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LOT 1824
WW2 James H Parker Typed Tank Crew Manuscript Memoir
20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 5/8 x 7 in. (405 grams, 22 x 18 cm).
A typescript soldier's memoir pencil signed 'James H Parker' on the last text page, running from 1940 to 1945 from induction into the British Army Royal Armoured Corps and Matilda tanks, via the D-Day invasions and across Europe until VE Day on 8th May 1945 at Linteg, Germany, with reference to a visit at Stalag 10b and a comment upon the conditions of the prisoners held there; with a number of poems, mostly with pencilled 'JHP' initials to each page of these; pages held in a small format ring binder. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private UK family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs PR of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
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