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204812 " " Peace from: (d. ) I found this item in The Times Feb 22 1940 pg 10, Issue 48546 Col A FREED FROM GERMAN PRISONS, British Women Home Again Mentioned were 10 British Women who landed at Gravesend 21 Feb 1940 from a Dutch steamer who were taken to a London Hostel. Evidently they had been some months in a German prison. Their names were Miss Ida Daniels of Reading, Mrs Sophie Brown, Misses Mary & Sarah Rundstein and Miss Polly Eder, Maud Vickery, Miss Edith Allen, Miss Dorothy Woolley, Miss Kelly, Joy Rogers aged 19, a dancer who left the party at Rotterdam to fly home, and the one I am very interested in, Mrs Willam Peace who was aged about 60, Polish, married to an Englishman in Palestine. I would like help to know where I could find any information about the prison they were evacuated from, the name of the Dutch steamer, or anything that would assist me finding the first name of Mrs Peace. She was married to my great uncle William Iverach Peace who was born in Scotland,1879. He died in Palestine October 1940 and is buried in Jerusalem. I think Mrs Peace had at least two grown children, but again I do not know their names or where they were born. Can anyone assist by telling me where I could find information? Lesley Hartley Related Content: Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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