Description
Object description
25 ms and ts letters and postcards, some with explanatory notes attached, from his mother in Kent and 33 ms letters and postcards from his fiancee, a nurse at Lambeth Hospital, received by Anckorn, a Gunner in the 118th Field Regiment RA while he was a prisoner of war on the Burma-Siam railway and taking passage home following his liberation, July 1942 - November 1945 (but all arranged in order of receipt), together with: 7 similar ms letters and 1 postcard from other relatives and friends; 6 official letters to his parents concerning his capture and imprisonment 1942 - 1944; 1 postcard written to his mother from India in 1941 and 2 original postcards and 1 photocopy of a postcard sent to her from Thailand in 1943; an ms letter (on an envelope) from Signalman Reginald Renison, attached 118th Field Regiment RA, a fellow prisoner of war in Changi camp, Singapore in 1942 (Renison later died in September 1943); Anckorn's soldier's service and pay book and his release book (Army Book X801); an autograph album, including a signed drawing by Ronald Searle, compiled during and just after the period of his captivity; and a selection of photographs of himself and his fiancee (1940 - 1946). Some of the letters from his mother include apparently innocuous family references which in fact told of the progress of the war.
Content description
25 ms and ts letters and postcards, some with explanatory notes attached, from his mother in Kent and 33 ms letters and postcards from his fiancee, a nurse at Lambeth Hospital, received by Anckorn, a Gunner in the 118th Field Regiment RA while he was a prisoner of war on the Burma-Siam railway and taking passage home following his liberation, July 1942 - November 1945 (but all arranged in order of receipt), together with: 7 similar ms letters and 1 postcard from other relatives and friends; 6 official letters to his parents concerning his capture and imprisonment 1942 - 1944; 1 postcard written to his mother from India in 1941 and 2 original postcards and 1 photocopy of a postcard sent to her from Thailand in 1943; an ms letter (on an envelope) from Signalman Reginald Renison, attached 118th Field Regiment RA, a fellow prisoner of war in Changi camp, Singapore in 1942 (Renison later died in September 1943); Anckorn's soldier's service and pay book and his release book (Army Book X801); an autograph album, including a signed drawing by Ronald Searle, compiled during and just after the period of his captivity; and a selection of photographs of himself and his fiancee (1940 - 1946). Some of the letters from his mother include apparently innocuous family references which in fact told of the progress of the war.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1990-03