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Letters with cartoon from Jack Russell written during his duty in India, to his future wife. Jack Russell grew up in West Norwood and enlisted in the Gloucester Regiment in 1940 before being transferred to the 118 Light Ack-Ack Regiment. He was sent to India as part of India Command, before seeing action as a Troop Sergeant on the Burma Front in 1944-45. After the war he was promoted to Acting Regimental Sergeant Major, serving with the last of the British Raj forces in India.Digital image by kind permission of Jack Russell. From the Lambeth Archives Home

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
Image type:	Copy Print
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Ref:	06765
Identifier:	SPd4064/7
Date:	1943

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