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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. William George Face
British Army 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
Account by William George Face, 7th Leicestershire's Regtl No 235623 of his capture:Captured May 27 1918 at Champagne district. Marched down to temporary camp for a few hours. Marched to Rethel and stopped for night in prison. May 28 entrained for internment camp at Blanc Saint Jen, stopped for a few days entrained for new camp at Bazan Court where worked on new railhead for five weeks pay 30 Fncs a day. Was picked out for work. Sent away on July 10 entrained for Charleville and stopped there in small French cage for three nights. Entrained for a destination unknown (13 July ) at present. First day we were travelling through France and Belgium where the people on station were very good to us giving us cigarettes and money. We continued our journey through the night and waking up in the morning found ourselves just in the border of Germany. We arrived at Coln on the 14th where we had to change and stopped there an hour or two, and the next stop was Bremen where we arrived at midnight and stopped the night. We started off again on the 15th at 6am and travelled on until we arrived at Hamburg at 10:30 where we changed again and had the first basin of hot soup at a Red Cross building which was very good. We started off again at 3 o'clock for our destination which we had been guessing at all the way. We arrived at 8 o'clock and had a very agreeable surprise waiting for us for we were issued out with two loaves a man as an emergency parcel and a grocery parcel the next day, both issued by our Red Cross society. We are waiting to be sent out as working parties. We stay here until 31 July, my 25th birthday, by which time we had another grocery parcel and two biscuits parcels. On the night before we left we have a train journey of about 28 hours and arrived at ? where we are billeted on board an old warship and where I have my first experience of sleeping in hammocks, which I find very comfortable. There are several more Englishman here who have been captured from 1914, and all receiving their parcels and they are very good to us giving us biscuits and cigarettes. Held by SOM 3194
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