Herbert Huie Armstrong -Letters and Postcard -1941-1943 - Part 1

Kriegsgefangenenlager
Datum:  26/10/42

Dear Mother X, Dad, Bill & John

I have had many adventures

since last I wrote to you & ^am now a prisoner

in Germany, I am in good health & hope
you are all the same. Find out from the red

+ what you can send, if possible send books

& plenty of chocolate. Best Love to all

Bert

M^rs H.H.Armstrong

Concord West Sydney

30 Cavendish St

Australia

Herbert Huie Armstrong

27251

ENGLISH

20/12/42

Dear Mother & Dad

Xmas is only 5 days off, we get a Red

+ Xmas parcel each, so will have plenty of food

I hope we will all be spending the next xmas

together, if we do will certainly make up for

the last three. Give the compliments of the season

to all friends & relations, for me. I am well.

Love Red

Mrs H.H.Armstrong

30 Cavendish St

Concord West

Sydney

Australia

Herbert.Huie. Armstrong

Postcard
25th December 42

I'd hoped I might be with you

This year on Xmas Day,

But since my thoughts must

still suffice,

I'll greet you in this way.

Christmas

Greetings.

from Stalag VIIIB

The Toast 
The Spirit.

1942

HERBERT HUIE

ARMSTRONG
27251
STALAG VII B
E452

GERMANY

M^RS H.H.ARMSTRONG
30 CAVENDISH ST

CONCORD WEST SYDNEY
AUSTRALIA

Letter No. 3

Bde. H H Armstrong

Australian Prisoner of War 27251

Stalag VIII B 452

Dear Mother & Dad 26/12/42

It is boxing day today so

I am going to let you know what sort of

Xmas I had. On Xmas eve we drew the parcel &

50 cigs, the parcel contained a tin of steak &

tomatoes pudding, a tin of steak & maccaronie,

a xmas pudding, a cake, chocolate, sugar, tea, sweets,

butter, milk, soap, chocolate biscuits,. Fred the cobber I was

with on Crete is still with me, & as well a parcels

each we had some biscuits that we had saved

& made into a cake & some dried bannaners.

For breakfast we had stued bannaners & cake

with custard, for dinner steak & maccaronie pies

crust made with biscuits, mashed spuds, cabbage

pudding & custard. For tea toast & butter

& cake. In the X room where there are 12

men we have a stove for warming the

room & to do the cooking on, cake & pies

we can do in the kitchen. So we had very

good food for xmas & everyone was in good

spirits. As for comfort & good food it was

a much better xmas than the last one

for me. Tomorrow I will be 22, I think & 

hope by the time I'm 23 I will be home

again. You better get ready for a 21st birthday

party & two or three xmases rolled into one.

Give my love to all our friends. Cheerio Love from
Red 

M^rs H.H. Armstrong

30 Cavendish St

Concord West

Sydney

Australia                                                    

 Bde. H.H. Armstrong

27251

Letter No. 2

Frank Hebbard

Bde. H.H. Armstrong

Australian Prisoner of War 27251

Stalag VIII B 452 Germany

Billie Dear 26/12/42

How are you getting on these days, it

seems years since I heard from you. I hope you

got my last letter & were able to let Mother &

Dad know before they got my first letter, as

it would ^be rather a shock to them when I had

been missing for so long, did you think I

was dead. I have been in Germany for about

two months now & am out on a working

party, we don't have to work very hard & with

the Red + parcels get quite good food. We got

a very good xmas parcel & also three days off

from work, xmas night the boys put on quite

a good concert & everyone was in good spirits

When I joined the army I was 19, tomorrow I

will be 22, it seems a long time since

that day just over three years ago & I've

had many adventures since, some day I 

hope to be able to tell you some of

them.

There is not much I can write about from here

but I will be very glad to hear from you

please write as often as you can.

Give my love to the family.

Your Loving cousin

Bert XX