Telegram from air ministry

Telegram from air ministry

Telegram to Donald Bakers parents that their son Pilot Officer Donald Arthur Baker had been mentioned in a German broadcast on 15 november 1941 as being a prisoner of war. Information should be treated with reserve pending official confirmation.

1941-11-17

Two page handwritten telegram

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POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS, S. RHODESIA No 87
G/London 56/55 17/11 3.20
Via [indecipherable word] 6.40 17/
9.15 [signature] C. Baker Esq
Chartlon Iny S.R.
Air Ministry Kingsway P/4 P60391711 your son Pilot Officer Donald Arthur Baker was mentioned on a German Broadcast on 15/11/41
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As being a prisoner of War stop This information should be treated with reserve pending official confirmation any further news will be immediately forwarded to you
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