V.C. PRISONER
Letter To Mr. Jordan LONDON, February 23. Sergeant John Daniel Hinton, who was awarded the Victoria Cross in October for heroic conduct in Greece when German- armoured forces entered Kalamai on April 28, 1941, following which he was wounded — he received a bullet in the abdomen-'-and taken prisoner, has written to the High Commissioner in 'London, Mr. Jordan, stating that he has been in Hospital in Germany for the last seven weeks, after t long stay in Greece. “I am just about my old self again,”- he wrote, and added that he was thrilled at receiving .Mr. Jordan’s letter, the firs! letter he. had got since he was made prisoner "
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Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 112, 6 March 1942, Page 3
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112V.C. PRISONER Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 112, 6 March 1942, Page 3
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