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Imperial War Museum Department of Documents: 2018 Accessions

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  • Archibald Black (fl 1938-1945), of the 2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders: memoir, 'Threads', rel to his experiences during the Second World War in Singapore and Thailand, and as a prisoner of war of the Japanese incl the construction of the Konyu cutting (Hellfire Pass) c1980-1989 (Documents.27249)
  • Peter Booth (fl 1944-1946), signalman, RN: memoir appearing to incorporate a journal kept at the time of his service in the Royal Navy during the Second World War 2001 (Documents.27258)
  • Frederick William Boyer (fl 1940-1949), pharmaceutical firm sales director: notebooks (12) containing a daily journal incl illustrations 1940-1949 (Documents.27267)
  • Henry John Charles Bray (d1945), gunner, 3rd Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery: papers incl photographs, letters and corresp mainly with his parents, rel to his military service in Egypt and Italy during the Second World War 1943-1950 (Documents.27268)
  • Eric Broe (fl 1941-1946), Major, 1 Royal Engineer Demolitions Pool: papers, incl corresp rel to experiences of war 1941-1946 (Documents.26923)
  • Denis Frederick Spence Brown (d 1995), Major: letters and aerographs written to his fiancé, Margaret Shulter, during the Second World War 1941-1945 (Documents.26778)
  • Ernst Buschbeck (1889-1963), doctor and museum curator: letter, from Vienna to John Marnham in England, rel to the plight of the Jews in Austria 1938 (Documents.26789)
  • Herbert Cox (fl 1939-1948), Private, 62nd First Class Fire Brigade, 106th Fire Fighting Company: letters to his wife and son, family photographs 1939-1948 (Documents.26969)
  • Arthur Malcolm Fry (1909-2000), Captain, Royal Army Service Corps, and painter: photographic prints rel to service in the Royal Army Service Corps and internment in a series of German prisoner-of-war camps 1939-1945 (2018-04-02)
  • Dennis John Goodman (fl 1941), transportee on HMT Dunera: Australian boy scout diary, written in various internment camps following his transportation due to his German birth 1941 (Documents.26601)
  • Robin J Hall (fl 1943-1949), Flt Lieut, SAAF: flying log books (2) rel to service in No.11 Squadron, South African Air Force, during the Second World War 1943-1949 (Documents.27266)
  • Ronald Hancock-Mellor (d1944), Bombadier, Royal Artillery: family corresp 1944-1955 (Documents.26873)
  • Frank Thomas Hart (fl 1934-1945), Captain, nursing orderly Royal Army Medical Corps: letters to family, primarily rel to his experiences at the military hospital in Shanghai 1934-1945 (Documents.27152)
  • Tim Hetherington (fl 1990-2018), photographer: digital and polaroid images, prints and negatives 1990-2018 (2018-09-03)
  • Marten Cruttenden Howard (1896-1981), Quaker, pacifist and conscientious objector: type script memoir 'White Feather: The Experiences of a Pacifist in France and Elsewhere' describing his experience as a conscientious objector in military and civilian prisons and labour camps 1916-1918 (Documents.26586)
  • G W B James (fl 1939-1945), Brigadier, consultant in psychological medicine, Middle East: photograph album rel to No 78 Neuropathic Hospital at Fayed, Egypt 1939-1945 (2018-03-06)
  • Karl Kern (fl 1942-1945), Private, German prisoner of war: typed statement given whilst held at No.381 POW camp (Middle East Forces) rel to war crimes witnessed whilst serving as a clerk in the Krasne/Krasnoje branch of German military command district of Molodechno (Minsk, Belarus) 1943-1945 (Documents.27210)
  • Frederick George Keys (1885-1976), Major, American physical chemist: album of record photographs of the American Expeditionary Force Chemical Warfare Laboratory in Puteaux, France 1914-1939 (2018-10-02)
  • James Kirkwood (b1922), Lieut Cmdr, Royal Navy: documents and photographs rel to naval career 1942-1944 (Documents.26587)
  • Arkless Lockie (fl 1930-1945), engineer of Federated Malay States Railways (FMSR); Lieut, Royal Engineers: retrospective diary, in 4 notebooks, rel to experiences as prisoner of war of the Japanese, written in the form of a letter to his wife 1942-1945 (Documents.26806)
  • Doris Mary Lornie (fl 1936-1943), waitress and diarist: diaries describing the last years of the Great Depression and later the effects of war 1936-1943 (Documents.27254)
  • Daphne Eva Meihuizen (1902-1976), diarist: diary written in a household book describing life under German occupation in Jan Steenlaan, Naarden, near Amsterdam 1943-1945 (Documents.27233)
  • Walter Abraham Merkel (fl 1946-1947), Captain,: documents rel to service as Adjutant at Featherstone Park prisoner of war camp (POW camp 18, Haltwhistle, Northumberland) 1946-1947 (Documents.27036)
  • Ian Burgess Moat (fl 1940-1944), Canterbury schoolboy: typescript memoir describing experiences as a schoolboy in the Canterbury area during the Second World War 1940-1944 (Documents.26921)
  • John Nettelfield (fl 1939-1944), Major: letters to his mother, incl transcriptions with explanatory detail, while working for Burmah-Shell in Mhow, India rel to the outbreak of war and later his experience of action 1939-1944 (Documents.27222)
  • Raymond Neumeyer (fl 1939-1951), child refugee: papers 1939-1951 (Documents.26917)
  • Ruth Neumeyer (1923-2012), Kindertransport evacuee: photograph albums 1919-1945 (03/01/2018)
  • James Edward Newton (b1909), signalman and NCO, Royal Corps of Signals: papers incl accounts rel to his Second World War service 1939-1944 (Documents.27204)
  • John Peters (fl 1991), Flt Lieut: unedited film of his return from captivity in Iraq to RAF Laarbruch 1991 (BFK 80 V 1 UMT)
  • Archibald Roxburgh (1886-1954), Lieut, surgeon and dermatologist: photograph albums (6) rel to service in the Royal Navy with his brother, Robert Roxburgh (1897-1916), midshipman on HMS Indefatigable 1914-1918 (2018-11-03)
  • Alexander Savitsky (fl 1914-1989), Captain, Imperial Russian Army: photograph albums and loose prints, incl images rel to his childhood on an estate near Ekaterinburg, as a cavalry officer, and life in Britain following his escape from Russia in 1919 1914-1989 (2018-02-01)
  • Max Schramm (fl 1939-1941), clothing retailer, Vienna: family corresp, primarily to daughter Malvine Peterka rel to her and her sister's emigration to England following the Nazi invasion and the situation of Jews in Vienna 1939-1941 (Documents.27175)
  • William Henry Sherwood (1898-1986), Colonel, actor and director: diary incl details of work with repertory and Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) concerts and theatrical parties, and being recalled to service as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers 1941-1945 (Documents.27225)
  • Muriel Ellen Thompson (fl 1914-1934), of Kilmarnock, Scotland: diary written whilst visiting family friends in Bingerbück, Germany, on the outbreak of war 1914 (Documents.27166)
  • Arthur Harold Whitmarsh (d1999), Major: anecdotal memoir, word-processed, covering his experienced during the Second World War 1939-1946 (Documents.27205)
  • Richard Williamson (fl 1939-1945), photographer: postcard prints rel to the arrival of Czech and Polish airmen at Beeston, Cheshire, following their evacuation from France, 1940 1939-1945 (2018-03-07)
  • Kenneth Wiltshire (fl 1944-1946), ordinary signalman: diaries rel to experiences serving aboard HMS Belfast 1944-1946 (Documents.27163)
  • Charles Harold Woolvin (1895-1967), Captain, Royal Engineers: photograph albums and loose prints primarily rel to service in the Royal Engineers and Royal Flying Corps, 59 Squadron 1914-1945 (2018-03-02)
  • Directorate of Army Welfare: film, 'Calling Blighty (Birkenhead)', of messages home from British Forces stationed in India 1944-1945 (MGH 7001)
  • Ministry of Defence, Directorate of Defence Communications: records 1990-2018 (2018-08-01)