Urwin, Thomas Arthur
Production date
1941-1943
Description
A collection of papers relating to Tom Urwin's military service during WWII. Includes love letters between Tom Urwin and his fiance Dorothy, her maiden surname untraced at the time of cataloguing.
Object detail
Folder
1 License to drive a motor vehicle 9/4/1941
2 Leaflet - Pay and Allowances, Conditions of Service, The Second NZEF, 1940
3 Letter from Australasian Temperance & General Mutual Life Assurance Soc. To No 40208 T A Urwin, Trentham re staff Provident Fund, Eltham County 11/2/1941
4 Authority to drive Army Vehicles. 4/4/1941 Urwin - T A
5 A love letter from T. (Tom) to Mrs T A Urwin (Dorothy Grace) "Sweetheart Mine", dated June 1943. Talks of being away for two years and reminisces about life at home and writes of his current life. Includes envelope.
6 Letter number 158 to 'My Dearest Love' (Tom Urwin) from D. (Dorothy) news from home. Also gives a description of country folk coming to town for the weekly visit. Written in Hawera and dated 22/7/1943. Includes envelope.
7 Letter number 159 - to 'My Sweet' from D. (Dorothy) of Hawera, undated. Writes of meeting up with a Mr Harkness who had served with Tom and life at home.
8 Letter number 160 - to 'My Dearest' (Tom) from D (Dorothy), news from home. Written in Hawera and dated 3/8/1943. Includes envelope.
9 Letter number 161 - to 'My Dearest Love' (Tom) from D. (Dorothy), news from home. Written in Hawera and dated 9/8/1943. Writes of Mr H G Dickie's marriage to Mrs Meredith. Includes envelope.
10 Letter number 162 - to 'My Dearest' (Tom) from D (Dorothy), news from home. Written in Hawera 19/8/1943. This letter was in the envelope with item 9.
11 5 Counterfoil - 20/- Postal orders made out at Haifa to Lieut L Atkinson
12 12 photographic 'snaps' presumably send to Tom
13 unproofed negatives.
14 5 scraps of paper bearing names and addresses, possibly, Tom's army comrades .
15 Photograph of Dorothy Urwin and Christopher Saxton at tge Waitara Bowling Club Hall, 24 August 1968.
16 Notes from PA Catchpole after purusal of archive, 28 August 2012.
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