Vintage Roger : letters from the POW years

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Label

Vintage Roger : letters from the POW years

Title remainder

letters from the POW years

Statement of responsibility

Roger Mortimer ; edited by Charlie Mortimer

Creator

• Mortimer, Roger, 1909-1991

Contributor

• Mortimer, Charlie, 1952-

Subject

• Mortimer, Roger, 1909-1991 -- Correspondence
• Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
• Warfare and Defence
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, British

Genre

• Correspondence

Language

eng

Summary

In 1930, 21-year-old Roger Mortimer was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards, and would spend the next 8 years stationed at Chelsea Barracks. He lived a fairly leisurely existence, with his parents' house in Cadogan Gardens a stone's throw away, and pleasant afternoons were whiled away at the racecourse or a members' club. Things got a little hairy in Palestine in 1938, when Roger, now a captain, found himself amidst the action in the Arab Uprising. While fighting the Germans in 1940, Roger was knocked unconscious by a shell explosion. Upon waking he found that he was now a PoW. Thus began a period of incarceration that would last 5 long years, and which for Roger there seemed no conceivable end in sight. This account tells of Roger's years in the Coldstream Guards and is followed by a collection of letters he wrote to his good friend Peggy Dunne from May 1940 to late 1944

Member of

• Correspondence., Selections

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 940.5'472'092
• 940.5'472'092
• 940.5472092

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction