Sergeant Margaret Halliwell of the ATS

	General experience.
	This page: includes inventory.

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Letter of commendation to No. 5 Signals Headquarters.

Inventory of the Donation

• Hand-knitted scarf
• Newspapers, including a SHAEF newsletter
• Pay and Service Book
• Letter of commendation
• Theatre programmes and various souvenir tickets
• Kriegsverdienstkreutz ohne schwere zweitte klasse (war merit cross without swords 2^nd class) and certificate
• German Army armband and badge
• Tape-recorded

German armband and badge

Kriegsverdienstkreutz ohne schwere zweitte klasse (war merit cross without swords 2nd class) and certificate

Above: Stamps to collect (for the war effort?) featuring messages of Nazi propaganda.
The three on the right read, from top to bottom: "Victory at any price", "Use all your strength! Total war - shortest war!", "He is to blame for the war!" These were given to Margaret by the same friend in the Army Education Corps who supplied the 'Iron Cross' certificate.

Newspaper announcing Victory in Europe

Newspaper announcing the end of the war with the famous photograph of U.S. marines hoisting the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima.

	General experience.
	This page: includes inventory.