Description
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX34279 Gunner George Napier Sprod, 2/15 Field Regiment, prisoner of war, Changi, 1944-1945.
Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of a 1944 Christmas card made by Sprod while in Changi for Bernard Campion, an English writer, and the first letter written by Sprod to his mother after the Japanese capitulation in 1945. At that time Sprod did not know that his father had died two years earlier. The letter gives some details of prisoner of war life both before and after liberation. It also describes Lord Mountbatten's visit to Changi.
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Accession Number
3DRL/7971
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Private Record
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AWM315 419/098/010
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