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Description: | Transcription (12pp ts) of a detailed and vividly written letter to his father in late December 1918 describing the circumstances of his capture on the Western Front in April 1918 while serving in an unidentified battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment and his subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war in camps at Halluin, south of Menin, and around Courtrai before being moved to Dulmen in Westphalia where he was put to work in the iron ore mines, transfer to Bruhl (near Bonn) and work in a sugar factory there, and final move to Cologne before the end of the war, when he joined other prisoners making their own way back to France at the time of the armistice (the last part of the letter is missing).
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2001-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ward, E F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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