list, form
Accession Number

NAM.2002-08-34-7

Description

Handwritten list of toiletries and domestic items, 12 Oct 1918. Sent to Pte A W Gore, 2472, 8th Bn, The Buffs, Barrack 6a, Coy 4, [Camp No.] 50157, Kriegsgefangenenlager, Friedrichsfeld bei Wesel, Germany by Miss Astley [?)] ‘Bel air’, 17 Northdown Avenue, Margate. With German prisoner of war envelope addressed to Miss R. Gore at St. John’s Vicarage, Maidstone, Kent and postmarked: - ‘LONDON.F.S PAID SEP 8 16’ One of eight documents relating to Pte Alfred Gore, 8th Bn The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) who was taken prisoner and sent to a German prisoner of war camp on 26 Sep 1915 after serving with the British Expeditionary Force.

Campaigns

World War One, POWs (1914-1918)