Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- [2009] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
48 digital images.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
F/Sgt Emrys Wyn Evans's Stirling bomber was shot down near Hamburg in April or May 1943. He was captured by the Germans and was a prisoner at Stalag IVB by October 1943. He was Secretary of the Cymric Club in the camp and was Welsh editor of the 'Cymro' magazine. Following his repatriation he became a (Wesleyan) Methodist minister in Wales.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Rev. Emrys W. Evans; Caersws; Donation; ?November 2009.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Digital images, [2009], of papers, 1943-1945, of F/Sgt Emrys W. Evans, relating to his incarceration at Stalag IVB, including letters, photographs, programmes, posters and personal documents. The original documents were lent by him to the Library in 2009 to be digitized. Also included are photographs of Evans, 1991 (with Idwal Davies) and 2009.
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Language and script notes
English, Welsh, German.
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
A video recording of Emrys W. Evans's reminiscences, in Welsh, of life in the camp, including the background of the items in this series, is now in The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, Viewing Room V___/DIG/A/18831-2.
Note
Preferred citation: EE.