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Description: | Transcription (ts, 32pp) of a diary/account, written shortly after the events described, by a private in the 6th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (58th Brigade, 19th Division) and covering the period April - October 1918, with good descriptions of conditions in the front line in the Ypres sector, his capture during the German advance on 10 April (Battle of Messines) and subsequent imprisonment at Halluin (?) and Marle, France, his treatment by the Germans and general conditions in those camps, and transportation to a camp near Breslau, Silesia, shortly before the armistice; also transcriptions of letters sent and received by Uren during this time, photocopies of official correspondence regarding his status as a POW, and several photographs.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 1994-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Uren, C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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