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Object description
Two ts air mail letter cards (2pp each, September and October 1943) by a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps, then based doing clerical work in the Office of the Assistant Director of Medical Services, 203 Military Liaison Mission, Barton Keep, Pretoria, South Africa, to his wife, Freda, at home in Golders Green, with requests for money, joining a tennis club, meeting a friend at Baragwanath, leisure time and trips, reading the Beveridge report, getting a tooth infection, and the lack of stockings to be found. Together with: two ms letters from Freda's mother, Mrs Beck, (1p and 2pp, September 1940) congratulating them on their first wedding anniversary (they had married on 5 September 1939), and discussing the present of a handbag she had sent "you will have to take your gas mask out of its box & wrap it carefully in the enclosed cloth & tie it round with the tape place it carefully in one corner & then you will have plenty of room for sandwiches etc", with other family news and the bombing; a ms letter from Freda's father Mr Beck (1p, 4 September 1940), thanking them for the present of a tie, and congratulating them on their anniversary; a ms letter from Neil's mother, Mrs Jacobs (2pp, September 1940), wishing them many happy returns for their anniversary, and also mentioning the "pretty hot time here with the night raids"; another ms letter from relatives(?), Ma and Kittie (?); a photo of Neil in Inpanjati, Natal (September 1943); five official photographs of Freda and colleagues from the Air Ministry in London where she worked; a photo of Freda and her brother, Phil Beck, in uniform; a photo of Neil, Freda, and their daughter, Vivienne Jacobs, who was born around VJ Day, August 1945; a Christmas edition (1944[?]) of a unit magazine for Signals 5, Air Ministry (22pp), containing humorous editorials, stories, poems, songs, drawings, crosswords; an embroidered postcard 'Souvenir de France' with national flags, from Freda's brother Phil (December 1945). Also included is a file of papers, and a photo, relating to Freda Jacobs' partner, Gecil Klejnot (later Cecil Claynot), who she lived with after they had both been widowed in the late 1980s, who had been a holocaust survivor, including doctors' notes (in English and German) about his health due to his experiences in Auschwitz, where his first wife and family were killed, and papers relating to the death of his second wife.
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Two ts air mail letter cards (2pp each, September and October 1943) by a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps, then based doing clerical work in the Office of the Assistant Director of Medical Services, 203 Military Liaison Mission, Barton Keep, Pretoria, South Africa, to his wife, Freda, at home in Golders Green, with requests for money, joining a tennis club, meeting a friend at Baragwanath, leisure time and trips, reading the Beveridge report, getting a tooth infection, and the lack of stockings to be found. Together with: two ms letters from Freda's mother, Mrs Beck, (1p and 2pp, September 1940) congratulating them on their first wedding anniversary (they had married on 5 September 1939), and discussing the present of a handbag she had sent "you will have to take your gas mask out of its box & wrap it carefully in the enclosed cloth & tie it round with the tape place it carefully in one corner & then you will have plenty of room for sandwiches etc", with other family news and the bombing; a ms letter from Freda's father Mr Beck (1p, 4 September 1940), thanking them for the present of a tie, and congratulating them on their anniversary; a ms letter from Neil's mother, Mrs Jacobs (2pp, September 1940), wishing them many happy returns for their anniversary, and also mentioning the "pretty hot time here with the night raids"; another ms letter from relatives(?), Ma and Kittie (?); a photo of Neil in Inpanjati, Natal (September 1943); five official photographs of Freda and colleagues from the Air Ministry in London where she worked; a photo of Freda and her brother, Phil Beck, in uniform; a photo of Neil, Freda, and their daughter, Vivienne Jacobs, who was born around VJ Day, August 1945; a Christmas edition (1944[?]) of a unit magazine for Signals 5, Air Ministry (22pp), containing humorous editorials, stories, poems, songs, drawings, crosswords; an embroidered postcard 'Souvenir de France' with national flags, from Freda's brother Phil (December 1945). Also included is a file of papers, and a photo, relating to Freda Jacobs' partner, Gecil Klejnot (later Cecil Claynot), who she lived with after they had both been widowed in the late 1980s, who had been a holocaust survivor, including doctors' notes (in English and German) about his health due to his experiences in Auschwitz, where his first wife and family were killed, and papers relating to the death of his second wife.
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