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Description: | Facsimile copy of a letter (10pp ms) written to his father in 1919 describing the circumstances of his capture in March 1918 in the Arras sector while serving with the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment, treatment by German medical personnel for a leg wound, and imprisonment at Celle, Soltau and `Heestermoor' (?) before being repatriated through The Netherlands, commenting on the plight of the civilian population there and in Germany in contrast to the relatively comfortable situation in Britain.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2002-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Burleton, W J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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