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File comment:	Christmas card, with a picture of St Mary's church, Chesham, sent from the Council Offices Chesham to Corporal King, 36th Field Bakery, Royal Army Service Corps, Newport, Monmouthshire in 1941.

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File comment:	Christmas card with picture of St Mary's church, Chesham, sent from the Council Offices Chesham to a serviceman stationed in Italy in 1944.

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File comment:	Christmas card with picture of St Mary's church, Chesham sent from the Council Offices Chesham to a serviceman stationed in Brindisi Italy. Received 6.2.44.

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File comment:	Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet - No.1 'Some things you should know if war should come'. Issued July 1939.

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File comment:	Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet - No.1 'Some things you should know if war should come'. Issued July 1939.

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File comment:	Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet - No.1 'Some things you should know if war should come' (inside). Issued July 1939.

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File comment:	Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet - No. 2 'Your gas mask/Masking your windows'. WWII.

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File comment:	Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet - No. 2 'Your gas mask/Masking your windows' (inside). WWII.

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File comment:	Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet - No. 4 'Your food in war time'. WWII.

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File comment:	Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet - No. 4 'Your food in war time' (reverse). WWII.

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File comment:	Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet - No.5 Fire Precautions in War Time'. WWII.

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File comment:	Home Office booklet - 'The Protection of Your Home Against Air Raids'. WWII.

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