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Document - Typed hymn, Margaret Dryburgh, The Captives Hymn, unknown

  • An A4 sheet of paper that has been cut down to a smaller size. The front contains the typed words of the hymn in black ink, the title in underlined in red pen ink.

    202511050a

  • The back of the page has nine lines of handwritten text in black ink running vertically along the left side of the page. The right side shows an inscription handwritten in pencil.

    202511050b

  • An A4 sheet of paper that has been cut down to a smaller size. The front contains the typed words of the hymn in black ink, the title in underlined in red pen ink.
  • The back of the page has nine lines of handwritten text in black ink running vertically along the left side of the page. The right side shows an inscription handwritten in pencil.

Historical information

A hymn written by Margaret Dryburgh, whilst in a Prisoner of War camp. It was first sung on the 5th of July in 1942 at Irenelaan, Palembang, Sumatra.
Margaret Dryburgh was a Presbyterian Missionary in Singapore when the Japanese arrived, she died in a camp hospital in 1945.

Physical description

An A4 sheet of paper that has been cut down to a smaller size. The front contains the typed words of the hymn in black ink, the title in underlined in red pen ink. There are handwritten inscriptions on the back of the page.

Inscriptions & markings

'Jessie Hookway / (Simons) / AANS 2/13th AGH / passed away / 23 December 2004' [Handwritten in pencil on the back of the paper]
[Handwritten information regarding Miss Margaret Dryburgh, written in black ink on the back of the page, refer to media image]

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