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A booklet with lists of phrases in English, German, Spanish, French and Dutch. On top of each page is a warning 'NOT TO BE PRODUCED IN PUBLIC'.

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A view of the chateau from the stern of a ship with an RAF flag flying. On the reverse 'Chateau d'If'.

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Photo 1 is the bedchamber of Louis XIV.
Photo 2 is the mill in the hamlet built for Marie-Antoinette.
Photo 3 is the chamber of war.
Photo 4 is the anteroom of the Queen's state apartments.
Photo 5 is the Royal Court with the Marble Court of…

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Acknowledge receipt of cable. Remembering Friday anniversary, love Hudson

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Deeply moved message twenty-ninth gift unobtainable. Still eagerly await letter eleven weeks, love. Letter has corrections in red ink and message in French from post.

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Reports seven letters arrived, special thoughts for Thursday, have parcels arrived, happy birthday.

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Acknowlege receipt of 15 letters and five photographs and comments on intense journalistic effort in one.

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A woman stands beside a memorial gravestone to fallen RAF heroes. The same woman, in a second photograph, is standing beside a second memorial.

Left is photograph of a woman standing next to a memorial set against hillside with the inscription;…

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A detailed map of Saint-Maximin. It is marked with four aircraft crashes - a Halifax (3 deaths) two Lancasters (one death) and a Mosquito (three deaths).

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Seven airmen standing at the nose of a Halifax 'Citie de Quebec'.
On the reverse LW412 KE-Q Citie de Quebec'.

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An envelope used to hold photographs from a film processing company. Included is a receipt for 295 francs.

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Sent to occupied Jersey via International Red Cross with message hoping she is well. Reply on reverse anxiously awaiting news and wonders how he is progressing.

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1er Mai 1941, Message des ouvriers de Coventry aux ouvries Francais

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War correspondent Paul Holt observes the Red Army for a fortnight along 3,000 Km of the Stalingrad front. He follows the armies of Colonel General Yeremenko. With little food and freezing temperatures, General Paulus’s only hope of supplies is…

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Capitulation near Stalingrad of Field Marshall Von Paulus on 30 January 1943 and General Streicher on 2 February 1943. Defeated Sixth Army comprised 330,000 men. General Giraud, High Commissioner in North Africa, working closely with General De…

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Both sides of three different banknotes.
5 Belgian Franks
10 Japanese Dollars
1000 Mark

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Certificate de Domicile, identity photograph, one peseta banknote and a photograph of a man wearing beret and overcoat in the doorway of a brick building. Captioned 'My forged ID, poly photo, my kit and "una peseta" note for the tram fare into Sn…

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Envelope with two items. Document with photograph and gives details Marie-Antoinette Becquet with biblical quotations on the reverse. One full face portrait of a nun.

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Sending message to Helen Newton

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Article about Jack Newton, their Wellington's landing on fire in Antwerp and his subsequent escape with help from Belgian citizens.

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A programme for a boxing match with four fights.

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A programme for the revue complete with details of the acts and performers. Also included are adverts for perfume and drinks.

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An advert for a metal work company that supplied the lighting for the Theatre of the Royal Circle, Brussels.

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A booklet published by the brewery at Kockleburg. It tells of the brewer Cambrinus who was in love with Flandrine. He was given a recipe for beer by the devil on condition he got Cambrinus soul in 30 years and he had to give up Flandrine.

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A book about the brewery of Koekelberg, Brussels. Inside is a comment 'RAF is welcome in Koekelberg. But I mean no so [sic] in Berlin' and signed [indecipherable]. There is a second comment 'With thanks', again the signature is indecipherable.
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