Black, Duncan - RAF Flight Officer
A small archive of letters
£188
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
including correspondence from Flight Officer Duncan Black to his parents, sent from Royal Airforce Base Wellesbourne Mountford, Warwick, and other British bases, describing training c.1943; Correspondence sent to Flight Officer Duncan Black Six letters sent to Flight Lieutenant Duncan Black of the Royal Airforce on POW Post stationery in 1944/45 from his mother, wishing him well and writing about the weather and events in Edinburgh, including one letter sent March 1945 "Bring any of the boys - who have no homes to go to - back here with you and we'll put them up somehow." mostly 'returned to sender', as Black had already been moved to Dulag Luft camp; a collection of later correspondence sent to Duncan Black whilst in the Department of Antiquities in Tripoli; and a collection of other letters and documents
Footnote
Note: Duncan Black was a prisoner in Stalag Luft III [Permanent Camp for Airman #3], a German camp for Airforce servicemen based in near Zagen in Poland. The camp opened in 1942, with the North compound for British servicemen opened in June 1943. The position of the camp was selected in an attempt to prevent escape by tunnelling. However, this camp was the location of two of the war's most famous escape attempts, portrayed in film in The Wooden Horse and The Great Escape. Officers camps, such as Stalag Luft III, were very different from those for lower level soldiers and NCO's where food and clothing were in short supply.