Record Number: 33467

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Another book: Missing Believed Prisoner, is by a South African captured at Sidi Rezegh. Those awful marches through the desert with no food or water. The Camp with starvation rations. Then the Red Cross parcels and all they meant. I never realized it before.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 11 Aug 1944 and 13 Aug 1944

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Radlett
county: Hertfordshire

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Vere Hodgson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1901

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Social worker

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

N. I. Robinson

Title:

Missing, Believed Prisoner: The Story of a South African Prisoner of War.

Genre:

History, Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Durban: Robinson, 1943

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33467

Source:

Print

Author:

Vere Hodgson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Few Eggs and No Oranges: A Diary Showing how Unimportant People in London and Birmingham Lived through the War Years, 1940-45, Written in the Notting Hill Area of London

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

513

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vere Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges: A Diary Showing how Unimportant People in London and Birmingham Lived through the War Years, 1940-45, Written in the Notting Hill Area of London, (London, 1999), p. 513, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33467, accessed: 14 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None