Box CLX-A-1540

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1 folder: Correspondence (6 letters 1992-1995) from the Imperial War Museum to Irene Young relating to the exhibition, "Forces Sweethearts'", 1993, and an invitation to attend a private view of the exhibition on 11 February 1993.

Scope and Contents Printed documents related to Bletchley park. Photocopied pages from "The Secret Life of Bletchley Park" book by Sinclair McKay, 2010. Photocopied pages from "The Lost World of Bletchley Park" written by Sinclair McKay, 2013. Article from the Museums Journal entitled "Secret Society", reviewing The Intelligence Factory exhibition at...

Scope and Contents This is a cutting from the publication Time and Tide of an article entitled "Parachute", written by David Haig-Thomas (ornithologist, wildlife photographer, explorer, and rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics) and published on 18 March 1944. A handwritten annotation next to the name of the author (David Haig-Thomas) reads "Killed in action 6.6.44". The article a first person account of Haig-Thomas's experience...

Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to Irene Young's legacy at Bletchley Park. Email concerning Iain Gordon Brown's sponsoring of a brick in the "Codebreakers' Wall" at Bletchley park, 2 July 2018, along with two printed leaflet about said wall. Print out of Irene Young's entry in Bletchley Park's Roll of Honour, along with email correspondence between Iain Gordon Brown and Bletchley Park Trust...

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Photograph, newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, magazines, programmes.

Scope and Contents Photographs, correspondence, postcards, notes, articles, magazines, material re Bletchley Park Trust, calendar, pamphlets.Includes the offer of employment from the Foreign Office to Irene Young for a technical assistant position at Bletchley Park, September 1942.Also includes a letter from Emily Young to her dautgher Irene Young on the rapprochement with Lieut. Leslie Cairns, Royal Artillery (then on service in North Africa), 1943. Leslie Cairns had sent a letter to...

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Postcards, newspapers, notes, photocopies, magazines relating to Bletchley Park.

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Signed by Gordon Brown, then Prime Minister of the UK. 'The Government wishes to express to you its deepest gratitude for the vital service you performed during World War II'

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1 folder: Material relating to the 50th Anniversary of Normandy Landings in 1994 attended by Irene J. Young and her son. Leslie George Cairns is commemorated on the memorial to the Missing at nearby Bayeux. Material includes programmes of events and other ephemera, and commemorative newspaper.