[ The British Military Cemetery at Solymár, Hungary. ] Long typescript, titled 'The Budapest War Cemetery', including a 'Register of the Graves in the Budapest War Cemetery', with letter by the Hungarian author, and photographs and negatives.

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[ The Budapest War Cemetery; The British Military Cemetery at Solymár, Hungary ]
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Covering letter dated from Budapest [ Hungary ], 8 April 1985.
£280.00
SKU: 17153

27pp., 8vo. (The article on 'The Budapest War Cemetery' is 7pp., 8vo, and the accompanying 'Register of the Graves in the Budapest War Cemetery' is 21pp., 8vo. There is also a page of 'Abbreviations to the Register'.) A few manuscript emendations. The covering letter is addressed to 'David', and is effusive in its offer of further assistance, the author urging 'David' to rewrite the piece as he sees fit. It is signed, faintly and undecipherably. The author writes in good, but not entirely idiomatic, English, and has gone to some trouble. The article describes the wartime background to the establishment of 'The English Cemetery at Solymár', from the first man buried there, Flight Sergeant Gordon G. Pemberton, an Australian pilot of a Wellington bomber, shot down on the night of 3 April 1944. The 'Register' lists the 205 graves, each with all the information to be found on the tombstone. Also present are four strips of negatives, with one larger negative of a single image, and a contact sheet strip reproducing the 35 pictures on the negative strips. The last is annotated on the reverse in pencil. Also included are three black and white photographs (described as 'three bad prints' in the letter): one of the cemetery in snow, and the other two of Pemberton's crashed Wellington bomber.