4th December 1940 News in Brief - Demobilisation 1/0 See 04.12.1940 - 30/96 FRENCH DEMOBILISATION PRIME DE DEMOBILISATION Je soussigné name déclare sur l'honneur ne pas avoir bénéficié d'un traitement ou salaire provenant d'une Administration quelconque pendant ma présence sous les drapeaux et ne pas être Israëlite. Et ne pas avoir toucher la première partie de ma prime. ISTRES, Le -4 DEC 1940 Septembre 1940 Signed DEMOBILISATION PAY I, the undersigned, name , hereby declare on my honour that I did not receive any salary or wages from any government agency during my service in the military, that I am not Jewish, and that I have not yet received the first instalment of my demobilisation pay. ISTRES, -4 DEC1940 September 1940 Signed General demobilisation of the French forces had begun and the first to be released were the transport and public services employees. Having been an employee of French Railways, I applied for my demobilisation and was finally discharged on the 15th July 1940 at the Mairie de Sainte-Livrade, and like all 'other ranks' received the sum of 200 francs with a warrant for a further 800 francs on reaching home. Since my repatriation to England was of course out of the question, I gave as my home address that of Oncle Pierre at Thomery (near Fontainebleau) in the German occupied part of France. Early the next morning I said goodbye to my army companions and got a lift in one of our lorries as far as Villeneuve-sur-Lot, where I continued by train to a place called Penne to collect two days’ food rations. My next stop was at Agen and from there on to Toulouse by train. The train service was curtailed to about one a day, stopping at all stations and crammed with people. Source: bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/02/a7854302.shtml (2026) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Finanzamt 'doily' seals Finanzamt 'doily' seals 1/0 Also see official court 'doily' seals Finanzamt 'doily' seals See 13.06.1939 - 29/55 12.09.1940 See 17.04.1941 - 25/75 (Riesa) Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

11th October 1945 11th October 1945 1/1 Commercial postcard sent by Villeroy & Boch to a customer in Altenburg. Featuring 6pf definitive stamp (Mi.117Xa - Soviet Zone - West Saxony)

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27th September 1939 27th September 1939 1/1 Postcard depicting 'The entrance to the 'Deutschlandhalle' '. Ref: 27.09.1939 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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Cover featuring a design of Greater Germany and propaganda slogan for Adolf Hitler's 49th birthday. Note: There are also postcards with this design BV2156). Featuring the postage stamp Mi.664 (issued 13.04.1938) and commemorative cancellation from Nuremberg. Ref: 20.04.1938 - 29/2 20th April 1938 Adolf Hitler's 49th Birthday 20.04.1938 Nuremberg Birthday reverse.jpeg 20.04.1938 Nuremberg Birthday reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover featuring a design of Greater Germany and propaganda slogan for Adolf Hitler's 49th birthday. Note: There are also postcards with this design BV2156). Featuring the postage stamp Mi.664 (issued 13.04.1938) and commemorative cancellation from Nuremberg. Ref: 20.04.1938 - 29/2 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.689-690 (04.04.1939) Reich Profession Competition Mi.689-690 (04.04.1939) Reich Profession Competition 1/1 Postcard depicting Adolf Hitler addressing a large crowd gathered at the Theaterplatz in Karlsbad, 4th October 1938. The caption to the reverse of the postcard reads, 'Liberation of the Sudetenlands, October 1938'. Featuring Mi.689 & 690 from the Reichs Profession Competition issue (first day of release). Ref: 04.04.1939 Mi.689 - 690 Reichs Profession Competition ('Reichsberufswettkampf') Notes: Design: Erich Meerwald . Photogravure printing. Sheets 10 x 10. Swastika watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until 31.12.1940 Mi.689 (6 Pf). Ref: 04.04.1939 Mi.690 (12 Pf). Ref: 04.04.1939 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Cartoon from PUNCH magazine 12th August 1936. Spain, having been forced to the ground, watches hopelessly as 'Fascism' fights 'Communism'. 12th August 1936 Pages from 'PUNCH' 1/1 Cartoon from PUNCH magazine 12th August 1936. Spain, having been forced to the ground, watches hopelessly as 'Fascism' fights 'Communism'. The caption reads THE VICTIM. SPAIN. "WHICHEVER WINS, MY AGONY ENDURES" Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Cover sent airmail from Hindelang to St. Stephens Vicarage at 18 East India Dock Rd, London. Featuring a British 'EXPRESS FEE PAID 6d' hand-stamp. Ref: 08.02.1938 (date received) 8th February 1938 'Express Fee Paid 6d' 1/1 Cover sent airmail from Hindelang to St. Stephens Vicarage at 18 East India Dock Rd, London. Featuring a British 'EXPRESS FEE PAID 6d' hand-stamp. Ref: 08.02.1938 (date received) Hand-stamp on cover. Note from Robert Stuhr@StuhrStuhr3. Cover arrived in London on 8.2.38, franked w 100 Pfg. Special delivery 50 Pfg, air mail premium to GB 15 Pfg. Single letter rate 25 Pfg, double letter 40. Probably single letter overfranked by 10 Pfg, but nevertheless fully paid by the sender. Hence the GB Express fee paid. (Source: X) 81 East India Dock Road and St. Stephens Church This house, detached in a large garden, was built in 1817–18 on copyhold property leased from John Perry by the brandy merchant Duncan Dunbar, the owner of vacant ground on the site of No. 79, Balnagaith House, eastward. Like that house it was given a Scottish name, Forres House. In 1870 it was bought by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for £1,400 from J. W. Perry Watlington, who gave them back half the price. This was for use as the vicarage of St Stephen's Church, from which it was, however, separated by No. 83. The Commissioners' architect, Ewan Christian, did not think much of the construction of the Regency house, or the subterranean location of its offices, or its low ceiling heights. He insisted on changes and a minimum thickness of 14in. for the external walls. The changes were made by the local architect, John W. Morris. Later, the vicar's daughter remembered it as having 'a great many small rooms'. In 1886 Margaret Perry Watlington sold the strip eastward of No. 81, at one time intended for a road northward, to the vicar, the Rev. R. J. Elliott. He had been taking homeless boys to live in the vicarage but 'as his daughters grew up' found it necessary in that year to build St Stephen's Home for Orphans and Fatherless Boys here. John W. Morris was again the architect and the builder was J. K. Coleman of Poplar High Street. Behind, a small home for six old people was built. For the boys' home Morris designed a plain 'Tudor' building with straight-sided gables and rectangular, mullion-and-transomed windows under hood-moulds, executed in brick and stone — a rare intrusion of this style into Poplar. In 1909 the vicarage was abandoned as too expensive to run, in favour of a clergy house at No. 15 Poplar High Street. The church was damaged in an air raid in 1917, incurring some £2,650-worth of repairs. Messrs Powell — presumably James Powell & Sons — supplied two stained glass windows at that time. Damage was inflicted more than once in the Second World War and the church was demolished in 1950. The choir-stalls were removed to St Peter's, Grange Park, and the ragstones were utilised in making the low boundary wall of this part of the Lansbury Estate along East India Dock Road between Saracen Street and Upper North Street. Source: british-history.ac.uk Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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