DOMINION PRISONERS FROM CRETE
American Woman’s Interest Three hundred New Zealand troops taken prisoner in Crete have been “adopted” by an American, Mrs. lan Campbell, who for some time has been responsible for forwarding from Lisbon thousands of parcels of comforts for British prisoners of war in Germany. > The New Zealanders, after their arrival at a prison camp in Germany near the frontier of occupied France, made contact with Mrs. Campbell through the Red CrossShe has now received their first messages of gratitude for comforts. The
chief complaint of the prisoners appears J o be the delay at hearing from their relatives in New Zealand. ;> \ Mrs. Campbell’s husband was taken prisoner in Flanders while serving with a British regiment.
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 89, 12 September 1941, Page 3
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119DOMINION PRISONERS FROM CRETE Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 89, 12 September 1941, Page 3
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