208369 A/Cpt. William Pritchett British Army 17th Batt. A Company Sherwood Foresters from:Nottingham My Grandfather William Pritchett was made acting Captain on 20/3/1918. He was captured on the first day of 'Die Kaiserschlacht'. In a diary he kept as POW in Mainz he drew a map of the immediate area and described what happened - it follows closely the unit diary's description of that fateful day. The Sherwood Foresters suffered more killed than any of the other 200 plus British battalions that fought that day. After the war he kept a chest of momentoes, German pickelhaube, bayonets, pistols etc brought home from leave periods, but at some stage he threw them into the Trent River, near Beeston. I wish he had kept them. There are some less warlike items of his in the regimental museum.
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