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Description: | Photocopied ms diary (26pp) written during his service as a NCO with the 1/5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (125th Brigade, 42nd Division) on the Western Front, describing his duties in the Arras - Cambrai sector in February - March 1918 prior to his capture by the Germans on 25 March and subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war in camps at Villers de Cagnicourt, Mulheim and Karlingen, Germany, referring to his treatment by the Germans, their food and living conditions, medical facilities, casualties from British air raids, the hygiene and frequent fumigation; together with photocopies (3pp) of an article from a college magazine in which he recounts his wartime experiences in greater detail, and a photograph of him with a group of fellow soldiers on their liberation.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2003-06-17 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sore, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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