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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts account (15pp) of his time as a wounded prisoner of war in Germany, 1916 - 1918, having served with the 10th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers on the Western Front before being wounded in the legs after going 'over the top' in an infantry assault and subsequently captured by Germans, describing his treatment in a German dug-out before moving to a hospital at Cambrai where both legs were amputated and then his transfer to a prisoner of war hospital in Berlin, describing the poor conditions, inadequate medical facilities and lack of food, his later transfer to a camp at Cottbus in Brandenburg (November 1917) where he was housed in filthy barracks until his move to the camp hospital, and his repatriation in January 1918 and return to the United Kingdom via Berlin and Aachen to Rotterdam; also included is a copy of the standard printed letter from HM King George V welcoming back repatriated POWs.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ranner, H C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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