This section of the site features a varied collection of documents, letters and ephemera relating to the 16th DLI. The items are arranged in chronological order with explanatory notes, as appropriate. But please note that most documents relating to 16 DLI POWs are posted in the Prisoners of War section of the site. The present contents here are listed below, click on the links:
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Two Envelopes, Three Years of Service, Sgt Charles Bray, D Company, 1940-43
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Pte Ben Di Duca, 4466417, enlisted 7/40, Documents.
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Signal Platoon Training Timetable March 1941
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Signal Platoon Movement Orders July 1941
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Leave Ration Card Cpl Charles Bray July 1941
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Signed 16th DLI Officers’ Christmas Day 1942 Dinner Menu, MV Staffordshire
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A Postcard from Algiers, D Coy CQMS W James
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Pte Percy Ord, C Company, Photographs and Documents, including an ‘At Sea’ Pay Book entry for 25/12/42
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Soldier’s Will Form, a Letter home from December 1942 and Letters and Postcards from the Troopship Staffordshire, Algiers and Tunisia by Pte T Tunney, C Company
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Surviving POW Correspondence 1943-45, Pte T Tunney
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Pte Evan Darlington, C Company, Ex-14 DLI, POW escaper and 2 DLI, photographs and documents
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Wounded in Action Telegram, Pte George Forster, C Coy, 16 DLI, March 1943
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Casualty Notification, Pte George Forster, March 1943
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War Office Casualty Notification, Pte Syd Shutt, B Company, March 1943
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Italian POW Card, Sgt Charles Bray, D Company, March 1943
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Local Newpaper Items and Returned Envelopes, ‘Reported Missing’ Sgt Charles Bray, March 1943
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War Office POW Notification, Sgt Charles Bray, March 1943
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