WWII Collections
Taylor, John McGuire
Personal Items
 Identity Card |
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 Map - Sagan to Spremburg |
 Map - P.O.W. Camps |
 Map - Berlin |
 Map - Germany |
 Mapbook Cover |
 Mapbook Back |
 P.O.W. Camp - Padula |
 Receipt - P.O.W. Package |
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 Dance Invitation |
 Travel Pass |
 Embarkment Card |
 Punchcard |
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 Declaration of Continued Service |
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 All Canada joins In Warmest Christmas Greetings And good wishes to you W. L. Mackenzie King (signature) Prime Minister 1943 |
 Christmas 1943 To Canadian Prisoners of War Our Christmas gift of two pounds of chocolate and three hundred cigarettes has been dispatched to you and we trust will arrive safely and in good time. The thoughts of your friends and relations and of all your countrymen are with you this Christmas time. The message we send to you is hope and faith. Hope that the New Year will bring a speedy end to the separation and hardships of war. Faith in the future that we will build together. May the coming year bring you back to us and restore peace to the peoples of the World. A Happy Christmas and a Happier New Year Beatrice Tobin Amelin (signature) President The Canadian Prisoners of War Relatives Association |
 Canadians everywhere join me in sending to you heartiest Christmas greetings and the best of good wishes for the New Year W.L. Mackenzie King (signature) Prime Minister 1944 |
 To Canadian Prisoners of War in Europe Arrangements have been made to forward all Canadian prisoners of war a Christmas gift from the "People of Canada". It is hoped that in spite of the difficulties and uncertainties of transportation these will arrive at the camps in time for Christmas. Each Canadian prisoner will receive a small parcel for his personal use, but the greater part of the gift will be of a collective or communal nature, comprising articles such as gramophone records and cooking utensils, which will be delivered in bulk to the Spokesman at every camp in which Canadians are interned, with the intention that their use might be shared as far as possible with all prisoners at the camp regardless of their nationality. In the past Christmas cards have been responsible for considerable suggestion in the prisoner of war mail service, with the result that ordinary letters arrived only after considerable delay. Since the prisoners themselves have expressed the view that the prompt arrival of these ordinary letters is preferable to the receipt of Christmas cards, postal regulations do not permit their dispatch. It is hoped therefore that the enclosed card from the Prime Minister will be regarded as representing those which prisoners might ordinarily have expected to receive from their friends. |
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 Dear John Hi! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Please excuse the blots but I am not familiar with this pen. I suppose you won't get this card until about Aug but you know I am still thinking of you. I still take Violin & Piano and like both. Cheerio, Love Val. |
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 Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book |
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