Bedfordshire Prisoner of War

Sergeant Brown

Friday 26th February 1915: Sergeant William Brown of the 1st Bedfords wrote home from a Belgian hospital in October last stating that he had been wounded in the arm. Nothing further was heard from him for some time. It has now been ascertained that he has been taken prisoner. His wound has healed and several cheerful communications have been received from him. He is among the prisoners of war at Gardelegan(1).

Source: Bedfordshire Standard 19th March 1915

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(1) In Saxony-Anhalt where a massacre of prisoners took place in the dying days of World War Two perpetrated by the SS.