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My Dear Bessie - Photographs

Pictures of Chris Barker and Bessie Moore and the letters that inspired Simon Garfield's My Dear Bessie.

Bessie (second from left) with friends on the beach (1930s)
Chris in Egypt (1943)
Beautiful Bessie (a picture Bessie sent to Chris in Libya in 1944)
Chris at War (Chris Barker in Libya in 1944)
Chris to Bessie (29th January 1945)
Chris to Bessie (31st January 1945)
Bessie to Chris (1st February 1945)
Bessie to Chris (31st July 1945)
Greek Beards (Chris, left, after his release at Volos in January 1945)
Chris in Rome (first row, third from left, 1945)

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