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← Manchester United Memorabilia 29th September 2023

A group of correspondence relating to the Daily Mail journalist Eric Thompson who died in the Munich Air Disaster in 1958, including his Belgrade hot

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A group of correspondence relating to the Daily Mail journalist Eric Thompson who died in the Munich Air Disaster in 1958, including his Belgrade hotel check-out bill before the fateful return journey home, two of his buisness cards, and a file relating to correspondence between his widow and the family solicitors including damages won from BEA; also an earlier letter on MUFC headed paper from the Acting Chairman to Eric Thompson being a letter of apology for the behaviour of Mr Whittaker towards the journalist after the match v Derby County in March 1948