Letter to [Hilda] Pendlebury from Gerald Gardner-Brown

Department Archive
Collection John Pendlebury Family Papers
Reference No. PEN 1/2/3/4/1
Level Item
Dates Thursday, February 19, 1948
Donor/Creator
Scope and Content Recounting details of a story about John Pendlebury in Crete which Gardner-Brown had looked up in his diary, and thanking Hilda for letting him visit her and telling him about her visit to Crete. Gardner-Brown had been told the story by Captain Adair (employee of Cable and Wireless) of how he escaped from Syra [Syros] to Crete, met John, last saw John with Major Ogilvy of the Scots Guards firing up a street in Heraklion [Iráklion], and then heard that John and Ogilvy had both been shot in the head.