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Map with handwritten annotations for some camps including Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft 1 (mistakenly labelled Stalag Luft II), Stalag Luft 3, Stalag Luft 6 and Stalag 8B

Sends Donald liberated well, expect him here soon.

Blue card. 'Letter from London "Free at last", 10 May 1945'

Blue card. 'July 1944-Dec 44, POW'.

Blue card 'Han-July 1944 - POW, 8 Letters'.

Blue card. Dates of 16 letters January to August 1943. January 1943 POW letters.

Sends Donald still alive, thank god.

Sends 'sorry similar news, Baggett inquiring particulars Geneva advised done'.

Blue card 'Aug-12942, Reports of desth'.

Green card 'POW letters Jan 1942'.

Sends greeting to all.

Sends good news.

Green card 'Dulag Luft, First POW letter, 10 Nov 41'.

Newspaper cutting with section enclosed by 'x'. Bomber command attacked defended convoy of ships off Terschelling'.

Green card 'North Luffenham, Sept 1941 Operational Sqn 144'.

Green card 'July 1941 Heyford'.

Green card 'Jan 1941 - EFTS Brough'

Green card '9th Oct 1940/Torquay Paignton'

Green card 'August 1940, ship sailing to England/Bridgenorth [sic]

Green card 'RAF,13.7.40 in camp RAF BYO'

Royal Air Force Medical card for Flight Lieutenant Donald Arthur Baker (801114). With medical classification A1B on 16/6/45.

On the front a 'V' with British and combined allied flag, Morse code 'V' and 'Victory Greetings'. On the reverse a head and shoulders portrait of a man and a woman.

Nineteen airmen in various uniforms standing and squatting in two rows with brick building in the background. Names two Rhodesians Flight Lieutenat J A G Parker and Pilot Officer Donald Baker (extreme right sitting). Shown at Oflag 21B, Stalagluft 3…

Letter 20 June. Donald well, Believe authentic. Reported death mistake. Signed Baker.

Telegram reporting message from senior British officer Stalag Luft 3 on behalf of Donald Baker that there was no truth in any information of his death and he was alive. Sent by Red Cross Society, Salisbury.