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20.7.41. - No. 1. BRITISH PRISONERS IN ENEMY HANDS Next of kin, if able to identify the men from the information published, are requested to advise the Casualty Branches of the Services concerned, forwarding Regimental or any other details. The following is tho latest list of British prisoners of war as received from enemy sources:- CAPTURED IN GREECE Corporal Charles BOOTH Birmingham Trooper Harold TYLER Hereford (Earford ?) Sapper Reginald BARKER Birmingham L/Corporal Norman LINCH Liverpool Driver John HOWARD Norfolk Driver George HACKETT Driver Harold BARLOW Short Heath Driver Lance MARTIN Earl Shilton Driver Ernest NEWTON Birmingham Driver Edward WEDGE Manchester Driver Thomas QUINEY Stafford Driver Albert JONES Blackheath Driver Thomas HOLDEN Wednesbury Driver John HOOPER Walsall Staff Qm.Sgt. Edward HODGES Brighton Sergeant George CLARK Newark Sergeant Joe HUDSON Nottingham Sergeant John CRABTREE Worksop Trooper Steve HILL Charlton Trooper John SMALE Hindley Trooper Edward TASKER Tadley Trooper Raymond SEXTON Nottingham Trooper John ATTENBOROUGH Nottingham Trooper Donald DOWES Nottingham Trooper Thomas WISE Liverpool Trooper John DENTON Hibaldstow Trooper Victor JACKSON Waltham-on-Wold Trooper Raymond MARRIOTT Knipton Trooper Claude HOMM (or POND?) Norwich Trooper Norman PRICE Newark Trooper Reuben WILSON Morecambe Trooper Albert STOKES Newark Trooper James KEYNES Carmarthen Corporal James BARCLAY Edinburgh Corporal Frederick HAMER Salford 6, L/Corporal Gilbert OFPORD Wembley Sapper Henry QUEEN Denton. Sapper Norman MARTIN Preston Sapper Ernest DOWNES Shrewsbury Private John KIRHILL (or CURFILL) Cowdenbeath /Pte. John Ivison 2 Private John IVISON Peterborough. Driver Victor TOTMAN Croydon Qm. Sergeant Brenthall HAIMER Gravesend Staff Sergeant Harold NORFOLK Enfield L/Sergeant Leslie FEATHER Lincoln L/Cpl. Neville CHESTERTON Wednesbury L/Cpl. Ernest MASTERMAN Thornton Heath James L/Cpl. SWAYNEPOOL Salisbury Sapper Robert BERRY Wigan Alec Sapper SCOTT Sheffield Sapper Basil BERRY Hull Driver Patrick EGAN Bulford Sapper Joseph HALLIWELL Oldham Driver Frederick HARRIS Stow-on-the-Wold Driver Frank MITCHELL Chester Driver Stanley TURNER Bristol Sapper Clive BRADBURY Stafford Sergeant James BIRCHETT Eastbourne Cpl. HOOK Benjamin Reading Ronald Cpl. HODSON Manchester Sergeant Charles BARTLETT Weymouth William Sergeant VALLANCE Weymouth Cpl. Fred. COOPER Weymouth L/Cpl. Walter SLENLAY Cleethorpes L/Cpl. John MARTIN Portland L/Cpl. Joseph O'CONNOR Weymouth 1st Class Warrant Officer Eric MORRIS Southampton Staff Sergeant John BROWN Neasden N.W.10 Staff Sergeant Ernest GOODWIN Sheffield Staff Sergeant Fred KERNICK Wigan Staff Sergeant Eric MARKS St.Helens, Isle of Wight. Staff Sergeant Bertie SAUNDERS Clapton, E.5. Staff Sergeant Robert WADDELL Coatbridge Sergeant Herbert HARRIS Manchester 10 Sergeant Jim YOUNG Gloucester Cpl. David FRASER Chester Lance Cpl. Eric FERNSIDE Bingley L/Cpl. Sidney LIVERLAND Burton-on-Trent L/Cpl. Wilfred SMITH Chelsea L/Cpl. Donald LUCKITT Elgin Cpl. William WHITTINGHAM Liverpool 17 L/Cpl. David RAYNOR Ruislip L/Sgt. Idwell PUGH Aberystwytii Sapper Morris KERNAY Coleford Sapper Charles FORD Birkenhead Sapper Walter WOOLS (or WILLS) London Sapper George WOOD Gateshead Driver Sidney BURRER Norwich Driver Charles MASON Birkenhead Sapper John READER Bedford Sapper Cecil DORRAN Manchester 10 Sapper Thomas McHUGH Tallow Sapper Norman DIVALL Ringmill Sapper Raymond POSTER Sunderland Driver Wilfred BLAKE Chester Driver George BEALE London Rifleman Harry DRAKE Winchester Sapper Edward FRATTON Bristol Sergeant Christopher WILKIN Potters Bar Sergeant Harold LINGARD Northenden 20/7/41 No. 2. Air Ministry No. 4544 AIR MINISTRY AND MINISTRY OF HOME SECURITY COMMUNIQUE Very few enemy aircraft flew inland last night. Bombs were dropped at two points in the Midlands causing little damage and no casualties. 20/7/41 No. 7. NOT TO BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, USED ON CLUB TAPES, OR CABLED ABROAD BEFORE 0030 ON MONDAY, 21st JULY, 1941. Simultaneous publication in India and U.S.A. has been arranged.) INDIA APPOINTS AGENT-GENERAL IN U.S.A. In the special circumstances of the war the Government of the United States of America and His Majesty's Government in consultation with the Government of India have agreed to a reciprocal exchange of repre- sentatives between the U.S.A. and India. The name of the United States representative in India will be announced very shortly. To represent India in the United States in the new post now created the Governor-General has appointed the Honourable Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, K.B.E., C.I.E., now a Member of his Executive Council, who will be styled Agent-General for India in the United States of America and who, it is understood, will take up his duties in the early autumn. INDIA OFFICE 20.7.41. - No.8. "V" FOR VICTORY Produced by Robert Kemp Following is the text of the "V" Broadcast to be given in B.B.C. & Home Forces Programme after the 6 p.m. News: it will also be broadcast in Overseas Service. Opening Announcement One day towards the end of last January Belgian listeners picked up from London a that a suggestion chalk mark "V" was quickly scribbled, and stood for victory. Soon we heard that Vs were appearing on walls and paving stones all over and Belgium that it was spreading fast over the frontier into Northern France. This was news for all France and the French were told of it. It sounds a to slight thing do, but life under the eyes of the enemy is so galling that any way of expressing, however simply, hatred of the German, and hope of an allied victory, is a great encouragement. all over Vs Soon, France, were to be seen and then the habit spread over occupied Europe in every language where "V" stands for victory, freedom, or the idea of steadfastness in the fight. Not so very long ago, a new idea arose. You are now going to hear an of English version what we told our French listeners. The first part tells of the success of their "V" campaign and the second part explains the new idea. Flourish: L'Air des V. 5th Symphony) ANNOUNCER: Frenchmen, we know how quick-witted you are. We know all the tricks you play on the Germans and on their so- called "collaborators". Carry on with them. You workers who have been forced to labour for the enemy, even in enemy territory, remember advice: "Temper your zeal with caution". Do what you can, but carefully. And whenever any of you hear of some new move by the Vichy Government in the way of collaboration, write to your leaders telling them what you think of them and of their overlord Hitler. There are a hundred other ways of annoying your oppressors. One fellow paid an organ-grinder to go and play the same tune for an hour under the window of a local German governor. Remember that you, together with the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Dutch, the Belgians, the Serbs and the Greeks, are all members of the Great Silent Arny: an army without uniforms, an army of unrecognised soldiers, an any of the night whose rallying sign is the letter V, the letter which stands for Victory; the letter V which the Gestapo wipes out each night only to find it back again in the morning all the way from the North Cape to the Dardanelles. If the Cross of Lorraine is the emblem of Free France, the letter V is the sign of the fellowship of all the oppressed nations. Do not forget our slogan: (Disc: 1st V. Slogan) (Contd.) - 2 - DIALOGUE 1st VOICE: It’s no longer necessary to ask Frenchmen to write up the letter V. V's are flourisliing everywhere. V’s in charcoal. 2nd VOICE: V’s in chalk. 1st VOICE: V’s in paint. They're harder to rub out. 2nd VOICE: V’s inside Which are found stick-ons with ”France for the French” and "Huns back to Hunland" on them. 1st VOICE: At Tarbes, where Foch came from Tarbes, the birth place of the Conqueror, will have nothing to do with collaborators. 2nd VOICE: In Paris, posters have appeared in which most of the words begin with such enormous V’s that the authorities have ordered them to be taken down. 1st At Niort whole town an VOICE: the was punished by eight o’clock curfew because of the number of V’s there. 2nd VOICE: All along the River Loire the house shutters have the letter V on them. 1st VOICE: At Bayonne, V’s have appeared on German cars 2nd VOICE: In another town a glazier cut a huge, V on a German windscreen. 1st VOICE: At another place in France, a poster appeared bearing the effigy of Petain, the Victor of Verdun, who now makes, pilgrimages to Montoire by Hitler’s order. This, too, was covered by V’s. 2nd VOICE: Since the surrender of Syria, H’s have appeared beside the V’s, H for honour, that honour which, according to retain, forbade us to make any move against our former ally. 1st VOICE: The German-controlled Press can no longer ignore the resistance of the French people and tries to make fun of the V’s. 2nd VOICE: In Paris there have been 6,200 prosecutions for V’s and Lorraine Crosses. The Gestapo makes the concierges wash out seditious inscriptions. But they come back again. 1st VOICE: In a French village a peasant placed his hand on a German soldier’s shoulder, as though by accident. And a white V appeared on the field-grey tunic. The peasant had chalked a V on his own hand, which he had transferred to the enemy’s back! the cads who 2nd VOICE: Radio-Paris sneers at what they call paint V’s on the walls. 1st VOICE: But V’s are flourishing at hide tool at sites for which 2nd VOICE: V’s grow like mushrooms Angouleme on before the war advertisers would have paid their weight and French are in gold.