Private Papers of Lieutenant E R C Gimpel

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Description

Object description

Collection of papers relating to his service with the French Army (May - August 1940), the French Resistance in the Marseille area (August 1940 - September 1942) and his incarceration in Flossenberg Concentration camp (February 1944 - May 1945) comprising a ts memoir (9pp) describing his service with the French Army, the award of his Croix de Guerre and a period of convalescence in a hospital in Niort (May - August 1940), an ms account (7pp) of a Resistance sabotage operation on the Renault works at Billancourt in June 1944 (undated), correspondence including a reference for Medecin Capitaine A Legeais who was a fellow prisoner at Flossenberg (1942 - 1947), draft ts and ms newspaper and magazine articles (1940s), a certificate awarded to Gimpel's wife, Commander Kay Moore, for her Medaille de la Reconnaissance (November 1945) and a notice regarding his transfer to the Army reserve (March 1948): together with an ms note with a secret message dropped from a prison transport by his father, Rene Gimpel in July 1944.

Content description

History note

Cataloguer AMB

History note

Catalogue date 2003-06

Object Details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content)
Creator: Gimpel, E R C
Dimensions: File: Weight 5.5 kg
Catalogue number: Documents.12731

Object associations

Associated items

Trousers, Service Dress: Officer's, Free French Army
Jacket, Service, M1939 Vareuse: Officer's (Cavalry), Free French Army
Associated subjects

Original documents
Private Papers

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