receipt, form
Accession Number

NAM.2001-09-300-284

Description

One of 22 receipts for contributions made by Lt Jabez-Smith’s father towards the cost of prisoner of war parcels, issued by the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, 12 Aug 1940-18 Aug 1942. From a collection of 422 items of correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1936-2000. Associated with Lt (later Capt) Antony Raymond Jabez-Smith, 1914-2000, 1st Bn Queen Victoria’s Rifles, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Items relate mainly to his capture at Calais, May 1940, and his life as a prisoner of war in Germany, 1940-1945.

Campaigns

World War Two, POWs Germany (1939-1945)