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Description: | Extract from a family chronicle (23pp ts) concerning his service as an American volunteer in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War, outlining (with some historical inaccuracies) his movements on the Western Front in 1917 - 1918, followed by transcriptions of his letters to his family in St Paul, Minnesota, written while he was a prisoner of war captured during the German Spring Offensive in March 1918, containing interesting descriptions of his experiences at the time of his capture and subsequently in the POW camps at Villingen (Baden) and Tuchel (East Prussia), and a copy of a lecture he gave about his captivity in 1923, including observations on the 'November Revolution' in Germany at the end of the war as it made itself felt in the POW community.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2003-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Army Royal Army Medical Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Abbott, John S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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