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Saturday 5 December 2015

Ephemera Gallery

Ephemera - Items that were not expected to be retained or preserved

Father Paul Juneau was a Quebecois Catholic priest who was captured/rescued after the ship on which he was a passenger was sunk. (Ian Nowell)



A sketch of Spittal-an-der-Drau drawn by Sgt Maj Allan Stockfeld, AIF, drawn during his stay in Stalag 18B before being transferred to Stalag 383 at Hohenfels. (Ian Brown's 18A website)

(Ian Nowell)
POWs were assigned snow clearing work on the Lend Canal. They were doing this work on the Lend Canal when Michael Cister was killed in a bomb raid.


Hand-drawn card. Cyril A May. British POW, Klagenfurt.


Propaganda Postcard

The Postcards that follow are from Kevin Byrne's collection















 












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