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RefNoKHAC6/6330/1
AltRefNo6330/1
TitleWartime scrapbook of Stanley Gamble
DescriptionTitled "Scrap Book for Duration of War... S. Gamble 1793722 A.A. R.A."

Containing postcards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and military papers. Many of the items relate to Mr. Gamble's service in Gibraltar but there are many cuttings of local news, including reports about the deaths of Bury and Ramsey servicemen, ARP and rationing offences, air crash at Somersham, arrival of evacuees etc.

Some photographs are labelled with the names of those pictures:

- William H. Emans ("Yank") (p.1a)
- George Postlethwaite (p.1a)
- Stanley Gamble (p.2, p.33?)
- Dick (most likely his brother) (p.5, p.16)
- Jean Trundley (with three children named Jean, Violet and Gordon) (p.5)
- the Post Office, Bury (p.5)
- Home Close, Bury (p.7)
- Gordon (most likely his brother) (p.31)
- Cyril (most likely his brother) (p.33)
- Gunner Sawkins (p.35)
- Gunner Burvil, L/BDR Whitehead, Gunner Meherne, BDR Blackwell, Gunner Turnbull, Gunner Grive, L/BDR Pallett in the Alameda Gardens (p.33)
- Bury Road (p.36)
- Upwood Road, Bury (p.36)

And two pages of unlabelled family and army photographs.

Invitation to a concert in aid of the dependants of those killed on HMS Cossack (with newspaper cutting re. death of Lawrence Sidney Avory of Ramsey onboard the ship) p. 9-10.

Several loose items have been stored in a seperate folder and are described in 6330/2.
Date1940-1942
CreatorNameStanley Gamble (born 1921) of Bury
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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