Place | Europe: Germany |
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Accession Number | PR03211 |
Collection type | Private Record |
Record type | Collection |
Measurement | 1 wallet: 1 cm & 1 custom made box: 4 cm |
Object type | Album, Photograph |
Maker |
Kingsford-Smith, Peter |
Place made | Germany |
Date made | 1943-1945 |
Access | Open |
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM371 92/0759 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Kingsford-Smith, Peter (Flight Lieutenant, b.1915 - d.1993)
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 402241 Flight Lieutenant Peter Kingsford-Smith DFC, No. 138 Squadron, prisoner of war, Germany, 1943-1945.
Custom box 1 of 1 - Comprises an album or scrapbook titled 'A Wartime Log', which was given to prisoners of war by the American YMCA. The album was kept by Kingsford-Smith during his imprisonment at Stalag Luft III camp in Germany from 1943 to 1945. The album contains hand-drawn coloured cartoons, sketches and paintings done by fellow inmates at the camp in 1943-1944, lists of German rations and contents of Canadian and American Red Cross parcels, undated black and white photographs of Kingsford-Smith and his family, a summary of his record of service, and several newspaper cuttings. Also included is one page of lyrics attributed to Noel Coward and a letter from the Red Cross advising family members of his status as a prisoner of war, dated 13 September 1943.
Wallet 1 of 1 - Additional to the album is an aerial photograph of Stalag Luft III. Five related photographs can be found in the Memorial's Photograph's collection numbered P04136.001 to P04136.005.
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