmas card to the King from the prisoners of war in Stalag VIIIB, Christmas 1941.
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BHumesELHumesELv1.pdf
Eddie recalls joining the RAF as a flight mechanic in 1939 and his subsequent selection for aircrew. He goes on to describe operational training on Wellington and beginning to crew up, followed by conversion to Lancaster at RAF Little Snoring. He…

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Top - view inside a building showing block of toilets in the centre and wash basins against far wall. Submitted with description ' Toilets at Lamsdorf POW Camp, Stalag VIIIB. (Stalag 344 from 1943)'
Bottom - air-to-air photograph of the front of a…

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Landscape view of open yard with a set of goalposts infront of a series of single story cabins, in far background are high fence posts with wire between them, yard has clusters of men moving in multiple directions. Captioned '“British POWs at…

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MDryhurstHG1332214-160608-08.pdf
Covers personal details and dates of postings, training, aircraft flown. Details of capture and prisoner of war.

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