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Description: | Photocopy of an ms account (48pp), written in 1927 and partly drawing on original diary notes, covering his service as a private in the 9th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers (108th Brigade, 36th Division) during the Battle of Messines in June 1917 and the Third Battle of Ypres in August 1917, his capture during the German spring offensive in March 1918 and his release from the prisoner of war camp at Bassenberg in Alsace in November 1918; together with miscellaneous official communications relating to his capture.
Cataloguer EH
Catalogue date 1973-02-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Page, J W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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