Description
Object description
Notebook concerning her organisation of the 'SOS Club' for the wives and widows of officer prisoners of war in the Far East, January 1943 - January 1949, including details of the club's meetings in London, addresses of and correspondence with members, among them the widow of Major General M B Beckwith-Smith, and lists of officer prisoners of war known to be held in Singapore and Thailand; together with ms and ts transcripts of letters from men associated with her husband, Captain Leslie Ernest Horne RASC (Royal Army Service Corps), who died as a prisoner of war in Thailand on 4 December 1943, a ts transcript (2pp) of a Japanese propaganda broadcast from Singapore in April 1944 by a Major Gourley describing life as a prisoner of war in the Far East and a ts transcript (4pp) of a broadcast in September 1945 by an Army chaplain, the Reverend J N Duckworth, describing his and his fellow prisoners' experiences in Thailand.
Content description
Notebook concerning her organisation of the 'SOS Club' for the wives and widows of officer prisoners of war in the Far East, January 1943 - January 1949, including details of the club's meetings in London, addresses of and correspondence with members, among them the widow of Major General M B Beckwith-Smith, and lists of officer prisoners of war known to be held in Singapore and Thailand; together with ms and ts transcripts of letters from men associated with her husband, Captain Leslie Ernest Horne RASC (Royal Army Service Corps), who died as a prisoner of war in Thailand on 4 December 1943, a ts transcript (2pp) of a Japanese propaganda broadcast from Singapore in April 1944 by a Major Gourley describing life as a prisoner of war in the Far East and a ts transcript (4pp) of a broadcast in September 1945 by an Army chaplain, the Reverend J N Duckworth, describing his and his fellow prisoners' experiences in Thailand.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2001-05