Telegram to Mrs Cahir from the RAAF

ERAAFCahirM440126.jpg

Title

Telegram to Mrs Cahir from the RAAF

Description

The message advises Mrs Cahir that her son has been reported as a prisoner of war by the International Red Cross.

Date

1944-01-26

Temporal Coverage

Language

Format

Two handwritten sheets

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.

Contributor

Identifier

ERAAFCahirM440126

Transcription

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA POSTMASTER-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT
TELEGRAM
[date stamp]
Melbourne 64 3 35h
Postal Acknowledgment. Deliver Personal
Mrs. M. Cahir
505 Bell Street W Pe. V.
further information received stated that your son flight sergeant Francis Shamus Cahir previously classified as missing is now a prisoner of war stop this information was received from the international red cross committee through
[page break]
the prisoner of war information Bureau quoting German sources stop letter will follow
Airforce Anderson Street
South Yarra.
4 pm.
KW.

Citation

Australia. Royal Australian Air Force, “Telegram to Mrs Cahir from the RAAF,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/20137.

Item Relations

This item has no relations.