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OJuryE653173-240506-01.pdf
Give some personal details and service history. Comments on special aptitudes or qualities.

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To Nurse Donnelly from Mrs Jury saying she heard on German radio that Edwin was a prisoner of war. Broadcast by Lord Haw Haw.

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Envelope for book "art of photography" sent to Sgt E Jury at Stalag Luft 6, from Balckwells of Oxford

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Prisoner of war envelope addressed to Sgt E Jury at Stalag Luft 3.

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Mr Jury membership number 3810. Handwritten notes on reverse.

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MJuryE653173-240506-04.pdf
Gives personal details and at Stalag Luft 6. Note about Dennis Watkins air gunner killed and buried in Berlin war cemetery. Gives addresses of fellow prisoners not all readable names but includes D B W Brewell (air gunner), P Hewdick, D A , H J…

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EJury[Fam]JuryE440614.pdf
Written to son as prisoner of war. Glad to receive his letter. Leave writing to dad. Thinking of him. Catches up with news of family and friends as well as activities at home.

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Indicates a photography books dispatched to him from B H Blackwell Ltd.

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From Mr F Jury to E Jury. From Red Cross war organisation, Essex joint county committee prisoner of war stores. Next of kin parcels centre. List of contents includes clothes, bathroom items, bedding and chocolate.

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Tick box to indicate status; in British hands, well and safe, will write as soon as possible, expect me home soon, do not write.

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Writes he was safe and well and sends endearments.

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Harold was shot down in 1942 and swam for hours off Cape Gris Nez before being picked up by the Germans. Ended up in Stalag Luft 111, where he met Dixie Deans, the early founder of the Tally Ho Escaping club. He arrived at Fallingbostel in August…

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SDeansJAG-ParkTMv1.pdf
Dr Park's memoirs relating to the Long March.

1. Summary of two typed accounts of the Gresse Bombing during the Long March from Stalag 357 (Fallingbostel) in 1945.
Dr Park left Fallingbostel as part of a column, 1500 strong. The column mainly RAF…

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SDeansJAG-MowerEAv1.pdf
Brief notes kept by Mower. Included is Dixie Deans 'Ausweis' pass.

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SDeansJAG-HeapeJv1.pdf
An account of the march from Stalag 357 (Fallingbostel). On 8 April 1945 the camp commander (Oberst Hermann Ostman) ordered 12,000 British troops to be evacuated, marching from the camp in columns of 2,000. After ten days they arrived at Gresse here…

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A transcript of a phone conversation.

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SDeansJAG-ChownCMv10008.pdf
A transcript with a prisoner of war, Harold Isherwood-Bennett by HC.

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A transcript of an article in the Daily Express. It describes the liberation of prisoners of war at two camps near Fallingbostel.

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Murray describes his impressions of the Long March. He describes Dixie Deans passing on real news from the BBC radio they had with them.

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SDeansJAG-ChownCMv10001.pdf
Clement's experiences as a prisoner of war.

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SDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]v1.pdf
Diaries and memoirs of prisoners of war. There are stories of camp life, maps, poetry, cartoons and art works.

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MDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]-251114-14.pdf
Geoffrey's story at the end of the Long March.

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A description of the Long March. It covers the attack on the column of men by RAF Typhoons who mistook the prisoners of war for German soldiers.

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He describes their capture by the Germans (just prior to the Dunkirk evacuation) and transfer to various POW camps.

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Colour drawing of Pinocchio and birthday greetings.

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