Papers relating to his military service during World War Two, dated [1939-1945], 1948, 1965-1966, notably including account of the service of 1 Welch Regt in Crete, May 1941, written in 1966; silk map of North Africa and the southern Mediterranean, [1939-1945]; account of his imprisonment in Salonika in 1941 and his subsequent transportation to Germany, [1945]; typescript copy of 'Per anum ad astra', an account by Alexis Casdigli of the smuggling of maps from Oflag IX A-H to Oflag XII B in 1944 by a group of POWs, including Casdigli and Griffith, written in 1948, copied in 1965.
GRIFFITH, Lt Col Samuel (1905-1985)
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- ReferenceGB 99 KCLMA Griffith
- Dates of Creation[1939-1945], 1948, 1965, 1966
- Language of MaterialEnglish , German
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Administrative / Biographical History
Born in 1905; 2nd Lt, Welch Regt, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1936; served in Palestine, 1936-1939, and Crete, 1941; captured by Germans in Crete, 1941, and held as POW in Salonika and Germany, 1941-1945; Maj, 1942; Lt Col, 1947; died in 1985.
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Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988 and 1989.
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