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F3290
Title
Prisoner of war postcards / by Ken Bradshaw.
Date(s)
- 1943-1944 (Creation)
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12 items ; 24 cm. or smaller.
Context area
Name of creator
(1919-)
Biographical history
Ken Bradshaw is a Queensland born poet and engineer who was taken prisoner at El Alamein in 1942 and spent the rest of the war in POW camps in Italy and Germany. He was a founding member and lecturer at the University of the Third Age, Melbourne.
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Eight postcards and one envelope handwritten from prison camps in Italy and Germany during 1943 and 1944 to Dorothy Marsden.
Includes two unidentified and undated newspaper cuttings: "Rhodes scholar is an N.C.O." and "Rhodes scholar released"; and a letter concerning undelivered mail from the Post Office.
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Unrestricted access.
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- English
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Alma MMS ID
991006008809703131
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- Marsden, Dorothy (Subject)
- Bradshaw, Ken, 1919- (Subject)
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Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.