File:Pigeon post message in cylinder (AM 1962.13-3).jpg

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Pigeon post message in cylinder   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Pigeon post message in cylinder
Object type Classification: 70621
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English: Pigeon post message, 19th July 1945, WW2 sent by pigeon post from Major-General in Berlin to Princess Royal,Princess Mary (1896-1965) Colonel-in-Chief, of Royal Signal Corps message in red 1-1-2"" cardboard cylinder and gadget of tape, rubber etc. for clipping cylinder to bird's feet
Date World War 2-Wars
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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1962.13
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, W1714
Notes Pigeon post message, 19th July 1945, WW2 Message sent during three-power conference in Berlin (the Potsdam conference) 'Last message' by pigeon post from Major-General in Berlin to the Princess Royal, Princess Mary, Colonel-in-Chief, of Royal Signal Corps Typed message- FROM- MAJ.GENERAL C.M.F. WHITE, CB. CBE. DSO. TO- HRH, THE PRINCESS ROYAL. ALL RANKS OF THE ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS SERVING IN THE NORTH - WEST EUROPE WITH TWENTY-FIRST ARMY GROUP DESIRE TO PAY THEIR COLONEL-IN-CHIEF THEIR LOYAL AND DUTIFUL RESPECTS. THIS MESSAGE HAS LEFT BERLIN WHILE THE THREE-POWER CONFERENCE IS MEETING AND COMES TO YOU BY PIGEON; AS THE BIRDS FLY ON THEIR LAST OPERATIONAL DUTY IN NORTH-WESWT EUROPE MAY THEY SYMBOLISE TO THE WORLD THE RE-OPENINMG OF FREE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE NATIONS AND MAY THEY BRING THE ASSURANCE THAT IN PEACE AS IN ITS FIRST MAJOR WAR THE ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS PROUDLY OFFERS YOU ITS CERTA CITO.- dated in ink- ""19 July 45"" Note- Princess Mary, sister to King George VI was made Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal signal Corps in 1935, and held the same position in relation to the Royal NZ Signal Corps from 1940 until her death in 1965. The appointment was subsequently taken up by Princess Anne
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