NAM.1996-10-95-9

From a folder entitled, ‘WWII viewed from Egypt. Scrapbook from 1939-40 Egypt’, containing papers relating to the service of Brig Thurburn in the Middle East, Africa and Italy during World War Two (1939-1945) and his subsequent military career, including his position as Secretary of the Battle Honours Committee, 1954-1958. Items include leaflet circulated by the League of Nations containing Marshal Badoglio’s pronouncement abolishing slavery in Italian-controlled Abyssinia, April 1936; press cuttings August 1939 to May 1955; memorandum of HQ British Troops in Egypt setting out parade orders for the visit of Gen Weygand, February 1940 (with attached press cuttings); postcards, photographs, cocktail party invitation and two press cuttings, mounted on card, relating to the Anglo-French-Turkish Conference held at Aleppo, March 1940; cutting of a newspaper article on brutality in German prisoner of war and concentration camps, ‘Egyptian Gazette’, 9 May 1940; memorandum to all members of the armed forces from the CIGS, photograph of poster, pamphlet and series of seven, ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ posters, referring to the need to maintain secrecy, 1940-1942 (?); British Army Public Relations Special Bulletin on progress by the Eighth Army against German forces at Wadi Akarit in Tunisia, April 1943; report from ‘The Times’ of the Prime Minister’s broadcast speech, ‘A Four Years’ Plan for Britain;, August 1943; press cutting, obituary of Air Marshal Coningham, February 1948, with MS note on his importance to the Eighth Army; also Christmas cards (forces), programmes, official circulars.

World War Two, Middle East (1940-1945), World War Two, North Africa (1940-1945), World War Two, Italy (1943-1945)