242418 Pte. Walter Edmond Titcombe British Army 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment from:Swindon My great grandfather, Walter Titcombe, fought at the Battle of Mons and at some point was taken captive. He was sent to Germany and spent the rest of the war as a POW. He became allocated to a local farm as a source of free labour. He cut tiny slithers from the turnips he was harvesting and ate them raw as like other POWs he was extremely malnourished. By all accounts he was a very quiet man after the war and didn't like to talk of his experiences very much.
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