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TYPESCRIPT COPY OF LETTERS TO HIS WIFE DESCRIBING THEIR BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH GERMAN FORCES IN GREECE AND THEN THE ESCAPE BY BOAT THROUGH THE ISLANDS TO TURKEY AND EVENTUALLY CYPRUS
Typescript copy of letters to his son-in-law describing his final operation with 195 Squadron, and experiences as a POW in Germany 1944-1945. Discusses interrogation, hunger, thoughts of escape, the d
REPORT COMPILED BY PTE IVAN WELSH, 2/6TH BN, ON HIS SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE FROM GREECE. PTE WELSH WAS CAPTURED NEAR SPHAKIA, CRETE AND LATER TRANSPORTED TO GREECE. FOLLOWING TWO UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS HE FI
Manuscript titled 'Escape from Greece (Tempe Gorge)'. Decribes the escape of NX2274 Cpl. Arthur John Codrington, MID, with other Australian and New Zealand soldiers from Greece to Palestine via Turkey
TYPESCRIPT COPY OF HACKSHAW'S DIARY DEALING WITH SERVICE IN PALESTINE AND GREECE, INVOLVEMENT IN WITHDRAWAL FROM GREECE, SERVICE ON AND ESCAPE FROM CRETE, ESCAPE TO EGYPT, SERVICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
COPY OF LETTERS WRITTEN BY DONOR FROM ENLISTMENT AT INGELBURN IN 1939, MOVEMENT TO THE MIDDLE EAST, ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE WESTERN DESERT, CAPTURE IN GREECE, TRANSPORT TO GERMANY AND EVENTUAL NEWS OF H
Papers of NX1951 Lieutenant (Lt) Reginald Blain, 2/2 Battalion, relating to his service in the Middle East and Papua New Guinea. The collection includes letters written by Blain to a work colleague fr