Roy Writes Home - August 23, 1944

He  had been held captive for almost 7 months by this time. Roy had started getting packages and letters from home filled with well wishes and goodies.
Things were looking up!
His wounds are healed and he is in fairly good health!
Lots to be thankful for.... to say the very least.

The majority of the guards were stand up good guys.
They even got most of the Red Cross packages too!
Hopes and prayers abounded that the war would end soon....
 and everyone could..... just go home.

There were rules that had to be obeyed.....
But,at least, they were alive.

Roy M. Badgerow survived even when he was marched out into the bitter cold of winter before the Russians advanced on their POW Camp.

Below.... is a letter from Roy to his Mother Edith.
Note: it was never sealed, as was the norm, to let the German  and U.S.A. censors have a good look at it.
If it contained something not to their liking it was marked out,
 or the correspondence was outright destroyed.


                                                                                                Front

                                            Back

Body Of The Letter Itself

Note:When the letter was completed, the flap was  then just inserted, into the slit in the paper

This book clearly sets forth the hardships that the Allied Prisoners Of War had to endure.
Many were lost on the long march to freedom.....
Roy Martin Badgerow was one of the lucky ones.