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I have just recieved a photo of these german gaurds who where gaurding my grandad who was taken prisoner on the 21/5/1918.written on the back was a small acount of his captivity.places where he was moved to that I can just read are

1Fountain tues22

2 mount comet friday23

3 Huson sunday

4 Maulert fountain june4

5 Monday july 8 pictures taken with meat(after a meatless week) ,apparantly they had their pictures taken with a side of beef and then they took it away.

Propaganda I suppose(this was told to me by my auntie who is now 96 she is trying to remember more bless her but her memory is going abit like mine).

6 Bank holiday moved to Pomily tues 6th

7 Vermuil tues20Aug

8 wages? sept 15

9 eels sept28

10 Fobauch nov6

11 Alsace-loraine nov13

the writting is very faint so I appolagise for not getting more info but I would be delighted if this can help any body and if anybody can help me.I have a picture of him in a camp but the quality is poor but I will post it any way

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