A COLLECTION OF WWI PRISONER OF WAR (POW) LETTERS, A PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM AND TWO WWI MEDALS, RELATING TO SECOND LIEUTENANT CLARENCE BANYON PICKARD, 22nd DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, the collection of three postcards and three letters sent from the Schweidnitz Prisoner of War Camp between June and October 1918 and addressed to his sweetheart, Gwen Johnson of Hartlepool; the WWI British War medal and the Victory medal engraved 2 Lieut. C.B Pickard, with ribbons and contained in the original box. The letters detail how Second Lieutenant Pickard was shot through the hip on the battlefield and hospitalized, his mother mistakenly informed he had been killed in action. The letters relate day-to-day life at Schweidnitz and contain touching correspondence to Gwen. Part of the contents of one letter removed by the censors. Also included is a photograph and postcard album, containing many black and white photographs of the amateur dramatics group, the servicemen dressed as women and wearing other theatrical costumes; together with other photographs of fellow servicemen and the camp.
A COLLECTION OF WWI PRISONER OF WAR (POW) LETTERS, A PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM AND TWO WWI MEDALS, RELATING TO SECOND LIEUTENANT CLARENCE BANYON PICKARD, 22nd DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, the collection of three postcards and three letters sent from the Schweidnitz Prisoner of War Camp between June and October 1918 and addressed to his sweetheart, Gwen Johnson of Hartlepool; the WWI British War medal and the Victory medal engraved 2 Lieut. C.B Pickard, with ribbons and contained in the original box. The letters detail how Second Lieutenant Pickard was shot through the hip on the battlefield and hospitalized, his mother mistakenly informed he had been killed in action. The letters relate day-to-day life at Schweidnitz and contain touching correspondence to Gwen. Part of the contents of one letter removed by the censors. Also included is a photograph and postcard album, containing many black and white photographs of the amateur dramatics group, the servicemen dressed as women and wearing other theatrical costumes; together with other photographs of fellow servicemen and the camp.
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