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Cpl. William Stephen Rawliffe
British Army 2nd Btn. C Coy. Middlesex Regiment
from:Preston, Lancashire
William Rawcliffe born 20th of March 1883 served with C Coy, 2nd Middlesex Regiment. He was captured on the 27th of May 1918, the 1st day of the Third Battle of the Ainse, at Genicourt approx 10km south of Verdun.
He arrived unwounded at Giessen camp.
He returned to Preston after the war and married in 1920. He had one daughter, born in April 1921. He died in Preston in 1928, reportedly never having fully regained his health after the prison camp experience.