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Description: | Journal (57pp ms, with 7pp ts transcription) , written into a German Army notebook (`Der Soldatenfreund'), covering his arrival in France in late August 1914 with the 1st Battalion The Rifle Brigade (11th Brigade, 4th Division), its involvement in the fighting around Le Cateau and Beauvois during the Allied retreat, his capture by the Germans and imprisonment at Doberitz, describing the harsh conditions in the camp (the journal ends abruptly in October 1914).
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 1999-02 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Beckett, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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