About the John Pendlebury Family Papers
The John Pendlebury Family Papers cover the period from 1913 to 1964 and document the life of archaeologist and WWII hero John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury, his wife Hilda and their family.
Comprises a photograph of a tooth of a large animal, from Arkalochori. Annotated as coming from notebook number 1, and having no negative.
The translation is in [Herbert Pendlebury’s handwriting].
About John Pendlebury’s work for the Special Operations Executive in Crete and the circumstances of his death.
Includes information about John Pendlebury’s excavations around the Lasithi Plain.
In [Herbert Pendlebury’s] handwriting, copied from a typescript.
Contains obituaries by Sir John L. Myers, A. J. B. Wace and Pierson [Bob] Dixon.
From a Cretan newspaper (‘ΚΡΗΤΙΚΗ ΕΝΟΤΗΣ’). The article includes a photograph of John Pendlebury in Cretan costume.
No original newspaper article in the archive.
The memorial service was held on Sunday 3 March.
[Hutchinson] writes that the story was checked by Hilda Pendlebury and himself, who interrogated the eyewitnesses personally.
With manuscript notes and a manuscript copy of a letter to Hilda [copied out by Herbert Pendlebury].