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253481 Sgt. Frank Edger Law British Army 8th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps from:Coventry He was with his Battalion 8th K.R.R.C after transferring from the 1st Battalion K.R.R.C as an N.C.O through out WW1 right up until he was captured during the German attack on 21st March 1918. He was taken to Mannhiem and put in a prison of war camp there. During his time there he caught pneumonia, and managed to trick the Germans into believing it was tuberculosis which back then was contagious and a killer. The Germans did not want to have some one with this illness among them so they repatriated him back home via Switzerland. He was them looked after by his wife until he recovered and then was able to re join the K.R.R.C at Winchester later being demobbed in 1919.
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