Description
Object description
A collection of papers relating to his service as a Driver and a Fitter with the 31st General Transport Company Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), and time as a prisoner of war, including: his Soldier's Service and Pay Book (AB 64); a note book containing his detailed ms training notes relating to vehicles, engines, electrical systems, brakes, axels, petrol, carburettors and other lorry maintenance; a photograph of Booth and others in South Africa (n.d.); a photograph of Booth and others, including Ernest Collins, in Tobruk (June 1942); a ms air mail letter card (2pp, February 1942) written by his brother, Wallace Booth, serving in RHQ Light Aid Detachment Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) attached 64th Medium Regiment Royal Artillery, MEF, to his sister-in-law, Mary ('Molly'); an Italian prisoner of war postcard from Gordon to Molly saying he was a prisoner (July 1942); an envelope of a letter written to Gordon Booth returned with a stamp saying that he was a prisoner of war; a notification (AF B.104-83) saying that Booth was posted missing [following the fall of Tobruk] (August 1942); two notifications (AF B.104-83A) saying that he was a prisoner of war in Italian hands (September 1942); a Christmas greeting to his wife from Camp No 66 (Capua), via the vatican (November 1942); a notification (AF B.104-83A) saying that he had been transferred from Italy to Stalag 344 (January 1944); a notification (AF B.104-80b) saying that he had arrived home (May 1945); a telegram from Gordon saying he arrived home safely (May 1945); two newspaper cuttings saying that both John Gordon Booth and Wallace Booth had been posted missing in June and July 1942; a newspaper cutting about how the brothers met in an Italian prisoner of war camp; a Red Cross map of Italian prisoner of war camps; and a newspaper article with covering letter from the 'Sunday Mercury', Birmingham about his search for old comrades shortly before his death (November 1984).
Content description
A collection of papers relating to his service as a Driver and a Fitter with the 31st General Transport Company Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), and time as a prisoner of war, including: his Soldier's Service and Pay Book (AB 64); a note book containing his detailed ms training notes relating to vehicles, engines, electrical systems, brakes, axels, petrol, carburettors and other lorry maintenance; a photograph of Booth and others in South Africa (n.d.); a photograph of Booth and others, including Ernest Collins, in Tobruk (June 1942); a ms air mail letter card (2pp, February 1942) written by his brother, Wallace Booth, serving in RHQ Light Aid Detachment Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) attached 64th Medium Regiment Royal Artillery, MEF, to his sister-in-law, Mary ('Molly'); an Italian prisoner of war postcard from Gordon to Molly saying he was a prisoner (July 1942); an envelope of a letter written to Gordon Booth returned with a stamp saying that he was a prisoner of war; a notification (AF B.104-83) saying that Booth was posted missing [following the fall of Tobruk] (August 1942); two notifications (AF B.104-83A) saying that he was a prisoner of war in Italian hands (September 1942); a Christmas greeting to his wife from Camp No 66 (Capua), via the vatican (November 1942); a notification (AF B.104-83A) saying that he had been transferred from Italy to Stalag 344 (January 1944); a notification (AF B.104-80b) saying that he had arrived home (May 1945); a telegram from Gordon saying he arrived home safely (May 1945); two newspaper cuttings saying that both John Gordon Booth and Wallace Booth had been posted missing in June and July 1942; a newspaper cutting about how the brothers met in an Italian prisoner of war camp; a Red Cross map of Italian prisoner of war camps; and a newspaper article with covering letter from the 'Sunday Mercury', Birmingham about his search for old comrades shortly before his death (November 1984).
History note
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