Letter from Amy D Mehnke to Mrs Ray, Stawell

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Accession Number AWM2017.6.109
Collection number PR82/008
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type Item
Item count 1
Object type Letter, Newspaper cutting
Physical description 5 Image/s captured
Maker Unknown
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

Letter from Amy D Mehnke to Mrs Ray, Stawell, 19 September 1915. In the letter Mehnke mentions her father is in Ruhleben internment camp as her parents were holidaying in Rotenburg when war broke out and asks Mrs Ray to write to her mother as has taken up residence in Rotenburg to be near her husband but is very lonely. Attached to the letter is a newspaper clipping advising that letters to interned Australians cannot be sent through the High Commission. [Includes envelope]