photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2013-04-4-35

Description

Photograph of a football team posing for a group photograph, 1940-1945. Addressed to Mrs Keith-Ival Clare, 1 Aylesford Villa, Hurst Nr Reading, England. From D Pickett. No 3701. Stalag XXID, Gemany. Reads: ‘Give my best reports to all’. From a group of 77 photographs related to Charles Samuel Spooner, 1st Bn Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), 51st Highland Division and his time in Stalag 21D, Posen, 1940-1945. Associated with World War Two, POWs Germany (1939-1945). Born in Derby in 1919, Spooner was captured at Fecamp on 10 June 1940 and given the prisoner of war number 1159.

Campaigns

World War Two, POWs Germany (1939-1945)