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From Jessie Brown, birthday greetings and wished they were together for occasion.

Happy returns from Dora Dickenson.

Happy returns from Ethel Dixon.

Loving greetings from Edith Scott.

Pleased to be able to send a letter rather than postcards he had only been able to send previously. Assumed the Red Cross would have informed her we was a prisoner of war. Writes that he is well and with a jolly crowd of companions. Mentions that he…

Writes that he is still well, gives love to all at home.

Writes that mail issue had arrived and he had had a good meal. Asks how she was getting on and regrets that long awaited date was now even further away, but he was still looking forward to it.

Writes that he was now feeling much better and had received half a Red Cross parcel with more to follow. Says he was rationing cigarettes and asks how things were at home. Says it will now not be long before he is home and closes with family banter…

The story of Cyril Barton V.C.

This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.

Blank form with headings for addresses printed on one side.

Black album cover with closure strap and buckle.

Four story building with tall tower in front and domed buildings either side. Trees and formal garden in front. Captioned 'May 1944, Jerusalem, Y.M.C.A.'.

Three story building at a road junction in Jerusalem. Many people gathers at entrance and cars/vans parked in street to right. Captioned 'St Andrews Hostel'.

Identification kindly provided by Ed Strohmaier of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2…

Left - two airmen wearing khaki uniform, the man on the right with observer brevet, standing side by side in a formal garden. Captioned 'Jack and myself in grounds of Y.M.C.A.'.
Right - Ḥamāh waterfall running from left to right with Orontes…

Top - distant view of cemetery with rows of headstones and memorial. Road leads up to gate on right. Captioned 'British War Cemetery'.
Bottom - view across rooftops to hill in the distance with tower on top. Domed building in middle ground.…

Top - distant view of a dome toped building with open square in front and other city buildings in the background. Captioned 'Temple Area'.
Bottom - interior of a mosque with arched doors and domed roof. Captioned 'Dome of the Rock Moriah'.

Top - a city street with buildings either side and and built up archway connecting them. Women with baskets on their heads walk on the street. Captioned 'Arch of Ecce Homo'.
Bottom - a city street with buildings either side and and arches connecting…

Top - a fortified city gate with many people and camels in the foreground. Captioned 'Damascus Gate (Leading from the old city)'.
Bottom - an open area with trees and city walls in the background. Captioned 'Garden of Gethsemane'.

Left - an very large ornate tomb in a church. Captioned 'The Tomb'.
Right - view through a belfry of two church bells with city in the background. Captioned 'Crusader Belfrey [sic] (with Mount of Olives in the distance)'.

Left - city wall on the right with fortified building in centre with tower. In the foreground a road with two figures with bundles on their heads. Captioned 'The Citadel, Arab man and woman in the foreground'.
Right - view of dome topped building…

Figures standing praying at a high stone wall. Captioned 'The Jews "Wailing Wall"'.

Top - a wall runs left to right with domed building in the middle. Men on camels just in front of wall and a tree in the foreground. Captioned 'Rachel's Tomb'.
Bottom - open fields with a few trees. In the distance on hilltops a town. Captioned 'The…

Top - view over a town in distance with trees in the foreground. Captioned 'Bethlehem from the south'.
Bottom - on the left an open square with people, on the right buildings with two bell towers. In the distance further buildings a dome and…

Top - the inside of a church with columns either side and altar at the back. Captioned 'The Nave in the Church of Nativity'.
Bottom - Inside church a decorative grotto. Photograph mounted sideways and captioned 'Grotto of Nativity'.

Left - a manger with ornate surround. Captioned 'The Manger'.
Right - view through belfry of a distant town. Captioned 'A Christmas Bell'.