Finding Aid
Series 1
War archive. 1936-2009, predominant 1940-1944. 46 cm of textual records, 463 photographs, and 5 items of realia.
Series consists of archival material related to Keith Patrick’s war experience. The files were arranged chronologically by their creator and correspond to the chapters of his memoir, To The Stars: Memories of a Wireless Operator-Air Gunner During World War II (co-written by Janet Lee (Patrick) MacNeil). Files contain letters, telegrams, postcards, photographs, memorabilia, and realia created or collected during each stage of his war experience.
Note: File dates refer to the date of each stage of his experience and are derived from the chapter titles of To the Stars. Items which were collected later are noted.
Box 1
F.1 Lynn, Mass. St. John, Moncton. 1936-June 1940.
File includes a letter from W.G. Cooke, Flying Officer, and Commanding Officer, RCAF Recruiting Centre (Moncton), Keith’s service and pay books, postcards sent from friends and family, and clippings.
9 photographs include: Keith’s homes, the Scottish Regiment marching in Moncton, and of Keith’s mother Lily Patrick.
F.2 No. 1 Manning Depot, Toronto. July 1940.
File includes 3 postcards from Edmond R. Patrick (brother) and a Royal Navy ranking information guide.
10 photographs of Exhibition Grounds in Toronto.
F.3 119th Bomber Squadron, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Aug. 1940.
File includes postcards from Keith’s friends and family.
18 photographs include: the Spinney Family, the docks at Yarmouth, the Scottish Regiment, his friend J. Richard, and ‘honey buckets’ (the latrine).
F.4 No. 1 Initial Training School, Toronto. Oct. 1940.
1 postcard from Keith’s father Hugh Patrick.
4 photographs taken at the school.
F.5 No. 2 Wireless School, Calgary. Oct. 1940 – Mar. 1941.
File includes postcards from his brother Edmond Patrick and his parents, Lily and Hugh Patrick, a Christmas card to his parents, and a telegram and a clipping re: Keith’s graduation from the school, March 14, 1941.
14 photographs taken at the school and on trips to the Canadian Rockies.
F.6 No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School, Macdonald, Manitoba. Mar. - Apr. 1941.
File includes a postcard from Edmond Patrick, a clipping about a blizzard in Manitoba, and ‘Three Minute Tests’ for Air Gunners written by Keith.
28 photographs taken at the school, including of the firing range, the ‘Fairey Battle’ airplane, and aerial photographs.
F.7 No. 1 Y Depot, Halifax. June 1941.
30 photographs taken at embarkment, including photos of the ship the Indrapoera.
F.8 Greenock, Scotland. Late June 1941.
File includes a telegram to Lily Patrick, and a ‘Leave Guide’ for London, published by the Canadian YMCA.
F.9 No. 3 RCAF Personnel Receiving Centre, Bournemouth, England. July 1941.
File includes blank postcards collected in England, particularly Bournemouth; a souvenir programme from the R.A.F. Grand Display event held at the Boscombe Football Ground; two souvenir cards; a letter from the Secretary of the Rotary Club of Saint John, N.B., to Lily Patrick; and a clipping from the Evening Echo Bournemouth, Sep. 7, 1989.
10 photographs taken in Bournemouth including of the MacKinnon family and of Keith with his brother Edmond Patrick.
F.10 No. 1 Signals School, RAF College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire. Aug. 1941.
File includes 2 postcards from Olwen MacKinnon, government issue toilet paper, and a magazine clipping.
2 photographs of the Barrack Room of the Signals School.
F.11 No. 22 Operational Training Unit (OTU), Wellesbourne, Mountford, Warwickshire. Sep. 1941.
File includes 1 postcard from Olwen MacKinnon and 2 telegrams sent to Lily Patrick.
14 photographs include: Keith Patrick in uniform, Neil Ingersoll, Christmas presents, and a class portrait.
F.12 Harwell, Berkshire, and Portreath, Cornwall, England. Mar. – Apr. 1942.
19 photographs include: photographs taken in Cornwall, of Keith Patrick and Richenda Ridgway, and from the Wellington Bomber during the flight to Gibraltar.
F.13 Gibraltar and Malta. Apr. 1942.
File includes newspaper clippings.
5 photographs.
F.14 Cairo, Egypt. May 1942.
20 photographs include: Keith and his tent, the Great Sphinx, and the Pyramids.
F.15 108 Bomber Command, Egypt. June – Oct.1942.
File includes Keith’s R.A.F. Airman’s pay book; a label of a parcel mailed to Lily Patrick; correspondence with Phyllis Taylor, Lily Patrick, and Robinson Patrick; clippings re: brother Edmond; miscellaneous paperwork from Italian troops collected by Keith in North Africa, 1942; clipping, Le Courier de l’Air, No. 27, 1941; and various clippings about Edmond Patrick’s war experience, printed in 1991-1998.
15 photographs of Keith and other members of the 108 Squadron. Additional photographs of the desert war in North Africa, published by the British War Office.
Note: additional photographs used in the related chapter of To the Stars (Chapter 18) can be found in Keith’s R.A.F. Scrapbook (Box 2, File 10).
Note: Material was received in envelopes within the file. This arrangement structure was maintained by the archivist.
F.16 No. 1 BOR RAF Transit Camp, Yaba, Nigeria. Dec. 1942.
File includes a letter to Lily Patrick, Jan. 29, 1943; eight letters from Cyprian Amukamara, the assistant at No. 1 BOR RAF Transit Camp, 1943-1951; and wrapping from a parcel sent to Lily Patrick.
22 photographs of Keith in Nigeria and of local Nigerians, including Amukamara.
F.17 Back to England / West Kirby. Jan. – Feb. 1943.
File includes postcards from Chenda (Richenda Ridgway) and Goldie; a letter to Lily Patrick from “Bin” Gwenyth MacKinnon, Feb. 27, 1943; and a letter from Edmond Patrick, written while a prisoner of war in Italy, Jun. 15, 1943.
14 photographs of Keith, the Ridgway home, and Charmian Ridgway.
F.18 RAF 29 O.T.U., 456 Squadron, U.S. Feb. – Jul. 1943.
File includes Christmas greeting airgraph, signed by Keith, Edmond Patrick, and Mackinnon family; a letter to Edmond Patrick, returned to sender by the censor, Jun. 5, 1943; letters to Lily Patrick from Keith’s friends “Hook” Thomas J. Hopkins and Muriel Ridgway; and postcards from brother Edmond R. Patrick.
F.19 Damhead Hall, New York, Ottawa, Saint John, and Massachusetts. Feb. – Mar. 1944.
File includes Keith’s application for leave from the RCAF, Keith and Phyllis’s engagement announcement, a letter from Walter “Wally” Vernon of Rhodesia, Apr. 21, 1944, and a clipping re: the RMS Mauritania.
4 photographs of Keith Patrick with Phyllis Taylor, and a Vickers Wellington plane, enclosed in the letter from Walter Vernon.
F.20 427 Squadron, Leeming, Yorkshire. May 1944.
File includes Keith’s Air Force diary; identity card for all ranks of the RAF; service and pay book, 1943-1944; telegrams to Lily Patrick and Phyllis Taylor, May 30, 1944; a page from a operational reference book. File also includes postcards and a computer printout, collected later.
Box 2
F.1 In hiding. Jun. – Sep. 1944.
File consists of material related to Keith Patrick’s experience in hiding, after his ‘Halifax’ bomber was shot down in Pas-de-Calais, France on June 12, 1944. File includes: newspaper clippings; official and personal letters sent to Lily Patrick and Phyllis Taylor; and Keith Patrick’s false French identity card (“Norbert Ledoux”) given to him by the French Resistance while in hiding.
25 photographs include: Gabrielle Gruel and the Hochart family (3); the Fillerins and Cadets in Renty, France (15); Keith Patrick, Don Fulton, and E. Lyall “Bunny” Wilson (6); and Dr. Guy Delpierre with Rosemarie and Claire Cadet (1).
Historical note: Crewmembers Frank Lang, Norm Fitton, Bruce Thistle, and Don Bristow did not survive the crash. Keith parachuted into Gournay, France and crawled to the Hochart family farmhouse in Verchoq. Charles Hochart and his daughter Marie hid him until he was transported to the Fillerin farmhouse in Reny. He was transported by Marie’s uncle, Louis Hochart and Gabrielle Gruel. Monique Fillerin, her sister Genevieve, her brother Gabriel, and their grandmother hid Patrick for three months.
F.2 In hiding. Jun. - Sep. 1944. [1965-2009].
File consists of material related to Keith Patrick’s experiences while hiding in Pas-de-Calais, France, created or collected after the war. File includes letters and other material related to the Fillerin family; photocopied pages of the 427 Squadron RCAF Operational Logbook showing Keith Patrick’s Halifax missing (Department of National Defence, Nov. 1991); articles related to Keith’s crewmates; photocopy featuring image of Father Auguste Deron; a letter from Marie Hochart to Keith Patrick answering questions about his experience in France, May 11, 1997; and material related to Keith’s visit to France in 2008.
10 photographs: Keith Patrick and Gabrielle Gruel in Kitchener, Ontario, 2009 (4); Keith Patrick meeting Norm Fitton’s family for the first time in Kitchener, Ontario, June 2008 (1); Hugues Chevalier with remains of the plane recovered from the crash site in Gournay, France, 2008 (5). Historical note: E. Lyall “Bunny” Wilson was a member of Keith Patrick’s crew who survived the crash and was hidden by the Ansel family near the Fillerin farmhouse. Don Fulton was the pilot of the Halifax bomber that was shot down in France. Fulton and Keith Patrick were both hidden by the Fillerin family in Renty. Norbert Fillerin was the father of the three teenagers who hid Keith Patrick. He was a member of the Pat O’Leary Escape Line and was imprisoned in the German concentration camp system until he was liberated on May 8, 1945.
F.3 Liberation. Sep. 1944.
File consists of material related to the liberation of the Fillerin farmhouse by Allied troops led by a Polish officer, Second Lieutenant Turski. File includes postcards from France, 1946-1952; blank postcards, 1944-1952; M.I.5 record of interview with Keith Patrick following liberation, Sep. 10, 1944; official correspondence to Lily Patrick from the RCAF; photocopied index cards from War Graves files for Keith’s crew members who died in the crash; and personal correspondence to Lily Patrick.
File also includes enemy memorabilia collected by Keith Patrick in Pas-de-Calais, France, including: a copy of the Gospel of Matthew printed in German, 1940, and a German Wehrpass, with enclosed identity documents.
11 photographs: Claire Cadet, Keith Patrick, Geneiveve Fillerin, Lt. Turski, Monique Fillerin, Don Fulton, Rosemarie Cadet, “Bunny” Lyall Wilson, Gabriel Fillerin, the Ansel family (6); Keith’s visit return to the crash site in Gournay, Sep. 6, 1944 (2); and sightseeing in Paris (likely taken by Don Fulton) (3).
F.4 Hospital. Back to England. Sep. 1944.
File includes a note from Keith to Lily Patrick; clipping about Keith and his brother (Kenneth) Roland Patrick; ration card; and medical board report.
F.5 Warrington, Darnhead Hall, Greenoch, Debert, Nova Scotia. Oct. 1944.
File includes issue of Aviation Review / Air Force Review Vol. 5, No. 10, October 1944 (Keith Patrick, E. Lyall Wilson and Don Fulton are listed on pg. 38); and a clipping regarding the RMS Ile de France returning to Halifax Harbor.
F.6 Retirement from RCAF. Feb. 1945.
File includes various pieces of RCAF-related ephemera; a letter from the RCAF re: his release from active service, Jan. 26, 1945; and correspondence with fellow Flying Officers.
File also includes the typescript and other material related to a radio story about the Patrick brothers, broadcast over the SMT Family Almanac Radio Programme, 1945.
6 photographs including of Josephine Lang (widow of Frank Lang) (3) and of Keith Patrick dropping the puck at the Memorial Cup Hockey Tournament in Kitchener, Ontario, May 16, 2008.
F.7 Medals. 1950-1994.
File includes material related to the medals and other recognitions received by Keith Patrick, including a booklet published by the Department of Veterans Affairs; “The Caterpillar Club” membership card [given to those whose life has been saved in an emergency by use of parachute equipment issued by the Irving Air Chute Co., Inc.]; a card certifying the recipient of the ‘Battle For Britain’ medal; and a letter from K.E. Ball, Squadron Leader for the Chief of the Air Staff, Department of National Defence, regarding the issuance of medals, Jun. 30, 1950.
File also includes material related to the Keith Patrick’s awarding of the “Malta George Cross Fiftieth Anniversary Medal,” May 23, 1994.
3 photographs from medal ceremony with Consul General of Malta, 1994.
F.8 Escaping Society. 1971-2008.
File consists of material related to Keith Patrick’s membership in the Royal Air Force Escaping Society (RAFES) (Canadian branch) including clippings, correspondence, and ‘The Executive File’ (1971).
1 photograph of RAFES Canadian Branch members, Dec. 14, 2008.
F.9 Parachute. ca. 1940-1965.
File consists of material related to the Irvin Air Chute company, including an issue of Parascoop (Vol. 3, No. 2, Feb. 1965); instruction booklet; promotional booklet; and service manual.
F.10 R.C.A.F. Photo Album. Ca. 1940s.
File consists of a photo album created by Keith Patrick which includes mostly collected photos.
86 photographs including of the Western Desert campaign (7); the inside of Keith Patrick’s tent in Egypt (4); the RAF Display at Dean Park in Bournemouth (3); and various aircraft (72).
[Book]. Royal Canadian Air Force Wireless and Air Gunner’s Flying Logbook. 1941-1944.
[Book]. Royal Canadian Air Force Wireless and Air Gunner’s Handbook. 1941.
Box 3
F.1 Scrapbook pages which include newspaper clippings re: Patrick brothers; Malta; Tobruk campaign; and letters and telegrams to Phyllis Taylor. 1944.
F.2 [Letters removed from their corresponding envelopes in F.1.]
F.3 Clipping, “Our Wings Span the Empire”, Star Weekly. Feb. 17, 1943.
RCAF wall calendar. Provincial Peper Limited, Toronto. 1958.
[Framed certificate] Operational Wings of the Royal Canadian Air Force, awarded Nov. 6, 1944.
[Framed certificate] appointing Keith Patrick to the rank of Pilot Officer. Apr. 15, 1943.
Box 4
Item 01: Contents of Keith Patrick’s RCAF Escape Kit, 1944.
Items include: fishing line; a sewing kit with a needle and thread; a small compass; Halizone tablets; a water bag; a set of three miniature saws; a razor with handle; a roll of adhesive tape; and pills labelled “British patent #463844: ... [to] ward off fatigue and drowsiness...”
Item 02: C.A.D. 8 Aircraft Recognition Silhouette Cards. July 1942. 4 card packs and instructions.
Item 03: Royal Canadian Air Force Wireless Air Gunner's half-wing badge. [Fabric : 9.2 × 1.1 × 6.4cm].
Item 04: Royal Canadian Air Force insignia; "PER ARDUA AD ASTRA." [Fabric : 13 × 0.2 × 13.2cm].
Item 05: “Jolly Roger” flag. [Fabric : 13 x 0.2 x 9 cm].
Box 5
F.1 Edmond Rupert Patrick. ca. 1940s – 2004.
File consists of material related to Keith’s brother, Edmond. He was a Pilot Officer in the 108 Squadron on the Western Desert front. His Wellington plane crashed during a bombing run on Tobruk on Oct. 19, 1942, and he was captured by an Italian patrol and held as a prisoner-of-war. He took part in a mass prison escape from the prisoner of war camp in Sulmona, Italy on Sep. 12, 1943.
File includes computer printouts of Edmond’s biographical notes and images of Edmond’s daughter, Elizabeth, from her visit to the prisoner of war camp in Sulmona, Italy.
29 photographs of Edmond R. Patrick with his brothers, Keith and Kenneth Roland, with Mary Patrick (4), and pilot training (25)
F.2 Kenneth Roland Patrick. ca. 1940s – 2004.
File consists of material related to Keith’s brother, Roland. He enlisted in August 1939 and was Commanding Officer at No. 5 Radar School in Clinton, Ontario. He worked with Sir Robert Watson Watt and was awarded the OBE and the U.S. Legion of Merit.
File includes computer printouts of Kenneth’s biographical notes (www.airforce.ca); clippings, including his obituary; Illustrated Empire Digest (Vol. 5, No. 6, Mar. 1948) which features a photograph of Kenneth; and a Christmas card to Keith, 1941.
7 photographs, mostly of Kenneth Roland Patrick.
F.3 Murray Carl Patrick. Ca. 1943.
File consists of material related to Keith’s brother, Murray. He joined 117 Squadron of the RCAF in September 1939 and was commissioned as a wireless air gunner.
File includes a Christmas card to Keith, 1943.
7 photographs of Murray Patrick (6), and Murray with Keith Patrick (1).
F.4 [Patrick family : misc.]. Ca. 1940s.
File includes Christmas cards from Keith with no named recipient; blank postcards; and ephemera.
F.5 Ration cards. 1940s.
Ration card books belonging to Hugh Patrick, Lily Patrick and Phyllis Taylor.
F.6 [WWII magazines].
File consists of magazines: S.E. Veale, Achievement in British Aircraft (London: Pilot Press, Ltd. N.d.); War in Pictures, June 1944; The Battle of Egypt: The Official Record in Pictures and Map (London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1943); and The Illustrated London News, Sep. 16, 1944.
F.7 [WWII magazines].
File consists of magazines: The Battle of Britain August – October 1940 (London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1941); Target for To-Night (Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. [1941]); and Le Canada en Guerre No. 43 (Ottawa: La Commission D’information en temps de guerre, 1945).
F.8 [WWII magazines].
File consists of magazines: Front Line 1940-1941 The Official Story of the Civil Defence of Britain (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1942); Fleet Air Arm [prepared for the Admiralty by the Ministry of Information] (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office 1943); and Statistics relating to the War Effort of the United Kingdom, presented by the PM to Parliament … (London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1944).
F.9 [WWII magazines : German]
File consists of S.S. Leitheft, Vol. 8, Issue 2 [Berlin: M. Muller and Sohn, 1942].
F.10 [Collected war poetry]. Ca. 1940s.
File consists of the following poems:
- Anon. “Ode to a Wireless Operator.” [Typescript];
- Anon. “A Soldiers Farewell to Egypt.” [Typescript].
- Anon. “A Tail of Woe.” [Typescript].
- Laurence Binyon. “For the Fallen.” [Photocopy].
- Anon. “Bundles for Britain.” [Clipping].
- Minton C. Johnston, RCAF. [“You feared when first you saw me …"]. 1942. [Printed card].
- H. Campbell, Lieut. Cdr. RCNR. “To an American soldier seen to fall on the Normandy Beach in the dawn of D-Day – June 6th, 1944.” [Printed].
- E.J. Pratt. “Dunkirk.” Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd., 1941. [Chapbook].
Note: Keith Patrick writes in his memoir that he collected poems while in training school in Calgary (No. 2 Wireless School), 1940-1941.
F.11 [Collected ephemera]. 1940s.
File consists of miscellaneous war-related ephemera, including a R.C.A.F. telephone handbook (No. 5 Manning Depot, Lachine); National Resources Mobilization Act and RCAF pamphlets; and a blank Prisoner of War Post air mail letter; and S. Evelyn Thomas, Laughs with the R.A.F. (London: George G. Harrap, 1942).
F.12 [Collected ephemera]. Ca. 1940s.
File includes: “Find the fifth pig” anti-German puzzle [purchased in Boston, MA] and RCAF stickers.
F.13 [Collected photographs]. 1940s.
40 photographs including of Keith Patrick with unidentified friends (1); and a collection of war-related photographs collected from the British War Office, the British Ministry of Information (Middle East Bureau), Cairo, and the Aviation Library, Toronto (39).
Note: Photographs found here may have been originally included in Keith’s RCAF photo album (Box 2, File 10).
F.11 [Collected postcards]. 1940s.
File consists of blank postcards with pictures of various aircraft.
SERIES 2
Civilian life. 1951-2021. 9 cm of textual records and 13 photographs.
Series consists of material from Keith’s life, post-war.
Box 6
F.1 RAF Escaping Society, Canadian Branch “Dossier.” 1995.
A self-published collection of biographies concerning the Air Force evaders and escapees, especially members of the Royal Air Force Escaping Society, Canadian Branch. Compiled and edited by Thomas Lynch, a member of the Society, August 1995.
F.2 Lavender, Emerson S. 1989-1994.
File consists of correspondence related to the publication of The Evaders (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 1992).
F.3 Kingsford, Paul. 1993.
File consists of 3 letters and 1 postcard from Paul Kingsford to Edmond R. Patrick, related to the book After Alamein: Prisoner of War Diaries, 1942-1945 (Sussex: The Book Guild, 1992).
F.4 RCAF Memorial Museum. 1994-2005.
File consists of clippings, newsletters, and other material related to the RCAF Memorial Museum (renamed the National Air Force Museum of Canada in 2008).
11 photographs of Keith and Phyllis Patrick’s visits to the museum in 2003 (8) and 2005 (3).
F.5 90th birthday. 2008.
1 photograph of Keith’s 90th birthday cake.
F.6 Certificate of Recognition, Minister of Veterans’ Affairs. 2020.
F.7 Obituary and Vancouver memorial. 1993, 2021.
1 photograph of memorial to RAF Leeming, including 427 Lion Squadron, 1993.
F.8 [Aircraft books]. 1951-1956.
The Triple Crown: Recording Britain's Attainment of Speed Supremacy on Land, Water and in the Air (London: Temple Press Ltd., 1956); and MIG-15 (Headquarters Far East Air Forces, Office of the Deputy for Intelligence, APO 925).
F.9 Canadair pictorial booklets. 1951-1952.
[A portfolio of colour photos showing Canadian-built aircraft], Canadair Limited, Montreal; The Canadair Story, 1952; and A Pictorial Souvenir [presented to Their Royal Highnesses on the occasion of their visit to Canadair on October 30th, 1951].
F.10 Postcards, cards. Ca. 2000s.
File consists of 6 blank cards with images of aircraft.
F.11 RAF 427 War Diary, presented to Keith Patrick by members of the RCAF 427 Squadron on the occasion of his 100th birthday. 2018.
[Book]. Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot: Flying Officer Alexander Gilmour Markle. February 5, 1941 – February 9, 1945. [Self-published]. N.d.
[Book]. Markle, Alexander G. Dear Roses: A War- time Romance Revisited. [Self-published]. ca. 1999. [Signed to Edmond].
[Book]. Chevalier, Hugues (2006). Crashs sur le Pas-de-Calais 1940-1945. Belgique: Tournai Graphic. 2006. [Inscription to Janet, 2008].
[Book]. Chevalier, Hugues (2009). Bombes et V1 sur le Pas-de-Calais 1944. Belgique: Snel Grafics.
SERIES 3
Maps. 7 cartographic items. 1941-1944.
Series consists of ‘escape and evasion’ maps printed on silk, rayon, and tissue paper, issued by the Royal Air Force to aid air crews at risk of becoming lost behind enemy lines. The maps which depict territory which Keith did not fly were likely issued to his brothers or collected by Keith after the war. Series also includes a road map of Boulogne-Lille, likely collected during Keith’s time in hiding, and a map of prisoner-of-war camps issued by the Canadian Department of National Defence.
Map #01
43A. NW France, W and C Belgium, part of Holland; 2 insets of Pyrenees. [MI9 escape and evasion map]. Great Britain War Office : Directorate of Military Intelligence. 1943. [1:1,000,000, insets 1:500,000]. 734 mm x 736 mm : colour ; printed on silk.
43B. SW France, N Spain; inset of German-Swiss frontier. [1:100,000, inset 1:300,000].
Note: The map has markings including on the location where Keith Patrick was shot down in Pas de Calais, France.
Map #02
J3. N. Italy. Larger scale inset of Swiss frontier and inset of Rome. [MI9 escape and evasion map, J3]. Great Britain War Office : Directorate of Military Intelligence. 1942. [1:1,378,000]. 628 mm x 521 mm : colour ; printed on silk.
Map #03
K1. Cyrenaica and Crete. [MI9 escape and evasion map]. Great Britain War Office : Directorate of Military Intelligence. Ca. 1942. [1:657,000]. 491 mm x 551 mm : colour ; printed on rayon.
K2. Partial overlap with K1, extending W and S.
Map #04
No.32. Asiatic Series: French Indo China: [U.S. Army Air Forces Cloth Chart (escape map)]. U.S. Army Air Forces, Army Map Service. Nov. 1943. [1:2,000,000]. 1 map : 500 x 670 mm ; colour ; printed on rayon.
No.33. Central China.
Map #05
A. Germany, Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and parts of Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium and France. [MI9 escape and evasion map]. 1942. [1:2,000,000]. 516 mm x 479 mm : colour ; printed on paper.
C. France north of Loire, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland and W Germany. 435 mm x 537 mm.
Map #06
[Prisoner of War Camps]: [camps in which Canadians are held as P.O.W.]. Department of National Defence, Canada. 1944. [50 miles to 1 inch]. 1 map : 660 x 460 mm ; one side ; colour ; printed on paper.
Map #07
[Boulogne-Lille]. Services de Tourisme, Michelin, Paris. [2 kilometres to 1 centimetre]. 1941.
1100 x 500 mm : one side ; colour ; printed on paper.
Note: The map has markings in pencil on locations related to Keith’s experience in hiding.