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Description: | Wordprocessed ts transcription (38pp) of an excellent memoir written some years after the events described, recalling his military service as a Lieutenant with the 1/4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment (33rd Indian Brigade, 2nd Rawalpindi Division) in Mesopotamia during the First World War when he was captured by the Turks following the Battle of the Hanna (21 January 1916), one of the attempts to relieve Kut, and was subsequently held as a prisoner of war in Turkey, describing the circumstances of his wounding and capture, the generally good treatment he received at the hands of the Turks, his long journey north across Mesopotamia to Turkey in order to join fellow British officers in the Afion Kara Hissar prisoner of war camp, relations with the local Arabs, living conditions during the journey and the variable food and hygiene, the harsh treatment given to Armenian civilians by the Turks, his hospitalisation in Aleppo with Typhus, occasional contact with other British and Indian prisoners, his arrival at the camp at Afion Kara Hissar and its organisation and personnel, the living conditions and daily routine, recreational activities including sport, war rumours, a series of earthquakes, and an exchange of sick prisoners which saw him transported to Smyrna and then to Alexandria at the time of the Armistice in November 1918.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2007-04-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stilwell, J G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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