CONDOLENCE SLIP

[The Monkey God]

Hi Guys,

Can anyone show me what a WW2 CONDOLENCE SLIP looks like? Whats the difference between a slip & a scroll?

[leigh kitchen]

Here's one, with a "medal slip", basic,small pieces of paper rather than the larger more colourful & ormate scrolls.

These are to a WWII Royal Artlleryman who died as POW of the Japanese at Changi, Singapore about the time of the POW's "strike" against the Japanese order to sign chts stating that they would not attempt to escape.

[mariner]

Heres a memorial scroll & condolence slip from WW2...

[mariner]

:cat:

[joe campbell]

these are so powerful in their simplicity....

a piece of paper... a life...

my granny (from keswick) had one on her

wall for many years for her older brother Georgie;

LT GEORGE BOTT

Killed near Loos

1917

it left quite an impression when i first

saw it at age 7 or 8.

and the faraway look in her eyes when she

said "he was such a sweet young man....".

and that probably 45 years after he died...

joe