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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts account (172pp) describing his enlistment in August 1914, service in the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards on the Somme (2nd Division) (January 1915), being wounded, service as a subaltern with the 20th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment (30th Division) principally on the Somme (January - July 1916), his capture, imprisonment (Ohrdruf, Hann-Munden, Parchim, Ingolstadt, Ludwigshafen and Osnabruck), and escape attempts and internment in the Netherlands (June - November 1918). Together with a scrap album (original) containing picture postcards, press cuttings, (escape?) maps, correspondence concerning his being report wounded/missing/killed/taken prisoner, coded letters and cards written as a prisoner, correspondence concerning codes requesting escape aids, printed items concerning the unveiling of the Guards Division memorial (1926) and an identity card for his internment in the Netherlands.
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Catalogue date 1986-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lamb, G W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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