statement, form
Accession Number

NAM.2001-07-703-4-31

Description

Sworn statement relating to named German prisoner of war camps, 1918. By Capt Gerard Orby Sloper MC, Northumberland Fusiliers, regarding Strohen, Holzminden and Wesel; Sloper was the son of Gerard Orby Sloper (1851-1926), a lieutenant in the Berkshire Yeomanry; he later served in the Russian Civil War and died there on 8 February 1919; he is buried at B12 in Murmansk New British Cemetery. From file of papers described as ‘Statements, 25 Jun 1918’. One of eight files consisting mostly of sworn statements, sent to the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Germans of British Prisoners of War, by courts of enquiry held at The Hague, Holland, Mar-June 1918.

Campaigns

World War One, POWs (1914-1918)

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