Private Papers of C G King

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Description

Object description

Ms account (134pp) describing his service as a Gunner with 365 Battery, 92nd Field Regiment RA as a Territorial, 1938 - 1939 in Kennington, and on active service in France in May 1940, his capture near Lille, a short period of escape, recapture and imprisonment in the following camps: Cambrai (May - June 1940), Schubin (June 1940), Laufen (Oflag VIIC, May 1941), Lamsdorf (Stalag VIIIB, May 1942), Sagan (Stalag Luft III, May 1943) and Stalag VIIIC (near Breslau, July 1944), on a prisoner's march westwards to a camp at Bad Orb (March 1945), his liberation (April 1945) and demobilisation (Spring 1946). The account, which describes conditions on working parties and work as an officer's orderly in a prisoner of war camp, highlights the differences in conditions for officers and men and includes a study of the 'great escape' (Stalag Luft III) written in the 1970s' is accompanied by a ts transcript (60pp including illustrations) of the above (but not of the 'great escape' study), and a YMCA log containing cartoons, presscuttings, poems, contemporary/post war photographs, original ms diary/account (as above, but only for the period February 1945 - Spring 1946), extracts from letters to prisoners and a transcript of the German rejection (1944) of Anthony Eden's statement on the 'great escape'.

Content description

History note

Cataloguer PHR

History note

Catalogue date 1985-11-19

Object Details

Category

Private papers

Related period

Second World War (content)

Creator

King, Cyril George

Dimensions

File: Weight 1.3 kg

Box: Weight 4 kg

Catalogue number

Documents.3802

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

British Army, Royal Artillery, Field Regt, 92, Bty, 368
King, Cyril George
Associated items

Private Papers of G W King
Associated places

Kennington, London, England, United Kingdom
Lille, Nord, France
Oflag VIIC, Laufen
Łambinowice, Nysa, Upper Silesia, Poland
Żagań, Lower Silesia, Poland
Associated subjects

Original documents
Transcriptions
Prisoner of War
Private Papers

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Private Papers of C G King

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