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Rfmn. Albert George Oliver
British Army 20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion London Regiment
from:Deptford, London
Albert Oliver was taken PoW on 28th of March 1918 at Oppy Wood. He was sent to Parchim POW camp. I am told by family that he made a couple of attempts to escape but was shot and wounded in the leg and so spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. He passed peacefully away in 1974 aged 79.