‘Capt. M.C.C.Harrison, D.S.O., M.C. & Capt. H.A. Cartwright, M.C.’, 1918 (c)
photograph (copy), photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1991-03-47-1
Description
‘Capt. M.C.C.Harrison, D.S.O., M.C. & Capt. H.A. Cartwright, M.C.’, 1918 (c). Copy photograph of Capt (later Lt Col) Michael Charles Cooper Harrison, DSO MC, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regiment (left) and Capt (later Brig) Henry Antrobus Cartwright, MC, 4th Bn Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment), 1918 (c). Harrison and Cartwright were taken prisoner during the First World War and mounted multiple escape attempts from camps in Germany, which they recounted in the joint memoir ‘Within Four Walls’. Associated with World War One, POWs, 1914-1918.
Campaigns
World War One, POWs (1914-1918)
