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Ext 249/43 'René Piquemal' [8r] (15/20)
The record is made up of 1 file (10 folios). It was created in 11 Jan 1943-22 Feb 1943. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Dear Rumhold,
A strange story is told me oy xne Red Cross
of a soldier named Rene PIQUEMAL of the l6th R,A.D.A.,
General Staff, who was reported missing in the loss
of the SIROCCO on May 30th 1940. He was presumed
drowned by the International Red Cross after exhaustive
enquiries. His father, however, now writes that he
has obtained information from a source which he says
is very sure "I have learned that from England he was
sent to India, somewhere near Calcutta, to be employed
in a steel
factory
An East India Company trading post.
. I learnt once again that he left
India on a Red Cross ship ’torpedo boat American
WOOMING* which boat, after having touched at Cadiz,
was never heard of again”. (I presume that he means
that he left India on a Red Cross boat which carried
the rescued crew of the torpedo boat WYOMING).
This succession of events concerning a simple
soldier seems to me extraordinary, but I cannot dismiss
it,in view of the circumstances, without verification.
If we could say that the son was not sent to India,
and v/as not among the Wyoming crew, it would probably
meet our purpose.
Can you help me?.
Yours sincerely,
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The file contains correspondence between the Government of India, External Department, the Office for the High Commissioner for India, and the British Mission to the French National Committee, regarding a missing soldier named René Piquemal, who was said to be employed in a steel factory An East India Company trading post. in India, but never found.
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- 1 file (10 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 10; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/784
- Title
- Ext 249/43 'René Piquemal'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:9v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence