press cutting, press cutting
Accession Number
NAM.2001-09-300-375
Description
One of 73 press cuttings relating to the defence of Calais, May 1940. Cuttings date from 17 May - 3 July 1940 and 17 May 1965. 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.
Events
Calais, Siege of, 1940 (World War Two, North West Europe 1939-1940)