Super lot of two brothers ( as best I can determine). One served on a cable layer prior to the war and comes with peaked cap with cable laying insignia (very nice) and his WWII Medals - unfortunately I do not have information about his WWII service. The other brother was a Merchant seaman.  He was interred in an Algerian POW camp after his ship the Empire Guillemot was torpedoed and sunk by Italian torpedo bomber in Oct 1941. the ship was involved in clandestine resupplying of Malta!  The diary contains fantastic content of his time in POW camp.  Very good day to day details of prison life. He was in Mecheria Camp ( 50 km south of Oran) and then in a prison in Saida Algeria (for attacking guard and stealing his rifle) Lots of mentions of escapes.  "Had we been POWS in Germany we would have gotten better treatment than we are getting from these filthy Frenchmen."  Opens with him in June Laghouat POW camp in Algeria, "foreign office wants to know how we were treated on road back from El Aricha", mention of POWS joining the French Foriegn Legion to get out of prison, he hears of raid on Dieppe.  Lots of disparaging remarks about the local Arabs. Mentions on July 27 that it was one year previous he signed on the EMPIRE GUILLEMOT. Talks of attacking a guard and taking his rifle and Bayonet..gets infection from cut on bayonet and sent to hospital in Oran then 26 days in prison in Saida, Algeria until the allied invasion.

450 Euro  - $640