SOS group

[1Perazzi]

I hope everyone had a good show, I haven't seen anyone talk about any finds so I thought I'd post my one British find for my collection. Hope you enjoy and please feel free to post anything you may have found there Mike

[1Perazzi]

He enlisted in The Somerset L I in 1915. He was captured in 1918.

[1Perazzi]

has his named Bible that he wrote in telling he was captured in march 1918. also a nice letter welcoming him home.

[Bond]

A wonderful POW group and having the letter from the Royals really adds to it.

Jerry B.

[pzrwest]

Nice to see a hand written letter over the generic mass copied typed letters gives the letter that personal touch

[Ian Thomson]

A very nice group. I see he came from a large family, he was one of ten children

Cheers
Ian

[Adam H]

Nice 1918 Spring Offensive POW group.

The POW letter from the king isn't a common find. Nice that everything has remained together.

Thanks for sharing.

Does much in the way of British/Commonwealth medals show up at the SOS and similar? I've never made it to one...

Cheers,

Adam

[Jean-Loup]

Why would the king send a handwritten letter to a private, when there were hundreds of thousands of liberated prisonners?

JL

[1Perazzi]

Thank you for the comments. I didn't know anything about him I need to research him yet. 10 is a pretty big family ! Apart from a few dealers who specialize in British medals I didn't notice a whole lot there. Mainly ww2 seemed to be the most I saw. The letter is a form letter that was printed up for distribution to the returning POWs. Mike

[Adam H]

Mike,

Thanks for the info about the shows. Perhaps one day I'll be within striking distance and able to attend.

Quite right about the letter. They were not individually handwritten, of course as there were certainly a large number of POWs by war's end. The King would have handwritten the original and then these were printed off as copies. Still, they are not all that common to find. I've only one in my collection, at the moment, I think, and have maybe had 2-3 others over many years of collecting and trading.

Cheers,

Adam

[matmil]

Mike:
somehow I missed seeing you at the show, I must have been out running the floor when you fell into my cache of british items. .............nice find !
Adam, oh yes, Plenty of Yanks selling British medals....SOS is the Best show in the USA.
Matt

[1Perazzi]

Hey Matt sorry I missed you hope you had a good show.Maybe more British medals were there than I noticed ? Hope you picked up some goodies. You know I still have the Bengal Lancers medal I got from you. I need to start into that area more but have been into WW1 at the present. Take Care Mike

[Jean-Loup]

FRom the comments, I was getting the impression that it was an original hand written letter, and really could not understand why such a document would exist.
Thanks for the explanation.