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Description: | Privately printed booklet (circa 100pp) containing an account of the First World War service of several members of the Cash family, Australians who volunteered for military service in Europe, mainly concerning John Richard Cash who served with the AIF on the Western Front and was taken prisoner of war by the Germans at Bullecourt in May 1917, having sustained serious wounds, subsequently held in the Holzminden POW camp where he was associated with the famous tunnel escape project in July 1918, secretly photographing maps of the surrounding area and supplying copies for use by the escapers; the booklet includes extracts from official and family letters written by or concerning J R Cash, along with photographs taken by him in Holzminden (including the escape map copies).
Cataloguer SWW | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cash, John Richard | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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