Lydiard Park - The War Years - booklet

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A booklet written to accompany an exhibition at Lydiard House on Lydiard Park during World War II.

It provides a brief account of the military requisition of Lydiard Park following the death of Lady Bolingbroke in 1940, the establishment of the US 302nd hospital camp in 1943; Home Guard training in the park; the transfer to a German Prisoner of War Hospital in 1944 with particular reference to Peter Probst, his art and friendship with local families.