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Description: | Ms contemporary memoir (32pp), with ts transcription (4pp), recording his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany, March – November 1918, including a brief resume of his service with the Machine Gun Corps (6th Division until December 1917, then 14th Division), September 1914 – March 1918, his capture near St Quentin during the German Spring Offensive (March 1918), the cruel treatment he and his fellow prisoners received at the hands of their captors, the severe lack of food and gruelling work in prison camps and the five day walk back to the Allied lines after being released on the day that the Armistice was announced (November 1918), followed by his time spent in a YMCA camp until his discharge on 30 November 1918. Also included are 2 photocopied portrait photographs of Crallan; a newspaper clipping with ts transcription recording the unveiling of the Machine Gun Corps memorial; and a newspaper article concerning the discovery by Crallan’s daughter of the diary in April 2009.
Cataloguer BEK | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Crallan, Wilfred B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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