The Burton Agnes Disaster Clergy postcards and telegrams reproduced here

postcards and telegrams reproduced here are a unique example of a complete WW2 Internment Correspondence

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The Burton Agnes Disaster Clergy postcards and telegrams reproduced hereIn the early hours of an autumn day in 1947, a truck laden with German prisoners of war and their English guards approached a level crossing in a sleepy Yorkshire village. At the same moment, an express train was thundering towards the crossing. For some inexplicable reason, with the train just yards away, the soldier behind the wheel of the truck did not stop. Instead he pressed the accelerator pedal The scene was set for a terrible tragedy one which