'Prisoner of War' publication, issued to those who had family in POW camps overseas, 1940s, front cover [image 1 of 2]
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Prisoner of War' publication, issued to those who had family in POW camps overseas, 1940s, inside pages [image 2 of 2]

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A publication that Doris Craig recalls being issued to those who had close relatives in POW camps overseas during the Second World War. It contained articles which gave family at home an insight into the conditions under which their loved ones were being held. Doris Craig joined the ATS in December 1940. Her first posting was to Bournemouth, where she started out doing clerical work, but went on to assemble 'suitcase packs' for the French Resistance, which contained radio transmitters and receivers, power packs and spare parts. She met Barnes-Wallis, and shook him by the hand. Her husband, Frank Craig, had been captured at Dunquerque, and spent three years in POW camps, initially the notorious Stalag VIII B, where he very nearly starved. In 1943 he was repatriated on health grounds as he suffered from asthma, and was sent to Croydon to retrain as an electrical technician. There he met Doris, and they married on Christmas Day 1944.

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