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Ts memoirs (6pp, written 2013) with details of her memories of her three older brothers, Sergeant Arthur Stringer RAFVR, a Wireless Operator / Air Gunner with 59 Squadron, Lance Corporal Ralph Stringer, 204th Provost Company, Corps of Military Police, and Driver Geoffrey Stringer, Royal Army Service Corps, with details of how Arthur had left hospital with a bullet wound to meet his brothers on leave, and the devastating impact on the family in Manchester of receiving telegrams saying that Arthur had been shot down and killed over Cherbourg (25 October 1941) and Ralph had been killed by a grenade in North Africa (27 May 1942), with details of how the two brothers had lost their lives as gleaned from other sources, Arthur's burnt belt being sent to the family by a French woman who had found it, and Margaret's pilgrimage to the village of Theurtville-Hague to visit Arthur's grave and meeting locals who had seen his plane crash and who told her what had happened and how he was buried. Together with: a Christmas postcard from Egypt (1941?) and a ms letter (2pp plus envelope, May 1942) written by Ralph just weeks before his death enclosing pressed flowers and two butterflies from Libya, and a photograph of him at a convalescent depot (October 1941); an airgraph letter from Geoffrey Stringer (1p, October 1943) from Italy talking about settling down after their warm reception and looking forward to a bath; a copy of a photograph of Arthur Stringer in uniform; and a photocopy of a photograph of the three brothers on leave in uniform with ms explanatory notes by Margaret.
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Ts memoirs (6pp, written 2013) with details of her memories of her three older brothers, Sergeant Arthur Stringer RAFVR, a Wireless Operator / Air Gunner with 59 Squadron, Lance Corporal Ralph Stringer, 204th Provost Company, Corps of Military Police, and Driver Geoffrey Stringer, Royal Army Service Corps, with details of how Arthur had left hospital with a bullet wound to meet his brothers on leave, and the devastating impact on the family in Manchester of receiving telegrams saying that Arthur had been shot down and killed over Cherbourg (25 October 1941) and Ralph had been killed by a grenade in North Africa (27 May 1942), with details of how the two brothers had lost their lives as gleaned from other sources, Arthur's burnt belt being sent to the family by a French woman who had found it, and Margaret's pilgrimage to the village of Theurtville-Hague to visit Arthur's grave and meeting locals who had seen his plane crash and who told her what had happened and how he was buried. Together with: a Christmas postcard from Egypt (1941?) and a ms letter (2pp plus envelope, May 1942) written by Ralph just weeks before his death enclosing pressed flowers and two butterflies from Libya, and a photograph of him at a convalescent depot (October 1941); an airgraph letter from Geoffrey Stringer (1p, October 1943) from Italy talking about settling down after their warm reception and looking forward to a bath; a copy of a photograph of Arthur Stringer in uniform; and a photocopy of a photograph of the three brothers on leave in uniform with ms explanatory notes by Margaret.
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