| Description | 20 letters from Michael Banbury to Peter Good of Derby dating from 1947 to 1952, covering topics including: bleakness of home/family life following death of mother in 1948; friendships; employment in Town Clerk's Department, Derby until 1950; abandonment of seamanship training at Lowestoft in 1950; ambition to join the armed services; Royal Artillery military training in 1951: deployment to Hong Kong and Korea in 1951;
Christmas card, 1951: 1 Commonwealth Division, Korea;
Newspaper cuttings, death announcement and news report: death of Michael Banbury in Korea from wound received on active service on 28 Aug 1952;
Letter, 1952: from Bertram Banbury, father of Michael, to Peter Good: thanks for sympathy;
Photographs, undated: one of a young man, presumably Michael Banbury; one of grave marker in a military cemetery;
Biographical notes re Michael Banbury: single sheet, undated |