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Description: | 18 ms letters and postcards written to his future wife, April - December 1918, whilst at a prisoner of war camp in Gottingen and then in Bad Colbery, after his capture while serving as an officer with the Machine Gun Corps in France during the German spring offensive of March 1918, including details of his life in both camps, his friendship with Russian prisoners, a tennis tournament in which he took part, his health, and weather conditions; together with miscellaneous papers including a cyclostyled letter from HM King George V welcoming back POWs, presscuttings about the Menin Gate and the Fifth Army, and two albums of photographs of officers in the POW camp.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ashley, T W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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