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RESERVE POLICE CHRISTMAS CARD: WORLD WAR II

RESERVE POLICE CHRISTMAS CARD: WORLD WAR II

A 1940 Christmas card from the Metropolitan Police Reserve found in a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. Her son George was a member of the Police Reserve and during the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.
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Collection:Home Front Project 2005
Image type:Print
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Ref:06822
Identifier:IV 169 Vol.7
Date:1940

#1926 - 1950  #Awdry Collection  #CELEBRATIONS AND EVENTS  #FESTIVALS  #LAW AND ORDER  #Print  #WAR AND ARMED FORCES