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Pockau, Germany: killing of British airman. Includes 2 photographs depicting: HQ...
Catalogue reference: WO 309/1296
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This record is about the Pockau, Germany: killing of British airman. Includes 2 photographs depicting: HQ... dating from 1948 May - July in the series War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 309/1296
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948 May - July
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Description (What the record is about)
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Pockau, Germany: killing of British airman.
Includes 2 photographs depicting: HQ BAOR: War Crimes Group (NWE); Georg Hunger, together with others (named) accused of ill treating and killing Sergeant S J Price of the Royal Air Force at Pockau, Saxony, on 15 February 1945; photographs of accused and Sergeant Price. Dated 1948.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- WCG/C/479/FIS
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C173009/
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WO 309
War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes...
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