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Description: | Ts memoir (331pp) covering his service as Regimental Medical Officer to the 48th Pioneers, 6th Indian Division in Mesopotamia, 1914 - 1915, at Kut during the siege, December 1915 - April 1916, and as a prisoner of war in Anatolia, 1916 - 1918, together with a photocopied transcription (10pp) of the diary which he kept while in Kut, and a collection of 8 letters home from India, July - October 1914, and 22 letters and postcards written in captivity, June 1916 - December 1917. An edited version of the memoir has been published with the title CAPTURED AT KUT, PRISONER OF THE TURKS: THE GREAT WAR DIARIES OF COLONEL WILLIAM SPACKMAN (Pen & Sword Military, 2009).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1974-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Spackman, William Collis | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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